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Digital Transformation Or Digital Free Fall: What Every CEO Must Know

N2Growth Blog

The speed of technology advances in the market are making the old paradigm of first mover versus fast follower largely irrelevant – every business must now become some version of a first mover. Many leaders have fallen into the trap of believing digital transformation is like playing a game of technology catch-up.

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How to Solve Complex Problems Fast

Skip Prichard

Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. Building a fence between your yard and a neighbor’s yard is a complicated challenge; building a great relationship with your neighbor is complex. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity. ” -Komlos, Benjamin.

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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

As the President sets out on a post-speech tour to sell his policies, here are management experts’ perspectives on some of those proposals: Minimum Wage. Manufacturing and Insourcing. ” For a little more nuance on the insourcing trend, read Brad Power on GE.

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Stress Test Your Company’s Competitive Edge with These 4 Questions

Harvard Business Review

Technological developments are often interesting to discuss in relation to relevance. A current example of uncertainty around relevance concerns blockchain , i.e. the technology behind virtual currencies such as bitcoin. In other words, the technology can make brokers and bankers irrelevant. Competition for dependence.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. The essence of managing cognitive bias is to realize that it is unavoidable, it is an essential part of being human." However they they proceed to argue for elimination of same. [.]

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Cutting Costs Without Cutting Corners: Lessons from Banner Health

Harvard Business Review

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. Finally, the leadership team, in partnership with Booz & Company, invited people from across the system to collaborate in cost reduction.

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