N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Innovation increasingly blurs technical and marketing distinctions between “ lead users ” and “early adopters.” But if they’re socially and/or culturally obtuse, what your innovation gains in possible functionality may be reputationally undermined by perceived insensitivity and obnoxiousness.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

Despite these high-cost innovations (American consumers spend more on health care than their counterparts anywhere else), U.S. It’s no wonder that patients, politicians, third-party payers, hospitals, and providers are calling for health-care models and technologies that deliver more for less.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

Small businesses are also extremely low-risk proving grounds because there are so many of them that failure with any one customer won’t lead to large reputational damage. Gone are long pre-launch development cycles that attempt to create the optimal product for the most demanding customer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Typically, resources that satisfy these conditions are capabilities or know-how that have been developed over time and are hard to transfer or document. Indeed, if you have multiple resources, the RBV implies that you should develop a strategy to build and exploit all these resources. So maybe there is a better theory of strategy?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Impressive next-generation technologies are overcoming the last generation’s drawbacks while adding new capabilities. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. In 1986, Lotus Development Corporation announced the latest version of its (at the time) wildly popular 1-2-3 spreadsheet, one that now sported a spiffy new "undo" feature. The feature?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. It prevents the wisdom of learning from failure.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. You’ll never find any interesting deals there.” ” Sure, I would respond.

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