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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

And Capabilities and Management Systems act as a reality check on the Where to Play and How to Win choice. If you can’t identify a set of Capabilities and Management Systems that you currently have, or can reasonably build, to make the Where to Play and How to Win choice come to fruition, it is a fantasy, not a strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

On the technology front, the CIO''s once-tight hold on the devices and software employees use has evaporated (except perhaps in the financial world, where regulation keeps legacy systems in place) as markedly better and more adaptable consumer tools have conquered the workplace. Organizational DNA. See accompanying chart.)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

Most recently, Samsung has announced that it will roll out a payment system called Samsung Pay later this year and has already begun beta-testing it in Korea. But Samsung’s new mobile wallet strategy may be a sign that they are finally becoming a true leader and shedding their image as a fast follower.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.” Our inventory of technologies is more like a palette of art supplies—it must be formed into technological systems by true artists….By So all you have to do is look at the industry you are in and identify all the things that are wrong with it….Next,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts.

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