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Breaking Through | A New Frontier of Technology and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

As each piece of new technology hits the market, scam artists worldwide are becoming increasingly more crafty in their approach to exploit vulnerabilities in security and have left us exposed to digital attacks. This immense expansion of digital space has left us in dire need of advanced cybersecurity measures.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself.

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Lafley's Ambiguous "Gift" of Innovation Failure

Harvard Business Review

As Lafley recalled, P&G had planned to quietly test market Vibrant — their bleach offering to rival Clorox — in out-of-the-way Portland, Maine. An excellent business case could be made that Clorox's "Portland Massacre" was — dollar-for-dollar — its most strategically important (anti)marketing innovation that year.

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What Coffee, Bleach, and Bondi Blue Teach Us about Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Design innovation mattered more than technical innovation. Innovation snobbery is a market signal.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. It’s not just the rules of the road that will be affected by driverless cars.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company. Experimentation is vital.

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LeBron on Ice, or the Fallacy of the Corporate Superstar

Harvard Business Review

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. He would have to train in completely different ways, and unlearn many of the things that have allowed him to succeed at his chosen sport. That's no dig on James.

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