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?

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

A Harvard Business School professor, Kotter emphasises a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (1967). 8) Anchor the Changes in Corporate Culture. Human Resource Champions (1996). By David Ulrich.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

From blue ocean strategy to Michael Porter’s five forces, Vijay Govindarajan’s reverse innovation to Richard D’Aveni’s hypercompetition, great thinkers and their ideas directly effect how companies are run and how business people think about and practice business. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

After a long and successful run, the theory of disruptive innovation has come under attack of late. In a recent Sloan Management Review article, Dartmouth professor Andrew King asked “ How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation? Fortunately, disruptive innovation does not have to. But not all.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Disruptive innovators ask the right questions, observe the world like anthropologists, network for novel ideas, and experiment to make things work. For a more detailed look at these skills, see The Innovator's DNA ). Disruptive innovators approach networking in a unique way. Here's how: Step 1.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

They represent all kinds of different people who are interested in this field, including: thought leaders, authors, external coaches – to family business, small business and large business, internal coaches and executives. David Peterson – Pioneer executive coach, head of coaching at Google, author Development FIRST and Leader as Coach.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Have you mastered the five skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers? Through their research on the world’s best innovators—including leaders at Amazon, Apple, Google, Skype, and Virgin Group—these authors have identified five key skills that differentiate great innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). New technologies, combined with business model innovation, provide the structural cost advantage necessary to take large chunks of the market over time.

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QAspire

MAY 7, 2017

Our workplace conversations today are dominated by topics like increasing globalization, economic uncertainties, automation, disruptive innovations, social technologies, generational shifts, mobility, people analytics, gig economy and such. Social mindset plays a huge role in enabling people to perform.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Perhaps, but that’s how most managers and executives I work with see it…. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop. In neither case does it make you into a leader. and in the majority of cases, I agree.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Carol Kauffman – Founder/Executive Institute of Coaching Harvard, chief supervisor Meyler Campbell Business Coaching Program.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2011

Then Burda and Sulzberger leave the stage and are replaced by a panel featuring a couple of media executives plus Google's Nikesh Arora (who I guess is a media executive too), LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and venture capitalist (and Facebook investor) Jim Breyer. It's media disintermediation at work!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It is Clayton Christensen 's innovator's dilemma incarnate, and Netflix is very publicly trying to solve it. Music to any innovator's ears. Netflix's announcement that it is splitting off its DVD-by-mail business from its streaming business is just such an experiment. It's hard to know if this document reflects reality.

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 28, 2011

Let's face it - innovation is hard - it can be fun, but it's also hard. My friend and marketing/branding guru, Brian Sooy, send me a message saying that what I really do is "Inn-Oi-Vey-Tion." " I laughed hysterically - and then realized he's right! It takes courage, hard work, fun, creative thin [.].

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

You have to shift from being an entrepreneur to becoming an executive if you’re going to survive and thrive - both the business and you personally (health and sanity). But most entrepreneurs struggle with this change. Most founders at this point face three key choices.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

Leaders can inspire a feeling of purpose by focusing on how the business model is executed, without changing the fundamental building blocks. When you look at the research on what truly drives an individual’s sense of meaning and purpose, you need more than just a product or “innovative” business model.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world. Corporate Executives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2011

I made it clear that they were the experts in Chinese manufacturing and could do the best job," the executive told me. "I This reaction is common among newly arrived Western executives. I then asked for questions and reminded them that my door was always open and they could contact me any time to get clarification or make comments.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Leaders and organizations are under more stress than ever to do two things simultaneously: deliver on today’s pressing commitments by troubleshooting and refining processes; and find and invest in innovation opportunities that will create tomorrow’s success. The problem is, this instinct crowds out longer term, innovative thinking.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

Leaders can inspire a feeling of purpose by focusing on how the business model is executed, without changing the fundamental building blocks. When you look at the research on what truly drives an individual’s sense of meaning and purpose, you need more than just a product or “innovative” business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

More and more companies are realizing they must reinvent their cultures by infusing innovation into their DNA. With almost 4,000 employees, CSAA IG has embarked on a systemic approach to create a pervasive culture of innovation. Most people focus on the first type of innovation: incremental.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2020

The legendary management thinker was best known for his influential theory of “disruptive innovation,” which inspired a generation of executives and entrepreneurs. In this repeat episode, we honor the legacy of HBS professor Clayton Christensen, who passed away on January 23, 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? This expectation helped foster an innovation focus throughout the company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Execution is an odd word. ” When leaders “execute a strategy,” they usually mean the former — putting an idea into action. Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Mature corporations are designed to execute on the science of delivery — not engage in the art of discovery. They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

So is iTunes Radio an innovation? Sounds great, I guess, and probably even innovative. The subject of whether Apple is still innovative has become an extremely touchy one over the past year. So do Apple executives. Except for a few dark years in the mid-1990s, Apple has always been very good at sustaining innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share. So I’ll pose a question now: What questions should corporate innovators use to increase their odds of success? It is the innovator’s job. What problem is the customer struggling to solve?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

For over an hour, the panel discussed all of the innovative projects they’d worked on — spanning projects from Google Fiber to ad bidding technologies at Facebook. Yes, all of the panelists were speaking broadly on innovative projects. But innovation is a word that means a wide variety of things to a wide variety of people.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. A Gartner survey of almost 500 executives at global corporations revealed that growth is this year’s top priority. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. Staying power is vital for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Big companies are really bad at innovation because they're designed to be bad at innovation. In order to grow profitability and fight margin pressure, Gerber executives turned towards a market they hadn't successfully penetrated for decades: adult food. In it's infancy, it's designed to bring innovation to the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Innovation drives economic growth. This logic has risen to dominate the discourse in development circles, with government leaders, policy influencers, and development-minded business leaders fully embracing innovation as a panacea for unemployment and economic underperformance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Can he do it?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Innovation' What do you still not know?"

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation. What to do?

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