N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Have you bought-off on the myth of multi-tasking, or do you believe in the power of restraint and focus? The only thing that spinning a bunch of plates insures is that you expend lots of energy in an attempt to forestall the inevitable. Couldn't agree more about the importance of focus and restraint vs. multi-tasking.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# Inc.com Inc. magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. The good news is, new technologies are enabling a seamless data migration process and ensuring the structure of the data is consistent in the manner it needs to be maintained and accessed.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. I always appreciate your sage perspective Mark.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Great leaders are strategic thinkers who have the ability to translate their vision into an actionable strategy to insure its success. They are voracious learners always looking for better methods, different approaches, enhanced efficiencies, better technology and increased velocity. Section X: Results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. When it comes to the powerful ideas in our heads and the core values in our hearts, we censor ourselves.” Best Leadership Books of 2014.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

Another simple rule of thumb that allows you to maximize the equation mentioned above is to leverage down to the lowest level of talent possible while still insuring an acceptable level of execution. Share and Enjoy: View Comments bfpower Well said, Mike. Great leaders model the behaviors they expect of others.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. Rajamannar involved finance early. To spearhead analytic efforts, he assigned a finance person – who was already embedded in marketing – to create an ROI evaluation framework and integrated her deeper into the marketing function.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Let’s begin by determining what it is that a CEO does…First and foremost it is the CEO’s job to provide consistent leadership by insuring that the corporate values are reflected in a clearly articulated vision which in turn translates into a well defined strategy. Priority number two is team building and talent management.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Innate, raw intelligence while certainly something to be prized, is much more common and much less powerful than real influence. Ultimately the best way to insure your staff has influence is to model the correct behaviors and to make sure that you mentor them in said behaviors as well. Thanks for stopping by David.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While they are careful to insure that their brands are visible to the right constituencies, they simply won’t allow overexposure. The reality is that premium brands are viewed as such because they jealously manage their brand exposure. They pay attention to the both the frequency and reach of their exposure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The new health insurance market places—the exchanges set up under Obamacare—have become the hot health policy topic. Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. Will they work or won’t they?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Feed them, make them comfortable, insure that they don’t feel that their time was wasted or that they didn’t have the opportunity to be heard - have them leave looking forward to the next meeting. Don’t bore your members with meaningless drivel or worthless presentations.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Black Enterprise Magazine ‘Top 100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America’ and ‘50 Most Powerful Women in Corporate America’. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

My challenge to you is this…set the chinning bar very high for yourself by reevaluating your goals and objectives to insure that you are on a path towards significance. With regard to your question: "How does one turn their significance into success?"

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Personal savings, insurance, credit, cash transfers from family and friends and other financing mechanisms offer promising opportunities to create security and steady employment but they require a nuanced understanding of product design and the local market conditions in order to be effective.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. For one thing, physicians, insurers, and patients often have limited data on the relative value of different health care services. rawpixel/Getty Images.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. I don't care who you are, what your title is, or what season of life you're in, we all need to subject ourselves to critical evaluation to insure that we're not wandering off course.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

To be clear, being balanced doesn't mean that you're not committed, not sold-out, not passionate – it just means you apply filters to your efforts to insure that passions are productive and healthy; not imbalanced. Businesses are ruled by 'power politics' and everyone knows it. Ecclesiastes 10:5-6.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Therefore, in order for new identity verification approaches to be widely adopted by government and business, they will need to leverage multiple layers of currently available information and technologies to help individuals prove identity to a prospective employer, creditor, educational institution, etc. Insight Center. Sponsored by Varonis.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. As I have explained elsewhere , a finance committee is critical for a board in complex public companies like GE, which are involved in a broad range of retirement plans, stock buybacks, and large acquisitions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. Employers and insurance companies — not end consumers — call the shots on what kind of care they will pay for. This shift is long overdue.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Technology giants, telcos, and retailers have a long way to go to compete against banks product-for-product and service-for-service, and many believe that regulatory barriers will dampen disruption. The bank has given $17 million in cash back to customers using Cardlytics technology. Competition Finance Innovation'

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Strategy Driven

MAY 5, 2020

It is essential that you have at least one copy of all your relevant documents – insurance details, inventories, employee details, etc. They may be useful if you have to claim on your insurance as well. Have secondary power sources available. For both stick purposes and insurance purposes, an inventory is essential.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Implications for city leaders: Leaders should loosen restrictions so that private finance can invest in improvements to physical infrastructure, to better use what already exists. Next, they can encourage commercial platforms for entrepreneurs to create services including data connectivity, banking, and insurance. The downside?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. For example, Ageas, a large European insurance company, has been using this model for its successful expansion into Asia.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

To understand where this new mobility might take us, it’s important to distinguish between two types of AI-powered motor vehicles: self-driving and driverless. Where and When the Technology Might Be Deployed. How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? Of the large markets, the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. But as soon as they began, the communal power of African extended family system weighed on them.

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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. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Rather than do the conceptually hard and convention-challenging reorganizations of systems and finances required to truly transform care, it is easier to suggest tweaking the system and encouraging patients to use more primary care — and let primary care take it from there. And if they are different, which one should be higher?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

A terrorist incident, a breakdown of the London rail system, power blackouts, volcanic ash clouds , flooding, an outbreak of infectious disease—the London organizing committee (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) spent years thinking about every scenario they could imagine.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Small businesses are starting to demand banking services that have engaging web and mobile user experiences, on par with the technologies they use in their personal lives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

The new-growth areas MedStar mapped out included entering the general-population health insurance business as well as creating a major presence in ambulatory care – that is, outpatient locations aimed at preempting visits to the places where nearly all of its 30,000 employees currently worked.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention. In the U.S.

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