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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constituency management, capital markets, and customer facing. I worry much more about the unknown than the known… .

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Procurement's Best-Priced Deal May Stifle Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Every single innovation conversation I've had recently with business unit leaders, product managers and/or marketing executives invariably focuses on the importance of partnership and collaboration with their best suppliers and vendors. In other words, innovation occurs when we bypass or disintermediate procurement. It's leadership.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

Harvard Business Review

The typical funnel starts with a marketing-generated lead for a “suspect” that, after qualification, becomes a “prospect,” and then a customer through steps that are measured and managed. That is, core solution-selling and account-management skills still matter. Buying is a continuous and dynamic process.

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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

Own and disintermediate the customer relationship. This disintermediation of the customer account control is a hallmark of digital giants. . As humans, we often make a decision a second but re quire weeks, months, and maybe even years for management approval. Compete for data supremacy. Data powers the digital giants.