N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

He is the poster child for a thoughtful, caring, empathetic, and committed leader who just also happens to be wicked smart. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Cooperperson

DECEMBER 11, 2017

People who are in professions like Information Technology, Finance, Accounting, and Engineering tend to be analytic, cautious, conscientious and describe themselves as introverts. It takes commitment and self-discipline which happens to be a strength of introverts. Networking is an important part of your job.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Unplug from certain types of communication during times you’ve committed to a particular task. Maybe you can’t leave behind technology, but unplugging mentally from email and your phone while researching an idea or writing a proposal will improve your focus. Mentally Unplug.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Whether that’s the shop floor workers mingling with the office workers, Information Technology employees interacting with the sales team, or other co-mingling, they believe it is bad for the team. This officer told Hercule that another murder had been committed “right on the bloody Nile.” It is a great idea.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Whether that’s the shop floor workers mingling with the office workers, Information Technology employees interacting with the sales team, or other co-mingling, they believe it is bad for the team. This officer told Hercule that another murder had been committed “right on the bloody Nile.” It is a great idea.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Due Diligence Armstrong 120

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2017

Quite simply, the longer the supplier can commit to a partnership the better fit they will be for your company. You’ll also want to know how often they can visit your office to perform maintenance checkups. How Are They With Long-Term Partnerships?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

We also don’t have to ignore our personal commitments and responsibilities. In fact, none of these lessons are easy, but when we commit ourselves to a cause, we will often need to put the cause ahead of our personal goals. The firm focuses on leadership development, organization excellence and information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Nearly 700 employees from an information technology department participated in the experiment. Some worked remotely but reported pressure to be visible at the office to demonstrate work and team commitment. So it’s surprising that two other new studies report weakened company commitment to employees working flexibly.

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Stress Human Resources Report Commitment 14

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The revolution of cloud computing actually preserves the basic structure of how businesses have used information technology resources for the last few decades. Read on to learn how cloud computing works and what impacts to expect. Cloud Architecture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

It’s necessary to have a multidisciplinary team, with clinical, analytics, data science, information technology, and behavior change skill sets available from start to finish. The C-Suite Must Commit. Organizational leaders are often unfamiliar with advanced analytics technology and applications. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Simply by seeking to create, measure and assess 80/20 value creating segments, firms can harness 100X more information to new strategic thrusts. Instead of “data being the plural of anecdote,” 80/20 anecdotes emerge from the data: that is, committing to 80/20 KPIs inspires new analytic narratives.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2011

The world is full of examples: "At IBM , we strive to lead in the invention, development and manufacture of the industry's most advanced information technologies, including computer systems, software, storage systems and microelectronics. And in trying to cover everything it starts to sound like it's committed to nothing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

More recently, a major industrial products company made a huge predictive analytics commitment to preventive maintenance to identify and fix key components before they failed and more effectively allocate the firm’s limited technical services talent. Decision making Failure Information & technology'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Creating a role such as a CAO is one way to demonstrate a firm commitment to joining the revolution. Information & technology Leadership' An analytics revolution is coming. If you can’t say who owns analytics in your organization, I suggest you consider fixing that today.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

In this final part, I'd like to offer one meaningful piece of advice: If you're going to take the innovation plunge, commit — and not just to an idea. McColough also recognized that building information technology products wasn't a task for Xerox's existing research staff. They must be patient and committed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

But, as Drucker also said, “unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes, but no plans.” Information & technology IT management Leadership' This networking of collective intelligence has been instrumental to speed up the group’s digital transformation at every level of our organization.”.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

That requires top management commitment and oversight. Information & technology Leadership Social media' Monetizing network effects demonstrably makes for a helluva business model. Can your organization do that without a Chief Network Effects Officer? Start by asking: Who owns the challenge of network effects management today?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Core, in Geoffrey Moore’s definition , is what a business’s customers cannot get from anyone else; context is all the other stuff a business needs to get done to fulfill its commitments. Data is the raw material that we attempt to turn into useful information. Information & technology IT management Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Now we have an opportunity to crunch the insights of key talent, data assets, and technologies from multiple internal and external sources, as they arise. Information & technology Leadership Strategy' At the same time, powerful new tools are becoming increasingly available to enable real-time strategic decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Several respondents mentioned that their CS50 experience had helped persuade recruiters that they were committed to a career in technology. Many respondents acknowledged that there are online options for learning to code that would not require as big a time commitment as CS50. Pre-CS50, I wouldn''t have been able to do that.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Start by creating a competitive intel repository and committing to its maintenance. Competition Information & technology Strategy' It can also help you outflank savvy competitors and acquire more market share. Failing to utilize it can be highly detrimental for budding businesses. So where do the underdogs begin?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

More than any other retailer of scale, Tesco had committed to customer research, analytics, and loyalty as its marketing and operational edge. Information & technology Leadership Retail' For example, the supermarket ingeniously succeeded at Internet-enabled grocery shopping in ways that Webvan—remember them?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

At a recent conference, Dell founder Michael Dell spoke of the billions of patients who received better health care and the billions of students worldwide who had access to better education as a result of Dell’s information technologies. He said nothing about the benefits to Dell’s bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

These include protections for producers offering programming for minority communities, low-cost Internet access for low-income homes, and a commitment by Comcast to abide by the FCC’s “Open Internet” rules despite the fact that a federal court last month threw most of them out as wildly exceeding the agency’s legal authority.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

They’re passionate and committed to the pursuit of knowledge. Ethics Information & technology Innovation' Indeed, the rich and controversial history of medical self-experimentation confirms an important bias every organization should know: Innovators are happy to use themselves as guinea pigs and lab rats for their ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Information & technology Marketing Online marketing' Now, because of smartphones and tablets, marketers need to fundamentally rethink things. Frequency: What''s Your Mobile Strategy? Being Digital Demands You Be More Human. CMO''s: Build Digital Relationships or Die. Measurement in a Constantly Connected World.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The core project team, which meets bimonthly, comprises clinical (RN, PA, physician), administrative, research, and quality representatives from plastic and oral surgery, as well as representatives from otolaryngology, and information technology. Identify and share early success stories to catalyze interest across the organization.

Health Care 8

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

That commitment doesn’t exist in the digital space either in theory or practice. Government Information & technology International business' Societies and legal systems — police and neighborhoods — have to collaborate not just to fix broken windows but identify and punish vandals and criminal gangs.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

Make sure you ask your data scientists "to be more explicit here" before committing big dollars. Information & technology Operations' The many claims for the simplicity of extracting business insight from raw data puts us in mind of the famous Sidney Harris cartoon : ". and then a miracle occurs." The factory.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

is one of many examples of what some now call internet time or a flat world and believe is somehow specific to 21 st -century information technologies and global markets. As in any arms race, moreover, both sides beef up: there is more information and more ways of analyzing that information. Sometimes (often?)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

In this final part, I'd like to offer one meaningful piece of advice: If you're going to take the innovation plunge, commit — and not just to an idea. McColough also recognized that building information technology products wasn't a task for Xerox's existing research staff. They must be patient and committed.

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Innovation Company Technology Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The possibility of failure is high when companies don’t commit senior leadership. Information & technology Leadership' Success requires getting a diverse group of managers to coalesce around change—breaking down barriers across a wide phalanx of IT, business-lines, analytics, and training experts.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

A revolution in information technology has transformed businesses around the globe over the past two decades. More recently, companies have discovered that technology-enabled data is an underappreciated but highly valuable asset. A parallel transformation is now taking hold in the nonprofit sector.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

In 2013 alone, Kickstarter users funded nearly 20,000 projects and committed nearly $500 million. Today’s rich trade in heritage goods is happening because of disruptive technologies, not in spite of them. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

These transitions, even when scaled down to a company of 140 like mine, require a substantial amount of planning, commitment, resources and time with little room for error. IT management Information & technology' Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center. The CIO In Crisis: What You Told Us. Can UX Save Enterprise IT?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

And remaining analog customers — many of them older, or living in remote areas of the country — need to be eased into digital voice services, preserving Congress’s long-standing commitment to ensure Universal Service at an affordable price, including subsidizing those who can’t afford basic connections.

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