Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Despite maturity, confidence, and by all external accounts, success, I still really, really want to be liked. All other childhood aspirations have gone by the wayside–marrying Shaun Cassidy, winning Wimbledon, living on a horse ranch. Why does this one refuse to fade? The answer is obvious. And I am not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin. How technology is transforming transactions. As cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and distributed ledgers continue to mature, where might they be applied next?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

We are living in a new era of technology and understanding and Pete has his finger on the pulse of how to relate/reach individuals. All great leaders develop a sense of their blind-spots and weaknesses as they mature. I find everything, in my realm on marketing, I get the best advise and insight from Christ.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It is my opinion that when you start to define your personal success by the value you add to the lives of others you have arrived as a mature human being who possesses true influence and has become a person of significance. I concur that it is of no use to sit in judgment of others, and applaud you for the maturity that position displays.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Only the mature and those who have a measure of success truly learn the niche to proper branding. Thanks Deborah. pastortom2022 Great post Mike and especially to many of us who have not experienced a great level of success or notoriety. Many of us are victims of our own over-branding and actually have little to offer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Twitter Marketing [link] mikemyatt Perhaps in some cases, but not in every instance…This is a very fluid topic that is heavily influenced by individual personalities, environmental context, and situational nuances. He is extremely mature emotionally and described his ability to separate from the emotions of a situation.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The number of activities a CEO takes on can certainly vary based upon skill sets, stage of corporate maturation, and the talent level of the rest of the executive team.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World? However, this varies dramatically based on organizations’ digital maturity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some of the largest companies of recent times by market capitalization, such as Facebook, Alphabet, and Alibaba, carry dual class-shares. Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares. Almost 50% of recent technology listings have a dual-class status.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Alice, an outstanding 24-year-old engineer working for a top technology company, wants to launch her own startup within the next five years, but she doesn’t yet have a venture concept. What knowledge and skills does Alice need to lead a technology venture? Juan Díaz-faes for HBR. Several themes emerged.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

It sounds like a supportive, mature environment you are describing; where ego isn't the main thing but doing the right thing is. Everything I know of Dan indicates he is a mature, supportive leader with his ego in check. silence) … great then lets move forward. That's consensus."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The invention of modern transistors, the adoption of standardized shipping containers, and the advent of low-cost assembly lines in East Asia lowered costs and created larger markets for televisions and radios, setting the stage for an Asian manufacturing powerhouse. By the time that substantial U.S. Don’t fear picking winners.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

At the company level, it is quite clear that digital maturity is synonymous with stronger economic growth and a higher level of well-being for employees. We found that the more digitally mature companies grew revenue at six times the rate of their less mature counterparts. This change is happening more commonly than we think.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. We think this is a bad idea. System Development Time. Human Interactions with AI Time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Thus a trust and efficiency engine like blockchain technology has the potential to drive radical change in the insurance industry while improving transparency and outcomes across the entire value chain.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Where and When the Technology Might Be Deployed. By contrast, driverless vehicle adoption depends on overcoming three factors: infrastructure maturity, technology readiness, and regulation. Of the large markets, the U.S., How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? Financial services.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

Much has been made of the fact that a new breed of financial technology (or fintech) companies is unbundling banks in the developed world. As the company put it in a blog post , “The key to flexible earnings is flexible financing.” Startups are attacking all of the components of the traditional bank value proposition (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. Its high-end Internet routers were gaining share on market-leader Cisco, and the sky was the limit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Most investors liked the business model and the fact that I was educated in Nigeria and knew the market. Some countries in Africa don't have stock exchanges, and where the exchange does exist — for instance, in Nigeria — the markets don't value tech stocks very well. I got some invitations to pitch and explain the idea.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. China Economy Finance' Remember, these difficulties are the fruits of success.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In past years, we heard mostly from startup founders and academics — people who pay attention to early, far-reaching trends in technology. As with the internet in the 1990s, executives are realizing that this new technology could change everything, but nobody knows exactly how or when. But this year was different.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

” a marketer might ask. Don’t bury it under another department like marketing, product, finance, etc. This way the data scientist focuses more on driving business value through testing and learning, and less on technology. “Would a new user interface be more intuitive?”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

IBM divested its mature hardware businesses to focus on the new growth areas; for example, its PC business was sold to Lenovo. They failed, except that HP bailed them out with its even bigger acquisition of Compaq, again pursuing scale in a mature business (PCs). Compaq acquired DEC to move into higher-end computing, and to gain scale.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

He is poised to become the leader in this segment of a multi-billion dollar market. Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. “By serving as GE’s and other equipment makers’ supply partner, the whole world is now my scope.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The stock market is a big draw for novice investors looking for a big payday, and sometimes they do hit big. Investing is one way of “beefing up” your finances, so to speak. This single word perfectly sums up the stock, forex, and cryptocurrency markets perfectly, as anything and everything can happen.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I’ve been a consultant for over 20 years now, focused on helping international clients in areas of business and market strategy, positioning and market launches. They didn’t want this book – they wanted a tactical book on sales and marketing. Defy Gravity is every person’s guide to challenging their status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

CIOs need to understand business better, but the C-suite should understand technology''s potential better. While the CIO needs to understand the business to add value, equally true is that senior leadership and the board of directors don''t understand how to incorporate technology in their strategy, and some don''t even see the need to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

rubber trees take years to mature.". Eric looked back at the student and said, "Couldn''t you take some of that grant money and haul in some mature trees to test your assumptions?" For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike.

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