N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. Want to find out? While this test is not as detailed as more comprehensive assessments, I have nonetheless found it to be fairly thorough. Section IV: Tactics.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Indeed, data reveal that rates of entrepreneurship have been in perpetual decline across the United States between 1978 and 2011. It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that data from Rice University shows that market power today is more concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of incumbents than ever before.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 17, 2013

The Digital Marketer: Benchmark & Trends Report 2012. Forrester Research: US Cross-channel Retail Forecast 2011 to 2016. BrightLocal: Study – 72% of Consumers Trust Online Reviews as much as personal recommendations by BrightLocal 3/12/2012. HubSpot: 9/21/2012 post of the same name.

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Six Disciplines 1:1 Executive Coaching - Is Now Open for Enrollment for 2011. If any (or all) of these seem too familiar, we have good news: we’ve just opened the doors for enrollment to Six Disciplines 1:1 Executive Coaching – proven to get the results you need to be a more effective executive in 2011.

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Executive Coaching Execution Six Sigma Benchmarking 101

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

In fact, if you're reading this text, just stop right now and benchmark your activity against your reflective thoughts – Is what you're doing, in alignment with your true priorities, or have you been sucked down into the weeds? The old "what if I only had 'x' number of hours to work in a week, what would I focus on?"

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The three most critical items to focus on when conducting your planning are: Insure that personal accountability is present on any major benchmark, milestone or deliverable. In most cases your wins won’t put you out of business, but your losses most certainly can.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2011

Establishing a benchmark allows you to fairly assess the situation and address the most frequented sites and the heaviest individual bandwidth users. Marketing might need greater bandwidth for YouTube campaigns, for example. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider tailoring access by department or individual.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. The Powerful Role of Trust. Customer relationships, like interpersonal relationships, are built on trust.

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Aaker Short-term Marketing Benchmarking 64

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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Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 395

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

Strategy Driven

JULY 20, 2012

Benchmark Your Feedback Step 8. Richard Schroder is president of Anova Consulting Group, a leading market research and consulting firm focused on Win Loss Analysis and Client Satisfaction Analysis. He is the author of a book, From a Good Sales Call to a Great Sales Call (McGraw-Hill, 2011).

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Analysis Conflict of Interest Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing 50

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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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. The relentless speed of change of customers, markets, and technology has given rise to enormous opportunity.

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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. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

According to ComScore, at the end of 2011 Facebook accounted for a shocking 28% of U.S. Private Market Valuations aren't Great Indicators of Public Returns The final reason for trepidation is probably the most important. However, the public market investor is looking for very different opportunities.

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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%. On the contrary, tackling climate change is an investment that pays off economically as well as socially.

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Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Its stock price peaked weeks after the company went public in 2011 and is down about 80% since. The market has come to question whether its growth can be sustained, and with what underlying earnings. For example, if you had 1,000 paying customers in 2011, how many of them were still with you as paying customers in 2012?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference.

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Benchmarking seems to assure leaders that as long as their organization’s performance is 50% of the national average or better, things are okay. An aggressive HMO was aggressively moving into the market, cutting prices offered to employers. These teams began redesigning the workflow and offices in late 2011.

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Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

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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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Financial performance. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

For decades multinational corporations have poured hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investments into emerging markets , sometimes preferring the investment climate of "stable" authoritarian regimes over "messy" democracies. Certainly the money at stake is substantial. If the owner of that subsidiary discounts profits in Egypt by 12.5

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NPV Short-term Discount Politics 12

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

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Sales or marketing support. Without visioning, other functions (marketing, human resources, financial, production, quality control, public relations, etc.) Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Guidelines for re-examing the business position…criteria and benchmarks. Political fund raising.

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Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 69

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Business development has occurred primarily by accident or through market demand. Some people in your organization will devote much time to promotions, public relations, marketing and advertising. Operating units and departments must schedule and follow a program to market their worth to their companies. Marketing Program.

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Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

The multiple parts of a successful company require care, attention, grooming and benchmarking. Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. Who should be the arbitrator and benchmark? You should.

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Long-term Benchmarking Quality Process 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

It may be: human resources, organizational development, training, technology, sales, marketing, advertising, public relations, coaching or financial management. Insist that they benchmark everything they do for you toward a Big Picture of your business. Advertising is a process, part of marketing and a cousin of sales.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

This approach costs six times that of doing things correctly on the front end… meaning planning, sequential execution and benchmarking progress. Unsuccessful marketing. Chasing the wrong leads, prospects or markets. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Each year, one-third of the U.S. Poor location.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The longer they network, the better they get at niche marketing. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away. Some commercial programs cater to this market but are usually populated by entrepreneurs on the way up.

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

As company that markets fashion apparel, accessories, and home goods (at its namesake stores as well via its other brands, like Anthropologie and Free People), it seems reasonable to think that the perspectives of women could be useful to its board. Many shareholders agree.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Data can help identify variations in clinical practice, utilization rates, and performance against internal and external benchmarks, leading to improved quality and a sustained change in culture. Health care spending topped $2 trillion in 2011. Lowering Costs Without Compromising Quality. percent in 1960.

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Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Our work started casually at a lunch we had in 2011 with Doug Nieters and Stephen Paine, two other members of Credit Suisse’s Open Network, our firm’s professional network for LGBT employees. These are questions with historically few answers—and one that we and several colleagues at Credit Suisse have been exploring for three years.

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Policies Price Due Diligence Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Our work started casually at a lunch we had in 2011 with Doug Nieters and Stephen Paine, two other members of Credit Suisse’s Open Network, our firm’s professional network for LGBT employees. These are questions with historically few answers—and one that we and several colleagues at Credit Suisse have been exploring for three years.

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Policies Price Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Although rewards were not tied to performance in 2012 (they will be in later years), Pioneer ACOs did better on blood pressure and cholesterol control for beneficiaries with diabetes than did managed-care plans, and better on readmissions relative to the Medicare fee-for-service benchmark.

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Organization Health Care Insurance Quality 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The company did more than 4,000 deals…most risky and without research, planning and benchmarking. Without Strategic Planning, there is no benchmarking of specific tactics. In their marketing, accounting and auditing firms claim to be full-service business advisors, in order to get business. Accounting. All rights reserved.

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