N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

Another simple rule of thumb that allows you to maximize the equation mentioned above is to leverage down to the lowest level of talent possible while still insuring an acceptable level of execution. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Ultimately the best way to insure your staff has influence is to model the correct behaviors and to make sure that you mentor them in said behaviors as well. link] #30Thursday Post Number Nine (Yes it’s fine!) | Musings on Marketing and Other Morsels [.] Thanks for stopping by David. link] Charles Hey Mike, you hit it right on.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While they are careful to insure that their brands are visible to the right constituencies, they simply won’t allow overexposure. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. The reality is that premium brands are viewed as such because they jealously manage their brand exposure.

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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. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Let’s begin by determining what it is that a CEO does…First and foremost it is the CEO’s job to provide consistent leadership by insuring that the corporate values are reflected in a clearly articulated vision which in turn translates into a well defined strategy. Priority number two is team building and talent management.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Did the attainment of your 2010 goals lead you closer to success or significance? My challenge to you is this…set the chinning bar very high for yourself by reevaluating your goals and objectives to insure that you are on a path towards significance. Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? Our Freedom.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Feed them, make them comfortable, insure that they don’t feel that their time was wasted or that they didn’t have the opportunity to be heard - have them leave looking forward to the next meeting. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. And outsiders are responding, already experimenting with digital approaches to insurance.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Work will become less routine, characterized by increased volatility, hyper-connectedness, 'swarming' and by 2015, 40 percent or more of an organization's work will be "non-routine," up from 25 percent in 2010. Gathering market intelligence via the collective is crucial.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I don't care who you are, what your title is, or what season of life you're in, we all need to subject ourselves to critical evaluation to insure that we're not wandering off course. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. And outsiders are responding, already experimenting with digital approaches to insurance.

Insurance 8

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 24, 2011

Work will become less routine, characterized by increased volatility, hyper-connectedness, 'swarming' and by 2015, 40 percent or more of an organization's work will be "non-routine," up from 25 percent in 2010. Gathering market intelligence via the collective is crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

Life insurance is – or should be – a central element in most households’ financial planning. Yet life insurance sales have been on a steady decline for years. According to LIMRA , the life insurance industry trade association, the number of individual holders of life insurance in the U.S. million to 9.7

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

To be clear, being balanced doesn't mean that you're not committed, not sold-out, not passionate – it just means you apply filters to your efforts to insure that passions are productive and healthy; not imbalanced. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Our Freedom.

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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. He favors insurance dynamics. This Saturday, Feb. He annually reports on his own mistakes.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

By no later than 2014, states will have to set up Small Business Health Options Programs, or “SHOP Exchanges,” where small businesses will be able to pool together to buy insurance. Health insurance costs for small businesses increased from 1999 to 2007. Health insurance costs for small businesses increased from 1999 to 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact. Inside Intel.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you’re using the same old marketing strategies today because they brought in business in years past, you’re in danger of being pummeled by your competition. Combine social media with traditional marketing techniques for breakthrough results! Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Now information flows in many directions, consumer touch points have multiplied, and the old, one-size-fits-all approach has given way to precision marketing and one-to-one communications. I used to think that loyalty was the highest rung on the consumer pyramid until I became the CMO of Allstate Insurance.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

← Lessons from the Trenches: Leading on a Rollercoaster Top Quotes from the Art of Management 2010 → Like Be the first to like this post. Like his EDW, which was responsible for a 64% increase in insurance sales. Skip to content Home Welcome! Bookmark the permalink. The idea exchange is a huge internal joke. Just ask Woo.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Posted by Elinor Stutz on December 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment Marketing professionals refer to strategy as your unique selling proposition while sales folk use the term ‘positioning.’ For a very short period of time I sold long-term healthcare insurance for a corporate giant.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 24, 2010

December 24, 2010 in Culture , Encouragement , Jesus , Ministry with 7 Comments Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord. Seeing the baby would insure they had indeed been visited by an angel. What does the sign of Christmas say? I did a little research.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The recent announcement of CVS’s $69 billion deal to acquire Aetna brings an insurer together with a large network of primary care providers: CVS has built more than 1,100 Minute Clinic locations inside its pharmacy stores in 33 states and the District of Columbia. But back to the insurers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Employers and insurance companies — not end consumers — call the shots on what kind of care they will pay for. One big incumbent that has become more receptive to disruptive innovation is the insurance giant Humana. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In 2010, J.P Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2012

One explanation: as the number of gun enthusiasts wane, gun manufacturers are marketing more expensive (and more lethal) models to a shrinking pool of customers. Robert Cyran and Reynolds Holding in Reuters asking why, in a country that has mandatory car insurance, we don't have mandatory gun insurance? TUM TEE TUM.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

To motivate, persuade, sell, get buy-in, receive feedback, insure understanding, or impact an audience in any way, you need their attention. Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Munich Re reports that natural disasters in 2011 caused insurance companies to substantially spend down cash reserves, with payouts exceeding premiums in the US by 16%. Insurance aside, storms (and other severe weather) can have immediate impacts on corporate bottom lines, as well as longer-term impacts on reputational value.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

In June 2010, I queued outside an Apple store for a couple of hours to secure a new iPhone 4. Enter Best Buy's heavily advertised "buy-back" plan — marketed as " future-proofing " your technology. For items in good condition, eBay really allows you to do well on the second-hand market. Here's how it works.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Entrants may target over-looked segments of the market with a product considered inferior by incumbent’s most-demanding customers and later move up-market as their product improves. Or, they may create markets where no market exists and turn non-consumers into consumers. This may happen in two ways.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

But, given the structure of health insurance, the question should not be “Why are prices so high?” ” Patients are protected by insurance from most of the costs of the care they select and have no reason to shop for the best price. The alliance purchases insurance coverage for 1.3

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

For many years, private-sector providers and other business interests have responded to a combination of patients’ actual needs and market opportunities while trying to optimize earnings. Other systems typically structure services according to a predicted number of insured patients and the rates they can secure from insurers.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

This Book Will Make You Money : How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue by Jim Kukral This book provides an educational and motivational guide to using social media to market your brand or business online. In three parts, it teaches readers how to get off the ground and thrive in the social mediasphere.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients. See The Risks of Prescription Drugs (Columbia 2010).

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Posted on March 24th, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Is the customer really always right? I’m always amazed at how much money will be spent to acquire a new customer, but how little care is given to insuring customer satisfaction after the sale.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

The new-growth areas MedStar mapped out included entering the general-population health insurance business as well as creating a major presence in ambulatory care – that is, outpatient locations aimed at preempting visits to the places where nearly all of its 30,000 employees currently worked. billion in 2010 to $4.9

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

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