N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. You have tremendous loyalty to your friend. Leadership involves uncertainty. Others do not. What’s the differentiator? Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. All the originally appealing simplicity vanished into uncertainty. To make customers measurably happier, optimization mattered less than innovation. Their optimization strengths had become innovation weakness.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

A serious threat facing most brands in dynamic markets is the loss of relevance because the category or subcategory they are serving is declining. New categories or subcategories emerge as competitors' innovations create "must haves." Leapfrog the innovation. Customers are no longer buying what the brand is perceived to make.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2018

Consistent with these famous case studies, scientific research shows that creativity and innovation can be enhanced by reducing team harmony. From Kodak to Blackberry to Blockbuster, business schools are spoiled for choice when it comes to examples of dominant market players that were jettisoned from the top by their complacency.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2012

First, the teams behind winning apps tend to be composed of the organizations' best techno-marketing talent, people with deep understanding of social media. Second, they take a few basic ingredients — brand, marketing, technology, and service — and combine them in just the right ways over the course of five stages.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. Both companies were led by visionaries, both offer high-end versions of commodity products, and both enjoy fierce loyalty from customers.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. Fortitude – tolerance for stress, uncertainty, or chaos. Integrity – ability to inspire/engender trust and loyalty. These are just a few examples. Nash Equilibrium, Pareto Principle).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Too often, companies demand a laundry list of vague qualities, such as creativity and innovation, which fail to align with organizational needs. Or they rely on subjective metrics, such as likability, loyalty, whether someone is “due for promotion,” etc. For example, when a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I have long believed that innovation is not just about creating new products or services; it's also about rethinking the very nature of an organization's relationships. The most innovative brands have dramatically changed the way they connect with customers by supplementing traditional marketing and advertising with social and digital media.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

All this economic uncertainty has given managers more to cope with, and some of my favorite — and our most popular — multimedia tackled the perennial people-management challenges, whether the person in question is a direct report, a customer, or thine own self. Audio podcast. Economics for Humans. Turn Customers into Promoters.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

The impact of her lack of leadership and management skills resulted in a tremendous amount of mistrust, uncertainty and poor moral. Patronizing, belittling or sarcastic leaders forgo trust and loyalty to prop-up their ego – big mistake. A poor manager or supervisor is more than just an organizational problem. I Think Not.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing. Bell, Customer Loyalty Consultant and author at [link]. Keep moving!

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) may seem to have little in common. That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics. Use risk data as an avenue for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

After years of fantastic innovations that helped bring the automobile to the masses, Ford fell prey to the “anchoring” bias that leads people to make (or fail to make) new decisions by referencing their prior experiences. Managing uncertainty Strategic planning'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Perhaps it is overlooked because clinicians are so busy focusing on the technical details of care, or perhaps it is due to their uncertainty about how to respond. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. Fix the Handful of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Traditionally, organizations have used data analytics as a tool of retrospection, as a means of answering questions like, “Did this marketing campaign reach our desired audience?” Cultivate long-term loyalty among a specific subset of customers? ” or “Who were our highest-value customers over the last year?”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Certain changes can be forced into the system from on high, but the essential goodwill, commitment, and voter loyalty that political will is derived from cannot be commanded. Could greater competition, that other free market panacea, save us? And there are few negotiations as complex as reforming the U.S. health care system.

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