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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots.

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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Plenty of core competencies will remain essential skills for leaders in the future. Study a particular subfield within your area of knowledge in order to develop specialized knowledge that will make you highly marketable in that realm. Find something that will remain relevant and study that niche area inside and out.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

Plenty of core competencies will remain essential skills for leaders in the future. Study a particular subfield within your area of knowledge in order to develop specialized knowledge that will make you highly marketable in that realm. Find something that will remain relevant and study that niche area inside and out.

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India's Decade of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

For instance, in October 2010, Biocon struck a $350-million marketing alliance with Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker, to commercialize four of Biocon's insulin biosimilar products in non-overlapping markets globally. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. Transformers. Financiers.

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Research: Business School Really Does Influence How Students Make Decisions Later On

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies. In another supplementary analysis, we used the rankings of finance departments in business schools.

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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. In this world, insurance companies will require fewer actuaries and more data scientists — individuals with the ability to mine data to tailor insurance offers to specific market segments or even individuals.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Fueled by growing demand among entrepreneurs, investors , and consumers , a specialized ecosystem of support has also been emerging around for-benefits, providing tailored legal services , capital markets , management education , technical assistance , performance metrics , and more. Here are a few suggestions: Lead by Example.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.

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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself. Ignore Costly Market Data and Rely on Google Instead? The proliferation of digital media means that all organizations are becoming data-rich.

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Managing Designers on Two Different Tracks

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Modern design schools increasingly encourage this, demanding that graduates be familiar not just with a traditional creative skillset, but with ethnography, finance, coding, and a host of other competencies. Yet she is still emphatically a designer at the core, and respectful of the creative expertise around her.

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Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. Too often, assumptions about the potential market and its clients can cloud our judgement about expenses. What is your business’ core competence? How can you focus your spending on that?

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” The competition story revolves around digital technology.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. ” Usually, companies often want to utilize “core competencies” in order to expand into “adjacencies.”

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