N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I look at incremental improvements as a necessary part of day-to-day operations, and a necessary component of keeping things current. I visited his church on numerous occasions.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. We believe coherence confers a substantial premium, and we’ve measured it. SD : What is the ‘coherence premium?’. SD : Why now?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. 7 Steps of Professional Development : 1. Personal Development.

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Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

David Bogaerts and Jael Schuyer are process improvement experts (" Lean Master Black Belts " and "Agile coaches") in the IT and operations group at ING , a leading bank based in the Netherlands. They have weekly planning meetings and conference calls twice a week to work on internal customer service improvements. How are they doing it?

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Process Innovation Agility Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

The blizzard of conferences, initiatives, articles, and reports on how to prepare for the changes technology will bring to our economy is important. Developing Skills that Will Matter in the Future. But at good jobs companies, these very skills are already demanded, developed, and put to use. Here’s why.

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Merchandising Retail Competitive Advantage Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world.

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Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Embracing data as a competitive advantage is a necessity for today’s business, so why is it so hard to get access to the data we need? Second, data confers insight and advantage. As you progress in using data in operational and strategic applications, organizational changes will be inevitable.

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Competitive Advantage Software CIO Analysis 8

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 8, 2017

Fortune magazine recently recognized Theo Epstein, President, Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball and the Cubs organization, as #1 on its world’s greatest leaders list. She goes on to recommend developing therapeutic relationships that include empathizing with patients. Are You Tapping Your Superpower?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

Way back in the first decade of the new millennium, when Craigslist seemed like the biggest threat facing newspapers, founder Craig Newmark paid visits to lots of media companies and media conferences. The Washington Post operated at a 9.2% Yes, his site was definitely taking classified advertising away from papers, he would say.

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Advertising Christensen Media Disruptive Innovation 8

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 27, 2016

When FDR put the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression under Marshall’s command, he developed an “absorbing interest” in helping the young men by educating them and taking care of their health care needs. Eisenhower to the position of supreme commander of Operation Overlord. He increased human value in several ways.

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Ryan Career Competitive Advantage Health Care 186

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. Operations Organizational culture'

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Six Sigma Drucker P&L Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. See also here , here , and here.) They also worked with the CIO to help them to understand the business.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The company’s cultural dysfunction, it seems to me, stems from the very nature of the company’s competitive advantage: Uber’s business model is predicated on lawbreaking. But I suggest that the problem at Uber goes beyond a culture created by toxic leadership. ” Respect for the law barely merits a footnote.

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Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Business development. At a later news conference, OSHA announced that it was assessing its smallest fine, as a result of the forthright way in which my client had handled the crisis. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. The process of strategy development is not esoteric. Business development.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. The Barron's article mentioned that a 690 million euro convertible bond sale in February had bought Amazon some more time (the list was based on 1999 year-end data) — but that the company would still run out of cash in 21 months. After that the No.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

This is disturbing coming from a company so adept at cutting-edge customer analytics that it’s selling analytics services and has refused to divulge the names of its tech staff at Hadoop conferences to prevent them from being poached. But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The challenge of strategy is to develop an integrated view of the workings of your business and how it creates and captures value within its operating environment. So, rather than develop allegiance to one piece of the strategy puzzle, founders are best served by familiarizing themselves with the basic tenets of the field.

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Entrepreneur Strategy Competitive Advantage Operations 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

This odd couple announced a collaboration last week to "work together to apply scientific knowledge and experience to examine how Dow's operations rely on and affect nature.". But the companies that "get" how to value nature in their operations first will have the advantage, even if they then share that information.

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Supply Chain NGO Short-term Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

It is as important as the products and services they sell and the customers they sell them to, and it’s a key to competitive advantage. Generally, customer education and applications development are often key tasks in early stages. Subsequent stages again depend on buyer behavior and strategy.

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CRM B2B Price Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Executives read the same trade magazines, go to the same conferences, and talk to the same consultants. What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. After a while, they all think alike.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. IT would temporarily create proprietary advantages, he predicted, citing Walmart as an example. Most industries in the U.S.

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