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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Even the swiftest of fast followers will struggle to not choke on the dust of first movers in today’s world. Beating your competition to the future will be accomplished by those companies with vision, talent, grit, purpose, agility, creativity, commitment and determination – not just those organizations with bigger budgets.

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Digital Transformation Or Digital Free Fall: What Every CEO Must Know

N2Growth Blog

The special ones, they see it as a chance to create advantage, to deliver value and to innovate at scale. Innovation has always been synonymous with business survival and that hasn’t changed. What has changed is the pace and scale at which businesses must innovate to remain competitive in a digital world.

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Verizon, the iPhone, and the Power of Second Chances

Harvard Business Review

The game isn't over, and adding Verizon's other innovations might even change the game. There is still a debate in strategy circles about whether it is better to be the first mover or a fast follower, and whether missing out on the first wave of disruptive innovation means falling behind forever.

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Amazon's Fire and the New Integrated Platform

Harvard Business Review

The net pioneer that reinvented retailing and redefined "word-of-web" recommendations has devised a new innovation ecosystem. Amazon's presence will intensify the innovation tempo in every market touched. As clever as Amazon's technological innovations have been, Bezos's flair for ecosystem innovation is even more impressive.

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The Way Forward for Samsung, and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

But the gravest concern we've heard, that the ruling creates a legal climate that will stifle innovation, is unfounded. Simply (and remarkably), every moment a user spends with an Apple product or service feels like Apple, and this is a direct result of its fervent commitment to a seamless experience.