N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Great leaders are strategic thinkers who have the ability to translate their vision into an actionable strategy to insure its success. Now that you have your grade in hand, create a plan for consistent and sustainable growth in your leadership ability and review it regularly taking measure of your progress or lack thereof.

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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. The most important thing is to actively think about your audience as you start planning your presentation. You can plan your strategy around what the audience knows and how they think.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2011

In 2011, health premiums will continue to surge upward with most major surveys projecting increases in the 9 percent to 12 percent range – or over eight-times the rate of inflation. population. population. population. Without change, the Business Roundtable, an association of major U.S.

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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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Many small business owners seek long term tax strategies rather than year-by-year decisions that make planning for the future of their business impossible. 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.

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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. The reality is that premium brands are viewed as such because they jealously manage their brand exposure. They pay attention to the both the frequency and reach of their exposure. will go into decline.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Which hat, or hats do you wear? Priority number two is team building and talent management.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? They don’t give because their accountant told them to, or for estate planning purposes, they give to make a difference. Did the attainment of your 2010 goals lead you closer to success or significance?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Companies can make a big difference for their employees — providing good health insurance and promoting good health — all while keeping costs down. The fact that we are self-insured — the company itself pays their health claims, not an outside insurance company — makes us prudent about our costs.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Your chosen Porsche is delivered to your house with insurance and maintenance as well as unlimited miles and flips to other models included. Starting in 2011, Mercedes chose to develop direct distribution capabilities for electric bicycle sales under its Smart brand. market for personal computers. Minimize Pain.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

When we drew up our plans and budgets, the key metric was consumer impressions: how many people would see, hear or read our ad? 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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

This leaves business leaders with two options: wait for whatever the government does and react, or pro-actively plan for a carbon-constrained future. 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%.

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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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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

2 Responses to Fast Friday with Jay Woo, COO, CAA South Central Ontario John Doe | January 4, 2011 at 3:05 PM | Funny stuff. Like his EDW, which was responsible for a 64% increase in insurance sales. LeaderTalker | January 5, 2011 at 10:31 PM | Hi John… thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. 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. link] Wally Bock Fine post, Mike.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers. Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. Health plans can then pay providers and employers and renew contracts according to the providers’ performance against the quality indicators.

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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. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

According to research from 2011 , some 31 million people ages 44 to 70 want encore careers that allow them to continue earning a living and give them meaning that has an impact beyond themselves. Consider Prudential's recent marketing campaign, prominently featuring Day One stories — tales of the first day of retirement.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In health care, value accrues to patients, insurers, and society at large. We believe that patients’ perceptions of value are what really matter and that insurers and society derive more value when patients are served well. The data then need to be aggregated and validated.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Do you have a marketable skill? “If you’re 22 and you’re not a web developer, you probably don’t have marketable skills,” he warns. “If you’re 22 and you’re not a web developer, you probably don’t have marketable skills,” he warns. More on that below.).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

They represent multibillion-dollar global companies, government agencies, software companies, cement makers, eyeglass manufacturers, retailers, insurance providers, and tomato processors. Strategic Planning the Wikimedia Way: Bottom-Up and Outside-In. Idea Market: A Stock Exchange Metaphor for Empowering Collaborative Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

It is true that that breaches are expected and have become a regular cost of doing business, but there are deeper reasons for the market’s failure to respond to these incidents. The company lost a total of about $236 million in breach-related costs, $90 million of which were offset by insurance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. So what happened?

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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. On a recent trip, he briefed me on his business plan and on the school's operations with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned entrepreneur. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

In the early days of the Internet, services such as eBay and Craigslist revolutionized secondary markets, making it easy for individuals to buy and sell used goods. Airbnb and the host plan to appeal. And the company provides a $1,000,000 insurance policy against damage caused by guests. Users also rate and review each other.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. This truth could be very different from what the company thought it was or was marketing it as.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

As a business term, “unicorn” was coined to describe a rarity: In 2011 there were just 28 early-stage companies, still privately owned, with investment valuations of $1 billion or more. But over time the market changes and the company needs to change its model. Nearly two in three died or stumbled.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Just one example: Roughly 16% of Stanford’s MBA Class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, eclipsing the previous high of 12% during the dot-com bubble. Of the 39 companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1B by private or public market investors, almost half were started by founders who met at school.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Google Android quickly lost market share to the new versions. But by early 2015 they stopped accepting new submissions to their open market and discontinued their API support for external developers. Failure to launch the right side.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

As everyone now knows, Healthcare.gov – the $394 million website that was supposed to enable millions of Americans to shop for health insurance – is experiencing some initial technical failures. Take, for example, the problem of attracting young, healthy Americans to get insured.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. Market focus. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

This newfound optimism could be the usual bright-eyed resolve that comes with a new year, but it more likely resulted from something else: the passing of The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (“the tax bill”) in December. This provision was extended through 2011. What’s in the Tax Bill?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

This is confusing for both employers purchasing health insurance coverage for their employees and their dependents and for individuals seeking care. Changing this antiquated approach to defining quality starts with cooperation in the market, not competition. Special interests impose a continued obstacle to change.

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