N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

In the text that follows, I’ll provide you with 4 constructs to help you evolve your thinking around digital transformation. Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility.

Leadership 342

Leadership Business Model Engineering Fast Follower 342

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. System Development Time. First, there is the time required to develop AI systems. Even once your systems have been built, there is the issue of integrating AI systems into your organization.

Company 8

Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

[As a leader], you—not the IT department, nor the VP of IT, nor the chief information officer (CIO)—must understand, drive and be accountable for how technology is structured in order to reach the strategic goals of the operation….Technology The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.”

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Chief Information Officer CIO ROI Technology 279

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Typically a graphic depiction of the organizational components to be addressed in a redesign (for example, McKinsey’s 7S model, which includes strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, and so on), every consultant and his brother flogs an organization design model. Operations Organizational culture'

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The contrast could not be clearer: Amazon – fearlessly making big, risky bets like a serial entrepreneur; and Microsoft, eschewing disruptive innovation in favor of remaining the “ fast follower ” it has always been, wringing profit from previously proven technologies.

Company 8

Company Software Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

What Nike and Coca-Cola leadership get is that the climate issue is a systemic problem, not easily defined in one single way, and it directly and profoundly affects their business. Most survey respondents probably miss these systemic issues. Additionally, only 11% ranked climate change as a very significant issue.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Short-term Fast Follower 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The mobile devices that have been most affected by the jury's decision are a combination of the Android operating system, physical product design that's reacting to current market trends, and a hodgepodge of third-party apps and software. Samsung has built its name over the past two decades on being the world's greatest Fast Follower.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Short-term Long-term 15