N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2020

The founding team is vitally important to the success of any startup, and indeed, some studies argue that the founding team are more important to the success of the startup than the product itself. There’s no manager to select team members, much less to assign them the roles they’ll undertake.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2018

Ever felt like your previous management was a little ‘out of touch’ when it came to the day-to-day running of the company? This show is also great for getting to grips with supply chain management as well as the basics of product design. A dilemma indeed! Undercover Boss. The Profit. How I Made My Millions .

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Gordon Supply Chain Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Now, every company of any scale and in any sector wants to be closer to its customers, to understand them more deeply, and to tailor their products and services to serve them more precisely. Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. 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. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Seed investors are mostly operating as growth investors, expecting that the entrepreneur will somehow manage to bridge the gap and bring a concept to realization. Most industry observers take the position that companies get distracted if they try to bootstrap a product with a service. This remains a controversial point of view.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). metros like Austin, Pittsburgh, and the Bay Area.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Here’s the scene: A problem has come up with one of your supply chain vendors, threatening to delay timely shipment of your product. At the same time, a potential opportunity appears that, with some exploration and investment, could lead to a new generation of products down the road. Which do you respond to first?

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Budgeting Innovation Disruptive Innovation Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Through our research at DXC Technology’s Leading Edge Forum (LEF), we have identified eight breakthrough talent management stratagems that most organizations aren’t doing — so almost none have mastered — but that hold significant promise. Managers lose the automatic right to “own” staff.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. Yet more often than not, when innovation occurs, it's a "happy accident" rather than the product of a deep-rooted innovation competence. This is hardly surprising.

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Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas. When sales of the Frankenstein product missed their mark, everyone shared the blame. Explorers work in teams like R&D, customer insights, or product development. They didn’t have a handoff, they had a drop-off.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

We say the big bang disruption is this better and cheaper product or service that enters, and then because it’s better and cheaper, rational consumers who can spread information now much more easily among themselves through social media and so on, they’re going to tell each other, hey, don’t buy a standalone GPS navigation device.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth.

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Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. Large private equity firms (e.g.,

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LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

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. Unfortunately, most hiring managers conflate the types of talent and temperament necessary for these roles.

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Incubator Information Technology Metrics Analysis 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Patience and a long-term view.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s. This needs to change.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. 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. Build it yourself.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

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. Gopman’s first step was to conceive and create a product to solve the problem, a set of “I love SF” wristbands. Build new connections.

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Organization Incubator Reputation Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Is your company ready to compete in a world of smart, connected products ? ” In this world, customers expect their suppliers to surround their products with data services and digitally enhanced experiences. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

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). Third, be clear about how managers can best enable innovative thinking.

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Innovation Incubator Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

The engineer behind that project, Steve Sasson, offered a memorable one-liner to the New York Times in 2008 when he said management's reaction to his prototype was, "That's cute — but don't tell anyone about it.". Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. .* Don't go it alone.

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Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Paul Garbett for HBR. Their scope and pace often run counter to the rhythms of company goals. Start small.

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Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

The question is whether TFA's seemingly prolific production of entrepreneurs is fact or simple hearsay. When it comes to the work histories of the other top management team members at the organizations on our list, TFA again stands out. The answer appears to be yes.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Perhaps not surprisingly, managers of mega corporations remain largely unsold on that notion. Certainly, that's a fair accusation. First, why is it a sector?

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Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Her lab had discovered new ways to convert carbon emissions into useful products, and they believed the technology had enormous commercial potential. “Our first product will be about the size of a dishwasher, then we’ll move up to a refrigerator, a shipping container, and finally a plant-size machine,” Etosha told me.

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Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. They can partner with for-benefits by incorporating them into their supply chains, or working with them to incubate new products, services, and business models.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A stark reality recently crept up on Zipcar: It had designed its entire customer experience as a desktop-and-laptop experience, so it didn’t have a way to sign up, service, and help members manage their memberships from their phones. Doing so helps spread the value of innovation into areas responsible for the broader operating model.

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Innovation Business Model Incubator Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups.

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A hallmark of skilled leaders and teams is that, as their organizations grow larger and older, as the footprint of a change program expands, they keep looking for signs of once useful but now unnecessary roles, rules, traditions, processes, products, strategies, and services. Entrepreneurship Strategy Time management'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Internal innovation presents a number of challenges, including but not limited to the inherent risk of promoting new ideas; complacency and attachment to the status quo; and the actual amount of capable people with the time to effectively build new ideas into workable products.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures.

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Incubator Innovation Strategic Planning Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

So we can expect that, in addition to formal mergers and acquisitions, the M&A of the future will consist of a potpourri of joint ventures, minority investments, alliances and incubator-type investments—anything that helps keep the relevant people on board and productive—which sounds very similar to Rockefeller’s strategy.

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Incubator Insurance Cost of Capital Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

The company is, of course, a massive enterprise, with $75 billion in revenues, over 60,000 employees, and a dizzying array of products, from the core search business to the android operating system to nascent businesses like autonomous cars. An internal incubator. Yet what the three had in mind was different.

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