N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Ranking is good for command and control, but not good for change and innovation. Our unlearning curve must be greater than our learning curve if we are going to succeed. Technology Makes a Poor Substitute for Authentic Leadership — When technology fails, leadership must prevail. Rank Has Its Privileges?

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 2, 2022

The entrepreneurial learning curve is often an extremely steep one, with entrepreneurs picking up the tools of the trade at a rapid pace as they try to grow their businesses. Research from Harvard Business School shows, however, that the learning curve may not be quick enough.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

There was also a rapid and steep learning curve for staff to familiarize themselves with the new technology, with many reporting frustrations with the various technical issues they encountered, particularly around a lack of access to HIPAA-compliant platforms.

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HR Digest

JULY 23, 2019

A primary reason why it takes so long is that effective leadership traits require their own learning curve. Six years ago, Diane Gherson led IBM to undertake the most ambitious technology-enabled HR transformations in its 107-year history. Continuous Learning. Great leadership takes years of practice.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 30, 2023

The dust from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse is nearly settled, but as we look at the new landscape, we need to take a hard look at what can be learned from it.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2024

They are responsible for implementing and maintaining the technologies that empower ACH and EFT processes and educating customers on optimally leveraging these digital payment methods. Advances in financial technology pledge to enhance the speed and performance of payments, rendering them effortless and cost-free.

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HR Digest

JUNE 10, 2019

That’s why every business owner has since prioritized technology commercialization and deployment in their workplaces. However, caution must be taken while implementing technology to ensure that they do not strangle the overall productivity by becoming a challenge to the employees. Invest in simple technology.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an interview, Christy Pambianchi, EVP and Chief People Officer at Intel, highlights the importance of continuous learning and innovation in HR, emphasizing Intel’s phased approach to implementing AI tools. Pambianchi advises startup leaders to prioritize human capital management, stressing the importance of assembling agile teams.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

It’s a shocking statistic, given the amount of lip service business owners around the country pay to innovation. The age of 3D printing has been around for a while, yet the vast majority of businesses are still stuck on technology invented millennia ago. The last thing you want is a software solution that has a steep learning curve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Deep-tech innovation, which harnesses advanced scientific understanding to create groundbreaking technologies, has seen significant growth — and investment — over the past decade. While methodologies such as lean don’t transfer directly, deep-tech startups can adapt parts of the approach.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Change is innovative. One can always learn from the past, dust it off and reapply it. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights. Learn from successes and three times more from failures. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. Benchmarking.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It is based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and is implemented by fastworks as an add-in to Microsoft Excel, a ubiquitous engine that many already use for various business applications, which reduces the learning curve and the need for expensive proprietary software. Technology and its role in travel 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Working with new technologies in new and nimbler ways creates the need for additional innovation in talent practices.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2018

It’s also one of the hardest skills for a new manager to learn, in part because — unless you’re working at a very fast-growing company — you typically don’t get a lot of practice with it. When you don’t have a lot of opportunities to practice, it’s easy for your learning curve to remain flat.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

While they’re not well-suited for tasks that require technical mastery or where a single mistake is game-ending, they are particularly adept at knowledge work that is innovative in nature, when speed matters and the environment is quickly changing. Accelerating innovation. Leading teams Managing people Productivity'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2011

It also made it more difficult for business-minded observers to assess the importance of the machine's question-answering technology. This technology has climbed an astounding learning curve — and there's no reason it should stop here. Was Watson smart or dumb, a savant they could use or a senseless tool?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

In a digital deal, the acquiring company pursues technologies or capabilities it does not possess. Accenture Strategy research indicates that the disruption and differentiation that digital technology can create will place it at the center of acquisition strategy for the foreseeable future. More than half of U.S.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Always keep up with emerging trends and technologies in your specific sector. Be able to recognise learning curves and achievements and to know when to move on and when to dig in and make the most of an opportunity. Continually assess how happy you are in your current role. This will keep you competitive and relevant.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

The reason: There''s a big learning curve with Big Data, one that companies such as Netflix and Amazon had to embrace in the 1990s to deal with hundreds of millions of customer clicks. It''s a learning curve that most other large companies have not yet faced. Information & technology Innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

By inextricably linking the two, we confine the practice of real, turbo-charged capitalism to business, and we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to innovate, fund, and bring to scale the kind of breakthrough ideas that will begin to solve the huge social problems we face today. This we call prudence.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum. Consider the breadth and scope that may involve communications and connectivity technologies (telemetry, WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee), electrical hardware engineering (sensor technologies, chips, firmware, etc.), and design and user experience.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2013

Yes, there are always costs associated with changing platforms (especially in terms of the learning curve of your employees). So for that desired "integrated solution" to take hold, it has to undertake continuous and aggressive innovation so that it can support each major new social network and compete with newly emergent social tools.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? Sponsored by DXC Technology. Let’s start with financing the deal. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Surveys indicate that more than 30 percent of the top 300 largest global brands are now using or evaluating 3D printing (often with printing technology in-house) whether for prototyping and other innovation projects or in actual production of what they sell. For evidence, just look at the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

I recommend that clients shorten the learning curve by helping every new hire put together a Relationship Action Plan. Another important part of launching a new team is getting team members to do something together that unleashes collaboration and innovation. Here’s where leveraging technology can be a huge asset.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

We are in the midst of a technological revolution that is every bit as profound as the impact of cheap computing power, but it’s subtler and harder to notice. In more and more businesses, physical objects are no longer the primary basis for innovation and differentiation. They come second to innovations in computer code.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Rivals were developing digital technology to replace the existing analog standard. Could both technologies exist side by side? What those engineers couldn’t see was that, for most listeners, digital technology’s advantages far outweighed the often undetectable losses from digitization. Internal debate raged.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

By second phase, I mean the creation of entirely new offerings that are possible only because of digital technology. For the Irish Times , it was an opportunity to get closer to the cutting edge of innovation in the advertising industry, and to act as a culture-change program for the established business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The technology’s flexibility introduces synergies where none existed before. The company has invested heavily in 3D printing technologies that are flexible enough to produce a variety of products. Because the technology is still developing, they would need not only capital but also a good deal of technical expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. At an even higher level, Blast IQ helps a less experienced engineer move up the learning curve much faster than in the days when one learned strictly by trial and error.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

“Just as technology and entrepreneurship have transformed the way we live, applying investment and business tools to social problems is disrupting everything from philanthropy to governments to investing.” Now I think both can be used as methods for changing the world.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve found that managers who fully embrace a superconsumer strategy learn more from their consumers through increased empathy. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry. Longer tenure reduces the challenge of a steep learning curve.”

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