N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. A simple cost/benefit or risk/reward analysis should indicate whether your effort will be of value to you, and even if it is not of value to you, it may be to others.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If you suffer from analysis paralysis, procrastination, timidity, a lack of courage or confidence, being indecisive, or being in over your head, there is trouble looming. Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. If you can’t make decisions, you can’t get things done.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Information gathering and analytics acumen that looks externally at markets, competition, and the company’s reputation, and internally at the organization’s culture, teams, and performance levels. The myriad of business books aimed at big companies assume that a significant leadership infrastructure is already in place.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Thanks for the great analysis and the context within which it was framed. I offer my best wishes for success with your new company and your mission. Please stop by again and keep us updated. Thank for your comment. link] mikemyatt Hi Susan: You did a bit more than ponder didn't you?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing. In the interim we might also look at piloting an Affiliate Marketing Strategy. We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

A bias toward action is always a better path than falling prey to analysis paralysis. If so, again don't get fall into analysis paralysis. " Too often, as you indicate, we think it's all about me; I'm being picked on by the cosmos. On the other hand, it may be about me. I may have some personal issues. Do something.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In the final analysis it’s really all a matter of perspective…you can either view yourself as part of a hierarchical world sitting at the top of the org chart puffing your chest and propping-up your ego, or you can view yourself as the hub at the center of a large and diverse network.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

This point is made forcefully in a recent post here at Harvard Business Review by MIT’s Andrew McAfee, and in Average Is Over , the latest book by economist Tyler Cowen. Cowen’s thesis is that one’s ability to augment machine intelligence will define one’s value in the labor market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

Ask a CEO if they want to spend a pile of money on an analysis of their company''s story, and they''ll probably throw you out of their office. Back in the summer of 2006, New York Times Magazine columnist Rob Walker was mulling the question of what makes one object more valuable than another. It is also a book. Not convinced?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Much like you have performance reviews for your employees you should conduct an analysis of how your customers are performing. Posted on March 24th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Is the customer really always right?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Our analysis of Fortune 500 firms shows that the strengths of the strategy are real: Customer-centricity does allow divisions to focus on specific customer segments, and this narrower focus increases their knowledge of those groups. In his 2006 survey of U.S. Cisco and Xerox, for example, have seen poor results.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them. Adapted from. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

I first heard about it when everyone did in 2006. Markets change. Instead, do a careful, thoughtful analysis, for and against the innovation. Thanks to Pip Coburn who applies the Kubler-Ross model to change behavior in a roughly similar way in his book, The Change Function. I missed Twitter. But I didn''t grasp it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

His answer is that in a news market overflowing with facts, facts by themselves go unsold; they require a story—and that story, he says mischievously, needs some kind of bias on the part of the author, “a pair of lenses that slide over reality and aim to bring it more clearly into focus.” Where should all this go in our minds?”.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

This updated chart of the total number of liberal democracies is from Robert Prechter''s book, The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior , which observed that bull markets "tend to lead to political freedom, while retrenchments lead to political repression.". EWI is the world''s largest market forecasting firm.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential. We think so.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

The number of books, blogs, tweets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, etc., being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. If you can prove the results, like improved market share, increased employee engagement, increased customer retention, then you have proven you know what you are doing.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I would caution you against confusing speed with reckless abandon…I’m a big proponent of planning, assessment, analysis and strategy, but only if it is concluded in a timely fashion. “Analysis Paralysis&# leads to missed opportunities and failed initiatives. I completely agree with General Patton.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. In the fall he came out with a book setting out his new and improved worldview, The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting. The book is not the world’s most coherent.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. The result is that large firms are gaining market share.

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