N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 51

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

One of the challenges of being a CEO is that you rarely are asked to choose between a wrong or right answer. CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. The 21st-Century CEO.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

The business media lit up over the weekend with the news that Steve Ballmer, the college friend who worked alongside Bill Gates to build Microsoft and was heir to the CEO job, will step down within a year. Ballmer is being damned or defended wholly on the string of innovative (or not) products released on his watch.

Core Competence 10

Core Competence Innovation Christensen Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

The next few product launches were not nearly as successful and Ed Zander , a CEO who came in during the successful period, was unable to come up with any more hits. As a company matures and enters a period of exploiting a competitive advantage, it makes sense for the firm to be publicly traded if it requires the capital.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

They have gone through different cycles of disruptive innovations, leaving some businesses, and creating new ones. The latter just signed a partnership agreement with Microsoft to develop new mobile solutions, after the new CEO acknowledged that the phone maker has been left behind by its competitors.

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Core Competence Prahalad Film Hamel 15