N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Madoff Investment Securities LLC, the financial derivatives market collapse, Toyota concealing owner reports of sudden acceleration (resulting in a USA man sentenced to prison) and the BP Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill? And Mike, thanks, for providing the forum and moderating. I agree that the discussions are quite valuable.

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Recent 2010 research* confirms what we know to be our biggest challenges as executives: 52% of executives don’t feel their company’s strategy will lead to success. Industry Benchmark reports from three perspectives: (Financial, Market, Competition). 64% agree that their company has too many conflicting priorities.

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Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

26, many thousands of people around the world will download Warren Buffett's 2010 shareholder letter. To help you see what is different in his 2010 letter — I offer a partial list of Buffett principles from last year's letter. Rather than lament the post-2008 devastation in capital markets, Buffett rejoices.

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Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

Both the maturity concepts and the benchmark have met with incredible success. Over 500 firms are now using the Service Maturity Model to benchmark their organizations and work toward optimization. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) Posted in the Announcement category.

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Maturity Participative Benchmarking Licensing 28

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Benchmark Your Feedback Step 8. Benchmarking and tracking a company’s sales effectiveness and products and services against the competition. About the Author Richard Schroder is president of Anova Consulting Group, a leading market research, sales training and consulting firm. Design a Prospect Debrief Questionnaire Step 5.

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Analysis Benchmarking Newsletter Learning-by-Doing 62

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Global stock markets promptly floundered. Like virtually all believers in globalization, I deplore Brexit and think the markets (and Game of Thrones fans) are right to be concerned. The votes are in and the immediate reactions to Brexit have not been positive. The British pound tanked.

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GDP Long-term Merchandising Benchmarking 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? It will encompass the goals and benchmarks you need to achieve during this time period.

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Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%. But match, or barely beat expectations, and the market yawns, or worse, dumps the stock, as it did with Cisco. The problem?

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Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

cents for a sachet that could purify 10 liters, Pur achieved penetration rates of 5% to 10% in its test markets — strong by almost any yardstick — but in 2005 the company gave up on Pur as a business, because the numbers simply hadn't worked. And in D and E markets, the environment demands a very high contribution per transaction.

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Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Today we launch the sixth edition of the annual Legatum Prosperity Index™ , benchmarking 142 countries on measures of wealth and wellbeing. Tunisia has been hardest hit, falling to 122nd out of 142 countries for Social Capital (32 places since 2010), with Syria also dropping 30 places (to 131st position) in the same time period.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Continuing the trend toward more and costlier climate-related disasters will have the inevitable result that it always has: insurance companies will either raise premiums or exit particularly risky markets, as has happened before with flood insurance in places that are increasingly susceptible to storm surges.

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Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

There’s a similar assumption underlying much of the discussion around how to measure the return on marketing investment, where it seems to be tacitly accepted that attitudinal insights are insufficient at senior decision-making levels, and behavioral insights represent today’s benchmarks.

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CRM Pharmaceuticals Survey Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

One of the researchers involved in this proposal, Ron Goetzel of Johns Hopkins and Truven Health Analytics, coauthored a separate study that found that companies with award-winning wellness programs outperformed the stock market over a 14-year period. Publication bias aside, that study is controversial for three reasons.

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Company Metrics Proposal Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

But Motorola’s markets were transforming in the mid-2000s, and chief executive Greg Brown and his board decided in March 2008 that the company should be split in two: Motorola Mobility would take its mobile phones and related devices, and Motorola Solutions its mission-critical data and communication products.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. Gaining real insights into customers’ needs demands more of companies than those arising from typical market research.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

AFP conducted the Cost of Capital Survey in October 2010 and received answers from 309 chief financial officers, treasurers, vice presidents-finance, and assistant treasurers. Book vs. Market Weighting Factors Used for Debt and Equity in Calculation of WACC. . Current market debt/equity ratio. Current market debt/equity ratio.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Others cite the nine organizations leaving the program and the humbling results of a prior ACO experiment in Medicare — the Physician Group Practice Demonstration (PGPD) that ran from 2005 to 2010 — as reasons to be pessimistic. The basic market failures in health care are still with us.

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Organization Health Care Insurance Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Serious marketers, innovators and quants can't find a better — or more controversial — case study in the problems and pathologies of predictive analytics than America's down-to-the-wire presidential campaign. Or a 30% level from the 2010 congressional election? Do they reflect probabilistic "best practice"?

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