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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. Mike coined the phrase “next practices” as an alternative to best practices, and it epitomizes N2Growth’s innovative approach to every aspect of business development.

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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

Supply chains are linked to these inputs, as is every other variable the CEO needs to be concerned about, from available corporate resources to stock price. As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence.

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American Express Boosts Customer Service with Transformed Leadership and Culture

The Practical Leader

The new leadership approach Jim describes Amex has used since he took charge of this role in 2005 provides powerful data and examples of how leading a customer focused culture can have a major impact on organizational performance. In the past, 75% of it was on how, technically, you complete the transaction.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

If you've ever had anything to do with business initiatives among the world's poor — the so-called bottom of the economic pyramid — you've no doubt heard the advice that enterprises in this space need to aim for low prices, low profit margins, and high sales volumes. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S. It was laid down by C.K.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels.

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How Bold Corporate Climate Change Goals Deteriorate Over Time

Harvard Business Review

Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015. Today, businesses often operate on short-term objectives of profit maximization and shareholder return. We get back to core stuff.”

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