N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

It can be creative and innovative, but sometimes it fogs up and must be cleaned by clearing out old views and replacing them with fresh ones. Now it looks like our services revenue will be higher than that generated from software product sales by the end of the year. Set and monitor product and service line gross profit margins.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2020

John Maynard Keynes warned in 1930 “about the new scourge of technological unemployment”, which he termed as “unemployment due to our discovery of means of economizing the use of labor outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labor.” In short, out jobbing ourselves.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It is an opportune time for SME manufacturers to upgrade their operations by investing in new software and manufacturing innovations. The reasons include pressures on OEMs to build more resilient supply chains and to regionalize production and the falling cost and increasing ease of use of new technologies.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

After 26 years since the creation of the businesses now have a number of methods and channels to distribute marketing and information about their products and services and are able to reach a varied and broad audience. Drive Innovation. Employ Internal Multisourcing. It is how people communicate, work, and connect.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

Companies operated alone, rather than being part of partner networks or plugging their people into informal relationships. It was an ineffective way to operate, especially after the information technology revolution took place, and to break out of it, companies needed management ideas.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization. Process Automaton.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Computer and information systems managers. Also known as information technology managers, such professionals devise, coordinate, implement, and analyze computer-related projects. A bachelor’s degree or a more specialised degree in computers or informational technology is required. Percentage of women: 52%.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. That executive decision began the downfall of the company. Source: The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2013 . Related articles.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures. It is a disruptive paradigm shift that most companies have yet to make.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

Increasing productivity — making more with less — is at the core of any company or any economy's economic progress. From a societal view, productivity drives higher living standards and increases shared resources — for example, providing a government with more resources to invest back into its citizens.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 18, 2023

But are corporate leaders doing enough to quash micro-aggressive, biased-driven behaviors that fuel toxicity, reduce productivity, and […] The post Career-Stifling Unconscious Bias Demands a Do-Together Strategy appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. Implementing a strategic technology plan. The most creative and productive way [to apply design thinking] is to engage people—the [stakeholders]—in the process. Swett with Colleen M.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

Trained employees are happier and feel more highly motivated at work so productivity is increased. The workplace becomes a happier and more productive place and profits increase. If your employees are using outdated techniques, technology, and modalities then they could be harming your business. This is good for your cash-flow.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

The convergence of mobile, analytics, context-rich systems, and the cloud, together with an explosion of information, is transforming sales, and enabling buyers and salespeople to engage with each other in more effective and efficient ways. In the pharmaceutical industry, technology is transforming the sales process.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. They keep customers happier. They enjoy their work more.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Unfortunately, this creates two problems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Would you look to your information technology organization for ways to improve customer service? Would you ask IT to come up with ideas for new financial products and services, or new ways to deliver them? If this is you, you're likely missing out on the product and process ingenuity of your IT people. Probably not.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

And that means buying more new technology: IT organizations must adopt new platforms and processes and integrate services in new ways. Read More from DXC Technology: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World? Are IT organizations ready for the challenge?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While consumers are free to pick and choose the technology they will buy, the information they will access, and the degree to which they will network and with whom, managers and employees within companies are more constrained by the processes, structures, functions, systems, and technology the company invests in and deploys over time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Innovation is always infectious. But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere – in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office – but not in our paychecks. We work differently, communicate with each other differently, create differently, and entertain ourselves differently, all thanks to new technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Digital transformation transcends technology. Digital transformation is often viewed through a narrow technology lens, as just another mobile project or e-commerce initiative. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. However, not all investments are equal.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Digital technology is the biggest agitator of the business world today. Mobile technology, social media, cloud computing, embedded devices, big data, and analytics have radically changed the nature of work and competition. And digital innovations will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Digital transformation is.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Even when I recognize the need for a product — I've been looking for a good pair of lace-up black shoes for three months — I often put it off, afraid of making a decision I'll regret. We'll look at how retailers are making better use of the information they gather about us to guide us toward better choices.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The bigger the data, the more profitable and productive predictive analytics can be. Innovators more intent on inventing the future than predicting it should look hard at how cutting-edge scientists now computationally massage their big data. AH, not AI, will increasingly inspire tomorrow’s breakthrough innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Walmart stores and office buildings are essentially giant file cabinets where shoppers and workers go to get and exchange information. Those massive warehouses are much easier to automate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

While Gordon’s argument is often characterized as being the opposite of the one I have made in my two books about the impact of advancing automation technology on the job market (most recently, Rise of the Robots ), there are many areas in which I think we would agree. This is certainly true. Many economists would probably agree.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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