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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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking to reduce its cost structure by redesigning its health-care-delivery model to reflect the true costs of care (the early stages of the project were described in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article by Robert S. Health Operations' Kaplan and Michael E.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

But because we failed to hammer out exactly how we would operate (including our respective roles and responsibilities), infighting distracted from operating, cash became a concern, and the business slowly, then quickly, imploded. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. It was devastating.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. And while some foundations bucked the trend and made double-digit investment gains in recent years, the average foundation in Chronicle's analysis netted out 14.9

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration. In addition to sheer luck, three categories of factors could explain differences in the performance of divested businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

With these criteria in mind, our final list is as follows: Our analysis revealed characteristics shared by the winning firm’s leaders as well as common strategies they employed. Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

My clients hire me not solely on the basis of what I can personally do for them in a vacuum, but rather what the collective influence of my network and resources can accomplish for them when I operate outside of my own personal bubble.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

A recently released survey reveals that 86 percent of firms face increasing complexity in their operating environment or organizational structure over the past three years. A minimum of 125 respondents are from the finance function and a minimum of 125 represent functions other than finance. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Ina Drew was in the bank's High Five in the proxy statement, with more than $15 million in total comp in 2010 and 2011 (cash, bonus, stock awards). Vague statements or press releases may accompany these events, rather than clear analysis. The same may be true of the London trader and his supervisor.

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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? Much like you have performance reviews for your employees you should conduct an analysis of how your customers are performing.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. An analysis of business encompasses much more than accounting fraud and stated values of stocks. Operational Statistics. The recent years succeeded in exploding a great many myths and presumptions about business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Guardian journalist James Ball, who has been closely associated with the use of data for journalism – from his work with Wikileaks to the “Offshore Leaks” investigations – recently offered an interesting analysis of these developments. Why does this matter? How could things be different?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Despite her repeated requests for comprehensive financial statements, he continued to come to board meetings with a mere two pages of analysis that lacked any explanation. How could she or any of the other directors provide fiscal oversight without access to details of the company’s operations or accounting? Betsy asked.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

The Ex-Im Bank was formed in the 1930s to help finance U.S. Today, it provides financing support to exporters or to their customers overseas, when, per its charter, private credit is not readily available (locomotives to Kazakhstan, medical supplies to Viet Nam). In 2011, according to Bank numbers, it used $32 billion to finance U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

In the final analysis, I guess I can boil it down to this – if you can weave enough competency together, which has been tested by experience and underpinned by character then you have a decent shot at adding value to the client relationship. This tracks the "drives" theory of David McClelland.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Wachter wrote in 2011 , a consensus has developed among academics that fraud on the market is “not just flawed, second-best, misdirected, or in need of improvement, but flat-out senseless, mindless, and reasonless.”. Economy Finance Risk management' As a result, University of Pennsylvania law professors William W.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

and Cuba could implement over the next two years will be critical for helping business executives determine the level of urgency around developing their Cuba operation. At the last Congress, in 2011, Raul Castro had announced plans to introduce new market reforms and attract foreign investment. A limited business opportunity.

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