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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. I’m always on the lookout for new practitioners entering the market where we have practice areas, disruptive technology, or changes in the landscape that could disintermediate certain aspects of the market.

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Future of work and prognostications following the covid19 pandemic

Mike Cardus

More effort and work to gather employee experience , voice of customer data, and systems to collect disintermediated people data – and share the macro effects then use micro-actions to make change and adust (much of this is using scaled technology) Managerial-leadership will become more distributed.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Few things are more critical to your efforts in increasing your revenue growth and corporate sustainability than understanding the value of disruptive innovation. “Me Too&# companies fight to eek out market share in an attempt to survive, while disruptive companies become category dominant brands insuring sustainability.

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Innovating the Toyota, and YouTube, Way

Harvard Business Review

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. Access to innovation resources and skills matter far more than money.

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What Africa’s Banking Industry Needs to Do to Survive

Harvard Business Review

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. But banks cannot control the rules of engagement as they have in the past, since customers now have more choices and are more fragmented, and disintermediation by fintech is making it harder to earn fees. Innovate ferociously.

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What’s Holding Uber Back

Harvard Business Review

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. I clicked three buttons, and my ride was there in 12 minutes. Uber nails this.

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The Best Salespeople Do What the Best Brands Do

Harvard Business Review

Digital commerce and disintermediation have caused many customers to question the importance of having a sales relationship at all. They contribute tremendous value to their organizations through their market insights and direct communication channel with customers. Great salespeople don’t imitate, they innovate.

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