N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 27, 2022

Diversity has long been recognized in terms of its importance to things like innovation and creativity, with research from MIT showing how cognitive diversity improves the profitability of organizations. These findings illustrate the importance of creating the right environment and culture for diverse teams to operate in.

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Diversity Committee Construction Groupthink 122

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

Supply Chain 70

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 70

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

All organizations have long term goals, project teams must set technical and process goals as part of their work. However when two or more people (any team, committee) attempt to make the simplest decision, chaos results. Oct 2010 In more traditional terms, “exclude&# would mean “fire&#. mike Friday, 22nd.

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Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment. As the head of the U.S.

Process 9

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 9

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Do something well and commit to long-term excellence. I served on boards of directors, search committees, awards panels, review boards and task forces for many. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. Understand conflicting societal goals.

Strategic Planning 62

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 62

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

A conversation with Peter Fasolo about the value of transformational growth and innovation – and how to help it unfold. Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. How do you keep your people open to transformational growth and innovation?

Innovation 96

Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 96

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Expectations are high, but some skeptics in the organization feel that innovation is an overhyped buzzword that doesn’t justify being a separate function. Congratulations!

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. That exceeds its operating income of $52.5 Not so fast.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

How important is innovation these days? mentions per company (Nike, recently named the world''s most innovative company, topped the list with 239 mentions). But just talking about innovation doesn''t mean a company is really serious about it, or is approaching it in a way that has as a reasonable chance of success.

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Innovation Budgeting Commitment Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

How important is innovation these days? mentions per company (Nike, recently named the world’s most innovative company, topped the list with 239 mentions). But just talking about innovation doesn’t mean a company is really serious about it, or is approaching it in a way that has as a reasonable chance of success.

Innovation 8

Innovation Budgeting Commitment Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. As I said earlier, measuring a company’s short-term orientation is incredibly tricky. What would better measures be?

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

A conversation with Peter Fasolo about the value of transformational growth and innovation – and how to help it unfold. Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. How do you keep your people open to transformational growth and innovation?

Innovation 40

Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Companies that focus on innovation often worry about how to encourage people to contribute ideas. But what happens when you ask people to participate in an innovation effort, and then get flooded with too many suggestions? That’s the dilemma that one of my clients described not long ago.

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Committee Innovation Follow-up Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. Patience and a long-term view. Directness. He's personable, but blunt.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend. Lastly, this group may be more attuned to individual interests (including performance metrics and compensation incentives) rather than the collective and longer-term needs of the firm.

Leadership 8

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. In these circumstances, informal networks can be a countervailing force to legitimate power and the long-term interests of the organization. These can evolve into group-level behaviors. The High Ground.

Politics 10

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. Start with a survey.

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Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

This model doesn’t leave patient choice to chance; it’s hardwired into clinical operations. How the most innovative providers are creating value. For these people, hospice is just another emergency service tacked onto the end of a long siege of hospital treatment. The Status Quo. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 8

Health Care Sharpe Document Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

But was it also possible that the members of the selection committee, knowing Stefan’s attachment to his job, were in reluctant to confront him about succession? How long should a CEO stay in his job? Most likely, it’s the period when he or she is most willing to learn, experiment, and innovate.

CEO 8

CEO Committee Self-aware Long-term 8

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?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. The bigger the playing field, the more trust, familiarity, and rapport count.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Bank of America convenes a local committee of bank leaders in each of its 45 Neighborhood Builders markets then uses a short application and lots of on-the-ground research to select two awardees per community per year. It focuses on both long-term investment and continuous improvement. It is both local and national.

Case Study 14

Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This tax represents a key public policy innovation that is a rare win-win: it will hold down health care costs while raising substantial tax revenues. As a result, in the near term, the ACA will have minimal impact on employer-sponsored insurance (ESI). The primary mechanism for doing so will be the Cadillac tax. Under current U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Policies Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

For example, Walmart doesn't succeed just because of a strong operations group. It has sophisticated functions that together manage user-generated content, the in-depth tracking of consumer buying behavior, and the innovation of new features based on the resulting insights. Permanent cross-functional teams tend to fare better.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I’d like to share the features of our innovative planning process, with an eye toward helping other institutions adopt the elements that will work for them. Because the technology specs and operational logistics were finalized collaboratively early on, change orders were about half the typical number for a project of this size.

Health Care 8

Health Care Construction Planning Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Here''s a very strange thing: Europe''s decades-long effort to reduce carbon emissions has been thrown into a shambles because utilities and manufacturers are exceeding their carbon-reduction targets. Markets fundamentally don''t work when they are "long" — that is, flooded with things no one wants. That''s right. Exceeding them.

Price 8

Price Energy Politics Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

They staff committees and events, hoping to generate more leads. ” Sizing you in terms of immediate benefit to them, they either probe further or move on. Just because you once spoke to their business club, attended a workshop with them or served on a volunteer committee, they keep coming back to you for free work.

Committee 70

Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Many organizations lose some of their best operational people because of creating single pathways to organizational success," says David. Some people do their job as it is described and some enlarge their job; they innovate around the parameters of the job. Yet, these are not areas of genius for all.

Learning-by-Doing 15

Learning-by-Doing Motivation Case Study Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

In terms of the capability to listen to, watch and keep tabs on what its citizens are doing, the East German government could not possibly have dreamed of achieving what the United States government has managed to put in place today. And yet, here we are. and] the ability to eavesdrop on phone calls directly and in real time."

Film 8

Film Information Technology Information Technology 8

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

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Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 333

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

Even the term “net neutrality” was coined not by an engineer but by a legal academic, in 2003. My view is pretty simple: Most efforts to regulate the internet make things worse in the long term — or, in this case, much sooner. Let’s start with the key players.

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Objective Engineering Content Open-book 8