N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

with equal rotation of study in the final year of GMI’s Business Administration School, really launched my career at GM and led to my quick progression through the organisation culminating in my leading the team that restructured General Motors in Australia in 1986. I have an open mind as to the field of endeavour of the organisations.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For instance, research from Bocconi University suggests that the best way to be creative and innovative is to create ideas in the company of strangers and then develop those ideas with people you know well. For instance, new co-workers or managers might join a team, or the company could be restructured.

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CO2

JANUARY 8, 2024

This question paused him, and soon, an innovative idea emerged: capitalizing on market lows to take on debts from those unwilling to persevere for another decade. In my extensive interviews with renowned leaders, from media executives to military generals, a common thread emerged.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 5, 2014

The life of a modern leader brings challenges of leading, innovating, motivating, growing, developing, evaluating, communicating, and risking. Restructuring, remodeling, reorganization are all necessary for an organization to stay aligned in times of change. Be innovative and challenge best practices. © 2014 Lolly Daskal.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. Innovator) Assess alternative methods of taking action, such as, “Will this help us reach our goal? How can we do it better?” What will we measure?” Draw the axes and quadrants.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2023

“I need to restructure my business — I’m thinking of eliminating my acquisitions team,” said the CEO of a large professional services firm. Innovator) Assess alternative methods of taking action, such as, “Will this help us reach our goal? How can we do it better?” What will we measure?” Draw the axes and quadrants.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 2, 2022

Recently I was asked to facilitate an executive retreat for the leadership team of a professional services firm. ” In culture development efforts, leaders will strongly declare their commitment to core values like safety, quality, service, engagement, teamwork, integrity, innovation, and the like.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Leadership is a significant part of any business, and it’s highly recommended to get the right executive team to hold the fort. A strong executive team is supposed to make decisions to steer business objectives, and that starts with your hiring decisions. Be receptive to innovative ideas.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Restructuring has led to fewer layers of management, also to fewer opportunities for promotion. Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. In recent years, many executives have focused on whom they should get rid of rather than on whom they should keep.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Mark Roellig is the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (“ MassMutual ”). John Sullivan FORA.tv

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

SAP SE Executive Board Member and Chief Human Resources Officer, Stefan Ries explains how he is utilizing AI and Big Data to advance HR analytics as the foundations for a successful global future. Let’s innovate, disrupt, and challenge the status quo. Stefan Ries | Member of the Executive Board, SAP SE, Chief Human Resources Officer.

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Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

“When we work with C-suite executives and with senior teams in our organizational practice, we often hear concerns about the disconnections between the current organizational culture and the needed culture to implement the future-proof strategy,” our COO David Altman says.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

The blemish is the abdication of strategic attention by the organization’s most senior marketing executives to the enhancement of brand equity. The role has been relegated to middle managers who are brand custodians, not leaders in innovation.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. Neither a restructuring strategy nor a turnaround leader alone could have engineered Nissan’s historic rebound. About the Authors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment.

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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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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Most progressive organizations today are using leadership competency models to outline the key skills and behaviors they want to see in their supervisors, managers, and executives. Some models layer the competencies across organizational levels starting with frontline staff, and moving up to supervisors, managers, and executives.

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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

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? IRS Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998); and an outstanding, senior executive from the private sector, Charles Rossotti , was appointed for a five-year term to drive the changes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

You’re an executive of a clothing retailer and your marketing team detects a new trend that you’re well-positioned to feed. They get locked into detailed agreements that turn out to be poorly aligned with their aspirations and that provide no room for innovation when markets change. Deutsche Bank accused Dresdner of inflexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

firms with structures organized around customers would grow from 32% to 52% as firms raced to build customer-centric organizations, and he interviewed companies including IBM and Systems Group that had announced customer-centric restructurings. ” A good example of customer-centricity is Tumi , the innovative U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. As companies grapple with long odds on innovation like these, they are also looking for ways to improve the likelihood of their intrapreneurial success.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Increases in production costs in some parts of Asia, continual increases in freight costs, heightened government regulations, and trade restrictions are some examples of underlying forces that prevent companies from fully understanding the true costs of their products as well as the complexity in the logistics processes required to ship products within (..)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

More than half of senior executives experienced a backlog of at least two years on critical new analytics applications. Frequent restructurings of the analytics function. Simultaneously, other executives will not only experience a loss of influence but also feel vulnerable. Too many calls for outside support from consultants.

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Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In the context of their transition, the HR or Talent leader identifies needs for development for this executive related to strategic thinking, executive presence, and boundary spanning. Executive coaching can drive performance. Coaching for change : An employee has been identified as having great networking abilities.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? Chief Executives who continually talk about brand assets are often the ones living off the luster of yesteryear’s brand equity. I am not suggesting restructuring the entire brand management system. So, wouldn’t you expect a heck of a lot more corporate attention to commercial brands?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

And the long-term trends that have driven corporate restructuring are not going away — globalization, technical change, and ever fiercer competition between firms. The years of the Great Recession saw many big mergers aimed at restructuring assets and cutting costs. IBM’s surveys of top executives have picked up on this trend.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

However, in our survey of 1,060 global executives , only 30% of executives work for companies that benefited from the internal use of social media. When interviewed, TEKCO executives had difficulty identifying examples of tangible benefits their company obtained from social media.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Should you replace your executives with leaders from internet companies? To promote innovation and local service, the company hires people with entrepreneurial backgrounds and gives them freedom to design promotions, sales programs, and marketing events however they like. It’s not a good position to be in.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Xerox has tried its best, but its long-term struggles have led to a recently announced breakup and restructuring. The answer, I believe, has to do with what innovation strategist Cynthia Barton Rabe dubbed the “ paradox of expertise.” It was a great idea for a conference, yet it amounted to a hill of beans.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

billion dollars on learning and development programs, many executives still grapple with how to improve and enhance their effectiveness. As research shows , the need to revamp and improve learning programs is an important concern among HR executives. Unfortunately, despite spending approximately $164.2

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Our research showed that it is possible for business executives to assess how susceptible their industry is to disruption and why, and to do the same at a more granular level for their company.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Its opening sentence: "Despite another quarter of robust corporate profits, an ominous impulse is stirring at many big companies — restructuring.". In his work on responsible restructuring, Cascio discovered profitable alternatives to employee layoffs. This strikes us as a knee-jerk reaction and a bad idea.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She''s an expert on strategy, innovation, and leading change. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Much of how I view sustaining an innovative business culture comes from observing my husband maintain those cell cultures. Most innovative companies have an impressive ability to generate lots of ideas. Consider the experience of Peter Eder-Buys, an IT executive at W.L. Attached to each idea is someone’s dream.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

As executives who have spent our lives assessing and implementing digital technology in every type of organization, we often get asked by them: “What should I learn today so that I’ll have a job in the future? These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

From my practice working with bank clients in the continent, here are a few suggestions to make that happen: Restructure staff. Increasingly, executing that capability will be dependent on a new species of talent with deep technical skills to integrate local realities into products. Innovate ferociously. Think about local needs.

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