N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. In contrast, other leaders focus so much on long-term strategies that they miss the opportunity to create competitive advantage by pulling the future forward.

Innovation 210

Innovation Strategy Competitive Advantage Incubator 210

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. If you’ve been waiting for them to enter the market and start to establish their customers before you do anything, you’ve now waited too long. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Instead of having a committee vet ideas, they need a process that operates with speed and urgency , and that helps innovators and other stakeholders to curate and prioritize problems, ideas, and technologies. It also requires that they think through compatibility, scalability and deployment long before this gets presented to engineering.

Process 12

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Slow innovation projects can be just as impactful in the long-term. Their extended timelines struggle to weather leadership change. If you incubate an interesting function that starts to grow, move it somewhere else in the operational infrastructure. We call it slow innovation. Start small.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 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? Develop a first-cut portfolio of short and longer-term efforts, with a few planned quick losses. Define your intent firmly but flexibly. Some may already be in progress.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. treating suppliers as partners).

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11