N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

If the cream isn't allowed to rise to the top it will go somewhere else…real leaders don't incubate well. " Ron [link] mikemyatt Hi Ron: Thanks for the comment. If an organization doesn't recognize and engage those with leadership potential, those high potentials are likely to end-up working for the competition.

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Leadership Blog Consultative Brand 419

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2018

Watching Dragon’s Den is great for getting tips on how to pitch, an insight into what kind of questions you may get asked and probably most importantly- what not to do. How It’s Made has the answer, by looking at how everyday items are created and manufactured, covering everything from foil to chewing gum.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Gordon Supply Chain Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How to Design Your IT Organization for Constant Evolution. Talent-as-a-Service – Use crowdsourcing platforms like Topcoder or Kaggle to access talent that may not be available in the enterprise, commonly for projects but conceivably for operations too. The Questions IT Should Be Asking to Empower Employees. Accessing Talent.

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Technology Organization Incubator Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Ultimately, though, the goal is for your employee to operate more autonomously, says Burris. ” Your objective, according to Burris, is to “coach your employees on how to leverage their strengths by reminding them of times they excelled and felt competent.” ” Give specific feedback.

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Management How To McCombs Project 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Finally, they nurture it carefully , recognizing that organizations are wired to operate today’s business more efficiently, not to experiment and discover tomorrow’s business. Companies running innoganda campaigns, on the other hand, approach the problem in a piecemeal fashion.

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Innovation PR Incubator Company 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations. In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ).

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Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love , agrees that it’s important to do further “due diligence” on the company and its people to make sure it’s a place you want to work. “In the end, it came down to my assessment of the likelihood of this incubator succeeding.”

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How To Incubator Due Diligence Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. GE is an icon of management best practices. But, as befits a company that has been around for 130 years, GE is moving on.

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Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

HR Digest

OCTOBER 29, 2023

If you are wondering how to build a company culture that can withstand the test of time, we might have some ideas for you. Setting good company culture examples is a task for the leaders of the organization to establish from the first day of operation. How to Build Company Culture? The first step? Introspection.

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Examples Company Diversity Team Building 97

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world. The first business incubator in the U.S. opened in 1959 and is still operating. In the last couple of years, we have seen a renaissance in the incubator business.

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Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 17

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

They’re going to be support; they’re going to tell other users how to fix things when they don’t work right. If it was, maybe you bring them into your incubator, work with them more directly, see if you can turn that into a product or service idea. The managers just don’t have the tool set often to operate.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. It's just that they're often busy doing what they've always done, maintaining operational systems while reacting to the demands of an increasingly tech-savvy user community.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. So how do you undertake this journey — either as an individual or as an organization? Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years.

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Organization Incubator Reputation Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Executives pressed, asking the team to figure out how to reach 100 cities. What do operating margins have to be? It''s perilously easy for corporate innovators to skate past the why and the how, particularly those working in new-growth groups or incubators. Smaller cities just couldn''t support that overhead.

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Innovation Incubator Construction Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At The Data Incubator, we’ve talked to dozens of employers looking to hire data scientists from our training program, from large corporates like Pfizer and JPMorgan Chase to smaller tech startups like Foursquare and Upstart. Data scientists who produce results for people have to think about how to tell a story from the data.

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Incubator Information Technology Metrics Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Believing that the best route to long-term empowerment for women was through education, Sakena Yacoobi created an underground network of schools that operated out of private homes. Take the Orenda Project for example, a rising edtech start-up from Pakistan that was incubated as part of the WISE Learner’s Voice Program.

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Innovation Entrepreneur Content Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. Incubate new businesses and models. We realized early on that it wouldn’t be enough for marketers just to focus on advertising and external messaging.

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Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

So let’s stop putting “operational,” “incremental,” and “adjacent” improvements under the innovation umbrella. They iteratively refine the innovations, and make decisions about whether to fail or scale, based on pilots and additional tests (incubation). Second, demystify the process.

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Innovation Incubator Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

CEOs complain that they don’t know where to get the talent, or they’re not finding a consulting firm that can walk them through the transformation end-to-end, or they have to satisfy Wall Street, or they don’t know how to incubate the change. These difficulties are real, but they must be overcome.

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CEO Price Incubator Resistance 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset.

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Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Second, companies are attempting to pick up talent they suspect they cannot recruit directly – often as a catalyst to a broader digital transformation, or as a challenge to their existing IT operations. The answer in too many cases is no. Insight Center.

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Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

This framework has the potential to reverse the typical role of CSR, currently viewed as a way to "give back" to communities that a business operates in. To apply lessons from social innovation projects within a larger corporate innovation strategy, organizations need to think differently about how to leverage core competencies.

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Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. Incubate new businesses and models. We realized early on that it wouldn’t be enough for marketers just to focus on advertising and external messaging.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The company offered financial literacy classes, with topics such as “How to Buy a Home,” and integrated them with classes on travel and wine. Reminiscent of a Starbucks, the storefront includes a coffee bar, a conference table in an open area, and a couple of meeting rooms.

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Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Is innovation intended to improve and expand the existing business, or is it meant to redefine the company itself and the industry in which it operates? The CEO “has lots of people who know how to point out problems; it is important to establish yourself as a problem solver and confidant as quickly as possible.”.

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Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

If you incubate an interesting function that starts to grow, move it somewhere else in the operational infrastructure. You’re not going to discover interesting paths by only asking the questions you already know how to pose. You’re there to be a catalyst. Start small. Be rigorous about fostering serendipity.

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Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

They estimated it would take $1–$3 million to build out a working prototype, money they didn’t have and had no idea how to get. All they had were some chemistry papers, scientific data, and an idea to change the world. “There are just too many unknowns, and that requires a different approach.”

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

However, if you need capital to validate, you are operating in a zone that will be full of very dark hours. More recently, there is an over active incubator network that has taken hold. The Indian government is offering money for people to set up incubators, which has led to a lot of clueless people setting up incubators.

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Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

As they built up a unique network of thousands of entrepreneurs across 35 countries, they started to see that there was a lot of demand in reverse — companies kept asking them for advice on how to become more entrepreneurial instead of wanting to simply connect with entrepreneurs.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Best-in-class players, such as Intel (through technology partnerships) and Tyson (through new-product incubators), have developed the tools to incorporate many different flavors of deal making. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy.

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Incubator Insurance Cost of Capital Competitive Advantage 8

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. Incubated at Y Combinator, the venture was aimed squarely at the most important, most reliable, most consistent mobility need that consumers have every day: getting to and from work. Insight Center.

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Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of companies that are looking to find data scientists from our Fellowship Program. How to build a strong team. If you’re looking to hire a data scientist to join your company, you’re not alone. You and Your Team. Hiring and Firing.

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Incubator Credit Scoring Software Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Strangely, most CEOs seem resigned to this fact, since few, if any, have tackled the challenge of innovation with the sort of zeal and persistence they’ve devoted to the pursuit of operational efficiency. And finally, large organizations are emotionally insipid. Few companies, though, have made much progress in eradicating them.

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Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Food companies constantly narrow their focus on how to convey what the product means rather than what the product is. Another is to put semi-autonomous incubator groups in charge of smaller and softer launches. Kale, quinoa, or chia anyone? Put the product ahead of the brand. Shorten your development cycle.

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Word of Mouth Marketing Brand Marketing Incubator 8