N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They are voracious learners always looking for better methods, different approaches, enhanced efficiencies, better technology and increased velocity. These tenets are discussed at length by Vineet Nayar of HCL Technologies, in his book ‘employees first, customers second’ [link] mikemyatt Hi Kavita: Thanks for your comment.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2016

As Joan Lewis, former P&G Global Officer and SVP of Consumer and Market Knowledge says, “Hundreds or thousands of projects are good ideas but if we don’t prune the list, they will strangle each other like weeds in a garden.”. For example, a major bank tried to do a technological transition of their system without sufficient pre-testing.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

If we had better technology would we know what to do with it? by Will Rogers, or somebody else. 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. Would we sustain, or would we disrupt.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration. ” Alan Kay.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact. Inside Intel.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Consider these 11 ideas from the Radical Times Webcast series by SAS Marketing Director Jonathan Hornby: 1. Understand what creates value.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. It’s easier and more fun to do customer interviews with a colleague.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. How to survive and thrive in a down economy. sascom Magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

But when the change involves a new information technology, it's harder to make incremental updates. Jointly map the work flows before you implement the technology. Companies can execute major process improvements to reduce risk and allow organizational learning by breaking projects down into a series of small, reversible experiments.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AR has been piquing marketers’ interest in recent years, as it has the potential to change a range of consumer experiences, from how people find new products to how they decide which ones to buy. When I started working on AR as the topic for my PhD, almost no established knowledge about it existed in the marketing field.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. In 1962, an academic by the name of Everett Rogers released a book called The Diffusion of Innovations. Bundling good.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Push paper, systems, technology. Mid-Level Sellers (consumer services, multi-level marketing, retailers, vendors). Science-Technology Provider. ” Will Rogers said, “Mr. They meet quotas, schedules, procedures and statistics. These are the people who do and make things. Administrative, managerial support.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., This technology let people virtually “try on” a product.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

If you’re technologically inclined, it’s not difficult to strip DRM off digital stuff and play your media wherever and however you want—just like if you’re mechanically inclined, it’s not hard to remove limiters from car engines. There’s a market opportunity for DRM-free platforms. DRM says no.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

With a PhD in molecular biology from Columbia University, Roger had published a paper in Nature and was pursuing a promising career as an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School. In fact, during that first year, Roger’s colleagues were incredulous. That was a decade ago. Was he really leaving?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Any standing meeting, whether it’s of a departmental leadership team, a cross-functional group owning a process like innovation or talent management, or a task force managing a six-month transition to a new technology, should be designed and linked to a broader governance plan. Roger Schwarz. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2015

The abysmal job market for teens is forcing many of them to think differently about work. In addition to the ho-hum job market, and changing cultural zeitgeist, technology is changing where, when and how early we begin to work. And don’t forget the competitive college admissions market.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. Share an ah-ha moment, an experience, a process, but share…This post can be a game changer to many people if those who read it are willing to share their collective wisdom.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. Sephora has become a leader in the cosmetics market by transcending this tradeoff, finding ways to achieve transactions and relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

“M&A is a mug’s game,” Roger Martin writes in the June issue of HBR , “in which typically 70%–90% of acquisitions are abysmal failures.” company, but perhaps Microsoft thinks it can provide more patient capital, shielding LinkedIn from the short-termism of the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share. Everyone still here? Thought so.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

After Everett Rogers famously made the distinction between early and late adopters , academics in marketing and technology identified a number of differences between those who take quickly to innovations and those who don’t. First, what worked with early adopters isn’t likely to work with later adopters.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

She set up an advisory council with senior leaders from across the company — business units, HR, IT, legal, finance, marketing, and more — to create a shared vision on how "going social" would improve employee and organizational productivity. Technology: Determine the right mix of tools and technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. technology), rivalry could be an important lever for managers to pull to incentivize risk-taking.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Many of us are familiar with the concept of Getting to Yes , an iconic negotiation strategy developed by Harvard professor Roger Fisher and others. Similarly, a technology firm hired a new president for one of its regions to jump-start local sales growth.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Consider the story of Bud Frankel, the founder of Frankel , a firm that created the marketing services industry (where both of us eventually worked) that gained a national reputation and attracted clients across both the consumer and healthcare areas. Near the end of his career, it also helped him decide to sell Frankel.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Schultz is already well-known as one of this generation’s CEO activists, a group which includes Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein , Duke Energy’s Jim Rogers , and Google’s Eric Schmidt — and other high-ranking corporate leaders like Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg. But CEO activism is a different animal.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

The company, Australia’s largest wealth platform provider, is the wealth management arm of the Westpac Group (Australia’s second largest bank in terms of market capitalization). Kelley and Tim Brown of IDEO and Roger Martin of the Rotman School, design thinking has three major stages. Related Video. Popularized by David M.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. It’s a process informed by deep qualitative data rather than statistical market data. It celebrates people rather than technology.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Nash Equilibrium, Pareto Principle). Mayer, James H. Davis and F.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. This is apparent in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is using a collaborative approach to build a national digital highway , partnering with the country’s world-class technology companies in the process.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

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. In The Innovator’s Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle with radical innovation in their markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“The higher you go in an organization, the more you’re expected to make decisions on which you might not have direct experience or expertise,” says Roger Schwarz, an organizational psychologist and the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams. “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.”

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