N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

When leaders decide to take this journey, decisions will have to be made that will determine whether success, or a lack of it will be realized once the journey has begun. They must be bold in their actions, willing to take calculated risks together that will have the greatest potential to achieve major, market?shifting

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

But is there are a way to still drive innovation with an increasingly decentralized lifeforce? They also make sure that their marketing teams on the field meet at least once per quarter for interactive strategy and planning sessions. Leaders who are successful in the future are those who will see this as an opportunity, not a problem.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Here is how to use smart planning to make strides toward greater agility and market success. So, open the channels of communication and decentralize decision-making. Ultimately, your success hinges on the ability to deliver real value to customers. Choose Your Scaling Path. In fact, it entices you to dismantle them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 25, 2011

Here are 3 reasons I personally prefer a team approach for this function of our church: Decentralized control - With one person in charge, if that person gets sick, moves, or decides he or she gets tired and quits, the whole church would suffer. I thought so!)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. Crime exacts a toll.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. Our research suggests that, on average, more centralized decision making structures are more likely to pull poorly performing products from the market. Firms might leave products on the market well past their prime. Killing products isn’t easy.

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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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Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As we close out the decade, let’s look at how leadership has become decentralized and team-oriented. Ken Blanchard is a friend of mine (and the very successful author of The One Minute Manager ) who knows well the changes in leadership over the last 40 years. The Days of Centralized Leadership in Business are Long Gone. .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. But these successes are not by mistake—they are the result of decades of collaboration between business, government, philanthropy, and community. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“We want to be the number one or number two in all the markets in which we operate” is one of those. The switch became a runaway success, increasing Hornby’s share price from £35 to £250 over just five years. A successful strategy execution process is seldom a one-way trickle-down cascade of decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. They know the local market, promote their offerings in the community, and often serve as community leaders. These principles are fundamental to success in the disruptive years ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

.” This and a slew of similar maxims reflect a common view of strategy execution: that it’s distinct from strategy, harder to pull off than defining a strategy, and therefore more critical to success — underpinned by seemingly indisputable virtues such as diligence, discipline, consistency, alignment, and focus.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2015

Apple has a similar split , with 60% of its 2014 fourth-quarter revenue accounted for by international markets. Why is it that some companies experience tremendous success abroad, while others struggle to go global? Moving to the web makes a company more nimble and capable of responding to opportunity in international markets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2016

The ideal for a successful Avon representative was to sell a volume of product by mobilizing a network to become users of Avon products, and then to ultimately convert those users into additional sales representatives. An effective network strategy enables the success of a platform, regardless of the role of technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? If you're willing to acknowledge the barriers in your way, there are a few tried and true levers you can pull to ensure your intrapreneurial endeavors are better positioned for success. Create autonomy. Would Gerber own today's V8? Can it be profitable?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The language of ecosystems redefined our understanding of competition by viewing markets has habitats. One of its most successful marketing campaigns was “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet.” They abandoned the HP Way and replaced decentralized entrepreneurship with centralized control.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

“There has to be an appropriate culture of freedom to fail,” Petraeus advises, “as long as failure (as well as success) is followed by a very careful after-action review, to understand what transpired, why it happened, and then how to reduce the chances of it happening in the future.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There is a growing consensus among students, parents and employers that today’s young liberal arts graduates lack the skills needed to succeed in the post-Recession job market. Parents, students and the press have all heard too many first hand stories about the challenges of today’s job market. Stop it now!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. Logitech developed an affordable mouse for the China market which sells for (the Chinese equivalent of) $19.99 Therefore, they focused on winning market share by adapting global offerings to meet local needs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

That practice is supposedly a central policy of decentralized decision-making, in other words, that the company has decided to leave the substance of pay and promotion decisions to individual managers. Plaintiffs claim that those managers make discriminatory decisions and the company does nothing to rein in the exercise of their discretion.

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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%. Success wasn’t guaranteed no matter how effective the change management skills. It entails much higher risk.

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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. ” The Hub and Spoke Network is a more decentralized model in which the center coordinates a network of innovation centers and outposts in multiple hot-spot locations around the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Nestle has a fairly decentralized management culture. So rolling out a program to gender balance the corporation's management globally across over 100 countries was always going to be more about followership and role modeling success than it would be about a centralized imposition of the scorecard-based approach typical of many 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. Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. ” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices. Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!)

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

As globalization began to shift into high gear in the 1980s, corporations grew by opening international outposts to access new markets. While successful in appearance, it''s a pattern of growth that starves the operational core. Decentralized, program-focused operations also squander precious dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

Increased digital marketing could improve opportunity to connect with existing customers, allowing firms to better upsell, cross sell and retain valuable customers. They have a digital strategy that’s well defined along the lines of marketing, sales and service—and well-informed by customer insights.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. These companies can’t ignore sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market. car market. For example, after the success of the Model S sedan, Tesla’s next car was an SUV, the Model X.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Other times, shifts may be driven by disruptions and disrupters like the one happening in the transportation and hotel markets right now thanks to the likes of Uber and Airbnb. The decade also saw the rise of formidable emerging-market competitors and opportunities. telecom, music, and aviation) experienced upheavals.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

You''ll often find this top-down problem in decentralized matrix organizations where business unit heads have different and sometimes competing agendas. Such organizations send mixed messages to the market, muddying their value proposition. Communication Marketing Strategy' Lead with Issues.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Business leaders, along with the companies they lead, will need to take an active stance, shaping the conditions for future success, rather than merely reacting to twists in the plot. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. Essential background.

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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. We also examined two European countries, the U.K.

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