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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Digital technology continues to transform both the retail and consumer experience. That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. To stay competitive, brands must innovate and transform.

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Entrepreneurship Skills Can Last A Lifetime

The Horizons Tracker

It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore that there is a growing interest in developing entrepreneurship skills in young people, with a number of platforms available for youngsters to put their skills to the test. Desire for entrepreneurship.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough. We think cities can do better.

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How a Game Got Our Global Employees to Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

VJ, an engineer in India working on a development project, is trying to resolve technical issues within a software application. Since the global consulting firm where he works employs thousands of other developers he can only assume there must be others who have faced this challenge, but doesn't know where to start in reaching them.

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Entrepreneurship: Still Lost in the Davos Dialog

Harvard Business Review

Davos leaders who recognize that entrepreneurship is distinct from self-employment and small business, often fall into the trap of equating entrepreneurship with innovation and, by default, technology. In fact, most entrepreneurship is based on what I have called "minnovation," small tweaks and excellent execution.

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Companies as diverse as AIG, Disney, and Intuit have been building innovation teams, launching “accelerator” programs to attract promising startups, and giving employees seed funding to test out new ideas with real customers. Kenneth Andersson. Core to the work of innovation, however, are edgy explorations and high-risk tests.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Social entrepreneurs can serve as the "R&D function" for learning how to serve underdeveloped markets, according to Jim Koch, director of the Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University , which has supported more than 160 social enterprises over the last decade.