N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Importance of a Strong Chief Commercial Officer in Business A robust Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) plays an instrumental role in businesses, providing strategic supervision, guidance, and management of all aspects of commercial operations. The CCO becomes paramount as enterprises navigate competitive landscapes and complex markets.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

As our world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders must understand that it’s going to be technology that determines which companies survive and build success from this unprecedented event. We are entering a new fluid state that will lead to an unprecedented period of innovation and transformation. Blockchain.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

T HE INNOVATION WE PRIZE at successful start-ups is a mindset that is brought into the start-up and not necessarily the inherent quality of every start-up. Innovation isn’t something that just happens; we create the conditions for it. Big organizations can innovate like small start-ups. Creating an Innovation Strategy.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Their greatest fear is no longer their closest competitor, but the startups which, although they live in metaphorical garages and have hardly taken off, have an innovation power that established organizations can only dream of possessing. The Three Tracks of Innovation. Optimizing innovation: Improving the past.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Leaders face an array of complex challenges, from navigating organizational change to driving innovation and performance. Rapid technological advancements, globalization, and changing consumer demands are just a few factors contributing to the constant flux in the corporate landscape.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2021

Technology is incredibly important for all of our businesses. No matter what kind of company you run, there’s probably some kind of technology that helps you manage customers, advertise your products and shorten the amount of time you spend on administrative tasks. Sadly, technology can get extremely expensive over time.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

In this exclusive interview with The HR Digest, Franklin dives into her unique talent management strategies, and how they’re propelling Moderna to the forefront of medical innovation. As an example of the Mindsets in practice – one of our Moderna Mindsets is “we behave like owners.”

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 7, 2024

In The Metaverse Workplace Revolution: A Path to Greater Profitability, a Stronger Culture, and Industry Disruption , published by Fast Company Press, Jason Gesing shares his vision of a future where the Metaverse is not just an option, but a necessity for business innovation. How can leaders identify opportunities within this disruption?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They remain current with industry regulations and compliance requirements, ensuring their organizations operate within legal boundaries. From regulatory changes to technological advancements, staying abreast of these developments is crucial for both finance organizations and executive search firms.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 26, 2024

Artificial intelligence has transformed industries, improved efficiency, and provided innovative solutions, but it also brings along a set of ethical challenges that your company can’t survive without addressing. The sheer scale at which AI operates means that when issues do arise, their repercussions can be extensive.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Many businesses have shut down, with many more having to drastically alter their operations to support social distancing or new patterns of consumer behavior. Grocery stores installing shields for checkout staff, for example, or restaurants pivoting to takeout services. Other sectors have seen more radical change. Unnecessary hurdles.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

Digital technology continues to transform both the retail and consumer experience. To stay competitive, brands must innovate and transform. That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2023

A recent paper from New York University aims to help leaders do better, and urges them to also invest in complementary assets alongside the AI technology itself. Another example involves the implementation of sensors to monitor the actions of the robotic arm, aiding its alignment with the machine responsible for placing the parts.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 15, 2023

For these examples, we use what is known as generative text-to-text AI. Specifically, we use OpenAI for most examples. Idea Generation: Struggling to come up with ideas for a team activity, product innovation, or rewards? Language Translation Example 1.2. Tone Analysis Example 1.3. Idea Generation Example 2.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The pace of innovation in business is rapid. Each year, new pieces of tech, applications, or software platforms help to improve how businesses operate and the services they can provide to consumers and clients. These are just two examples of how technology is driving the evolution of business.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

From project management to technical support, these firms can help their clients manage the risks and costs of drilling operations. They also offer technological solutions that improve upstream and downstream business processes. Production technicians work on rigs to operate equipment that helps extract and process oil.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 18, 2020

How to Ignite Innovation. Innovation is one subject that each and every one of us should study because its powerful force is available to us if we know how to tap it. It’s no surprise that Tamara Ghandour’s book interested me because I read all I can about innovation and creativity. Everyone is Innovative . so read on.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2024

The digital age has transformed the way businesses operate, necessitating a shift in talent management strategies to keep pace with technological advancements and the evolving workforce. Embracing Technology in Recruitment The first step in effective talent management is leveraging technology to streamline the recruitment process.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2024

The digital age has revolutionized the way restaurants operate, especially in the realm of online ordering. Case Example: Personalized Marketing Imagine a customer who regularly orders vegan dishes. Adopting new technologies is a key strategy in this dynamic environment. Equally important is monitoring industry trends.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. By Vera Sharova & Teodora Cosic.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The four elements in the diamond collectively specify the opportunity : what the venture will offer and to whom; its plan for technology and operations; its marketing approach; and how the venture will make money. Eisenmann explains each using examples of startups that fell prey to these sources of failure. False Starts.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Alex, you take us deep into the culture and decision-making at the world’s greatest technology companies. Operating an inventive company takes more than speeches and internal messaging. Flying Elephant Productions, for example, was a stage and prop builder in Ireland when Covid-19 hit earlier this year. ” -Jeff Bezos.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2023

While artificial intelligence is grabbing headlines and enabling new business innovations, its potential negative effects on society are often overlooked. Instead, their focus was on the benefits of reduced operational costs. The study highlights the need for a shift in policy-making towards a more proactive approach.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As the world grapples with waste management challenges, the city of Houston stands as a beacon of innovation. Countries like Sweden and Japan provide invaluable lessons on how multi-sector partnerships can revolutionize waste management, with initiatives that blend cutting-edge technology and community engagement. The future?

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HR Digest

MAY 27, 2023

In a strategic move that reverberated through the financial sector, JPMorgan Chase, the global banking behemoth, announced a calculated workforce reduction aimed at realigning its operations and optimizing efficiency.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Innovation is perhaps the most used word in corporate boardrooms today. Add to this, the challenges of hyper-competitive landscape, organization cultures, shortage of talent and agility to move swiftly and the challenge of innovation compounds. Moreover, innovation is not as simple as having fresh ideas and executing them well.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. But as execution capabilities become commodities, and the life cycles of new offerings get increasingly shorter, it’s precisely these innovation skills that need to be learned.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Executive recruiting services tend to operate reactively. Expectations of a Leading Executive Search Firm Leading executive search firms today operate at a very high level of proficiency and have distinct expectations from executive recruiting services. What Are Executive Recruiting Services?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

T HE BIGGEST CHANGE being brought about by AI is not human replicas, but the emergence of digital operating models. Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani, professors at Harvard Business School, explore these changes in Competing in the Age of AI with examples of businesses in many industries. The operating model is how that is accomplished.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 12, 2019

Older people are not renowned as being the most innovative, and indeed various biases operate against older people in terms of their creativity and propensity for fresh ways of approaching things. What’s more, these innovations are often with the interests of the community at heart rather than any personal or commercial gain.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. A moral hazard exists when organizations and individuals are not required to bear the negative consequences of their failures.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 11, 2024

In a recent article , I looked at the often nefarious use of technology to spy on employees, including those working on-site as well as remotely. The study explored examples in Germany and Norway, which showed how such representatives can help to mobilize workers and provide a more collective voice to help preserve worker privacy.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2021

For instance, the authors argue that business process modularity is a crucial element of success with Agile or when innovations are built from the bottom-up with the help of practical input and feedback from customers. Agile also appears to work best for more developmental initiatives than routine day-to-day operations.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. EY is known for its focus on innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 16, 2023

Exploring behavior The symbiotic approach considers the interactions between humans and digital technology. Digital technology is framed as an organism that exists in a close partnership with humans. These enrich the conceptual framework of HTSRs (human-technology symbiosis relationships).

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Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 26, 2023

It’s a massive sector that is continually evolving and adapting to the changing needs of society and technology. Even during challenging times, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, essential transportation services remained operational, highlighting the industry’s resilience. In fact, it’s at the forefront of innovation.

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