N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning.

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Blog Leadership Brand Depreciation 412

Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2016

In each Box there is a function that needs to be performed to lead a sustainable business: Box 1: The Present Box – Manage the present core business at peak efficiency and profitability. Our resistance to selectively give up the past is arrogance. The 3-Box Solution is a daily operational balancing act.

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Govindarajan Insurance Learning-by-Doing Resistance 150

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This research also revealed that self-awareness could lead to better performance by enabling leaders to understand exactly how they operate and how they can achieve optimal results through behavioral changes. When executives are more empathetic, they can improve their communication and work more efficiently and productively with others.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Professors of business and corporate strategy (which includes me) research and lecture about the goal of long-term “sustained” competitive advantage, driven by grand plans that mesmerize and seduce the most seasoned leaders and leadership teams. Resistance from Within. Resistance from the Supplier. Resistance from the Customer.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

by John • November 20, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. However, it woke up Coke who were forced to look beyond their advertising and instead at their operational strategy. And AB had all the synergies, efficiencies and clout that #2 and #3 could never match. Main menu Home.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? link] ATIG Dear Mike, Reasonably at the crucial moment, We can’t resist and reject that process. Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Entrepreneur CEO Blog Welch 318

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. Poor behavior and missteps in culture can be even more detrimental than missteps in fundamental business strategy.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 108

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Many strategy execution processes fail because the firm does not have something worth executing. The strategy consultants come in, do their work, and document the new strategy in a PowerPoint presentation and a weighty report. Many so-called strategies are in fact goals. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Strategy Bottom-up Balanced Scorecard Resistance 15

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

link] Scot Herrick Best practices excuse management of really understanding their business and strategy. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. They moved with the most efficient best practice as they unfold. As an example, Look at Apple! But manufacturing?

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 293

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Usually, figuring out the right answer is not the challenge, whether it’s a new strategy, more-efficient processes or systems, or a new structure that better meets the needs of a growing company. Identifying the Sources of Resistance. Another reason people might resist is simply because they are feeling rushed.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

They encourage resistance, partial/missed answers, and lies. These questions restrict possibility, cause resistance, create distrust, and encourage lying. These narrow the range of possible responses, often creating some form of resistance or defensive lies; they certainly cause defensiveness and distrust. What Is Change?

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Resistance System Servant Leader Banking 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. Efficient workflows help you maintain consistent work quality, reduce waste, and maximize profits. In that case, the company still needs to be more efficient.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The strategy-to-execution gap is an enduring problem with no easy solution. ” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. Translate strategy into everyday processes and capabilities. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Managers provide the continuity needed to execute efficiently and leaders drive the kinetic energy needed to respond dynamically to the needs of the marketplace. Therefore, the ability to manage operation and the capacity to inspire employees is no longer enough. Managers, he argued, take a rational approach and seek order and control.

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IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We still need strong operational results if we are going to stay competitive. With only a year and a half since the kickoff, it’s too soon to assess the operational results of the campaign.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

They try to make change thinking contagious, embedding it into everything they do from the most fundamental daily interactions to the most complex strategy. ”, so that people can fight the natural instinct to resist change. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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Agility Shaw Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

The results continued to improve throughout 2017 as the system learned and got smarter, while Maister learned how to improve the brand’s strategy in response to the insights produced by the AI. Resistance to disruptive, technology-driven change is not unusual. Disruption of plans. Initial tests demonstrated unprecedented results.

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Resistance How To Audience Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

That’s because the primary obstacle is invisible: the internal resistance that all human beings experience, often unconsciously, when they’re asked to make a significant change. What’s equally striking is how difficult organizations are finding it to embed these qualities and behaviors in their people.

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Skills Decentralization Agility Resistance 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Not so long ago, businesses were merely expected to conform to the laws and regulations of the countries in which they operated. In states where there were efficient governments that represented the will of the public, this worked fine. Every decision to resist corruption is an effort to forge a new norm for global business.

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Globalization Bureaucracy Efficiency Ethics 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

MGI’s latest research with McKinsey Analytics on the state of the big data revolution measures the progress various industries have made toward capturing the revenue and efficiency gains we envisioned five years ago. Merely layering powerful technology systems on top of existing operations is not enough.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Start by developing a strategy across the entire enterprise that includes a clear understanding of what you hope to accomplish and how success will be measured. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Drive strategy and accelerate change? Cultural resistance can also become a bigger obstacle than anticipated.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Proactive employees do more than they are supposed to, are good at realizing ideas, and work to overcome resistance to change. For example, pushing for change without being told to can ignite resistance from supervising managers and fellow colleagues. Companies need proactive employees. But being proactive at work involves risk.

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Middle Management Management Performance Review Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Improved operational efficiency: AI-based needs analysis systems allow insurers to not only improve their probability of lead-to-quote conversion but also re­duce turnaround time conversions. Because AI capabilities can potentially displace humans, in­surers need an effective and thoughtful HR strategy. Start small.

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Insurance Industry Content Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

Employees skeptically prepared for yet another exhausting effort to transform the company into an efficient growth engine. Rowe didn't walk in with a new strategy and try to force a cultural shift to achieve it. He declared that instead of just cutting costs, the organization would pursue a strategy he called "the New Aetna."

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Health Care Restructuring Resistance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Based on this cross-case analysis, we found that operational safety and data security are decisive factors in getting people to trust technology. And since negative events are more visible than positive events, operational safety alone is not sufficient for building trust.

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Technology Transportation Influence Resistance 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. We designed a data center that was 38% more energy efficient and that cost 24% less to build than a traditional data center. Since then, we’ve continued to lead the way in terms of energy efficiency.

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Project Energy Policies Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Macroeconomic data during the 2008 financial crisis show the bullwhip effect operating on a much broader scale. Strategies to Implement Now.

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Supply Chain Retail Crisis Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. I talked with clinical, administrative, and operational staff where they worked and asked them to tell me more.

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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Efficient operations that inflict misery on food animals. Experiments and experience show that people resist leaping from innocence to evil, but they can be lured into it one innocuous step at a time. My main job is consulting: business war games, strategy simulations, workshops on strategy.

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Tavris Proposal Industry Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The challenge at PARC was that the company's core could be resistant to ideas from the edge, so some of those beautiful concepts went nowhere at Xerox. Cloud computing means that small, idea-driven operations don't have to invest in building their own computing infrastructures. For one thing, we've got the cloud.

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Media Core Competence Operations Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Over the last few years we’ve been increasingly interested in the impact of a leader’s preference for speed versus a “slow and steady” mode of operation. Perhaps leaders worry that their organizations cannot move faster if their employees operate slowly. Slow leaders who produce poor quality resist change.

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Quality Objective Goal Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. Matt Denesuk , Chief Data Scientist, told me, “Who you hire depends on your strategy. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models. No strategy is static. For example, increasing your marketing spend for digital channels or upgrading internal communication systems.

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Business Model Human Capital Real Estate Forrester 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2011

Yet most organizations still operate much as they did in the industrial age. The two camps operate with a "live and let live" approach, and they don't attempt to collaborate or interoperate with one another. We know that life is not just about efficiency. So why do we resist the idea that work can be about greatness?

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Hamel Customer Loyalty Creativity Cost Center 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Tor many people who want to solve pressing social and environmental problems, founding a social enterprise is the strategy of choice. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8