N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

If you don’t have direct competition you’ll surely have indirect competition. What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? You will also be competing to retain talented employees that other companies would like to lure away.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid. They often talk the talk, but rarely do they walk the walk.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

I believe the same characteristics that are present in the heart of a warrior are also present in the most successful executives and entrepreneurs. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] patriciazell Wow…thanks, Mike! link] mikemyatt No thanks necessary Patricia…I hope this post helps in some way. I Think Not.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. EY is known for its focus on innovation. Our DE&I approach is multifaceted.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. And what are your strategic goals?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Moreover, the pursuit of perfectionism rarely results in a competitive advantage, but it will result in time delays, cost overruns, missed deadlines, and unkept commitments. The downside of this is that it stifles candor, creativity and innovation and often leads to a my way or the highway environment.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# Inc.com Inc. magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Both scalable and non-scalable businesses can achieve growth and sustainable success. I've found that simplicity enables success, where complexity often times serves as a barrier. It will be interesting to see if the next round of Google innovation will be as successful as the beauty of their initial simplicity.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. Let’s innovate, disrupt, and challenge the status quo. How did you approach this unique task? We need to revolutionize.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&#

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

Commitment, passion, attention to detail, discipline, service above self, honor, integrity, perseverance, compassion, the ability to both lead and follow, to execute with precision, and the ability to adapt, improvise, and overcome are representative traits possessed by successful military leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Whether you like it or not, your success as a CEO will be largely tied to your team building ability. How will we measure them, and what hurdles do we need to hit to be successful? How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. What are your biggest obstacles and barriers to success?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

It happens every time there’s a big announcement about a national or regional innovation policy that will lead us into the future: We are presented with schemes to strengthen intellectual property rights, enlarge the pool of risk financing, and upgrade the universities while pushing them to collaborate more with industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. It’s hard to imagine that a success rate that low would be tolerated in any other business function.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Executives and entrepreneurs from all over the world have traveled to Silicon Valley to learn the secrets of its success. But in our conversations with executives about what they’ve learned, we’ve seen a tendency to focus on superficial elements rather than on the root causes of companies’ success.

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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. Being a successful corporate hacker thus requires an enormous amount of energy and persuasiveness. The prize?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. IT went from being a potential source of competitive advantage to being a necessity for competitive parity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. Working together, finance and strategy executives can forge better links between resource allocation and strategic goals. There are two reasons for this.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. TopRank Marketing TopRank Marketing has been doing innovative and impactful work with interactive content and B2B influencers for huge brands like SAP, Dell, LinkedIn, 3M, and Oracle for over 18 years. That it's purely promotional. No answer) 14.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Robinson add success to the global supply chain industry? The evidence is clear that more diverse and inclusive organizations are more creative, innovative, and higher performing. It is a key competitive advantage. The HR Digest: C.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. The implications of success scare them more than the risk of failure. These distinct approaches enjoy demonstrable real-world success.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. But perhaps what tech critics really want are more innovative rules. In particular, breaking up the most successful Internet and cloud-based companies only looks like a solution.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Data science can enable wholly new and innovative capabilities that can completely differentiate a company. But those innovative capabilities aren’t so much designed or envisioned as they are discovered and revealed through curiosity-driven tinkering by the data scientists. Sounds great, right?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Recently I asked a high-level Singapore official how Singapore's companies would be able to compete in a world of countries whose companies have greater access to low-cost labor (as in China) and cutting-edge innovation (as in the U.S.). He nodded: "That's our competitive advantage.". Innovation is a continuous dynamic process.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Comparatively, online lenders have limited brand recognition, and acquiring small business customers online is expensive and competitive. But banks’ ability to use these strengths to build real competitive advantage is not a forgone conclusion. Lending to small and medium-sized businesses is ready to move online.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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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. Key Success Factors. In particular, we found three more ingredients to be crucial to the data lab’s success: Executive support.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Making sure the company's key processes are delivering competitive advantage , or if not, that the right fixes are on the way. The executives I know at these companies today believe that having process owners provides them a significant competitive advantage. from 2004 to 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Since 1995, small employers have created about two out of every three net new jobs65%of total net job creation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

And thank goodness, because that gives those of us who understand the real value of great people a huge competitive advantage! But with individuals, the opposite is true: The value of a contributor decreases disproportionately with each additional person contributing to a single project, idea, or innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient. These changes relinquish some of the cost advantages of being a multinational corporation, and others may be removed by trade barriers. ”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. They worked together to identify the technologies that could improve the company''s competitive advantage versus technologies that were needed to support the business.

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