N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors. Would you share an example from an organization doing it right?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. The sharp focus and direction on your objectives and goals can only be maintained with constant monitoring of your procedures and processes. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Business development.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Innovation on a budget. Turney gives the example of outsourcing product assembly work. Innovation on a budget. Cost reduction.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

In 2014, Gartner Research, creator of the Hype Cycle for the Internet of Things, predicted that a “typical family home” could hold up to 500 smart objects by 2022. That’s a heck of a lot of objects. Rogers’ classic Diffusion of Innovation Theory – buy products en masse after the “early adopters.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Scibelli restructured the HR department by hiring a director of organizational development from the outside (since they didn't have this function) to help people adapt to process changes. Large organizations often use shared or outsourced services so that other entities can handle these responsibilities. Luke's Healthcare and Lowe's.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

What’s lacking is an evidence-based, systematic, transparent, and customizable approach to how formularies are developed. In effect, we need a database that assesses the value of each drug objectively, albeit from the payer’s point of view, and then allows a payer to make an appropriate choice for the specific population served.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

What’s lacking is an evidence-based, systematic, transparent, and customizable approach to how formularies are developed. In effect, we need a database that assesses the value of each drug objectively, albeit from the payer’s point of view, and then allows a payer to make an appropriate choice for the specific population served.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

At the same time, compensating people for collaboration can be tricky, says Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed. Set clear objectives. Still, both she and Mankins agree, it''s worth the effort to get it right. Check in on progress.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Economies of scope can allow hospital systems to leverage their scale to develop new revenue streams. This type of deal may involve the co-provision or outsourcing of shared services or the joint creation of knowledge and innovation. And does the proposed model complement the system’s strengths, weaknesses, and objectives?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

First, agencies need to prioritize the hiring of Chief Digital Officers : people whose sole mission is to evangelize digital, build and implement process, hire the right people, develop capabilities and business, and consult C-level clients and partners. Nor should you outsource everything. It's not a "nice to have." Start small.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation? For example, new product development may be the lifeblood of a consumer products company—and thus need to be cultivated and resourced carefully—while in a low-cost producer, or fast follower company, product development may be only a nice-to-have activity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks. (We

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Instead, you should go in with “an attitude of innovation” — how can everyone take something satisfying away? Concentrating on the higher objective will keep you out of the morass of personal jabs. By outsourcing the decision to someone else, you “lose control over the outcome,” Brett says.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Driven by the ever-lower costs of global communication and online collaboration tools, Henry Ford's vertically integrated organization is yielding to Procter & Gamble's network of external innovators. Almost anything can be outsourced to specialists and reconnected. Apple gets mobile apps from independent software developers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

In 2004, Bharti Airtel , the Indian telecomm company, had outsourced its vast network and IT operations—a move that Ranjay Gulati saw as indicating “ more progressive and forward-looking ” thinking than was evident in many Western corporations. Through its outsourcing agreements, Airtel had shrunk to its core. An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

These rules are meant to align the operating units with the company’s overall objectives, and make the business more predictable. As a consequence, it is rather wasteful for each of the units to develop these solutions in parallel. Let’s have a systematic look at the four qualities. Responsiveness through immediacy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

A few years ago, a Google deep learning network was shown 10 million unlabeled images from YouTube, and proved to be nearly twice as accurate at identifying the objects in the images (cats, human faces, flowers, various species of fish, and thousands of others) as any previous method. And its efforts have borne fruit.

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