Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2011

Take the Small Business Performance Review Process from Painful to Productive by SuccessFactors Learn the “insider’s secret” of automating goal-setting and performance reviews to drive and sustain productivity and engagement. Learn how to take the pain out of the performance review process by downloading this white paper.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

This article addresses the frequently forgotten and unanticipated factors diminishing the return on process reengineering projects. Companies invest $10,000s, $100,000s, and even $1,000,000s in the transformation of their business processes only to realize all of the cost but far less of the value than originally projected.

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QAspire

JANUARY 20, 2011

Companies are working ways out to deliver more value, people in organizations are evaluated based on value they create and clients seek “value-adds” in products and services they purchase. Somewhere, in this process of constant realignment and improvement, ‘waste’ is introduced.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? link] ATIG Dear Mike, Reasonably at the crucial moment, We can’t resist and reject that process. link] Mike Myatt Thanks Dan…Have a great weekend Sir.

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QAspire

JANUARY 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Lessons in Using Checklists for Managing Processes Most quality management theories and modern management practices rely heavily on checklists as an important tool to get things right the first time. Checklists help in controlling quality of the products in verification stage.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Bottom line…the way you identify leaders is not through psychological profiling or some miraculous transformative process. and Mike Myatt, Productivity links. Productivity links said: n2growth.com: Looking For Leadership: By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Really? Dare I ask for comments?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Tenure Posted on April 26th, 2010 by admin in Productivity , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth After my last post “ Focus on Performance &# I thought it might be a good idea to follow-up by addressing what is in my opinion one of the great killers of corporate productivity – tenure.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Key Performance Indicators to Align the Contract Management Process With Your Sales Process. The merger of contract management processes with sales processes has become a top priority for CEOs and CFOs as the ability to get contracts signed, tracked and filed becomes a critical component in driving revenues.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Put simply…not all inputs should weigh equally in one’s decisioning process. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. Another aspect that needs to be factored into the decisioning process is the source of the input.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 2, 2011

Projects introduce new products and services, processes, applications, and standards to the organization. Subsequently, productivity will drop in magnitude and duration correlating to the change preparation of the organization. You just finished reading Project Management - Implementation Productivity !

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The desired end result is different for each of our clients, but it''s usually centered around growth, higher productivity, improved profitability and greater overall goal accomplishment. . Company A (Mfg)- 110% achievement of Revenue and Profit, 79% achievement of all 2011 Goals. Company C (NFP) - 87 % achievement of all 2011 Goals.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Take an assessment of what you do well and what you don’t and then apply rigor, process, structure and discipline to each of those areas. The most productive leaders I know have the ability to be extremely nice, very civil and always polite while maintaining the ability to be direct, focused, and candid.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? Get outside of your old thought patterns and seek out people, technology, collaborative relationships, process and any other solutions that can improve your business.

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QAspire

JANUARY 12, 2011

We write our processes to get certified against a certain standard. We develop our products and services in line with the demands of our customers. When we continuously meet these demands, adhere to processes and improve upon them, we build repeatability in our success. It is driven by external demands.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it? Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Don’t be quick to hire based upon gut feel, but rather take time in the interviewing process to let the prospective new hire get a feel for your culture and your company. that can be administered as part of the hiring process.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Key Performance Indicators to Align the Contract Management Process With Your Sales Process by Adobe/EchoSign, Inc. The merger of contract management processes with sales processes has become a top priority for CEOs and CFOs as the ability to get contracts signed, tracked and filed becomes a critical component in driving revenues.

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QAspire

JANUARY 16, 2011

Leaders frame complex strategies, use heavy weight terminologies to describe their plans, set up complex processes and use a lot of jargons when communicating for a change. Simplicity within a team is a product of leading them well. They spend heavily on getting those strategies across the board and aligning people to it.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. Okay, my question is this: What constitutes best practices in this situation?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2010

In 140 characters or less, elections are influenced, news is being broken, relationships are being created and expanded, brands are being built, trust is being build, influence is being generated, and products & services are being sold. Don’t underestimate the power of brevity. Thanks for adding to the discussion Randy.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

link] Tanveer Naseer Mike, your piece is a great reminder for organizations to not obsess over their processes or their top talent, but to focus instead on what the purpose is behind their organization. It was exactly the simplicity of their business model and their product that made them into the company that they are today.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The most productive, high-performance organizations have the ability to deliver fairly complex solutions, and complete difficult tasks at the lowest levels within their organization. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process. While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

The next step in the process is learning where to apply your new found listening skills. A key point for all leaders to consider is that it’s impossible to stick your foot in your mouth when it’s closed. Think about it…when was the last time you viewed a negative soundbite of a CEO who was engaged in active listening?

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Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 6, 2011

A key premise behind Six Disciplines has been to help people and their organizations develop a process for planning and execution. The desired end result is different for each of our clients, but it's usually centered on growth, higher productivity, improved profitability and greater overall goal accomplishment. and Profits from 4.8%

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2011

Document Process Management : The Case for an Integrated Lifecycle Approach. Learn how you can manage enterprise information and evidentiary records in a well documented and consistent manner, while reducing costs and increasing productivity. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. by Oca Business Services.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

It’s as if it has become more acceptable to bash users of buzzwords than to actually listen to what’s being said – this in my opinion is not healthy, nor is it productive.

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Six Disciplines

MAY 31, 2013

The desired end result is different for each of our clients, but it''s usually centered around growth, higher productivity, improved profitability and greater overall goal accomplishment. . Company A (Mfg)- 110% achievement of Revenue and Profit, 79% achievement of all 2011 Goals. Company C (NFP) - 87 % achievement of all 2011 Goals.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Avoid controversy, maintain a high likeability factor, consistently and proactively engage your customers, be a business of character that engenders trust and confidence with your target market(s), produce a quality product or service at a competitive price point, and provide great customer service. must all reflect high standards of quality.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The desired end result is different for each of our clients, but it's usually centered around growth, higher productivity, improved profitability and greater overall goal accomplishment. Company A (Mfg)- 110% achievement of Revenue and Profit, 79% achievement of all 2011 Goals. Company C (NFP) - 87 % achievement of all 2011 Goals.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Lack of Feedback : If as a leader you don’t subject yourself to a 360 review process, then you are not earnestly looking for personal growth and development opportunities. I ask myself, what would make the other person have a "WOW" experience and make me feel really good in the process. The boss will never go for that.&#

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

“My way or the highway&# leadership styles don’t play well in today’s world, will result in a fractured culture, and ultimately a non-productive organization. Without them, not only is there no one to lead, but in many cases there would not be a product to sell or a service to offer.

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Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The desired end result is different for each of our clients, but it's usually centered around growth, higher productivity, improved profitability and greater overall goal accomplishment. . Company A (Mfg)- 110% achievement of Revenue and Profit, 79% achievement of all 2011 Goals. Company C (NFP) - 87 % achievement of all 2011 Goals.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process. It is absolutely possible to build very productive relationships with even the most adversarial of individuals.

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