N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

I left my son’s graduation in Florida on Sunday evening headed for Dallas and then traveling on to San Antonio. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

I'm traveling this week, but will follow-up with you next week to arrange the Skype call. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Thanks Scott. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Airbnb lets spare room owners make money out of their idle asset and makes the asset easily accessible for more travelers. The idea of offering your spare room on the web is not new, but with Airbnb you don’t have to create your own website and hope that Google-searching travelers find you.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. The potential of new technology to fill the gaps in small business lending is high.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 5, 2009

With over 20 years of technology industry experience, he has a fresh and current perspective in leading product management teams and has a gift for taking conceptual ideas and turning them into strategic reality using methods based on market sensing best practices. Jim’s passion is product management and product marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

According to a new study from Stanford, once a company goes public, innovation declines. As described in Bloomberg , Shai Bernstein, assistant finance professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, came to this conclusion by analyzing the patent data of over 1,500 public and private U.S. BONUS BITS: We Have the Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This is the latest step in the company''s journey to dramatically reduce the cost of space travel, and follows the first private resupply of the International Space Station with the launch of their Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft last fall. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. The opportunities to innovate will differ greatly by segment. Yelp, Zillow, and Trip Advisor are examples of innovations in this context.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

’ One could imagine an Apple car that is a Tesla-like product—one with comparable speed, self-driving technology, aesthetics, and features–but is so seamlessly integrated with the Apple ecosystem and requires a new sized iPhone, or some kind of blend of iPhone, iPad or MacBook. How about a man cave on wheels? Or a kitchen?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They offer subjects which are relevant to a business environment and those which help in laying the foundation of business studies such as accounting, business strategy, economics, finance, entrepreneurship, etc. of the graduates are placed at prestigious organizations. Program fees for the full-time program are $70,590 a year.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Over the last 15 years, Internet giants have built platforms or utilities on top of the Internet that make innovation easier and faster. APIs are a technology that allows firms to interact and share information with other firms at an unprecedented scale. Need travel information or services? Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Overnight, these technologies create billionaires and business models so beautifully unique and freakishly inspired that we call them “unicorns.” But thanks to the boom in mobile and digital technologies, that dream is becoming a reality. laura schneider FOR HBR.

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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

MAY 13, 2014

You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future. Knowing that today’s operations will almost always win the lion’s share of resources, you need to consciously create a protected class of innovative ideas to invest in, even if money is tight.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Be guided by appropriateness and tie into what the target values or needs most. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care. This approach has had the secondary consequence of limiting innovation in delivery methods. A Way Forward.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. I've traveled around the world and have seen smart people everywhere. And while most nations are inventive, few innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

As Pew Internet reports : Young adults: 50 percent of teen smartphone owners, aged 12-17, say they use the internet mostly on their cell phone, according to a 2013 Pew Internet report on Teens and Technology. Internal data from some finance, healthcare, and travel providers show similar mobile-only usage.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. Innovating away from past exclusion.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Technologies will change, distribution channels for content will change, usage environments will change. This is often the reason why thoughtful quantitative analysis that incorporates macro-economic trends, market share, competitive strategies, retail analysis and technological assessments so often misses the mark. Think about it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Yet by rethinking the use of personal data from the ground up, entrepreneurs can mine new opportunities for experimentation and innovation. The realization that we’re only on the brink of this new phase of technology adoption should accelerate the drive to radically rethink personal data, as suggested in the White House reports.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

If you would prefer to be a leader in terms of starting and supporting projects, then your leadership goals could focus on bringing in innovation, organizing resources, and finding funding for your company projects. Depending on the field, there may be varying opportunities to take the lead and make a difference.

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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. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. askaaronlee These are the books that I brought to University and books that I bring along when I travel sometimes. I recently started Tony Blair's book so we'll have to compare notes down the road.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. There can be a lot of stress in this industry.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. 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). How organizations are changing.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Executives and entrepreneurs from all over the world have traveled to Silicon Valley to learn the secrets of its success. We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. vincent tsui FOR HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows. Protect and manage reputations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Technology and new concepts of living, as well as progressive notions of urbanization, industrial capitalism, consumerism, ecotourism, and renewable systems, could meld to fashion a new shared-growth paradigm. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

He thinks that getting teenagers to start thinking big early will help them become innovators. Of college dropouts who become successful at a young age, many do so in technology, an area that rewards such entrepreneurs. Rather than take on education debt, Thiel wants these kids to get $100,000 from a mogul and start a business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

On recent visits to India, we have found that "innovation" is the buzzword on everybody's lips. President Pratibha Patil has even declared 2010-2020 as India's " Decade of Innovation." Biocon is one Indian company that is adapting well to this new global reality by embracing a polycentric innovation model.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2017

The study also found that consumers are more likely to call a business when making a high-value purchase in verticals such as auto, finance, or travel. Sponsored by DXC Technology. The challenge is particularly acute for businesses that operate in categories such as insurance, lending, travel, or healthcare.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Successful platforms engage in platform evangelism, providing developers with resources to innovate, feedback on design and performance, and rewards for participation. If Android throws a Hawaiian luau with a five-course feast, free travel, and attendees get to meet Robert Downey Jr. What became of Sony’s players?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

They had already traversed the road I was traveling, knew where the potholes were and were willing to carry the lamp (or me) so I wouldn't make the same mistakes they had made… Priceless. This, my friend, can't be taught in coaching school 101 Mark [link] Mary Jo Asmus Thank you for saying what needs to be said. I Think Not.

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