N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They are voracious learners always looking for better methods, different approaches, enhanced efficiencies, better technology and increased velocity. Leaders can be extremely strong in any of the areas above, but if they are not leading effectively or productively, if they are not meeting performance expectations, then they have work to do.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# If a person has a small business with product people might use, it could be a great opportunity to add another client.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 4, 2012

Then once a printed or photographed product was copyrighted, people, companies and industries began to protect their printed or photographed intellectual property via copyright protection in a court of law. . Source: Roger Parloff , senior editor, FORTUNE, July 23, 2012. These works are what economists call public goods.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. It’s not generally a technology problem; it’s a leadership problem. DAVID: Yeah.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. Our products work with apps or without apps. That way, we’d reduce our SKUs (stock-keeping units), and as people discovered how wonderful the technology was, they’d be converted and spread the word.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Enjoy the post and don’t hesitate to tweet your comments to Jim directly.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. Martha Rogers, co-founder of Peppers & Rogers Group, says, “This isn’t a financial crisis, but a crisis of trust.” Productivity increases. Turney gives the example of outsourcing product assembly work. Productivity increases.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. Peter Turney, CEO of Cost Technology, suggests using activity-based management techniques to recognize which business activities and which customers are causing a drain on your bottom line. Improve productivity. Get strategic. Focus on return on customer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

But when the change involves a new information technology, it's harder to make incremental updates. Jointly map the work flows before you implement the technology. We were able to quickly define what the finished product would look like before it was finished. There are certainly ways to make it easier. Solar Group, a €1.4

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. Capitalizing upon change, rather than becoming a by-product of it. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.”

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. We invite the entire product team to participate; if they have 15 or 30 minutes, they are encouraged to pop in, read some notes, and shift them to places that make sense.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The good news is that you can control a good deal of this, and even more importantly, you can positively influence the fulfillment, productivity and retention of people in your organization. When those goals are aligned with the organization, we see higher productivity and business results. The same holds for great leadership skills.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. Thanks for laying out key success factors. It is about people.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. In 1962, an academic by the name of Everett Rogers released a book called The Diffusion of Innovations. Bundling good.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. Roger Schwarz. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., The first AR technology was developed in 1968 at Harvard when computer scientist Ivan Sutherland (named the “father of computer graphics”) created an AR head-mounted display system. Phase 2: Trying on products at home.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AR has been piquing marketers’ interest in recent years, as it has the potential to change a range of consumer experiences, from how people find new products to how they decide which ones to buy. Companies first have to understand how AR differs from other digital technologies. While it is similar in some aspects (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? Roger Schwarz. Get off the phone, look people in the eye and have conversations that are more focused, more productive, and take less time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

There’s a lot of advice out there about how to make meetings more efficient and productive. Of course, you should still be focused on achieving the meeting outcomes, but thoughtful meetings and productive ones don’t have to be at odds. Roger Schwarz. Marion Barraud for HBR. What to Do Before Ending Any Meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Marketing and finance share a fully transparent analytics platform that all parties can access to run what-if scenarios, optimize marketing-dollar allocations across products and markets, and get course-correcting feedback on the performance of those allocations. Financial accountability for marketing performance has become front and center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Roger Martin. Boring Is Productive. Innovation, Especially the Disruptive Kind, Seemed as Difficult as Ever. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Technology is reconfiguring traditional roles and divisions of labor. Now some are deepening their existing relationships with local governments and branching out into other types of smart technology implementation. But that’s only one side of the story.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

In the face of this dynamic, it isn’t enough to create new products and services. Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world. Designing the New Product.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

After Everett Rogers famously made the distinction between early and late adopters , academics in marketing and technology identified a number of differences between those who take quickly to innovations and those who don’t. For digital businesses looking to grow, these distinctions lead to two important consequences.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. What should it be?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Pay attention when college students pick up what appears to be an inferior product as a workaround substitute for one of your products.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. On the Sephora Beauty Board, community members can upload photos of their favorite “looks” with the makeup products that made it possible.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

You will have created a culture conducive to collaboration, greater employee engagement and enhanced productivity. Poor organizational trust is also an indicator of lower cooperation, productivity, and sales (Davis, Mayer, & Schoorman, 1995; Davis et al., Improves productivity by improving morale.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Over the last two years, much has been written about patent trolls, firms that make their money asserting patents against other companies, but do not make a useful product of their own. Patent trolls tend to sue cash rich companies, and innovative new technologies generate cash. But that’s just because they “follow the money.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2016

In a large technology firm, for example, the CEO led a bi-weekly meeting of her top 20 people to review the business and make key decisions. Roger Schwarz. Eventually this led to crisper decisions, less off-target discussions, and generally more efficient and productive meetings. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the concept of Getting to Yes , an iconic negotiation strategy developed by Harvard professor Roger Fisher and others. Similarly, a technology firm hired a new president for one of its regions to jump-start local sales growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

As the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life, it will, paradoxically, become more invisible. Jeff Kehoe Sans Chic Making Wearable Tech More Wearable The New Yorker Speaking of technology becoming invisible, let''s face facts: Wearables are ugly. Or, in Trekkie parlance, "more Burberry, less Borg."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. Any attempt to reform capitalism must first take stock of the structural shifts in value creation that we are witnessing in society today.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

Steve Jobs, after reviewing hundreds of projects when he returned to Apple, famously focused all of Apple on creating and delivering just four great products – consumer and professional versions of a portable (what became the iPhone and iPad) and a desktop (what became today’s Macs). military.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

” She answered readily, “To take out duplicate costs from redundant work and to get the organization on one technology platform to manage our supply chain.” ” He also cites Roger Martin’s research , which found that 43% of managers cannot state their own strategy.

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