N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Being a leader should not be viewed as a license to increase the volume of rhetoric. The best leaders are proactive, strategic listeners. Warning: this post isn’t going to coddle you and leave you feeling warm and fuzzy – it is rather blunt and to the point. Want to become a better leader? Talk less and listen more.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They mostly operate out of grocery and drugstore pharmacies, others are employed in hospitals or in clinical settings. To qualify, pharmacists need a Doctor of Pharmacy degree and must be licensed. Their work responsibilities include web design database development as well as designing a company’s IT approaches and strategies.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

There are several ways to generate Revenue Streams: Asset sale, Usage fee, Subscription fee, Lending/Renting/Leasing, Licensing, Brokerage fees, Advertising and corresponding Pricing Mechanisms) Key Resources – Key resources are the assets required to offer and deliver the previously described elements. I really enjoyed this book.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Despite the technical nature of these innovations, there are a few broad managerial lessons that have emerged from this prominent patent case. Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. Probably way more than Apple’s lawyer bills.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. “We needed an enduring strategy independent of any legislation,” recalls MedStar executive vice president Eric R. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. Intellectual Property : Whether it be formal IP such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, etc.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? For example, a company that sells housing components like kitchen counters and piping should look at the rate of new home construction or mortgage activity, while automotive companies should look at the percentage of young adults forgoing driver’s licenses.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber’s biggest advantage over incumbents was in using ordinary vehicles with no special licensing or other formalities. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. Through these tactics, Uber muddied the waters. Rotten to the Core.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

One of the most effective ways to launch a successful disruptive innovation in a highly regulated industry is by building your business model in the “other” category. The usual response of governments in these cases is to re-categorize the license, which is what has happened in New York City with taxi cabs and black car services.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. The petition was seen as instrumental in getting the city council to adopt new regulations which permitted Uber to operate legally. How can new firms overcome the regulations that protect incumbents?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Businesses sometimes need to invest in new opportunities that do not fit the current business or current strategy well. But synergy can also come from cross-selling, coordinated strategy, or many other sources. But there’s significant risk of subtracted value from interference in operating units by managers at the Group level.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In FY14/Q2, sales dropped by 6% in the division that sells Windows software (Devices and Consumer Licensing). Instead of the regular $50 per unit license fee, if you act right now the price is $15. This isn’t the first time that Microsoft has rolled out a less than optimal pricing strategy. to all of its customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Southwest Airlines’ decades-long strategy of “short-haul, high-frequency, point-to-point, low-fare service” produced what was not only one of the best-performing airlines in the U.S. For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Or consider U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. This is in direct contrast to "financial innovation" that focuses on only one dimension of performance, putting the others at risk.

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Quick bio of Sramana Mitra Sramana Mitra has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in Silicon Valley since 1994. In later volumes, I will be zeroing in on more specific themes like Bootstrapping, Positioning, Innovation, etc. She has a new book called “ Entrepreneur Journeys &# that was published earlier this month.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Great service and an innovative pricing strategy. Operators have to purchase a medallion license and abide by a series of rules (including a rigid pricing structure) in return for the right to pick-up passengers who hail service from the street. Uber’s dynamic pricing strategy effectively turns taxis into sitting ducks.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. B operated the same way as A, with no special control. Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

True collaboration always has open-ended elements — ranging from precisely how new innovations will be implemented, to how products will fare in the market, and even to what priorities partners will pursue in the face of changes in the environment. Google uses a different approach to working with multiple external parties. .

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. By innovating, operating efficiently, and exploiting market niches, Zhang has confronted well-established manufacturers of the North on their own territory and used his success there as leverage to win in the global game.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Being a leader should not be viewed as a license to increase the volume of rhetoric. Bonus - Always have a Plan B : Another component of communications strategy that is rarely discussed is how to prevent a message from going bad, and what to do when does. Communicate more effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Companies like Rolls Royce can, therefore, offer outcome deals where they guarantee customer outcomes (examples: zero downtime, higher speed, more fuel efficiency, zero operator error, greater reliability) and share risks and rewards with customers. For that end, they must be able to attract world-class innovators and software engineers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

If you want to really understand a firm’s strategy—whether it’s a start up or Fortune 500 firm–you need only two documents: the compensation plan and the pricing plan. Forget about business plans, PowerPoint presentations, executive speeches, media interviews, strategy memos, or org charts. Sometimes they’re directly at odds.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Apple is certainly known for its strong preference for internal innovation. Replacing Google Maps with its own mapping software, combined with geographic data that it licenses from the Dutch firm TomTom, reduces Apple's reliance on a competitor's product. Is that fair? But it comes at a cost: damage to Apple's customer-centric ethos.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. Kalanick gets the same on Didi Chuxing’s board, and Uber gets around a 20% share of the Chinese company, which will run Uber’s Chinese operation as a separate brand.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

Or had a decade of disruptive innovation in interactive, internet-based video thoroughly altered the competitive landscape, largely leaving the incumbents behind? That strategy failed. It’s still not fully clear why the Justice Department chose to break with that thinking and oppose the AT&T deal.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Companies that appreciate the power of sacrifice also appreciate that ‘do less better’ is a winning strategy at both the corporate and functional level. Coca-Cola’s focus begins at 30,000 feet, where corporate strategy is crafted. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In the 1980s, I was part of the team that sold Sesame Street around the world — either licensed and broadcast in English or in locally adapted indigenous-language co-productions. I was curious to see how Sesame Workshop had continued to grow its operations over the years while remaining true to its mission to improve the lives of kids.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. By innovating, operating efficiently, and exploiting market niches, Zhang has confronted well-established manufacturers of the North on their own territory and used his success there as leverage to win in the global game.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

were alarmed to find that most of its sales agents are not properly licensed and trained to sell group health insurance. So how might a hotel operator respond to the rise of Airbnb? So an Airbnb property may offer one-of-a-kind charm at an affordable price, but could turn into a death trap in the event of a fire.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, and almost all trade personnel are required to meet established levels of trade skills and be licensed; none will have as bad an impact on a customer as a bad manager or supervisor will! Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

It provided an organizing framework for collecting empirical evidence on how successful platforms operated and why some matchmaker pioneers succeeded and most didn’t. Other payment networks, in one way or another, also deployed strategies to make sure they had enough cardholders and merchants on board their platforms quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Imagining the same ad for a healthcare provider in 2018, even an innovative provider, is a stretch. One approach is to include non-physician providers in staffing telemedicine programs; we are experimenting with having licensed providers of all kinds including physician assistants, nurses, and nutritionists deliver virtual care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Each of these companies, in its own way, is a superior innovator. 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. Innovating the core.

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