N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

I cannot even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a CEO tell me that certain immutable business principles just don’t apply to his/her business because, “this business is different.&# What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service?

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 30, 2010

2 Comments so far william czander on May 31st, 2010 Happiness coaches are part of the great conspiracy that began some 20 years ago when CEO’s , hedge fund managers and bankers discovered if they outsourced jobs to China and India it would increase the bottom line and they would all get rich. (To Remember “smile or your fired”.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Reinvesting in improvements like equipment, infrastructure, product development, and improving customer service are all valuable ways to build your business. This is especially true if you send and receive assets for feedback to retailers, partners or an outsourced team. Invest in your team.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Previous to our technological advancements, the only way businesses could manage their multiple consumer platforms, numerous transactional tasks, and recover from data emergencies was to outsource to a variety of vendors. Drive Innovation. Richard Milam is the president and CEO of EnableSoft. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This work builds on earlier research into CEO qualifications.).

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors. You talk about the agile mindset and the CEO.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

David Komlos is CEO of Syntegrity and David Bejamin leads Syntegrity’s client delivery organization. The tight timeframe and “what must we all start working on” clause pushed people from platitudes like ‘working smarter’ or ‘being more innovative’ into concrete actions, including which sacred cow projects to stop. ” -John Maeda.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Outsourcing, privatizing and collaborating plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Innovation on a budget. Turney gives the example of outsourcing product assembly work. Innovation on a budget. Cost reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In the past 25 years, CEOs of many major corporations have relied on a flawed set of beliefs to lead their organizations. This environment and the behavior produced by the prevailing set of beliefs to which CEOs subscribe have deepened a widespread public distrust of corporations and capitalism. The Conventional Wisdom.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. As a CEO when you start to lower the chinning bar by allowing for the hiring of someone based more on their diversity segment than their talent you are enabling the demise of your enterprise. LeRoyD Amen!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

A few years ago, Brad Anderson , then CEO of Best Buy, told me something both provocative and profound. Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Building scale for your distinctive capabilities must be at the top of the CEO agenda. Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Only 37% of the population believes CEOs are credible and only half of full-time workers place a great deal of trust in their employers. Is it possible to develop empathy? The not so good news is that cognitive empathy needs to be developed. A key to developing curiosity is inquiry. Leadership is about empathy.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

Backed up orders, lost revenue, angry customers, reputational injury and the success of the innovative 787 all turn on resolution of this dramatic problem. Requiring contractors to develop and implement audit-able safety processes, including identification of key indicators — processes which BP can review. In this section (at p.181),

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Any CEO can tell you that finding ideas is not the always the problem. An “innovation engine” is an organization’s capability to think and invest in long-term opportunities along with the competence to drive continuous innovations for top-line growth each year. This is your bench of corporate innovators: your intrapreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

The Philippines has a huge business process outsourcing industry. Technology-enabled services are the backbone of this industry, and the fastest growing sectors have demand for high-end skills, such as mobile app development and data analytics, as well as middle-level skills, such as video production, copywriting, and financial analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Inclusive growth has become the economic development mantra for both Indian politicians and CEOs in recent months. In the process, these senior execs developed their insights into the needs and wants of rural consumers through interaction, discussion and research.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

But we believe that multinationals from rich countries who are already developing products for one emerging market possess unique advantages that can help them win in other emerging markets too. PureIt became a grand market success in India, winning a Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award and acclaim in UNESCO's Water Digest.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The CIO was Katherine Hudson, who is considered by many people to have launched the modern IT outsourcing movement while at Kodak. High-value functions such as infrastructure development and database administration were retained; others, including PCs, networks, and mainframes, were outsourced. So it had no voice.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

In your address last night, Mr. President, you correctly noted that, "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation." Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. But Fortune 100 CEOs are exactly the wrong people to talk to about jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. It also brought back work that had been outsourced. That's a good question.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

We have identified the problem , which is that CEOs believe that the CIO does not understand or help with the CEO''s issues and the needs of the business. Only 46 percent of CEOs think their CIOs understand the business. Find Your Voice in the C-Suite. To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

And the havoc being wreaked — in higher prices, banned devices, and stifled innovation — is laying waste to the industry landscape. Android’s release, for Apple’s late founder and CEO Steve Jobs, was the ultimate heresy. “I Innovation Tech industry Technology' There’s a slim chance that either Congress or the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Driven by the ever-lower costs of global communication and online collaboration tools, Henry Ford's vertically integrated organization is yielding to Procter & Gamble's network of external innovators. Almost anything can be outsourced to specialists and reconnected. Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. It also brought back work that had been outsourced. That's a good question.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

CEOs are on the hunt to understand who has done what, and who has succeeded. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Once the strategic vision is in place, senior leadership, including the CEO, will need to champion it personally in order to overcome institutional resistance and break down silos between departments. Early adopters are posting faster growth in operating profits , which enables them to continue innovating and solidifying their advantages.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

On one hand, many noted that in the 1990s, following scandals in Indonesia and Vietnam, the shoe giant’s name had become, in the words of the company’s co-founder and former CEO Phil Knight, “synonymous with slave wages, forced overtime, and arbitrary abuse.” workers over those in poorer countries. Not necessarily.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Former Ogilvy CEO Charlotte Beers was famous for saying, “Collaboration is highly overrated when you don’t have the right thing to do.” To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Collaboration is not always the answer. ” Collaboration is suitable for certain tasks and unsuitable for others.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Many of today''s ecosystem members are coders and app developers, and APIs are how they interface with a provider organization. Opening up APIs lets organizations outsource innovation by allowing third-parties to experiment with their information assets and share revenue streams. All have seen fantastic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

based home improvement retailer, has hence developed and is marketing a full home management system, called IRIS. Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed cloud-based genome-mapping devices that allow scientists to subscribe to the computing power they need at affordable rates. Lowe’s, the $53-billion U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

We're seeing robots developed and/or deployed in defense, healthcare, production, warehousing, and lots of other sectors. They might not have great jobs, in short, but they have jobs that can't be outsourced or automated away. And of course, they've been vacuuming our floors for a while now; iRobot has sold over 6 million Roombas.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Sephora has always been an innovative global business, doing things a little differently, which is what drew me to the brand. When you arrived, what did you see as the opportunities and priorities for increasing digital innovation? CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together. For us, it’s paid off. The New Marketing Organization.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

based home improvement retailer, has hence developed and is marketing a full home management system, called IRIS. Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed cloud-based genome-mapping devices that allow scientists to subscribe to the computing power they need at affordable rates. Lowe’s, the $53-billion U.S.-based

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