N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. However the goal is not to do it quickly, it's to do it well.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. What keeps you from gifting your kindness? Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Seek to send out a press release once a month (as a long term goal). An increasingly important element of marketing is search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 15, 2010

A simple example – when I was in engineering college, in the final year, my dad bought me a car after much begging and pleading. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I escaped with minor scrapes and stitches, miraculously.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

What makes time management difficult is that I might have a “to do” list together and a goal for that day, but depending on the needs of our customers I might not even touch that list. You also have latitude to decide if a request is appropriate to organizational goals. Life – and work – are always about making choices.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

In the State of Nevada we, Professional Engineers, have to have 30 professional development hours of learning to renew our licenses every two years. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas. It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

This includes getting buy-in toward a common goal. The General Manager and his team seemed not to realize that these disparate goals were a fundamental problem — both for the division's performance and for employee inner work life. In fact, we saw conditions that actually pitted departments against one another.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

We can have engineering work more closely with production. If the goal was to leapfrog the competition in every product line while revitalizing U.S. Functions were seated together with a common goal: working on the value stream from consumer research to testing. General Electric Operations Strategy'

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Check out the search engines for ‘little known facts about …’ or ‘trivia about …’ for ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

often referred to as the ability of computers to think like humans, has been a main goal of many computer and cognitive scientists for the last sixty to eighty years. And one of the principle goals of A.I. and by 2010 was acquired by Apple and launched as part of the iPhone operating system in October 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Their crowning achievement was a service launched in 2011 called Google Takeout, a unified site for exporting user data from multiple services like Gmail and Google Photos.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Make the tough calls on people.

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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. Some seek stricter accounting of ROI based on objectively measurable goals and achievements. An engineer, he says, because engineers help other people solve problems.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

While Congress is considering the PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011), there is a philosophical divide regarding the best way to deal with online piracy. Any measure to minimize piracy for a company such as Google would increase operating costs.

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Safe Harbor Download Content Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. That process incorporates operations, customer service, R&D, clinical specialists, sales, supply chain operators, and service teams. Who should lead our transformation?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The key to making these organizations work is integrating the work of discovery-driven researchers, applied scientists, and engineers in the private sector. “But here, we can operate within the time frame of the next coffee break.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The goal of the Health Acceleration Challenge is similar to that of this HBR-NEJM Insight Center : to serve as a platform to share proven innovations in health care in order to help encourage adoption across geographies, systems, and care-delivery settings. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

Everyone knows what the monthly operational "nut" is. Each day the employees get a report on how how far we are toward that revenue goal. Do we need another programmer to meet a critical goal? The commission structure encourages transparency and team participation. This can make for a complicated structure at times.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Most often, they’re financial numbers or sales goals. What many of them think is a plan include some accounting figures or sales goals. Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. In 2011, the Department of Commerce estimated that there were 27.5

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Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 78

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Coca-Cola was not alone in facing increasing costs in 2011; one of my clients, Kimberly-Clark, took an earnings hit from record pulp prices. Was a year like 2011 possible in a world without climate change? Was a year like 2011 likely ?

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. Thanks for sharing your perspective Scott.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. The good news is, your new commitment to listening will help you achieve your goal of producing better content. Best wishes Justino. Social Media Influence [.]

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. Internally conducted goal-setting workshop. Provide business owners with a totally different perspective on how they can operate and be more successful. Political fund raising.

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Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 68

Ask Atma

MAY 6, 2011

[A 5 minute talk given at LA Hackers on April 23, 2011 at Coloft]. My goal is to teach whoever is ready to re-engineer their business, startup, or organization. My name is Atma. I am an industrial psychologist. That’s kind of like a project manager on academic steroids.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 17 percent). All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 10, 2011

You should instead lead as a benevolent dictator – benevolent’ being the operative word – who always puts the company, the employees, and, most importantly, the customer, first. You establish the goals, create expectations, and determine measurements. Find creative ways to override ‘innovation inertia.’

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. Operating managers were empowered to develop unique business models and launch derivative products by themselves to best serve each unique segment; and in the process, disrupted and competed with one another.

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Productivity Products Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Engineers gave it rave reviews, and investors were lined up. He then maneuvered nerdy engineers to build his sexy devices. “Natural monopoly” was jettisoned as the operative assumption. Instead of having operations mandated, cellular carriers were given defined spectrum spaces. — would feature iPhones.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

And in 2011, Nathaniel Foote and Russ Eisenstat proposed a “better way to manage in the 21st century.” Melissa Waters, CMO of Lyft, says “Any customer these days is asking for transparency on what a company stands for and why they operate. It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric.

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Marketing Porter Metrics Brand 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

Akin to an R&D facility for a large restaurant chain or fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brand, their lab hosted a small team of chefs, and occasionally other professionals, such as food scientists, designers, or engineers, in a mixed kitchen and office space. Rather, the goal is to test the recipe’s written instructions.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

A 2011 Nielsen Co. It turns out those ads that urge people to go online, versus those that do not, actually accomplish their goal to a great extent. Well, like most things, it really depends on what product you are selling, your brand, your audience, and your strategic goals.

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Advertising Brand Apparel Audience 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

More than 20 years after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, cleanup teams operating in subarctic waters still struggled because oil became so viscous at low temperatures that it was difficult to pump from barges to onshore collection stations. The goal was to attract novel suggestions from many fields. The Subarctic Oil Problem.

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Power Proposal Innovation Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

What''s needed, clearly, is a disciplined, repeatable process that enables a brand and its agencies to locate, define and craft consistent global narratives — truly compelling brand stories — that unite brand attributes and business goals with deep audience interests and passions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

” Although the early merger integration was successful, it ultimately missed key mid- and long-term goals under Fiorina. HP culture at that time was very engineer-dominated, and relatively male-dominated. As HP’s first female CEO, Fiorina just didn’t connect well with the engineers.

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