N2Growth Blog
JUNE 5, 2011
A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constituency management, capital markets, and customer facing. I worry much more about the unknown than the known… .
Skip Prichard
JULY 26, 2021
Own and disintermediate the customer relationship. This disintermediation of the customer account control is a hallmark of digital giants. . As humans, we often make a decision a second but re quire weeks, months, and maybe even years for management approval. Leaders must take a dynamic approach to leadership.
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N2Growth Blog
JUNE 14, 2010
While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 1, 2011
Every single innovation conversation I've had recently with business unit leaders, product managers and/or marketing executives invariably focuses on the importance of partnership and collaboration with their best suppliers and vendors. In other words, innovation occurs when we bypass or disintermediate procurement. It's leadership.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 1, 2013
As a result, managers are uncomfortable actually moving into action or committing resources, preferring to stay with the business they know rather than possibilities that may or may not pan out. To overcome this inertia, ask managers to include specific, short-term experiments, whose results will communicate what works and what does not.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2016
Digital commerce and disintermediation have caused many customers to question the importance of having a sales relationship at all. Instead, they appeal to and connect with their clients through emotion, brand story-telling, and thought-leadership. ” In the same way, great salespeople don’t try to sell items or programs.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 16, 2014
Many of these dinosaurs – agencies in particular — seemed a bit panicked about being disintermediated. Some of the best-known brands including Patagonia and Apple are building their own in-house strategic agencies, taking control of strategic and creative leadership while using an open system to collaborate with great outside talent.
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