N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. Focus on value creation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

By 1993, just eight years after its founding, Blockbuster was the global leader in movie rentals, with more than 3,400 stores worldwide. A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. Then Netflix happened.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Companies need these practical hacktivists to dream up new ways to meet the needs of consumers who require customization on demand and to outpace competitors in an era when competitive advantage is often fleeting. Sarah Windham, senior public relations manager in global tools and storage at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. Taking action on the global goals could help address several of these obstacles that are giving rise to “trapped value” in the emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

At a higher level, governments have long understood that their nations are well served by industries that win in the global marketplace—and have pursued forward-looking industrial policies to help them. He nodded: "That's our competitive advantage.". Innovation is a continuous dynamic process. What did he mean?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Robinson and in global logistics. Freight transportation accounts for about 8% of global carbon emissions, and Scope 3 emissions account can account for 90% or more of a companies’ emissions. Robinson add success to the global supply chain industry?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. Each initiative claims it is critical to the success of the organization, yet their competition puts that very success in jeopardy.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

or informal efforts produced via someone else’s R&D or innovation efforts, companies often start projects that they don’t finish. Often times these acquisitions can provide you some form of exclusivity or other form of competitive advantage. This can create an opportunity for the astute buyer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) looked at the state of digitization in sectors across the U.S. Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Typically ensconced in corporate databases, and tightly held in order to maintain competitive advantage, this data contains tremendous possible insights and avenues for policy innovation. The practice of using data collaboratives tends to be global and cross-sectoral.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. The HR Digest: Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about the Chamber’s T3 Innovation Network?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Since the classical style is the best known to corporate planners and I've already discussed the adaptive style in depth in a previous HBR article (" Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage " with co-author Mike Deimier) let's take a closer look at the other two: shaping and visionary.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. Yet it does not have a single representative on Interbrand’s list of the top 100 global brands. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Both then and in 1686, when Lloyd’s was born in a London coffee house, the global insurance industry was a business of utmost good faith , as it remains today. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Over the past few years, most businesses have come to recognize that the ability to collect and analyze the data they generate has become a key source of competitive advantage. ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception. PM Images/Getty Images. Unfortunately, this didn’t narrow it down a whole lot.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The fall of the Berlin Wall, in 1989, ushered in a new era of globalization. Political sentiment has turned against globalization and the political and economic policies that promoted it. Domestic champions receive favorable regulatory treatment that makes competing with them difficult for global corporations.

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