N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Listening, engaging, reciprocating – have earned us 2 billionaire backers, 4000+ franchising inquiries & 300+ stores now in development (launched franchise company in Fall '09). link] Robbie Vitrano Hey Mike, thanks for including NakedPizza in the validation. Humbled, validated and taking nothing for granted.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2011

In the case of struggling Nabob Foods, two significant innovations facilitated the turnaround. While they played catch-up, we were already working on the next innovation. Secondly, he innovated with blockbuster products iMac and iPod. Usually, one or two “big” plays make the difference. And guess what?

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CEO Insider

MAY 10, 2021

When I walked into the position of CEO of Snap printing and design, a 120-year-old Australian business with over 130 franchise outlets, my thoughts were how to innovate and drive the business in what many would see as a declining industry. Little could I expect that a few months into my term as CEO that […].

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

Example – Working with a large Coffee and Bake Shop franchise headquarters wanting the district managers to use Coaching & Feedback as opposed to authority and demands with the franchise owners. Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process.

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Resistance Franchising Power Management 141

Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 10, 2018

Integrating these two disciplines can mean more precise medical procedures and other innovations. The outcome is oftentimes profit over meaningful transformation and innovation. What ultimately bolsters our economy and secures America’s leadership internationally is innovation and risk-taking. We as health consumers benefit.

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Leading Blog

MAY 18, 2018

Another reason success as an entrepreneur favors age is that “creating a new product or service is an organic process, one that is shaped by background, experience, and acuity of the innovator.” “The Innovators are curious and have a voracious appetite for learning. The average age of an inventor awarded a patent is forty-seven.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

Having worked with more than 10,000 entrepreneurs, innovators, inventors, hobbyists and side hustlers, they often struggle with when it is appropriate to leap from the job environment into the entrepreneurship maze. Most people see this dichotomy and feel that they need to choose one dream over the other.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Small businesses play a large role in the world’s vibrant economies, as they employ many people and drive innovation and competitiveness. Consider franchising. Research reveals that 80% of McDonald’s locations are franchises.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 31, 2024

NFL franchises tapped into this with features like Flashback Friday, where elements of the history of the team or the city were shared. “You always receive some attention from your own fans and then some who are just looking around and see the post,” they explain. It’s a theme that other businesses can tap into.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Growth is a significant indicator that your business is on the right track and involves taking more risks, developing innovative ideas, and identifying the right audience. You can choose to open a physical store at another site, and you can either run it or operate it as a franchise. These few strategies should help answer that.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 22, 2018

We tend to think that outstanding creative works or amazing disruptive innovations sprang forth into the world wholly original and unique to that industry. If you think about the creative world, what’s the most innovative, amazing, successful movie franchise in history? At least not in the way that you think.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Johnson & Johnson’s worldwide franchise managers, for instance, may have to get country managers, whom they do not directly supervise, to commit to a strategic marketing or purchasing plan. Innovation' In a hierarchical organization, leaders can more easily give orders and expect people to respond.

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Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Rapid BI

APRIL 16, 2012

What hope for UK business when #mentoring education fails The UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), after the closure of the Business Link franchise, is pinning it's hopes on volunteer mentoring for developing entrepreneurship and U.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Not everyone is willing to work with large businesses and franchises, so a cozy coffee shop is a good choice. One of the most innovative business ideas you can develop is a mobile health clinic that goes beyond a business model and solves a genuine crisis. They’re a working space and even a place to relax.

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Business Model Construction Transportation Franchising 105

The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 14, 2015

To meet Anita Roddick, founder and “then” CEO of multi-billion dollar franchise, Photo by David Niblack. When they allow energy to flow, they are alive, engaged, passionate, on purpose, creative, innovative, intuitive, clear, visionary, playful, relaxed and refreshed. Even Before You Speak.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

I don't want to say "dirty tricks," (whoops, I just said it) but Clorox certainly took an innovative approach to squelching P&G's innovative threat. An excellent business case could be made that Clorox's "Portland Massacre" was — dollar-for-dollar — its most strategically important (anti)marketing innovation that year.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Whether you are trying to create a new product, solve problems more effectively, become the most successful company in your industry, or find creative ways to meet your customers' needs, innovation is likely one of your most critical objectives at work. When it comes to generating innovative ideas, introverts and extroverts may be on par.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

We’re focused on building a culture of innovation that enables good ideas to thrive at any level of the organization, not just at the top. That purpose – to Ignite and Nourish Flavorful Experiences – is at the core of how our team members work together, serve our guests, and strengthen our communities.

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Steve Farber

MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers with Deloitte , for instance, found that “ mission-driven ” companies typically are first or second in their market segment, have 30 percent higher levels of innovation, and have 40 percent higher retention levels. And it needed all of the franchisees and their team members to buy into and live a shared culture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Hosting parties in December is just one example of how the ownership team has found innovative ways to increase the revenues it derives from Fenway. The ownership has introduced other business model innovations. Major league owners are famously reluctant to release franchise-specific financial information.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

He just sold Lucasfilm, and the rights to the Star Wars franchise, to Disney for $4 billion. The success of an NFL franchise in London is less an economic question than a cultural one. Felix Baumgartner's Two Moments of Innovation Truth (INSEAD). Lucas lucked out. The sale is certainly a boon for Lucas, but what about Disney?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. How has this strategy worked?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

SHE has created a franchise model — providing business skill training, technical expertise, and co-investment — to partner with women in Rwanda and other developing-country communities to distribute and ultimately manufacture and launch their own SHE LaunchPads franchises. Emotion Creates a Common Language.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. They are: Staffing. Perhaps more than anything else, this has been the key to PlayWorks' successful scaling.

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How To Franchising ROI Entrepreneur 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

We addressed the question of how leaders turn great invention into business innovation that generates organic revenue growth. 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?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

We don't think it matters much whether this was true or just spin-control; what matters is that Microsoft has now publicly embraced the hackers — and that's an instance of a broad and profound change in corporate innovation. After all, if you want to enter every room of the house, what better vehicle than a Roomba?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Business System: Organizational models, software investment, proprietary process, franchise rights. When brands now have to speak to an increasingly diverse global consumer audience, design is critical to delivering a consistent experience and calling attention to innovations. Knowledge: R&D, patents, human capital, IP.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

They refused to franchise, for example, instead pouring profits back into an infrastructure of company-owned stores. In addition, they begat a new field of competition (think McDonald's McCafes or Dunkin Donuts Coolattas) and created a brand that is continually ranked as one of the world's most powerful. Koehn is the James E.

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Brand Franchising Health Care Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

We addressed the question of how leaders turn great invention into business innovation that generates organic revenue growth. 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?

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Short-term Franchising Long-term Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Innovation : When defining innovation as "offering products that are new to some or all customers" in some regions — including the U.S. and developed Europe — women entrepreneurs have higher levels of innovation than their male counterparts. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2018

Jon Buchan, the director of London-based Charm Offensive, a creator of innovative cold emailing campaigns, applies Curry’s disruptive basketball strategy to business: “Find a gap,” Buchan writes. Innovate a product or service from within your position. “A chink in the armor. What is nobody else doing? .”

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Career Market Risk Chemicals Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

Since every industry changes in time, the key to success is adapting to those changes – hence, strategy is innovation. That deal brought the Stars Wars and the Indiana Jones franchises within Disney’s fold. For instance, the Avengers is a successful movie franchise but it is also monetized in Disney’s theme parks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. To get to the future, you must build it day by day. Excerpted from. The Three-Box Solution. Vijay Govindarajan.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. Consumer demand for innovative digital services, when executed ably, seems unquenchable; and that demand is stimulating capital flows.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. What matters is how entrepreneurs and innovators, especially social innovators, employ this set of tools within prevailing constraints.

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Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

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