N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. and a development manager at Oracle Corp.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 10, 2022

BlackRock was the focus of the study because, with over $9 trillion in assets under management, they are the largest asset manager in the world, with stakes in over 3,000 firms. Later letters have focused on climate change and investing in the workforce as we adapt to new technologies. ” Influencing others.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2019

Invest In Technology. There are a lot of software and systems that now exist thanks to the advancement of technology. A lot of businesses are putting a budget towards investing in technology to help improve workplace productivity. Here’s how to improve your workplace productivity in business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As algorithms get smarter, who will be the winners and losers on Wall Street?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Perhaps the technology team want to spend more time developing an upgrade to your product, but the finance team insist the money is better spent elsewhere. In the very early days of your enterprise, especially one in the manufacturing sector, you are likely to have only a few facilities and a small number of maintenance workers and managers.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 21, 2017

However, one of the least considered points that many business owners overlook is the way they utilise technology. If it’s a specific problem, such as payroll management or asset management, then things like fixed asset management software or a dedicated program to manage staff wages could be a great alternative.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Blackrock: Back in June, the asset manager required all of its employees to report their vaccination status. Uber Technologies: The ride sharing service has made it mandatory for its white collar employees, but not its drivers, to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. 1, while plant workers have until Nov. 25 from September.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). ” What else needs to change?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology. First, large index asset managers, such as Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard. The investment management industry has been highly commoditized.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. VCs have hardly taken the lead on “creative destruction” in the industry either, but as we’ve seen, the high levels of asset management style fees and the continuous gush of capital into ever-larger VC funds provides little economic incentive for them to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

The water industry is using digital technologies and analytics to derive more value from its physical assets. The need for this sector to change and evolve could not be greater: The organizations that manage water supplies around the world are facing critical issues, and water scarcity is chief among them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2016

I’m teaching a new course this semester on cognitive technologies (AKA artificial intelligence) to Babson MBAs. Many of them are new to this set of technologies, and seeing the topic through my students’ eyes has made me realize how overwhelming it can be. Insight Center. The Automation Age. Sponsored by KPMG.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible. But right now that’s not happening.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The transformation in education technology and markets is happening with the business leaders and money-men of higher education barely present.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Drone- and satellite-based asset management. Many employees worry about the consequences of all of this technology on their roles. At the same time, organizations need to be thoughtful about how they apply AI to their organizations, with a full understanding of the advantages and disadvantages inherent in the technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

For example, GE's investment in water technologies is well known, and its leadership stems from its ecomagination portfolio of products. Secondly, it is often innovators who must lead customers down new paths, showing them new ways of managing a resource and saving money that they didn't know were possible.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2018

The financial technologies, or “fintech,” we hear about most often—like Apple Pay, Bitcoin and Crowdfunding—leverage the high penetration rates of bank accounts and credit cards in rich countries. We see two takeaways for CEOs, managers, and impact investors.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency. These people tend not to have — or want — management responsibilities. Essential experts possess crucial knowledge but don’t want to manage others. Essential Experts.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Meanwhile, new technologies are making it easier for sustainability investments to pay off in the middle to long term. Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I had been preparing a client presentation with several of my colleagues at our asset management firm. George, the CEO of a technology company with over 150 employees, believes that you need to be careful when confronting someone with intelligence gained from data mining. Ethics IT management Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

It’s a delicate balance, one Don Jones, former Vice President, Learning at Natixis Global Asset Management summarized like this: “We need to have ‘customized’ solutions for individuals, while simultaneously providing scale and cost efficiencies across the organization,” he said.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

Organizations constantly replace outdated computers, servers, laptops, copiers, and countless other types of electronic devices to keep up with technology and enhance worker productivity. This rush to upgrade, however, creates a challenge: large numbers of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Even those hippies over at asset manager Lazard calculate that the cost of solar PV technologies has dropped nearly 80% in five years. Polman and Branson are expected at these meetings now, but more leaders are joining. and an IRR of 27% for those companies with the most aggressive, science-based goals and actions on climate.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

And most of my asset manager clients were looking for something different: “Give me a contrarian perspective.” When I worked on Wall Street, my professional circle was initially limited to other folks in the financial services sector: bankers, traders, analysts, economists. Discover Real Innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

And that’s where software asset management can help. Why Software Asset Management (SAM) Matters. Comprehensive asset management is essential to an effective IT infrastructure, service, and cybersecurity management program. Pinpointing Security Risks. And Microsoft can help.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

Don Jones, former Vice President, Learning, Natixis Global Asset Management shared this example in a recent interview: Employees are becoming “content developers” for our learning organization. Tap into the potential coach within everyone. Imagine a top sales person in the field giving his pitch on a certain product.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. So how does one take full advantage of a 'window to winnow'?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Very importantly, they were able to avoid costly technology and implementation programs that would have surely fell short of usage and revenue expectations. Fortunately, the organizations that took the effort to truly understand the value of their data were able to execute appropriately. Understand who would value it, why, and how much.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. It seems like the clearest practical lessons from this academic work have been in asset management. There are people very much steeped in this work, including you, who are out there managing stocks and other assets based on it.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

They are not interested in hearing about the technological, regulatory, and societal developments that will determine the long-term, strategic positioning of this company.". Pension fund trustees, many of whom are ordinary lay people with limited investment experience, are often intimidated by asset managers," a U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

First, a wide range of new technologies and data analytics allow tracking who and what is changing, making it possible to establish individualized targets, remedies, and incentives. This new research report highlights how insurers are applying the model. What makes prevention today different from past efforts (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 ” Backing this up is another group of asset managers who have committed $2 billion to invest in a newly created S&P Long-Term Value Index , a subset of companies doing things right.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. China, China, and China.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Digital asset management systems originally designed for a limited number of approved photos and metadata now have to capture, store (or link), and tag a broader array of assets. Marketing and IT organizations are partnering to create requirements, purchase, and deploy these technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs. Ultimately, asset managers can develop a matrix with financial asset classes (e.g.,

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