N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

If you’re passionate about something it means you care so much that it hurts…Refusing to surrender, and having the ability to make the tough decision or the needed sacrifice, will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Therefor by definition it is not unique or likely to generate any competitive advantage. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. By definition 'best practice' is something codified by someone else. As an example, Look at Apple! But manufacturing?

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

Complaints are a window into your customer’s mind, so make it easy for them by setting up phone lines and an active social media that can respond. Develop a CRM strategy A CRM is a somewhat tricky piece of technology. Only they have the bird’s eye view of the operations. This in turn will benefit your bottom line.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

Complaints are a window into your customer’s mind, so make it easy for them by setting up phone lines and an active social media that can respond. Develop a CRM strategy A CRM is a somewhat tricky piece of technology. Only they have the bird’s eye view of the operations. This in turn will benefit your bottom line.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

BullDog Reporter’s Daily Dog Media, News and Intelligence for PR Pros. ** N2′s Top pick for the latest information from the PR world. 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.&#

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

In order to survive over the long term and gain competitive advantage, companies must learn how to connect profoundly with the world around them -- not only with customers and stakeholders, but also with employees, local communities, politicians, and the environment itself." Another example is the music streaming service Spotify.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

link] Becky Robinson Mike, the first thought that came to my mind is social media. Leaders who leverage social media successfully for their organizations can bring about great change. Interacting through social media is simple, meaningful, actionable, relational, transformational, and scalable.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

While 60% of drone usage currently relates to communications and media such as for film making and commercial photography, new higher-value applications are on their way, as drones have a significant advantage in terms of precision, convenience, and cost over more traditional solutions such as satellites and helicopters.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2013

While workplaces are swiftly becoming more and more advanced in cloud computing, using social media for marketing purposes, and generally becoming au fait with modern technology, there is one area which is sadly lacking when it comes to technological advancement. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

Refusing to surrender, having the ability to make the tough decision, the needed sacrifice, and the focus to place fiduciary obligations above your self interest will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game. I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. Online surveys, social media and voice-of-the-customer events all help to ensure that a fact-based understanding of customer needs drives the company forward.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. These expressions are trite and reflect a copy-cat way of talking and thinking: ‘Solutions’ is a tired 1990’s term, taken from technology hype. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Artists of different media creating festivals, shows and museums. Multiple companies find that doing business in a new country is easier when a consortium operates.

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HR Digest

MAY 14, 2024

Insights into what is human capital management strategy and what is strategic human capital management reveal how integrating technology and adopting a coherent human capital management strategy propel businesses towards growth. These technologies provide: Integrated Data Management : Centralizing employee data to streamline HR processes.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

With cloud implementation you'll be able to go wherever your business takes you by accessing it from different technologies, too. He is responsible for Product Management & Marketing for Sage X3 globally, and is in charge of ensuring that the Operating Company (OpCo) teams are aligned behind the product strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Kodak created a digital camera, invested in the technology, and even understood that photos would be shared online. Why did this happen?

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Rajesh Setty

JUNE 13, 2013

There are fairy tale stories that get reported in the media about the glorious life of an entrepreneur. Free eBook: Personal branding for technology professionals. We as human beings operate on stories – the ones that we tell, ones that we tell ourselves and the ones that we hear from others. The order is important.

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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. The potential of new technology to fill the gaps in small business lending is high. Finance Small/medium business Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

We have long taught that network effects can provide market power and sustained or even self-reinforcing competitive advantage (the best kind). Instead, any notions of scale for technology companies depend on user profiles that can be ported to multiple different hardware platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In a recent MIT CISR poll, 42% of our respondents said they expected to gain competitive advantage from social, mobile, analytics, cloud, and internet of things (SMACIT) technologies. The most notable characteristic of those technologies is their accessibility — to customers, employees, partners, and competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

The notion that you can transform a failing media company — or any company in any industry for that matter — by infusing it with data and algorithms is terribly misguided. While technology can certainly improve operational performance, the idea that it can replace a sound strategy is a dangerous delusion.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. The conventional wisdom there is that business is, if anything, more competitive than it once was — and there’s at least some data to support that view. Perhaps the gap between firms starts out as the inevitable result of competition.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

The results show uneven progress: The technology sector comes out on top — no surprise there. 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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HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

Understanding HR Analytics The Evolution of HR Management Over the past century, HR management has undergone a remarkable transformation, evolving from an operational discipline to a strategic function. Optimized HR Operations: HR analytics streamlines HR processes by automating data collection, analysis, and reporting.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

If a company tries to become big, it usually fails because it becomes less flexible and responsive to competitive threats. If it succeeds, that’s usually because it has economies of scale that serve as a competitive advantage. Those competitive advantages are real.

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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. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Gannett Corporation, like Time Warner and News Corp, has recently announced that it will split its print news businesses (USA Today and 80 other newspapers) from its media businesses (TV channels, Cars.com, and other internet businesses). Moreover, the split does not change the competitive advantages either.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

You can’t read the pages of the mainstream or business media without being impressed by the opportunity. The biggest obstacle to using advanced data analysis isn’t skill base or technology; it’s plain old access to the data. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Digital natives (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, IBM) have gained competitive advantage in the first two, and the jury is still out on the third: Type 1: These are “pure” information goods, where digital natives rule. For example, breakthroughs in battery technology made the electric cars possible. Not, really.

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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. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Directness.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

AT&T was the only telephone operator in the United States; telephony was just one of many high-impact industries that were highly regulated and protected from competition. The consequences of the introduction of the iPhone and iPad are not just seen in competitive moves. Roughly half of the 4.4

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The deployment of smart appliances (fueled by enthusiasm for the Internet of Things) and smart devices, as well as always-on social media, will continue to multiply both the ways of seeing into your company and the ways that information can escape. Companies do not all depend equally on proprietary information for competitive advantage.

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