N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” It can help them innovate. They’ve helped drive the development of mobile payment solutions to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets. That, I think gets to the heart of what the right culture can do.

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Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Consensus Team Building Blog Team 388

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. “I But still sitting on the sidelines?

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Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. .” Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies? Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Success begets not only further success but also harder-to-meet market expectations. In terms of sales volume, product line diversity, operating system flexibility, R&D spending, and even customer loyalty , Samsung has emerged as a fierce competitor that has bested former industry champions like Nokia and Apple. Brand confidently.

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Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

There's a beguiling little moment in the financial-crisis documentary Inside Job where hedge fund billionaire George Soros describes the principles of oil tanker design. Financial markets are like that, Soros goes on. From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum. Why did M&T make such out-of-character investments?

Banking 14

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. He noted his agency’s “particular concerns in digital markets.” In the U.S.,

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

A sound economy, a booming stock market, and huge business tax cuts, the story goes, have convinced CEOs of companies flush with cash to distribute some of it to front-line employees. There are no public shareholders clamoring for higher dividends, no hedge funds gorging on management fees. to $15 per hour.

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Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

It’s common sense, but it bears repeating, given how many companies don’t operate that way. When Paul Polman became the CEO of Unilever, for example, he stopped giving analysts earnings guidance, dispensed with quarterly profit reports, and said there’d be no special treatment for hedge funds.

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Metrics Long-term Short-term Hedge 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

So why do companies spend millions on big data and big-data-based market research while continuing to ignore the simple things that make customers happy? Big data is today's panacea, the great new hope for unlocking the mysteries of marketing. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? We all have. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.

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CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. Share repurchases immediately and directly impact price and earnings in a way that longer-term investments in growth and innovation do not. Nor are they entirely innocent.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market. For example, the original Google car found it hard to compute the context within which it was operating. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

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Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. That was the challenge.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. When Uncle Wall Street (also known as Mr. Market ) is in a generous mood, Bezos is always ready to take advantage by putting investment ahead of profitability.

Training 10

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation. The Innovator''s Network Dilemma A study by University of Chicago sociologist Ron Burt demon­strates the cost of inbred networks. Most-senior hedge fund people and competitors.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. This group should represent a variety functions within the organization exposed to Brexit: supply chain, channel managers, procurement, marketing, sales, public affairs, governance, and financial controlling, among others. How to Plan for Brexit.

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Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

Compliance 12

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. As of March 2017, the market capitalization of the ether token was more than $4 billion.). Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. Once the book had been written, I had to market it.

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Succession Diversity Open-book Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Innovation in structural systems. Innovation in mechanical and electrical systems.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance. Take Motorola, for instance. So we are left with a quandary.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. RIM could opt to double down on the corporate market, broadening its business from device maker into fields such as mobile security services and bandwidth management.

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Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation.

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Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Tech experts' sage predictions had convinced me that the Mac would never make a dent in the PC market. While there's much chatter in the management world about the need to be adaptable, only a few creative companies and innovative managers have probed the natural world for its adaptability secrets. Redundancy.

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Decentralization Real Estate Brand Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

But that will not in any way deter hedge-fund activists from demanding that companies do stock buybacks so that they can time their stock sales to take advantage of short-term, buyback-induced, stock-price boosts. Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity.

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Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As we have described in Your Strategy Needs a Strategy , businesses will need to adopt the right approach to strategy and execution, depending on the predictability, malleability, and harshness of each environment they operate in. We are living in an era where macro effects can easily swamp competitive and operational considerations.

Strategy 10

Strategy Uncertainty Long-term Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed?

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Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8