N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Don’t be quick to hire based upon gut feel, but rather take time in the interviewing process to let the prospective new hire get a feel for your culture and your company. that can be administered as part of the hiring process.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Tenure Inhibits Change and Cripples Innovation : Organizations that favor tenure also tend to be prone to majoring in the minors. The mandates for compliance along with the accompanying maze of bureaucratic processes and procedures, will often take precedence over doing the right thing. I want metrics that mirror experience.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Put simply…not all inputs should weigh equally in one’s decisioning process. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. Another aspect that needs to be factored into the decisioning process is the source of the input.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Finding ways to streamline business processes is another good investment to make into your company. It can be a low-cost endeavor if you know how to strategize and plan properly, and there’s no downside to investing in performance metrics. Invest in yourself.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. link] mikemyatt Thanks for your comment and kind words John.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. How the new job of process owner can tie together the separate silos that characterize the traditional organization to change the way work is done and how people relate to one another.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

You are team leader on a cross-functional team project that includes; Sue from finance, Jack from engineering, Brian from Quality Assurance, Stephanie from human resources, Terri is the customer representative, Tony from production and Mike (me) is the team coach…. Ferdinand Fournies. You: “Brian do you know why I called you here today?”.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

And they should prioritize doing so, as real data shows diversity of thought and perspective drives innovation and has a meaningful impact on invention, engagement and the bottom line. We also hire talent from non-traditional sources and customize the interview process to meet these candidates where they are.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

And they should prioritize doing so, as real data shows diversity of thought and perspective drives innovation and has a meaningful impact on invention, engagement and the bottom line. We also hire talent from non-traditional sources and customize the interview process to meet these candidates where they are.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. These labels also nicely describe the phases of innovation: Explore, Scale, and Optimize.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. Since the term was coined in the 1980s, intrapreneurship has been sold to companies as a catch-all solution for fostering innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

link] Anna Smith “Let the attacks begin” – The number one source for innovation/change is pissed-off people (Tom Peters). While my list had more "diversity" it was a larger list based upon specific metrics as the standard for qualification – diversity was not one of these metrics. LeRoyD Amen!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. The right composition and metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics. Analysts increasingly rely on non-GAAP metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Data science can enable wholly new and innovative capabilities that can completely differentiate a company. But those innovative capabilities aren’t so much designed or envisioned as they are discovered and revealed through curiosity-driven tinkering by the data scientists. But they are also easily distracted, in a good way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

If the public sector is to realize the full potential of digital technology to transform public finances and even kickstart national economic growth, governments will have to move beyond streamlining services and cutting red-tape for entrepreneurs. No matter how innovative a new technology is, it’s not automatically profitable.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. These rates were then compared against the well-known Rogers Adoption Curve of Innovation classifying adopters of innovations into five categories based upon their willingness to try new ideas.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. TopRank Marketing TopRank Marketing has been doing innovative and impactful work with interactive content and B2B influencers for huge brands like SAP, Dell, LinkedIn, 3M, and Oracle for over 18 years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Make sure the metrics reinforce the goals. The reason for focusing on this number is that the CAI and Mortenson both place great weight on this metric — total number of schools, and number of schools built in each region. education), it makes sense to help show progress by focusing on concrete metrics (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Departments can automate a business process in the time it would take to enter IT's development pipeline. IT as Process Creator.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? But by following a simple, six-step process, they were able to make a turnaround. Sprint also discovered that its existing metrics were rewarding the wrong behaviors. Second, how can we simplify our processes? Take Sprint.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. In other words, design and implement UX from a customers-in sensibility for people and process — rather than a capabilities-out one.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. They are acutely attuned to disruptive innovation, and their size makes them nimble.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. test process-improvement suggestions. In addition, each project team interviews several physicians at each site to ensure the process maps captured the existing treatment protocols. record and share end-of-project learnings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Its goal was to promote greater sharing of ideas, information, best practice and innovative processes. One winning finance group promoted an Excel macro that helped business units more easily calculate a key performance metric; an HR group from one division "stole" and repurposed the online 360 degree job review process from another.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

Traditional hiring processes that revolve around CVs are no longer sufficient – they don’t pinpoint the right qualities demanded of leaders today, and their dated criteria obscures many talented individuals from even hitting the radar. And more companies can use smart data to improve the recruiting process. What can be done about this?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

It is little surprise that direct employer-purchasing of bundled care is a burgeoning area of healthcare payment innovation. Three key questions employers and providers commonly ask about arrangements like these are: “What is the process to be selected as a site?” ” What is the process to be selected as a site?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. As innovation consultant Pete Maulik told me, “It’s time to switch from here they come to this is how we’re going to win.” That’s an enormous mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Digital usage in the form of transactions, customer and supplier interactions, and internal business processes, grew almost fivefold — and over the entire period, the leading sectors maintained an enormous lead in usage over everyone else. But the biggest differentiator of all comes from having a digitally empowered workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Because a CEO often effectively controls the director selection process, he will tend to choose directors who are unlikely to oppose him, and who are unlikely to provide the diverse perspectives necessary to maximize firm value. Advances in machine learning have led to innovations ranging from facial recognition software to self-driving cars.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). A job like his used to be concerned only with things that happened later in the process, like launching and maintaining a piece of software.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

In HR (or finance or IT), 20% of the professionals are exceptional, adding value that helps organizations move forward, 20% of HR folks are locked into a fixed mindset and lack either competence or commitment to deliver real value, and 60% are in the middle. This is both unfair and simplistic. It ignores what I call the 20-60-20 rule.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This is comparable to what we see in innovation and patent filings, where immigrants also account for about a quarter of U.S. We have merged in data on the firms backed by VC financing. We are still in the process of uncovering why. Immigrants constitute 15% of the general U.S. economic and business landscape.

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