N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by outside strategy firms, many strategy methodologies are of little value if they don’t keep up with the times. Clearly, it’s time to reconsider how your organization goes about developing and executing strategy at all levels.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2011

As Tanveer writes about leadership and managing employees, I thought I’d share some of the questions I often get asked by business leaders about managing customer expectations, developing their employees and how to involve your team in the process of selling your business when the time comes to put it on the selling block.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2011

As Tanveer writes about leadership and managing employees, I thought I’d share some of the questions I often get asked by business leaders about managing customer expectations, developing their employees and how to involve your team in the process of selling your business when the time comes to put it on the selling block.

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Engineering Reference Incentives Merchandising 182

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Based on the recent workable data, hire rates is at 51 days for IT roles and 60 days for engineering roles. Your job description should not be developed by the HR or the recruiting team. Let the team working directly with your potential employees develop the job description. Start with the job description.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2020

Here are some tips to make sure that your nascent firm develops a sterling reputation which carries it to lasting success… Never over-promise in the hopes of landing a contract. As important as it is to be competitive, it’s also essential that you’re realistic about the capabilities of your team and your equipment.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This is the task we received last week in DesignStudio, a class at Brown University where we “imaginatively frame design problems and develop novel strategies for addressing those problems.” In true Brown fashion, we had an astrophysicist, a philosopher, two biomedical engineers, and an international development major (me).

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

David Conley found himself on a team of experts who were attempting to design satellite superstructures, a challenge not specifically covered while earning his college degree in nuclear engineering. The other team members already had thought of 20 of the ideas, but it had taken them five years, not one day.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2017

For you, as a business owner, the costs of developing an online shop window is relatively minimal when you compare to how much extra revenue it could bring in, not just locally, but also potentially from around the world. They can also help with SEO, or search-engine optimization , so that your website stands out online!

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How To Workshop Incentives Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. DTNA’s engines continuously record performance data and send it to their Detroit Diesel Customer Support Center (CSC).

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 6, 2009

Quite often much emphasis is placed on designing and developing products, and the actual launch goes unplanned (or under-planned) until it’s too late. Their newest online certificate, A Systems Approach to Product and Service Design is authored by Professor Peter Jackson, Director of Systems Engineering at Cornell University.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

In today’s post I share my thoughts on how to develop a sound pricing strategy… While the topic of pricing is certainly not rocket science, it has indeed been a thorn in the side of business people since the dawn of commerce.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 13, 2018

Some brands may even find their hosting costs reduce when they switch, because plenty of operators are looking for new business and offer attractive incentives to the right customers. Will you have a specific team assigned to your website? For one thing, you could end up improving your services dramatically – and at no extra cost.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Design and re-engineering of products-services. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Top management has as a priority the need to develop and practice People development, skills and team building responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. Apple’s distinctively intuitive product and user interface design similarly involves customer insight, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Organizations need to be continually on the lookout for new market developments and competitive threats, identifying essential experts and nimbly forming and disbanding teams to help tackle those issues quickly. Be sure team leaders have a backup plan to cover these emergencies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

One of the most effective methods of deployment I’ve seen is to create all-star teams. Teams like these are a kind of force multiplier: if you group (say) three individuals from your list of A players into a team, you’ll typically get more than three times the output. billion to achieve the same result. Create an inspiring goal.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you picked a dream team to improve the way your organization does business, who would be on it? I know who would be on my team. Besides front-line people who know how things work today and process improvement experts who know how they could work tomorrow, I'd want team members who could contribute to improvements that would stick.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

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CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

How do you recruit a developer making well into six figures, or an experienced salesperson with four kids in private school? When we’re hiring someone who has a hard-to-match base salary at their current employer, we cushion our offer with a lucrative bonus structure, commission pay, or other performance incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering. In financial engineering, PE investors provide strong equity incentives to the management teams of their portfolio companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. For example, when Rolls Royce or GE provide a “power by the hour” engine solution, they are delivering an outcome and potentially more value to the customer. Customers benefit from improved engine uptime and lower maintenance costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

He’s a tinkerer with a gift for electronics and engineering, and he did not let the typical barriers to medical innovation stand in his way. With incentives and resources that foster collaboration and more inclusive access, we will see more rapid, efficient and creative progress in healthcare technology innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2012

When I came to HubSpot five years ago, I had never run a sales team, so I didn't know the conventional techniques that sales managers use. Instead, I relied on my background as an MIT-trained engineer to create a system of hiring and development that relies on metrics and quantitative analysis. Both teams are on a monthly quota.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

CEOs of large companies face a conundrum: they are confronted with a growing number of frugal consumers clamoring for affordable solutions, yet their existing corporate culture and incentive systems are designed to support a "bigger is better" business model — not to deliver more with less. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

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CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client. Might product bundles or incentives meaningfully shift demand and production flows? Process optimization can transform user experience. Would they defect to competitors?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Since the layers communicate using application program interfaces (APIs) provided by vendors operating in the layer below, those vendors that dominate one layer can use their power to control how the layer above develops. Google’s antitrust battle with the European Union seems to be heating up.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

In the pre-digital era, product and service development was usually conducted by experts working inside firms or through expert vendors hired by those firms. Tesla’s effort to develop its battery Gigafactory is an example of a specialist developing internal capabilities for competitive advantage. The venture mode.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2011

And they need process owners (who may variously be called VP of Customer Experience, SVP of Supply Chain, Chief Engineer, or Value Stream Leader, for instance) to lead these initiatives. Select process owners with strong leadership skills and develop those skills even further. Process owners misunderstand their role.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

When organizations reward success in one role with a promotion to another, the usual grumbles ensue; the best engineer doesn’t make the best engineering manager, and the best professor doesn’t make the best dean. We found similar results regardless of whether salespeople were promoted to their own team or to new teams.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

CEOs are increasingly adding the CDO role to their management teams to tackle the big business issues that come with data. Plenty of CDOs want to improve data quality, but motivating this change requires that CDOs create new organizational incentives and processes. Enter the chief data officer, or CDO. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

Some have responded by developing a concept known as “ ambidexterity ,” an organizational capability of fulfilling both managerial imperatives at once. Managers exploiting current businesses develop mindsets based on what they have experienced in the past. ” Create win-win incentives. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. What do these leaders of highly engaged teams have in common? Develop engaging leaders. Enough said.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This management team, like many others, has fought to increase profitability through business transformation, restructuring, and cost-cutting, without devoting much thought to keeping employees engaged and connected. What do these leaders of highly engaged teams have in common? Develop engaging leaders. Enough said.

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Workshop Restructuring CEO Morale 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

And yet most business schools and leadership development programs still focus on those. They learn that the absence of psychological safety keeps team members from disagreeing with dominant opinions. These executives lead teams in which globally dispersed people from multiple organizations collaborate on critical tasks.

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