N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. As one who has failed to lead ideas and has failed to spark movements around ideas, it seems the bridge between an idea and an innovative idea is a viral movement.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2018

Innovating O ur Way to Sustainability , we assert that to address these challenges requires substantial, disruptive innovation across a wide number of sectors. This suggests a new type of leadership – one that Jeff Walker and his coauthors have referred to as “shapers”. Electrical vehicles in transportation.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 28, 2014

SYMF spun out of the BrainGate lab at Brown University and Massachusetts General Hospital to develop communication technologies for people who can''t communicate effectively because of neurological injury and disease. The growth of tablets as a platform has helped make SpeakYourMind''s technology practical and affordable.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. Dan [link] Liz Strauss Mike, You're always pointing to game changing ideas and true insights into how leadership can affect growth. It only makes your current game better.

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QAspire

MAY 7, 2017

Our workplace conversations today are dominated by topics like increasing globalization, economic uncertainties, automation, disruptive innovations, social technologies, generational shifts, mobility, people analytics, gig economy and such.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 4, 2013

a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges. Bain & Company Ceramics Process Systems Corporation Clayton Christensen CPS Technologies Corporation Curtis W. To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, Bob''s blog entries “How Will You Measure Your Life?"

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I often get asked questions such as, “How do I add value now that this software can do part of my job?” or “is there a role for me now that Artificial Intelligence is taking over the world?” My answer is always this: “You could find yourself on the fast path to irrelevancy or you.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013, Professor at INSEAD, best-selling author Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Bernie Banks – Former General US Army, head of Leadership Development West Point, currently Associate Dean Northwestern Kellogg School.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

And using that technology, they make products that consumers so often use for a brief time and then toss in a landfill for 10,000 years. For many years, The Hershey Company had a simple but meaningless mission statement: undisputed marketplace leadership. They’re made from pure organic materials that biodegrade when composted.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. What do leadership teams most struggle with in the new environment?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. Our observation was that that’s what he called the innovator’s dilemma; now it’s the innovator’s disaster. LARRY: Sure.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

If you are an established organization and something new comes along, you are more than likely going to want to use it to do what you did in the past as apposed to use it to disrupt. If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

And using that technology, they make products that consumers so often use for a brief time and then toss in a landfill for 10,000 years. For many years, The Hershey Company had a simple but meaningless mission statement: undisputed marketplace leadership. They’re made from pure organic materials that biodegrade when composted.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? Customers are firmly in the “prove it to me” camp, and often it is best to seek new customers when pursuing entrepreneurial initiatives and innovative products and services.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It offers the immense potential to innovate new markets where none existed before: Think of the billion-dollar industry the Square credit card reader unlocked, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

But the key question is whether Cook can sniff out technology and market opportunities while knowing intuitively (or with the help of others) what risks to take. Most acknowledge Cook as exceptional at execution, but we know little about whether he has the innovator's DNA to "see what's next," the way Jobs did consistently.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In 1995, a young Harvard Business School Professor co-authored an article in Harvard Business Review , "Disruptive Technology: Catching the Wave." The most punishing innovations, they argued, were the ones that were easy to dismiss at first blush — simple, affordable solutions that took root outside the mainstream market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Find a Job Using Disruptive Innovation. Leadership's Full Measure. It's Still Tough to Get Hired (and to Quit). I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why. Kyle Wiens. This was by far the most commented-upon post of the year.). Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen. Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young. Anne Kreamer.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

To date, the trend has been associated with fairly standard products, such as customer relationship management software, web servers, or SQL databases, but the theory of the innovator''s dilemma suggests that it will most likely move up the stack in the future. IT management Information & technology Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Leaders at companies with high innovation premiums, in fact, landed at about the 88th percentile on our Innovator's DNA assessment, which measures the five skills of disruptive innovators: questioning, observing, networking, experimenting, and associational thinking. That's what an innovative leader does.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

The Verizon Wireless side of the telecom giant, which is 45 percent owned by Vodafone, is also deepening ties with Google for the Droid and betting on its faster fourth generation (4G) network based on new LTE (long term evolution) technology to leap forward in the wireless marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. The fact that 2014 is the year of Innovation in the corporation isn’t surprising.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

As we grew, I knew it would be very difficult to continue to create the breakthrough innovations that had led to Medtronic's high growth rate, which had exceeded 18% per annum for a decade. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Ballmer, whose skills were in many ways complementary to Gates'', took the helm of an already massive organization as it entered an era of relentless disruptive innovation by competitors. The debate has focused almost entirely on the leadership of innovation. Innovation Leadership Leadership transitions'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Daimler Trucks North America executives saw how IoT technology could fix this fundamental flaw in the design of the repair process, making the process smoother and more efficient for drivers and technicians alike. To the senior leadership team, this wasn’t just about telematics or new revenue. Build and share a transformative vision.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Daimler Trucks North America executives saw how IoT technology could fix this fundamental flaw in the design of the repair process, making the process smoother and more efficient for drivers and technicians alike. To the senior leadership team, this wasn’t just about telematics or new revenue. Build and share a transformative vision.

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Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

For over an hour, the panel discussed all of the innovative projects they’d worked on — spanning projects from Google Fiber to ad bidding technologies at Facebook. Yes, all of the panelists were speaking broadly on innovative projects. It’s no wonder there is such widespread backlash against innovation today.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

All the pieces are in place to create “ disruptive innovation ” and “ cross the chasm ,” but the results are disappointing. The problem is that data, information, and value propositions are not enough to sell innovative products. Shifts in mental models go deeper than traditional thought leadership. What’s missing?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation. Most innovation is the former, and is often little more than the clever replication or reproduction of what were once breakthrough, thus disruptive, innovations. But it's not stopping there.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

You may ask, what are some risky investments that stand a high chance of failure but, if successful, enable larger technological leaps that promise earthshaking impact? Three major factors drive convergence: technology, competition, and the customer. They can help keep your innovation pipeline full. Find Pivots.

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