N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

Many successful bloggers today were not necessarily first-movers, but rather fast-followers able to leap frog the early adopters. This is a positive sign – not a foreshadowing of doom and gloom. Where Are We Now?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

But massive disruptions in business models, technology, and the work force have been throwing up massive new challenges for CIOs and other technology leaders. Consequently, CIOs and business leaders with a technology focus face more cacophony and challenge than ever before. Organizational DNA. See accompanying chart.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

I discovered Xbox Live first via my brother-in-law Joel, a technology executive and gaming enthusiast from Seattle, and my junior high buddies, Emmett and Reid, from Hawaii. I positioned it to my wife (who was less than enthusiastic) as a way of keeping up with my friends from home. Not bad for the old guy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2012

I discovered Xbox Live first via my brother-in-law Joel, a technology executive and gaming enthusiast from Seattle, and my junior high buddies, Emmett and Reid, from Hawaii. I positioned it to my wife (who was less than enthusiastic) as a way of keeping up with my friends from home. Not bad for the old guy.

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Media Company IPO Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

To those of us who believe the future of the country depends on its innovative capabilities, this was hugely positive. China's brilliant "Fast Follower" innovation policy is generating the biggest transfer of technology in history. He used the word "innovate" more times in his State of the Union than any other U.S.

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Policies Innovation Fast Follower Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

For podcast startup Gimlet Media , an abstract question — “Should we become a technology company?” By the end of the week, it had tested a prototype with this group and gotten enough positive feedback to move forward with the project. Sprints encourage fast follow-up. Sprints force crisp decision-making.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The rich countries were confident they could win the argument because they believed the developing countries had little or no power to push their position—and that what power they did have as a result of control of oil supplies could be countered and would fade. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts.

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