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The Next Wave of Digital Transformation: What Leaders Need to Know

N2Growth Blog

Its ability to facilitate secure and transparent transactions allows businesses to build trust, cut out intermediaries, and create tamper-proof records at a much lower cost. These disruptive innovations have a massive impact across various sectors, such as healthcare, finance, retail, education, and travel.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? When you are handed a business card that was printed at Kinko’s are you impressed? Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do.

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What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like

Harvard Business Review

One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities. Department of Defense and Intelligence community have also adopted this model as the Hacking for Defense process.).

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How to Use Uncertainty and Surprise for Breakthroughs

LDRLB

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. Could we be overlooking – even resisting – one of the most essential catalysts of personal and business breakthroughs? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product.

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Uber’s New CEO Will Have to Win on Two Fronts Simultaneously

Harvard Business Review

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. This occurs when the founder’s leadership skills hit a limit, inhibiting the ability of the company to go to the next stage.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. The issue arose as a result of changes to IBM’s business model for software. In the past, IBM mostly provided enterprise software to customers who installed it on their own computers.