N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I disagree with the argument that it takes several years to learn how to get things done in Washington. One might add that at the time of the Founders, America had approximately 2 million people, and many fewer had the franchise than today. That is only because those who control the congress make it that way. TERM LIMITS NOW!

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. They’ve never franchised. A workforce of 8,000 led by a transformational CEO, seemingly knows how to deal with the ever-changing digital world. Doing less better’ doesn’t mean doing less work. In-N-Out Burger. and going public?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

I don't want to say "dirty tricks," (whoops, I just said it) but Clorox certainly took an innovative approach to squelching P&G's innovative threat. An excellent business case could be made that Clorox's "Portland Massacre" was — dollar-for-dollar — its most strategically important (anti)marketing innovation that year.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you choose to dive into the social media world without a strategy, without understanding how to create social media influence, you will not be pleased with your results. Like anything in life, if you’re going to do something, you’re better off to do it right or not to do it at all. Everything you say is entirely true!

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The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 14, 2015

To meet Anita Roddick, founder and “then” CEO of multi-billion dollar franchise, Photo by David Niblack. When I met her, I was stunned how amazingly small she was (even smaller than myself J). Knowing how to work with life force energy – yours and others — is key to successful leadership. Even Before You Speak.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. How has this strategy worked?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. They are: Staffing. Perhaps more than anything else, this has been the key to PlayWorks' successful scaling.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right? Thanks for stopping by John.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

McDonald’s should apply to franchisees a model similar to the one it uses for its suppliers: The company engages in long-term relationships with suppliers to make it clear that they’ll work together on tough issues, not just issue fines; brings suppliers together periodically to learn from each other; and rewards innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Disruptive innovations can play a critical role in democratizing healthcare by making goods and services affordable and convenient enough that large populations of under-served consumers become able to access them. Entrepreneurs and private-sector organizations are particularly well-placed to bring such disruptive innovations to life.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Like Apple, most consumer-centric companies deal with the dilemma of how to brand the next- generation of an existing product. “There’s a lot of research about new-product branding, but as best as we could tell, nobody had looked closely at the issue of how to brand a successive generation,” Gourville says.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We are excited about the rise of experiments in organizations and have spent much of the past few years thinking about how to design and interpret them. And Uber is not alone among these companies in turning to market-level experiments to test new products and innovations. regions, cities, or franchises) in which to launch the product.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. As a result, the U.S. based, with the rest coming from China.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Before describing those, let’s look at how we identified the exceptional firms that rose to the top of our ranking, a group we call the Transformation 10. That knowledge helped them understand how to make change happen inside an organization. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

How to Design Your IT Organization for Constant Evolution. How to Find and Hire the Right Digital Talent for Your Organization. These COEs are responsible for innovation, transformation and process governance, and they work closely with operating units in Mexico, Brazil, Central America and the Philippines to roll them out.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you identify, blend, develop, train and coach a mix of talents into wholes measurably greater than the sum of their parts? That’s the “franchise of the future” challenge haunting sports’ brightest minds and biggest wallets. What combinatorial characteristics of high-performers empower everyone else to over-perform?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

For businesses looking to keep pace with innovation and leverage AI, there are steps they can take today. But first, what are some examples of how AI can help make marketing more effective? How to Put AI Into Practice. The good news is that, as an industry, we are starting to see meaningful progress on both fronts.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The question is how to equip employees with the skills to handle complexities such as creating innovative solutions to emergent problems, understanding new markets, and pushing back on the "status quo." Through our partnership with Allianz we were able to access £150,000 of funding to carry on with our social franchise model.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. Learn how to run a regression analysis! We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. Consumer demand for innovative digital services, when executed ably, seems unquenchable; and that demand is stimulating capital flows.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

For marketing leaders, this has forced some serious soul searching on how to meet these challenges. National Football League franchise Atlanta Falcons’ CMO Jim Smith asks fans to “Rise Up”—and they do. These CMOs seek to create pipelines of innovations that they test and validate in rapid succession.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

While most companies have now learned how to say hello and how to apologize, I would argue that few have accepted that the fact that power has shifted. By doing this, they got a benefit equivalent to a multi-million dollar marketing budget by enabling a franchise of passionate users to do their thing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The benefit of this shared learning is invaluable across all of their efforts — encouraging a kind of permeable membrane of growth and innovation throughout the entire organization — domestic and international. Taking The Long View.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

Industrial age measures can''t evaluate Serendipity Economy results, leaving its outcomes like invention and innovation, process improvements, and new businesses relegated to the evidence of anecdote. Google''s CIO on How to Make Your IT Department Great. The managers haven''t stopped talking to each other. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Additionally, most Tesla owners have figured out how to live their lives by driving between their own chargers and the Tesla supercharging stations. this will be like owning the gasoline franchise for America. So the idea is right on, even if the pilot location was not. Because for Elon Musk and Co.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

How can you tell which opportunities are real and which are science fiction? How to make your company more nimble and responsive. For example, the Chariot service encountered an early glitch in San Francisco when it bumped up against city rules on how to manage routes and stop at crosswalks. What do they really want?

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