N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 9, 2010
Let me give you a great example…It is not at all uncommon for an executive to tell me that his/her business doesn’t really have any competition. Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 9, 2012
Real craziness is what gets outsourced. Of course, as anyone following global trends in manufacturing, software development, and customer support well knows, outsourcing dynamics create their own dysfunctional dependencies. And, like obscenity, most executives think they know it when they see it.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 16, 2013
In fact, instead of strengthening managers'' ability to manage change, we''ve instead allowed managers to outsource change management to HR specialists and consultants instead of taking accountability themselves — an approach that often doesn''t work. Change management Execution'
Harvard Business Review
JULY 30, 2015
After interviewing several ad agency executives and marketing leaders in a diverse group of businesses — pharmaceutical, high-tech, manufacturing, retail, sports, and others — I’ve found a few common themes that could help explain what is going on. You fund, staff, and execute continuously. Agencies are slow.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 12, 2015
As recently as March 2015, for instance, Rebecca Homkes and Don and Charles Sull said in “ Why Strategy Execution Unravels – and What to Do About it ”: “Since Michael Porter’s seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is.”
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 20, 2016
That may be the case, but the current business environment requires all leaders to view their companies as software businesses — and think like software executives. The first step toward thinking like a software executive is to understand that your company has some distinctive knowhow – and that it can be codified.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 3, 2014
When we started to look at new locations for our call center operations, we initially considered outsourcing to India or the Philippines and met with a few potential providers. But we were reluctant to relinquish control of something that is one of Zappo’s core competencies.
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