N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

Is your security budget directed primarily to the Information Technology (IT) department? This holistic approach requires an enterprise-wide security investment in people, process, and technology. A higher level of thinking in cybersecurity leadership is needed to effectively thwart future financial losses.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. The new president thought Cellairis should not only sell accessories, it should sell wireless phone service as well. After nine months, AMP’d filed for bankruptcy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device. Cisco's leadership is very smart and Wi-Fi is part of the firm's core competence. The proof is Cisco's own 2009 new product promise. Smartphones were becoming smarter.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

People were asked about GM products, upholstery textures, colors, vehicle designs, and technology, and their feedback was incorporated into GM vehicles. How technology is changing the way we work. Weaver’s staff sent three million mailings a year to GM and non-GM customers, achieving a remarkable 25% response rate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Some of this may just be the product of the high regulatory costs in pharmaceuticals, but research by Harvard's F.M. But when it does come, it will not demand costly breakthrough innovation either in wireless technology or digital marketing. Another take: consider Emotiv 's quest to make brain scans a mass consumer product.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

And although the dropout rate is high, the business model is uncertain, and learning outcomes are not yet clear, these MOOC''s are rapidly evolving new technologies that will certainly change the higher education landscape, and dramatically increase access to learning. Business education Leadership development Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. It’s not just products. Experimentation is vital.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Visionary leadership is also about helping the company overcome inertia so that it can shift effectively from one frame of mind to another when the time comes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

They knew digital photography was the future and invested heavily in hybrid technology in the hope of managing the transition from physical photo printing. Successful firms have an established customer base, most of whom are satisfied with the products they are purchasing. They make products that they want to use.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. This is not guesswork.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) Technology solutions that help accelerate improvements of Zimbabwe’s decaying infrastructure will also be in high demand.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

AT&T, for example, had to switch its focus from traditional telecom services to wireless services, and this shift required employees with different skill sets. As David Thodey put it, “Leadership was pretty important. Leadership Competition' Currency really had a big effect.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. billion cell phone users around the globe, and 90 percent of the world's population is covered by a commercial wireless signal. There are now more than 5.3

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

What’s not clear, however, is how the IoT’s complex ecosystem — a loose network of interacting products and services, pictured below will evolve and proliferate and which companies will emerge as leaders. The red nodes represent platform companies; the gray ones are companies that provide a product or service. /i,"");}

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Leadership & Managing People Book. That could be as simple as tethering to your phone, and using it as your backup connection, or buying a USB stick from your wireless company so you can access cell data from your laptop. Managing yourself Productivity Technology' Further Reading. Add to Cart. Screen sharing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. chemicals, metals and mining, paper and forest products), made out worst, scoring poorly on "firing" and "leveraging diversity," and not much better on "assessing talent" and "developing talent.". What would this leadership look like over time?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

Apple continued to run with little discernable change, except that Cook's black open collar shirts substituted for Jobs's black turtleneck sweaters on the product announcement stage. Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg appointed Lowell McAdam, head of Verizon Wireless, as COO and successor. Except for one thing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management.

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