N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Listening, engaging, reciprocating – have earned us 2 billionaire backers, 4000+ franchising inquiries & 300+ stores now in development (launched franchise company in Fall '09). link] Robbie Vitrano Hey Mike, thanks for including NakedPizza in the validation. Humbled, validated and taking nothing for granted.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2011

In the case of struggling Nabob Foods, two significant innovations facilitated the turnaround. While they played catch-up, we were already working on the next innovation. Secondly, he innovated with blockbuster products iMac and iPod. Usually, one or two “big” plays make the difference. And guess what?

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CEO Insider

MAY 10, 2021

When I walked into the position of CEO of Snap printing and design, a 120-year-old Australian business with over 130 franchise outlets, my thoughts were how to innovate and drive the business in what many would see as a declining industry. Little could I expect that a few months into my term as CEO that […].

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Example – Working with a large Coffee and Bake Shop franchise headquarters wanting the district managers to use Coaching & Feedback as opposed to authority and demands with the franchise owners. Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Small businesses play a large role in the world’s vibrant economies, as they employ many people and drive innovation and competitiveness. Consider franchising. Research reveals that 80% of McDonald’s locations are franchises.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

Having worked with more than 10,000 entrepreneurs, innovators, inventors, hobbyists and side hustlers, they often struggle with when it is appropriate to leap from the job environment into the entrepreneurship maze. Most people see this dichotomy and feel that they need to choose one dream over the other.

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2018

Another reason success as an entrepreneur favors age is that “creating a new product or service is an organic process, one that is shaped by background, experience, and acuity of the innovator.” “The Innovators are curious and have a voracious appetite for learning. The average age of an inventor awarded a patent is forty-seven.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Growth is a significant indicator that your business is on the right track and involves taking more risks, developing innovative ideas, and identifying the right audience. You can choose to open a physical store at another site, and you can either run it or operate it as a franchise. These few strategies should help answer that.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 31, 2024

NFL franchises tapped into this with features like Flashback Friday, where elements of the history of the team or the city were shared. “You always receive some attention from your own fans and then some who are just looking around and see the post,” they explain. It’s a theme that other businesses can tap into.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 20, 2018

As your innovation efforts begin to move from the ideation to the testing phase, or the co-creation with consumers or customers, outlandish and disruptive concepts present themselves. As messy as children arriving, they show up, saying “feed me, let me scream at the top of my lungs, I’m uncivilized” all without speaking.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

” Boosting motivation A field study was conducted on six fast-food franchise restaurant locations to examine the effectiveness of team-based recognition on employee effort and engagement.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 22, 2018

We tend to think that outstanding creative works or amazing disruptive innovations sprang forth into the world wholly original and unique to that industry. If you think about the creative world, what’s the most innovative, amazing, successful movie franchise in history? At least not in the way that you think.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Johnson & Johnson’s worldwide franchise managers, for instance, may have to get country managers, whom they do not directly supervise, to commit to a strategic marketing or purchasing plan. Innovation' In a hierarchical organization, leaders can more easily give orders and expect people to respond.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Not everyone is willing to work with large businesses and franchises, so a cozy coffee shop is a good choice. One of the most innovative business ideas you can develop is a mobile health clinic that goes beyond a business model and solves a genuine crisis. They’re a working space and even a place to relax.

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Rapid BI

APRIL 16, 2012

What hope for UK business when #mentoring education fails The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), after the closure of the Business Link franchise, is pinning it's hopes on volunteer mentoring for developing entrepreneurship and U.

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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 they allow energy to flow, they are alive, engaged, passionate, on purpose, creative, innovative, intuitive, clear, visionary, playful, relaxed and refreshed. Even Before You Speak.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Whether you are trying to create a new product, solve problems more effectively, become the most successful company in your industry, or find creative ways to meet your customers' needs, innovation is likely one of your most critical objectives at work. When it comes to generating innovative ideas, introverts and extroverts may be on par.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

We’re focused on building a culture of innovation that enables good ideas to thrive at any level of the organization, not just at the top. That purpose – to Ignite and Nourish Flavorful Experiences – is at the core of how our team members work together, serve our guests, and strengthen our communities.

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Steve Farber

MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers with Deloitte , for instance, found that “ mission-driven ” companies typically are first or second in their market segment, have 30 percent higher levels of innovation, and have 40 percent higher retention levels. And it needed all of the franchisees and their team members to buy into and live a shared culture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Hosting parties in December is just one example of how the ownership team has found innovative ways to increase the revenues it derives from Fenway. The ownership has introduced other business model innovations. Major league owners are famously reluctant to release franchise-specific financial information.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

He just sold Lucasfilm, and the rights to the Star Wars franchise, to Disney for $4 billion. The success of an NFL franchise in London is less an economic question than a cultural one. Felix Baumgartner's Two Moments of Innovation Truth (INSEAD). Lucas lucked out. The sale is certainly a boon for Lucas, but what about Disney?

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

SHE has created a franchise model — providing business skill training, technical expertise, and co-investment — to partner with women in Rwanda and other developing-country communities to distribute and ultimately manufacture and launch their own SHE LaunchPads franchises. Emotion Creates a Common Language.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Business System: Organizational models, software investment, proprietary process, franchise rights. When brands now have to speak to an increasingly diverse global consumer audience, design is critical to delivering a consistent experience and calling attention to innovations. Knowledge: R&D, patents, human capital, IP.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

We don't think it matters much whether this was true or just spin-control; what matters is that Microsoft has now publicly embraced the hackers — and that's an instance of a broad and profound change in corporate innovation. After all, if you want to enter every room of the house, what better vehicle than a Roomba?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

They refused to franchise, for example, instead pouring profits back into an infrastructure of company-owned stores. In addition, they begat a new field of competition (think McDonald's McCafes or Dunkin Donuts Coolattas) and created a brand that is continually ranked as one of the world's most powerful. Koehn is the James E.

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Brand Franchising Health Care Marketing 16

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

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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Women on Business

AUGUST 24, 2011

She was long dead when I first discovered Martha Matilda Harper and her amazing feat of launching modern franchising even though she had been a servant for nearly a quarter of a century. History buried its memory of the 500+ franchises she sprouted and staffed with other poor women. Guest Post by Jane Plitt.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

are doing a great job of letting innovation flourish without counterproductive meddling and stonewalling. ” Whether or not you care about Uber and Tesla, you should care about business innovation and disruption because they’re a primary way that progress happens and that people become better off over time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing? .”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday. That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. We have a luxury in sports," says Morey.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. That deal brought the Stars Wars and the Indiana Jones franchises within Disney’s fold. For instance, the Avengers is a successful movie franchise but it is also monetized in Disney’s theme parks.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. What matters is how entrepreneurs and innovators, especially social innovators, employ this set of tools within prevailing constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

That’s the “franchise of the future” challenge haunting sports’ brightest minds and biggest wallets. have become early adopters and innovators in multidimensional measurements for individuals and teams alike. What combinatorial characteristics of high-performers empower everyone else to over-perform?

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