N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Good business processes serve as the central nervous system for your organization providing a framework for every action, decision, activity or innovation to flow from and through.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 15, 2010

The article features the stories of the US Navy’s former Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Vern Clark, and Bono, the lead singer of the rock band U2. The article is about the topic of connecting with “core employees&# to boost strategic alignment, employee engagement, productivity and innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If units share knowledge with one another related to operation management, it improves firm performance—but both practice and research show that inter-unit knowledge transfer is never easy.” ” Knowledge transfer.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 28, 2010

It includes an article that Jason Pankau and I wrote entitled “To Boost Productivity and Innovation, Connect with the Core.&# Chief of Navy Operations Admiral Vern Clark and Bono, the lead singer for the rock band U2. Examples in the article include Ret. why is everyone smiling?

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. In recreating your organization, the way you manage knowledge is crucial. These are just a few examples.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 12, 2024

The innovations are endless, from peer-to-peer payments to automated portfolio managers and trading platforms. Finance digital transformation involves leveraging cutting-edge technologies for better operational efficiency and enhanced strategic decision-making. FinTech companies are putting a new twist on financial concepts.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. Knowing that their input has been factored into a leader’s decision is motivating and it positively impacts their future participation.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Scaling Question: Currently the department, organization, team (choose appropriate) operates at X, what does X + 2 look like? For example ‘Communication between sales and production’ or ‘More knowledge of how to use our internal knowledge management system’. How would you know? 1—2—3—4—5—6—7—8—9—10. *.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2014

They may be technical, as in the engineering example, but they can also be managerial, as when an experienced manager has hard-earned skills in problem identification and solution, crucial relationships with customers, or a detailed understanding of how to innovate. If such knowledge leaves with retirees, it may be lost for good.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

If his players didn’t work hard enough during practice, as hard as he did preparing for it, he ordered them off the court, then had the student managers collect the balls, turn off the lights, and lock the doors. Coach Wooden operated a meritocracy that treated every player fairly. why is everyone smiling?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Similar waves of innovative applications of technology (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. HR reinvented the way it trained and developed talent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Virtually every executive is eager to see his or her organization innovate. Every organization will have to learn to innovate” on a constant basis, Drucker wrote. Knowledge workers have to manage themselves,” Drucker advised. It is high time that management started acting like the clock is running out.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

To address this problem, in 2011 a group at Mayo Clinic led by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology launched an initiative to transform prenatal care from this medicalized model to an innovative wellness model. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

Since Sun made hardware and software, only Sun machines running the Sun operating system were allowed. (In Have people formally or informally report on what they find so that others can gain the insights even if they didn't use the competitors firsthand (this becomes a type of pre-emptive knowledge management ).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Enthralled by my surroundings, I would run around the factory floor and talk to the operators at each machine. Items that needed to be worked on were piled onto a cart just to the right of the operator; completed items were piled up just to the left. They took pride in showing me what they did — they were paying it forward.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Innovate more effectively? Once they addressed those needs, the company was able to use the great platform to achieve significant savings in operating costs. Before starting any new data analysis initiative, ask: Is the goal to help improve business performance? Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Increase market share?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Today the function of finding information can be performed by crowd-sourcers; mappers of local sources; filters and curators of tweets, posts, and liveblogs; algorithm designers, data scientists, and knowledge managers. Large factoring companies assemble networks of designers and producers; they look for "network orchestrators."

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2010

Eisenhower to the position of supreme commander of Operation Overlord. Although he was personally disappointed, Marshall remained working for the president as army chief of staff and appointed Dwight D. It takes an extraordinary personal sense of one’s duty for someone to make a sacrifice of the magnitude made by General Marshall.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

customers, competitors, suppliers, employees, regulators, partners, and so on) occur at the level of the operating unit, and if these interfaces are genuinely different between operating units, it makes sense to locate the corresponding tasks (e.g., If the sources of these opportunities and threats (e.g., Avoiding duplication.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2023

Embedding these transformative technologies into operations will be easier than ever. As AI and blockchain morph into accessible cloud-based services and no-code environments offer an open invitation to all, the era of democratized innovation stands before us. The future is pulsating with potential. Are you ready to meet it head-on?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

When the engineers and operators they hire lack real-world building experience, the organization has to teach them. The first solution is problematic since competitive advantage in manufactured products often stems from design, and out-sourcing can endanger the retention of core capabilities and limit innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Despite their resource advantages, incumbents are seldom the authors of game-changing innovation. It’s not that veteran CEOs discount the value of innovation; rather, they’ve inherited organizational structures and processes that are inherently toxic to break-out thinking and relentless experimentation. See the rest of the series here.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

In the Babson Executive Education analysis of 635 global companies, just under a third of companies with 1-10% growth preferred experimentation over other methodologies, such as statistical analysis, to identify revenue and operational improvement opportunities.

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