N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How many times have you witnessed someone holding-out for a higher price, better valuation, evolving markets, technology advances, or any number of other circumstances that either never transpire, or by the time they do, the opportunistic advantage had disappeared? link] Robyn McMaster Mike, we have to be on the alert.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Additionally, it is paramount that the CRO can not just fit but add to the organization’s culture in a productive way. N2Growth’s thorough due diligence identifies exemplary candidates and mitigates the risk of unsuccessful placements.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

But recent technological developments like artificial intelligence (AI) are now helping companies overcome many of the challenges to contracting. These firms have generally seen an increase in productivity and efficiency in their contracting. And even more routine transactions required employees to pay close attention to details.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

At MyEdu, we had developed a college student profile product, and Blackboard – one of the largest educational software companies in the world – purchased our company to supplement their existing product portfolio with this rich new capability. I was at a startup that got acquired. It might be to buy talent. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Next, you need to understand how digital M&A turns traditional due diligence on its head. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

An internet technology company picks up a mobile phone manufacturer. Technology, manufacturing, research and development, or human know-how – whatever the capability, acquisitions are a way to acquire it. With asset prices at record levels, careful due diligence is more critical than ever. Capability upgrades.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Financial, legal, ethical and risk perspectives obviously need to be integrated when the corporation is making decisions about new deals, about new types of customers, new geographic markets, new technologies and new products. Compliance. One key to this partnership is identifying risk priorities—whether economic (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Culturally, the face-to-face meeting is still an important symbol of productivity. Four things are required: Do deeper due diligence. Find out how they made it work and double down on the due diligence. At Cisco, we use technology to make communication as dynamic as possible. Want to finish something?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The research organization promised to invest in special research over several years to develop the technology needed to combine with that of the partner firm, which was to employ this technology in its own product line. And that product line was a top priority of the partner’s CEO. It’s not in business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This sustained and sophisticated software scam suggests truly pathological levels of managerial desperation and contempt: desperation around a failed promise of clean diesel technology and unsubtle contempt for unsuspecting regulators and customers alike. — their users to potential problems with the products and services they consume.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago. based product and services businesses that also tended to manufacture and deliver their products via U.S.-based based labor. manufacturing jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

In fact, it has set up a specific unit – Experian DataLabs — to actively seek out unresolved problems its customers are having and use them as a launchpad to seek out new opportunities and create new products. We have a lot of newer businesses that come to us for credit and we need to do due diligence on them.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Mine societal, economic, political, regulatory, and technological trends to identify any external changes that necessitate a shift in your strategy. It is a delicate situation when new products risk cannibalizing existing businesses, but that’s the reality of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Constraints on due diligence limit the information available to negotiators. Changing technology and markets make it impossible to foresee future contingencies. Social relationships are important in providing both the glue and the grease to help contracts evolve productively. Difficulties in Negotiating a Transaction.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

When it comes to launching new products, should your company be a pioneer or a follower? Product pioneers face more risk, but can reap big rewards when an innovation proves successful. Although technologically advanced, this did not prove profitable and Motorola had launched little else to compensate. Incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The result is a lot of innovation programs that can build fantastic concept cars, but have a tough time getting production vehicles onto the road. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Here are six ways to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

.” This feedback helped Oka, an industry outsider, convince President Kazuo Ushida, a 40-year veteran of Nikon’s technology businesses, that the company needed to revisit its dialogue with investors. The first step Oka took was to segment Nikon’s investors based on their overall attractiveness to its investor portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

He equipped his Boulder offices with state-of-the-art video conferencing systems, and now holds meetings using this technology or asks business partners to travel to see him. As a VC, you need to conduct due diligence on companies. Executives’ Biggest Productivity Challenges, Solved. Not really. Thriving at the Top.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. This is not guesswork. billion stake.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

OnLive’s product enabled high-end video games to be hosted in the cloud and played from any device. Cool new technology, new market for AT&T, competitive pressure, etc. In 2008, I was on the business team at OnLive—a high-flying start-up in search of huge amounts of cash to turn a big idea into reality.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

The country’s urbanized and large middle class has maintained a strong preference for foreign-made products despite restrictions due to U.S. There are some exemptions for humanitarian-designated sectors, such as agriculture, food products, health care, and civil aviation.). sanctions and a fragile economy. For non-U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

That insight's neither counter-intuitive nor paradoxical; it reflects the marketplace reality that customers can easily discover everything about your products and services that you don't want them to — whether it's true or not. Crassly put, advertising becomes less about building brand awareness than triggering digital due diligence.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

Rule 2 gives rise to Rule 3: A vendor's references to specialized solutions need to be subjected to high degrees of due diligence. The project team must satisfy itself of the vendor's ability to perform the tasks required (legal recourse for poor workmanship or broken SLAs is neither a good solution nor a comfort to shareholders).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 1928, Motorola diversified over the decades from car radios into a host of communication technologies, ranging from equipment aboard Apollo 11 to the best-selling RAZR mobile phones. Brown conducted the due diligence required of a director candidate. A partner with ValueAct, Bradley E.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2015

Beyond the fact that they’re inexpensive ways to get people together – think: no travel costs and readily available technology – they’re also great opportunities to build engagement, trust and candor among teams. Candor is difficult even for co-located teams, but it’s the number one gauge of team productivity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

However, you can get some insights from due-diligence inquiries, interviews with former members of the company (including those in your own organization), or the internet— whether through the company’s own publications or sites such as LinkedIn, which enable you to profile individual managers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In each iteration, we spent a lot of time thinking about what might make the best use of our existing product. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2011

Fortunately, more people are doing their due diligence these days. You can also use technology to begin "experiencing" the new culture while still at home. I needed this product to work on every well," he says. Smart managers at smart companies are usually somewhat prepared for cross-cultural collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

With due diligence and decent design, these partnerships can go beyond good results and energize organizations that have become too comfortable or complacent with everyday routines. The technology held appeal for network engineering departments at both telecom providers and digital service providers. ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Focus on the specific opportunity, and do the necessary research, due diligence, and soul-searching to figure out whether that particular job is right for you. To help bring cool new technology to the world? “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” To broaden your managerial repertoire?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Here’s a quick one-question quiz: What is the most important requirement for a successful product launch? A great product. A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). And that means marginal products can outsell superior ones — just look at Microsoft vs. Apple. A great distribution plan to sell it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Crowdfunding of charitable donations, artistic projects, or cool product development in exchange for samples or royalties, can work and has worked. The conduct of due diligence in the ventures raising money will render crowdfunding prohibitively expensive and thus impractical. Due diligence is too expensive.

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