N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 23, 2018
Some business leaders eager to keep a competitive advantage often invest in new technologies without fully understanding how to harness their potential or fully considering how digital technologies will meet the company’s needs. The six I’s stand for individual, innovation, information, incubation, intelligence, and investment. “We
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Companies can fill this need and gain competitive advantage by transforming their stakeholders from bystanders to owners and make sustainability, including as it pertains to social good, part of their purpose. My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench.
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 25, 2018
Rockefeller’s business strategy was to vertically integrate every aspect of the oil business (exploration, development, logistics, marketing) to assure an ongoing competitive advantage. His vehicles were not just mergers and acquisitions, though there were plenty of both along the way.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 17, 2012
It's the only antidote to margin-crushing competition, the only hope for out-performing a dismal economy, and the only way to truly amaze your customers. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
The general point is right — a dollar of investment in incrementally improving the core is almost always going to earn a greater near-term return than a dollar invested in a growth business that might take years to incubate. As Rita Gunther McGrath notes , competitive advantage is increasingly a transient notion.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 10, 2013
In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. Competition Disruptive innovation Strategy'
Harvard Business Review
MAY 16, 2011
In addition, Medtronic created a Paris-based medical device start-up incubator in partnership with a leading VC firm, Soffinova Ventures, to rapidly prototype potential reverse innovations from physicians in Eastern Europe. There are plans for a Singapore-based gateway under development. Reverse innovation can be sourced in many ways.
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