N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. One mistake people tend to make is holding the belief that all the innovators and futurists can be only be found in works being published today. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the comment Caroline.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

That's the driving question behind the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), , a web-based open innovation project dedicated to mustering the daring and creativity of the broadest base of thinkers and practitioners to reinvent management for a new age. The first phase of the competition, the Management 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

“First, let’s fire all the managers” said Gary Hamel almost seven years ago in Harvard Business Review. Repetitive to innovative: Managers often encourage predictability — they want things nailed down, systems in place, and existing performance measures high. The best time to innovate is all the time.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. So what did Hamel and Prahalad add? Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist. Similarly, scholars in the U.S. As the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. Why does a statement like this produce breakthrough innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

The CEO knew I was a fan of passion-fueled innovation and thought he had a story I’d find inspiring, hence the call. ” By the way — that CEO was my brother, Dr. Loren Hamel. For me, the point of his story was simple but profound: empathy is the engine of innovation. It does not have to be this way.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

This is especially problematic when companies decide to innovate. If you don't have a clear understanding of why you are pursuing an innovation, you risk being wasteful and ineffective, and could lack strong differentiators from incumbents. But whereas core competencies are about know-how, core insights are about know-why.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

It was an enlightening conversation with business strategy guru Gary Hamel , Newport News Shipbuilding''s CIO Leni Kaufman , and Walgreens'' CIO Tim Theriault, with HBR editor Angelia Herrin moderating. I want to spend more of my time on continuous improvement and innovation. asked Gary Hamel. Be a compassionate contrarian.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

It was, in part, the rise of the technology industry that gave charm a new urgency, because tech companies needed managers on the inside who were "technical and charismatic." This is how opportunities to be nimble and innovative are squandered, he says, and how companies become irrelevant.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It sold this money-losing division systematically evolved itself to become, once again, a respected technology competitor. They have gone through different cycles of disruptive innovations, leaving some businesses, and creating new ones. Ndubuisi Ekekwe is a founder of the non-profit African Institution of Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

FedEx’s competencies in digital and transportational networks are its innovation platforms. Who doubts Microsoft’s technical core competencies in software, networking and gaming technologies? Customers Innovation Strategy' The same is equally and painfully true of Nokia and Blackberry, as well. company like Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Gary Hamel maintains that the key to future success is management innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage?

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

The culture can also take shape around how the organization differentiates itself from others or how it innovates. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. These problems present opportunities not only for improvement but innovation. Are you and your organization working differently than others?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For all of the fervor around innovation, far too many organizations are hostile places for new ideas and the people who harbor them. All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change. The optimal amount of each will depend on the specific organization and the situation, and on changes in technologies, customer needs, and the competitive context.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

The culture can also take shape around how the organization differentiates itself from others or how it innovates. Innovation is as good a way as any to build effective cultures. Consider for a moment the four methods of innovation that Gary Hamel identified: Process Innovation (Make it better). If so, how?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

At the same time, compensating people for collaboration can be tricky, says Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and coauthor of X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed. Most of them had been with the company for a while, but many didn''t have formal skills in instructional technology and design.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Prahalad and Gary Hamel’s 1990 article, “ The Core Competence of the Organization ”). Rapidly responding to ever-evolving competitive and market changes (perhaps a reference to Rita McGrath and Ian McMillan’s 1995 article on innovation strategy “Discovery Driven Planning” ).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I have a lot of faith in the Millennials' imagination, based partly on my experience at HCL, in the area of technology innovation. My confidence in Gen Y — as well as my faith in bottom-up innovation — has been reinforced over the past month as I perused the entries submitted to the HCL MBA M-Prize.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

They’ve had challenges in maintaining their structure as they’ve grown, but the remain one of the most innovative and most profitable firms in the world. Your main point of differentiation is innovation. Firms organized with a flat structure tend to be much more innovative – if this is important strategically, then you should be flat.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We have entered the age of empowered individuals, who use potent new technologies and harness social media to organize themselves. I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management.

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