N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 318

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Change is innovative. One can always learn from the past, dust it off and reapply it. Learn from successes and three times more from failures. Benchmarking.

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Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Multicultural leadership involves deep immersion within different cultures to understand their values and specific context. For example, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) built a leading 40% share of the Chinese fast food market through patiently tailoring its product offering to local tastes and building a strong team of local managers.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. Accelerate performance… learn and leverage this secret tool to organizational success. But not before we learn from it.

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Short-term Tools Learning-by-Doing Schein 63

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? The acquisition communicated to the market that Thales was shifting its financial profile to the high-growth business.

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Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T. At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program. Weatherhead, Jr.

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Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.). Our results suggest there’s still time to climb the learning curve and compete using AI. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

.” Odile de Damas-Nottin was appointed Senior VP HR of oil group Total’s Marketing & Services division at age 52 and promoted to the TOTAL Group’s Executive Team (32 people) at 54. First, there was a fast-tracked, highly varied learning curve on the commercial side of the business in her twenties.

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Career Real Estate Learning Curve Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The company lost its leadership of the very industry that it had invented back in 1973. And it wasn’t alone – another audio leader, Sony, similarly lost market share in electronics because of its analog bias. The end result was that Motorola’s conversion to digital took much longer than it needed to.

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Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. Been There… Learned from It. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. by Hank Moore. Benchmarking.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 60

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Learn more about Hank Moore and The Business Tree™ by visiting his website, www.HankMoore.com. Change is innovative. Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. by Hank Moore.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 61

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. High Costs, Learning Curves. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. The scandals resulted in one million job cuts.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). There always must exist a learning curve.

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Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Fed up with Beijing’s industrial espionage, market manipulation, and cyber attacks on the West, coupled with its bullying of neighbors and repression at home, the Trump administration announced a series of strong steps to fight back. SAUL LOEB/Getty Images. The defense industry won’t be alone in pushing the additive frontier.

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Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Software Learning Curve 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

becoming the second largest smartphone market in the world. Clearly, there’s awareness and connectivity between major corporate leadership and the prospective tech market in India. Some estimates indicate that there will be one billion users online in the country by 2030. Although only one-fifth of its 1.3 billion in 2015.

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Price Globalization Forrester Marketing 8