N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Take Google, for example. Interestingly enough, I think your example of Google is a great one. When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine. link] Mark Vickers Do you have any data to support this? I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Here are the key roles that are crucial to your success as a product manager, and why they are important: Engineering/QA: The relationship with the engineering/development team is paramount for product managers. Accounting/Finance: This group is often completely ignored by product management.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

If not, it should…The overly slick professional always makes me want to grab my wallet and run… Let me be transparent and use my personal situation as an example. and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

Reading the headlines, you might think that the most urgent question about national success in innovation and growth is whether the U.S. Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering. or China should get the gold medal.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Yet they have already generated tens of millions of dollars in value for Roivant.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Pre-covid, innovation folk would talk about the value a “burning platform” plays in driving lasting change, and for many businesses, this has been just such a burning platform. Grocery stores installing shields for checkout staff, for example, or restaurants pivoting to takeout services. Unnecessary hurdles.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You are a great example of someone cultivating community around your blog by responding personally to all comments. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Here’s a case example. With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. And an innovative manufacturing company offered her a job as head of “strategic partnerships.” Naturally, Sheila was upset.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2020

As well as boosting the digital skills of traditional clinical staff, the report also highlights the likely growth in new roles across the healthcare sector, including data scientists, AI engineers and data governance experts. She suggests that for many frontline workers today, the perception of data is largely a negative one.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

Initially when the start-up''s founder, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, looked at the space industry, he faced a quandary about where to innovate, given the restrictions and mandatory performance criteria for space travel. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction. They think big.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. We owe deep debts of honor to so many people for their service on that horrendous day, and in the years afterward.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The classic method of segregating innovation to a single department, or to a process led by specialists, just isn’t fast enough any longer. What’s needed is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. Most innovation methods don’t actually result in innovative solutions.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Alexa Rank : 63,303 Google Page Rank : 5 PostRank Leadership Score : 2 Number of Posts in last 30 days : 13 TwitterGrader Score : 100 Lead By Example : John Baldoni is a seasoned leadership pro and one of only a few leadership coaches that I endorse. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). You can follow John on Twitter @JohnBaldoni.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future. Knowing that today’s operations will almost always win the lion’s share of resources, you need to consciously create a protected class of innovative ideas to invest in, even if money is tight.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Nursing is an example of a profession that, while growing in terms of opportunities available, is one that is not traditionally practiced by men. “Men are more likely to consider finances when deciding to go into, or leave, a profession,” the Warwick researchers explain. Part of this is due to discrimination.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Here are some concrete examples of how AI and machine learning are creating value in companies today: Personalizing customer service. For example, young adults coming off of their parents’ mobile phone plans often move to other carriers. Automating finance. Measuring brand exposure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. This is also true of executives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. Sloan transformed corporate management into a real profession, and its stellar example was the continuous and relentless execution of the GM business model. He had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Collaboration across departments or units of the same company will likely be a good thing only if managers set up the conditions for what Morten Hansen — citing Procter & Gamble's collaborative innovation as a prime example — calls " disciplined collaboration." Progress ground to a halt, crippling innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. Finally, carve out innovation incubators that will serve not only to build new businesses but also to grow general managers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

This becomes more likely as the organization takes on strategic risk — through innovation, mergers and acquisitions, or because its environment is becoming more volatile. For example, I have worked closely with a professional services organization where a domineering, controlling CEO led the organization spectacularly for 20 years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Armed with the art of the possible, innovators are seeking to apply disruptive consumer technologies to enterprise class uses — call it the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. You know them as ERP, finance and accounting systems, or even payroll. It's part of a shift from transactional systems to engagement systems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

To obtain an understanding of the costs, the center is applying a combination of two management tools: process mapping from industrial engineering and activity-based costing from accounting. A high-level example of the output of this exercise is shown in the exhibit “ New Head and Neck Patient Registration at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course. Furthermore, the operating managers cannot take their eyes off day-to-day operations to focus on innovation. It’s unlikely that investors’ risk aversion has fundamentally changed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. Introduce innovation accounting. Where do you look?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem? Of course, the pricing is always what signals the problem, but behind that it is how the innovation process is set up. They let evidence and facts drive innovation processes. Innovation Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

But, as my co-authors and I discuss this month in HBR , this flexibility is essential to emerging-market innovation and product strategy. In fact, the New York Times reports, a fully equipped Nano sells for only about $800 less than the Suzuki Alto, which "has a bigger engine, more storage space and a longer track record than the Nano."

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