N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Because of the complexities, we can always find excuses: Organizational developments did not always have the impact as expected, or employees/leaders turned out to be less suitable for the job than hoped for. Making plans flexible means that organizational developments and career plans have to be adjusted more frequently than we were used to.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. It was there that I first became fascinated with the question “what makes a successful organization.” Eich , Ph.D.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Technology trends. But when the business landscape radically changes, culture must change, too. The results were telling.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Drucker’s Contributions You can’t talk about Drucker’s spectacular success as a management guru and fortune teller without noting that his first big public prediction was a bust. I still consider myself his student today. It was published shortly before the stock market crash which preceded the Great Depression.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

These ICOs are nearly always held when a project is at an immature stage of development akin to a seed stage startup — when it is testing hypotheses around its consumer value proposition and forming a founding team. This focused attention from developers has the added benefit of crowdsourcing feedback on the beta version of the project.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. Thus, centralized firms more quickly rid themselves of unsuccessful products – almost twice as fast as their more decentralized peers. Killing products isn’t easy. Know the big picture. Rapid change requires rapid decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

But these successes are not by mistake—they are the result of decades of collaboration between business, government, philanthropy, and community. Our research finds that successful collaborations begin with a common process, one that applies no matter whether you are a CEO, nonprofit manager, philanthropist, or public servant.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Since the mid-2000s, however, this model has been under threat from a new, decentralized model, in which electricity is generated on a much smaller scale near or at the point of use, often through a combination of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, batteries, and the digital management of the electricity grid.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

While eBay and Airbnb’s platforms rely on the internet, platforms don’t always require technology and are not necessarily a new approach. Avon’s platform is more than makeup; it’s actually a decentralized economic empowerment model for women with product flowing through the platform as the object for connection.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Almost all successful organizations will face this challenge at some point. As they grow and achieve success, businesses, non-profit organizations, and governmental bureaus all develop the processes by which they solve the problems that they face on a daily basis. In long-successful organizations like the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

In China look at the unique organization of entrepreneurial cells Zhang Ruimin has created at Haier, and in France look at Vinci Group’s success, under Xavier Huillard, with a radically decentralized model designed to foster entrepreneurial creativity in its three thousand constituent companies.

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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. It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

In our work at the European Center for Strategic Innovation (ECSI) , we have extensively researched the role of successful Innovation Units. Drawing on our findings, we have developed a framework that breaks the Corporate Innovation Unit’s (CIU) role into seven distinct tasks. How centralized is the Innovation Unit?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

” And although his suggestions for how to improve the odds have been widely accepted, the success rate of major corporate change programs remains essentially unchanged — it still hovers at 30%. It’s been almost 10 years since HBR published John Kotter’s classic article,” Why Transformation Efforts Fail.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. However, in the process of unleashing this potential, leaders must make sure their innovators develop sustainability.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. organizational structure (such decentralizing and aligning technology to business areas more effectively), and governance. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

To prosper in the new competitive environment, institutions must engage the whole school system in supporting the personal and career development of their students. I recently worked with a leading research university to align the efforts of its huge, decentralized staff to transform the career support infrastructure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. When Satoshi later developed an interest in video games, he saw a way to recreate his childhood experience of catching and collecting elusive creatures. It is formed at conception and does not change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. and which they now sell in Europe and the U.S. and which they now sell in Europe and the U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Now however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions. In a superjob, technology has not only changed the nature of the skills the job requires but has changed the nature of the work and the job itself.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale. The same goes for technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

While retailers and cable companies moved their businesses online years ago, many insurers, struggling with legacy technology and outmoded organizational structures, are playing catch up. As the organization’s digital maturity increases, many digital functions become decentralized and are integrated into broader business unit activities.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

What we see and hear — and the conclusions we draw — influence for our lifetimes what we value, how we measure success, whom we trust, and the priorities we set for our own lives, including the role work will play within them. To allow comparisons across the geographies, we held consistent age spans and generational names.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Not by gathering waves of data and solving successive equations. Moreover, when we look around at the companies who are doing well, it can be hard to see the rhyme or reason of the decisions that led to that success. So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Keep your gaze on the customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In 2010, when MD Anderson decided to introduce time-driven activity-based costing , a method for measuring costs of treating a patient’s medical condition across a cycle of care, the ICCI provided the leadership and resources to develop the capabilities for a pilot project and then to scale the approach across the institution.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. But the real key to our ultimate success in China was the match with Alibaba’s leadership team.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 13, 2024

The world of work is undergoing a profound transformation, a metamorphosis fueled by technological innovations and shifting societal norms. A New Digital Frontier Enter Web3: The latest incarnation of the internet, underpinned by blockchain technology. It’s a realm where trust is decentralized, and innovation knows no bounds.

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Decentralization Trends Technology Innovation 167

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin. How technology is transforming transactions. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

To protect this vision from political pressure and regulatory interference, blockchain networks rely on a decentralized infrastructure that can’t be controlled by any one person or group. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. As it turns out, not very. Distributed Database.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical. Marketing is not a part-time endeavor, and if you don’t have a qualified C-level marketing executive leading the charge, don’t just trust things to the most vocal staff member.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Although big, global supply chains certainly have their own dynamism, they mostly evolve incrementally through minnovation rather than disruption – and thus get short shrift in the business media and amongst aspiring entrepreneurs, hungry to create successful ventures. Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

If we want to talk about success, we need to talk about outcomes , not just outputs. ” But if the outcome — selling more products — hasn’t been achieved, then we have not been successful. This means that most companies are settling for “done” rather than doing the hard work of targeting success.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

The success of the proposal requesting increased disclosure by ExxonMobil suggests that we have reached a tipping point within the investment community in the recognition of climate risks. Despite the company’s board recommendation that investors to vote against the proposal, a striking 62.2% Boards are not the only ones under pressure.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

After all, one reliable pathway to success is to imitate (or at least closely examine) the top predators and how they function. Certainly, these folks have the skill to develop a major corporation, after all that is precisely how we came to know their names. General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Breakthrough technologies, such as the internet and biotech, did not emerge from governments worried about “commercialization”; they emerged from the spillovers of investments that were focused on long-run public missions. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.

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