N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. In the military we valued actionable intelligence, studied our enemy’s strengths and weaknesses, developed a battle plan around a solid strategy, and executed our tactical mission as if our lives depended on it - because they did.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Back characters on TV shows included restaurant and bar operators, where the stars went top relax. Steven Spielberg had John Williams as music composer for his films. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Some performers made careers as supporting players. Behave as a gracious winner.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 24, 2019

You must have heard of a market research agency that examines factors that can affect your sales. This makes you wonder why it is crucial to carry out market research in the first place. In the article below, we will discuss some critical reasons why market research is necessary for any business.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Disney's John Carter , which cost close to $275 million to produce, was tagged as a potentially huge, game-changing film. The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Disney's John Carter , which cost close to $275 million to produce, was tagged as a potentially huge, game-changing film. The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

” If you’ve seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, that one line probably conjures up memories of Oh yeah, chicka chicka, Ferraris, playing hooky, and dating in high school — all of which feature heavily in the hit coming-of-age film. This is how Blockbuster used to operate, at least when it came to mainstream domestic films.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Given that Kodak’s core business was selling film, it is not hard to see why the last few decades proved challenging. Consider Fuji Photo Film.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

However, from the perspective of managers and CEOs operating in Nigeria, there are some important implications. Before the announcement, the stock market capitalization to GDP ratio for Nigeria was 33%, compared to 270% for South Africa. First, there will be some changes in the competitive landscape. Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

An example of this integrative approach comes to us from Piers Handling, who runs the Toronto International Film Festival. When he took the helm, it was not even the #1 film festival in Canada. The presence of the stars and the announcement of a big award draw media attention to the films and make the industry happy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

During a recent analysts call, Apple's Tim Cook cited India's multi-layered distribution as the main reason for his company's small share of the market. That's true of TV and film as well as other consumer products. The same challenge applies to start-ups that market solar lamps in India. Even in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, although some of our clients have been facing difficulties resulting from the current environment, primarily because of currency pressures, many others are continuing to see strong growth, even in troubled markets such as South Africa and Angola.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

We expect the drone market to surge to nearly $7 billion by 2020 globally, driven by regulatory clarification, continuously decreasing component costs, and – most important– ongoing innovation that connects drone capabilities to big-data analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

During Tootsie, walking in the shoes of a woman had such a profound impact on Dustin Hoffman that, 30 years later, recalling his decision to make the film brought tears to his eyes in an interview with the American Film Institute. Once you’ve started to develop empathy as a skill, you can make it integral to the work you do.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

and other developed markets? But Chinese companies of all sizes are already operating in the U.S. For American firms partnering with Chinese companies, access to new international markets, especially in China, is an obvious gain. When a Chinese company operates in the U.S., in a big way. This assumption is false.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Kodak did not end up losing the film business because one day nobody wanted film. Instead, they lost the market one customer at a time as people found alternatives in the form of digital photography. Both companies, while under a corporate umbrella, operate as independent brands with largely independent development teams.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

For it to be successfully implemented, your development project needs to be accepted into the operations side of the business. This hand-off is a time of high risk and often fails because general management, human resources, marketing, communications, and sales teams haven't been informed along the way. Don't under-communicate.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

This takes very little time and can be filmed with a camera at your desk. He started with AT&T, where he built award-winning teams in sales and operations from coast to coast. Make use of product videos, and feel free to share them with your customers. Go the next step by editing in a 30 second intro to personalize the content.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. You can't run your global R&D operations from headquarters in Mumbai. and the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Despite these gloomy headlines, three developments in the sector give us hope that the revolution in clean energy production is far from dead: 1. Since energy startups operate in an ecosystem dominated by incumbents, they can benefit dramatically from use of incumbent resources.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

And the essence of Walt Disney’s original strategy remains intact today: to construct a range of businesses — from animated film to fun parks, TV, retail, cruise ships, and more — around a group of engaging, family-friendly characters. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. Or consider U.S. When Innovation Is Strategy. Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Take charge of your own development. How many people in operations truly understand what it takes to run finance or HR, and vice versa? About 15 years ago, I set up a small real estate development company to transform 30 acres of undeveloped land into a small subdivision. Improving Yourself.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. No wasted film, slides, or prints. There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Ask any experienced marketing professional about the top moves you can make to accelerate your marketing campaigns at any level of business, and an overwhelming majority will point to the weight that compelling customer testimonials carry. Once you have your interviewer figured out, turn attention towards the logistical matters.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

But here are a few examples of what sustainability innovation looks like: The world's highest reflectivity mirror film, which can take sunlight from a roof and carry it deep into a building — the length of a football field, in fact — all while losing less than half of the light. It's also a sizable business for 3M.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Since I prepared that article, new developments have only strengthened the case for a 3-D future – and heightened the urgency for management teams to adjust their strategies. Many of the new developments have to do with broadening the science underpinning additive manufacturing. Another promising development is multi-jet fusion.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

One of my favorites is the story of the JAK Members Bank (or JAK Medlemsbank), a co-operative member-owned financial institution based in Skovde, Sweden. The bank does not participate in capital markets; all of its loans are raised solely from member savings. For decades it has been the most avidly watched Christmas film.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Collaborative activity is the "secret sauce" that enables teams to come up with innovative new products or creative, buzz-worthy marketing campaigns. One solution is to use a flexible, fluid team structure that consists of three tiers : a core, an operational level, and an outer network. Many skills are difficult to train and develop.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Starting in the late 1950s with the rise of McDonalds, these restaurants have developed a common structure in which people stand on line, look at a menu above the cash registers, place an order, bring their food to a table, and eat. The natural tendency was to think about digital cameras as if they were like traditional film-based cameras.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

One of my favorites is the story of the JAK Members Bank (or JAK Medlemsbank), a co-operative member-owned financial institution based in Skovde, Sweden. The bank does not participate in capital markets; all of its loans are raised solely from member savings. For decades it has been the most avidly watched Christmas film.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

For Westerners at least, our working cultural definition owes a lot to robots in stories and film, as well as real-life robots past and present. By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. Their market value is $9.5 Form-factors, intelligence, and the purpose of robots can all vary significantly. How is this so?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

The truth is, AI is as “fully-automated” as the Great and Powerful Oz was in that famous scene from the classic film , where Dorothy and friends realize that the great wizard is simply a man manically pulling levers from behind a curtain. A hybrid of humans and AI is remaking retail, marketing, and customer service.

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