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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

To stay competitive, brands must innovate and transform. That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. Digital technology continues to transform both the retail and consumer experience.

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Are SMEs The Overlooked Engines Of Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

This is especially so as around two-thirds of the 40 million new jobs created in the US economy between 1980 and 2005 were created by new SMEs. For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs.

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Innovators Need To Both Explore And Exploit

The Horizons Tracker

The innovation literature often gets bogged down in the so-called dual operating system that so troubles organizations as they attempt to exploit existing knowledge while also striking new territory. Indeed, it argues that breakthrough innovations can often be a result of both exploration and exploitation approaches.

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Three Ways Document Management Software Can Streamline Operations

Strategy Driven

Going paperless is a great way to streamline office operations – and help save the planet by reducing paper. In 2005, he sold the company to Thomson Fast-Tax and then began to focus his attention on paperless office software. You just finished reading Three Ways Document Management Software Can Streamline Operations !

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How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure: 5 Key Strategies for Navigating Complexity

Experience to Lead

Executives and decision-makers now operate in an increasingly complex world, where variables, competing priorities and uncertainties constantly intertwine. One way to better manage complexity and avoid impulsive errors is to gain a solid familiarity with the organizational and decision-making systems you operate in.

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Management Quality and Productivity, under competent leadership

Mike Cardus

Edwards Deming Institute 3rd Quarter 2005 Newsletter. With many managerial and organizational professionals operating in a manner similar to Alchemy. Few people in top management in America understand their responsibilities and know that they must serve a life term on quality and productivity from now on, under competent leadership.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. Drucker passed away in 2005. The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997). Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. Winning (2005).