N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Most companies can claim an element of success in some aspect of CRM proficiency such as sales force automation, database marketing, development of a knowledgebase, etc., CEOs/COOs are looking at the wrong data…they look for trends while or after they happen, not searching for clues before they happen.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

While I can't blame social media since I've seen this trend in metropolitan areas (old woman's purse snatched; no one ran after the snatcher), what you noted here is more than passivity, it's active withdrawal from reality, which is pretty dangerous. Thanks for adding to the discussion Becky.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Rankings, Lists and Recognitions The Power 150 – Top Marketing Blogs This list ranks the top 150 marketing blogs based on an algorithmic approach using Google page rank, Technorati rankings, Bloglines ranking and editorial quality. The N2growth Blog is pleased to announce its inclusion in the list.

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Chart Your Course

JULY 11, 2017

Unfortunately, current trends show that the pool of talent is shrinking. The 25 to 34 year old demographic in the labor market has shrunk every year since 2006. The US population is graying at an accelerating pace: From 2010 roughly one in six workers will be over 54 years old.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 1, 2014

While working at Morgan Stanley in New York City, I met and discovered the writings of several thoughtful market analysts. 1 strategist by SmartMoney.com based on his market calls during that year. In 2006, Mr. Wien was named by New York Magazine as one of the sixteen most influential people in Wall Street.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

This post is a great example of facing up to the expedient and popular trend of using no as a silver bullet. link] Dan Collins Mike, If there is one characteristic I admire in leaders and respect in you it is the willingness to state in no uncertain terms (sorry for the play on words) their stance.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Blogging is much more than the latest trend and is here to stay. 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. The bottom line is that the numbers do in fact speak for themselves.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

job market is that it's far less robust than it use to be, despite a steady improvement in the official jobless rate since the Great Recession high of 10.0% labor market doesn't stop here. personal income peaked in 2006. Of course, this was just one comment, and anecdotes are not a substitute for statistics. in October 2009.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year).

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QAspire

JULY 27, 2010

So, quality is a moving target – each time a customer comes back to you, you need to deliver similar or better quality (of products, services and experience), you need to demonstrate improvement, care enough about them, stay on top of market trends and keep changing the rules of the game (innovation).

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Morgan (2005) uses a great image of a spider-plant to describe the decentralization trend. This is where the starfish could reside (Brafman & Beckstrom, 2006). eBay has a core group of full-time employees who handle the framework of the site, monitor it, market it and are involved in operations similar to a traditional company.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I believe that for the masses this sentiment as a core value ceased to be the case a few decades ago, and the trend is still going the wrong direction. " used to be ingrained into the moral fabric of our society.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Here is the complete list: #1 – On Purpose – Be clear about what you want to accomplish #2 – Make a Commitment to Win #3 – Manage your mood #4 – Reach Beyond Yourself #5 – Recruit your personal team #6 – Know Your Personal Numbers #7 – Know Your Business Numbers #8 – Know your market numbers & (..)

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The net result of being a late stage trend follower is that you will likely experience little more than yet another in a long line of great adventures that ended in frustration due to the time wasted and the investment squandered. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Thanks David.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The latest trend in M&A these days is divestitures: larger companies selling off pieces of their business. This trend is nothing more than a normal cycle, but it is critically important to understand. Yet M&A activity tends to spike when markets peak, arguably fueling a bubble: there were roughly $3.79

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

We've extensively analyzed the applications to the Echoing Green fellowship between 2006 and 2011, and built a rich dataset that allows us to rigorously study trends in the field of social enterprise. In 2010 and 2011, almost 50% of the applicants to Echoing Green relied on hybrid models, versus 37% in 2006.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 6, 2022

. “This is the first study to examine how economic downturns correspond with increasing biases against gay men, and finds that the two periods of economic recession were disproportionately harmful to gay men in the labor market,” the researchers explain. Labor market discrimination.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. However being aware of industry trends, competitive positioning, who the thought leaders are, etc. Social Media Marketing an hour a day – Dave Evens 7.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Back in 2006, McDonald’s saw its growth stall. Indeed, current trends are moving away from broad offerings in many industries. The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. Justin Case/Getty Images. But sales hardly budged.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

They do not vacillate with the swings and trends of "popular opinion" This, along with an open mind to listen, learn from and entertain the possibility of equally valid, dissenting views is what makes great leaders. But they do believe and stand up for what they believe in. They attempt to change through their example.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

These changes, often unclear and barely perceptible, foreshadow new trends in human behavior, technology, and demographics. By 2006, GMCR owned 100% of Keurig and officially renamed Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) in 2014. Even unknowns, such as new competitors entering the market, are not totally unknowable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. It is early days in the use of predictive modeling to reduce risk and create new markets for small business loans.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. It is early days in the use of predictive modeling to reduce risk and create new markets for small business loans.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Bill Gates stepped away from Microsoft in 2006 and, despite the company's growing troubles in the face of the mobile disruption, has devoted his genius to solving the world's biggest problems, despite the fact that solving those problems doesn't create profit or fame.* But now it's being dismembered and destroyed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

current account deficit, which measures the gap between what the country takes in from export income, investment income, and cash transfers and what it pays out, peaked at nearly 6% of GDP in 2006 and was down to 3.1% Treasuries, the dollar has been on a downward trend in international currency markets since 2002. Still, 3.1%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

You may have had stellar experience in marketing, for instance, but if you left your job in 2006, you’ve missed the entirety of the social media era, and an employer might be justified in wondering if you’ve kept up. Go out of your way to prove them wrong. You and Your Team Series.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

Some data-driven insights will understand customer preferences, identify market trends, and optimize internal processes. Use Data and Analytics : Ask for and use the power of data and analytics to be a piece of decision-making. Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation. Griffin, D., Random House.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. This is becoming an increasingly popular trend, and allows VCs to focus on their traditional sweet spot of riskier, less capital-intensive phases of these startups' life cycles.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

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. So the trend is toward rapid commoditization of just about everything. Marketing Strategy' Not convinced? Consider this story. In 1997, there were 2.5 million brands in the world.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

And as you can see in the chart below, the long-term trend in the percentage of workers who are self-employed actually appears to be downward: But isn’t this the age of Free Agent Nation , as Dan Pink declared back in 1997 ? It gets that from a 2006 Government Accountability Office report that said there were about 42.6

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. In 2006, Khan launched Khan Academy to deliver “a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Take the story of Salman Khan and the eponymous Khan Academy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Class action litigation can illuminate trends in the workplace, and the gender class actions of the Walmart v Dukes and others of recent vintage are no exception. 2006) for a discussion of the requirements for certification of a class action. See, e.g. In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation , 471 F.3d 3d 24 (2d Cir.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In 2006, the last time a President had to nominate a Fed chairman, the job went to Ben Bernanke, who had spent his entire career as an economics professor before being called up to Washington for a stint as a Fed board member in 2002. One obvious and unsurprising trend in the chart is that overall educational standards have risen.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

For example, the percentage of workers who are self-employed , which usually rises during and immediately after a recession, has been falling steadily since 2006. Then there''s the trend in median job tenure, measured by the Labor Department in a biennial survey and shown in the chart to the left. Given the beating the U.S.

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