N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” It can help them innovate. That requires us to invest in developing both current and future skills. Louis to develop a customized, cyber skills program for employees.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

” [Ford Smart Mobility’s] role is to design, develop, build, invest, and grow these mobility services. Companies have traditionally gone the self-disruption route when they’ve wanted to develop products that their existing customers would value in the future. They are supply-side architectural innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

It’s common sense, but it bears repeating, given how many companies don’t operate that way. Unprofitable, but still promising, product lines were cut, timber stocks were reduced to a bare minimum, employee numbers were razored, and long-term development activities were curtailed. And so it goes, stakeholder by stakeholder.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Many innovative customer-service solutions like these are simple and inexpensive, and they have high payback. A scorecard that links financials with learning initiatives and other operations would serve as a cross-check for managers. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? But don't expect an easy payoff. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds. This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Facebook, at that time, allowed app developers to collect this personal data. ” By that I mean companies that control a key platform which, like a coral reef, attracts to its ecosystem users, sellers, advertisers, software developers, apps, and accessory makers. Less innovation in markets dominated by data-opolies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The Kahn Academy, founded by Salman Kahn (a former hedge fund manager), is a not-for-profit, online venture that is currently revolutionizing K-12 education. Hart does not quite do what the Kahn Academy does but she operates in the same space. And Hart is not the only one who has developed this skill. Want to get a taste?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. How has Bezos done this?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about. Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

It both funds day-to-day operations and generates profits for the future. But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. The result was that their ideas were not developed. It can keep you informed.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

When it comes to planning, multinationals shouldn’t apply quick fixes to mitigate short-term operational risks (for instance, financial hedging to manage exchange rate fluctuations, or cursory assessment of distributors to evaluate their supply chains). And this is happening before Brexit has even taken place.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

This isn't a new challenge, but it's more urgent than ever, not just as an effort to escape reform and regulation from the outside, but to restore the public trust, to repair the moral fabric of the system, and to unleash the innovation required to tackle the world's most pressing and important challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Innovation in structural systems. Innovation in mechanical and electrical systems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. These “bitcoin whales” are currently the ones who make or break many of the ICOs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. For RIM, is it the small base of application developers, or the lack of a handful of key applications?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

In the early stages, incubation and launch, historically venture capitalists and angels (in addition to the "friends, families and fools" beloved of the entrepreneurship literature) have provided seed funds for organizations to develop an idea. Competition Disruptive innovation Strategy' So we are left with a quandary.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

While there's much chatter in the management world about the need to be adaptable, only a few creative companies and innovative managers have probed the natural world for its adaptability secrets. Adaptable systems make multiple copies of everything and modify the copies to hedge against uncertainty. Redundancy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As we have described in Your Strategy Needs a Strategy , businesses will need to adopt the right approach to strategy and execution, depending on the predictability, malleability, and harshness of each environment they operate in. We are living in an era where macro effects can easily swamp competitive and operational considerations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

But that will not in any way deter hedge-fund activists from demanding that companies do stock buybacks so that they can time their stock sales to take advantage of short-term, buyback-induced, stock-price boosts. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And functionally, there is no longer a need to ration financial resources; there's more money available than can be productively invested—which is why the financial industry is only minimally about investing, and all about flipping, swapping, hedging, engineering, and other forms of lever-pressing. As the late C.

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