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N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 9, 2010
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. Moving on…Believe it or not, CEO is not always synonymous with all knowing business guru. Thanks again for the comment Mark.
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2018
But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 17, 2013
You also have to retain, direct, and eventually promote them — something that managers from other backgrounds can find daunting. Modern design schools increasingly encourage this, demanding that graduates be familiar not just with a traditional creative skillset, but with ethnography, finance, coding, and a host of other competencies.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk. The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2015
EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. It has also abandoned other initiatives, and that’s equally important in managing innovation in a corporate context. It’s not just products.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2011
They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. treating suppliers as partners).
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