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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Even the swiftest of fast followers will struggle to not choke on the dust of first movers in today’s world. Again, innovation requires deviation from the norm in all areas, but mostly in what you do and how you do it. The post Leadership and Digital Transformation appeared first on The Executive Hub.

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How To Think About Innovation Differently

Joseph Lalonde

Bobby is the Pastor and Innovation Leader at LifeChurch.tv. We’re predictable… How To Think About Innovation Differently. If you have limited resources, you have one of the key ingredients for innovation. When you have all the resources, there’s no need for innovation. Then innovation struck.

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Digital Transformation Or Digital Free Fall: What Every CEO Must Know

N2Growth Blog

The special ones, they see it as a chance to create advantage, to deliver value and to innovate at scale. Innovation has always been synonymous with business survival and that hasn’t changed. What has changed is the pace and scale at which businesses must innovate to remain competitive in a digital world. Credit: Forbes.com.

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Are You Driving Too Much Change, Too Fast?

Harvard Business Review

GE's Jack Welch was inordinately fond of emphasizing that his biggest leadership regret was that he didn't move fast enough to make fundamental changes. By stark contrast, IBM's Lou Gerstner practiced a cultivated deliberateness in his successful turnaround: Slow and steady won his leadership race. That's a mug's game.

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Verizon, the iPhone, and the Power of Second Chances

Harvard Business Review

The game isn't over, and adding Verizon's other innovations might even change the game. There is still a debate in strategy circles about whether it is better to be the first mover or a fast follower, and whether missing out on the first wave of disruptive innovation means falling behind forever.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. I wrote a couple of months ago about Chinas leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad.

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. I wrote a couple of months ago about China's leadership in the clean tech race , but at the macro level. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. That's what China's Hi-Tech Fair is doing.

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