N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. Therefor by definition it is not unique or likely to generate any competitive advantage. And what are your strategic goals? As an example, Look at Apple!

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

But it’s the opposite of what’s needed to drive the things the financial industry needs right now – in particular, innovation. Only 53% of financial employees rate their firm’s ability to innovate: at top-performing companies, this figure is 70%. If one thing stifles innovation, it’s closed minds. Willingness to fail.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

“The modern CFO is not just a finance expert—they’re a strategic partner, playing a critical role in driving innovation, digital transformation, and growth. The best CFOs today are those who can bridge the gap between finance and technology, turning data into actionable insights that steer the company forward.”

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

or informal efforts produced via someone else’s R&D or innovation efforts, companies often start projects that they don’t finish. Often times these acquisitions can provide you some form of exclusivity or other form of competitive advantage. This can create an opportunity for the astute buyer.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It will be interesting to see if the next round of Google innovation will be as successful as the beauty of their initial simplicity. What's interesting is that many of their latest ventures have strayed from their historically simple roots into areas of great complexity. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 29, 2024

Teaming: The Non-Negotiable Imperative for Founders and Leaders “Not finance. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.” – Patrick Lencioni. Teaming eats strategy and finance for lunch. Not strategy. Not technology.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars. The companies that employed me were generally the underdogs in battles against bigger, better-financed organizations. Competitive situations create a distinct individual and team behavior.

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Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is now expected that a CMO strikes a harmony between pioneering innovation and maintaining commercial acumen, a balance intrinsic to the realization of substantial business growth. However, integrating creative innovation within a broader business strategy does not equate to an effortlessly navigable journey.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.” – Steve Jobs. Not finance, not strategy. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.” – Patrick Lencioni. Larry English. I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. I Think Not.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Stephanie Skryzowski of 100 Degrees Consulting provided How to Create a Monthly Finance Routine. Stephanie shares: “ In this post of the 100 Degrees of Entrepreneurship Podcast I’m sharing the monthly finance routine you can use to grow your business and your bottom line. ” Connect with Stephanie here.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. Focus on value creation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# Inc.com Inc. magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

Refusing to surrender, having the ability to make the tough decision, the needed sacrifice, and the focus to place fiduciary obligations above your self interest will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Why should we make this investment?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

With a clear strategy, inspiring leadership, and aligned sales, powerful leaders understand that true competitive advantage doesn't come from innovation alone but belongs to companies that use their sales organization to add and create value. No product or service can sustain a competitive advantage on its own.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Therefore, embracing efficient payroll management practices is not merely an operational enhancement but a strategic necessity that empowers businesses to focus more on growth avenues and innovation without the looming shadow of payroll backlogs.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. The evidence is clear that more diverse and inclusive organizations are more creative, innovative, and higher performing. It is a key competitive advantage. The HR Digest: C.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. Let’s innovate, disrupt, and challenge the status quo. The HR Digest: How are you going to shake things up next?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Unregulated and a relatively new innovation, trusts were the ‘ toxic assets ‘ of the 1907 crises. Trusts, however, were financed by consumer deposits, while the toxic asset of 2008 were securities contracts held by investment banks.). EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

Both were defined by financial innovations that seemed to defy the natural law of risk and reward, by promising a high yield and low risk. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. But was it a new financial world? In many ways, looking back to the Panic of 1826, we see ourselves looking back at us.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As banks recover from the downturn, non-banks are taking advantage by proceeding aggressively with digital innovations and capturing more and more of the banking value chain. Accenture estimates that competition from non-banks could erode one-third of traditional bank revenues by 2020. Competition Finance Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

And thank goodness, because that gives those of us who understand the real value of great people a huge competitive advantage! But with individuals, the opposite is true: The value of a contributor decreases disproportionately with each additional person contributing to a single project, idea, or innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

In the spirit of reverse innovation, and reverse mentoring , I submit to you that the next trend to watch out for in leadership is, you guessed it — reverse leadership. But I'm not seeing many organizations able to recognize them — or cultivate their talents to gain a competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. Each initiative claims it is critical to the success of the organization, yet their competition puts that very success in jeopardy.

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Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

No, the issue I have with the suggestions that adopting Flash or allowing iTunes to work on devices made by Sony is that it reflects a misunderstanding of the competitive advantage that Apple has forged by the way it has structured its industry category. But this strategy comes at a price. Sound familiar?

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Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 15

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. TopRank Marketing TopRank Marketing has been doing innovative and impactful work with interactive content and B2B influencers for huge brands like SAP, Dell, LinkedIn, 3M, and Oracle for over 18 years. But yes, they do! Hire a specialist.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Recently I asked a high-level Singapore official how Singapore's companies would be able to compete in a world of countries whose companies have greater access to low-cost labor (as in China) and cutting-edge innovation (as in the U.S.). He nodded: "That's our competitive advantage.". Innovation is a continuous dynamic process.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. IT went from being a potential source of competitive advantage to being a necessity for competitive parity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Comparatively, online lenders have limited brand recognition, and acquiring small business customers online is expensive and competitive. But banks’ ability to use these strengths to build real competitive advantage is not a forgone conclusion.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As I think about companies that compete on consistent, low cost, reliable operations, most have or had leaders who were process innovators, such as Herb Kelleher at Southwest Airlines, Sam Walton at Wal-Mart, Ray Kroc at McDonalds, Jeff Bezos at Amazon.com, and Fred Smith at FedEx.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply. There’s still time to make AI a competitive advantage. You don’t have to go it alone on AI — partner for capability and capacity.

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