N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management. MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# Inc.com Inc.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 18, 2013

You can likely already imagine that I consider this a must-read book for any business owner and any leader -- even leaders who manage businesses that don't directly connect with consumers. Technology and innovation is only accelerating. Develop meaningful metrics. What is B2B or B2C truly about any way? Identify the gap.

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ExactHire - Leadership

APRIL 23, 2021

Your job description must accomplish all these goals for one purpose: to convert only the best job seekers into a manageable pool of applicants. Perhaps you’re writing a job ad for what your company calls a project manager. But many industries employ project managers. Job Description Writing Guide. Good Job Description Examples.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Last month, we learned about Geneca's journey into creating a culture of innovation within the company. By Jess Chipkin , Geneca, Manager of Public and Community Relations. In a nutshell, The Little Give teams up Edelman employees to develop PR programs for local nonprofits focused on children and youth. Thumbs Up From the CEO.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2018

The industry constantly moves forward and new trends and approaches are being developed all of the time. You are developing your campaign in-house yet you have no expertise – Marketing is not an area whereby corners can be cut. Online marketing is something that never remains stagnant.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 15, 2012

With 15 years of marketing experience and an MBA Degree, Debbie developed her marketing expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the non-profit arena, and the insurance industry. Welcome Debbie Laskey to my blog! or “What are your strengths and weaknesses?”

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2019

Conversely, only 39% of B2B marketers said that they had one. While you may fall flat on your face with some of them, you could also be at the forefront of innovation and already be ahead of the race when your competition comes in. Whether it’s Facebook live, AI, or Snapchat, you have to leave space for trial and error.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Many try to come up with new ideas, but few are innovative without trying. Whether your business is B2B or B2C, you will still be serving someone. If you are perceptive, you will pick up what people are thinking and develop your business to suit them. Creative people always have new ideas and can expand on the ideas of others.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

To design and develop new products, it’s not uncommon today to get your research and engineering folks to collaborate with customers and other external stakeholders. In effect, you give these people the right to participate in your innovation process and influence its final outcome. Collaboration Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

These companies are facing wholesale change—from defining how technology reinvents entire functions to how the organization manages new workforce models to how to unlock value with cross-industry ecosystems. How B2B Companies Can Grow with Ecosystem Orchestration.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

” will be difficult for many companies to achieve — not for lack of technological expertise but because they’ll fail to recognize the value of design in connected product development. applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. This evolution to “Internet of Things (IoT) 2.0”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

For marketers, this means updating your privacy policies, but more importantly, it means finding innovative new ways to connect with customers and gather consent to use their data in order to continue your “marketing relationship” with them. Addressing the Third-Party Data Dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

Instead, B2B entrepreneurs should focus their efforts on small businesses. The pattern continues today with start-ups that are in the early phases of this journey: Expensify is in the process of disrupting administrative assistants and office managers with an app-based expense reporting product. That’s short-sighted.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The role exists in B2B and B2C firms as diverse as Allstate, Dunkin' Brands, USAA, Philips Electronics, FedEx, the Cleveland Clinic, and SAP. Three-fourths of those we examined sit on the executive management team within the company. Who are these new customer experience executives — and why do companies appoint them?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

Some are cutting-edge global high tech; others are classic B2B service providers. Without exception, these companies want to be seen as innovative and customer-centric in equal measure. Each firm had a different training philosophy and each manager onstage offered their unvarnished view of what worked and what failed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries. About two-thirds were in B2B businesses.). HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital. Without that clarity, returns from digital initiatives suffer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

To develop a new customer experience, companies need a real-time engagement process that encourages customers and employees to devise new interactions between them and facilitates the emergence of innovative customer experiences. 3M invites its B2B customers to co-create new products with its R&D people live in their corporate labs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

But a new analysis from the German Savings Banks Association shows that, in the last fiscal year, its midsize company clients managed, on average, profit margins of 7.3%. The German Mittelstand is at the forefront of a modern management model that builds flatter, more-innovative, and more-networked enterprises.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The transmission of customer knowledge through multiple layers often causes distortion and risks the addition of personal agendas, or ”managing upward,” with people telling the CEO what they think he wants to hear. We turned to our frontline managers who knew the customer intimately and asked for their help and advice. They said, “Yes.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways. What makes marketing creative? The results?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

On the contrary, they may become the most powerful tools yet developed to raise the productivity of high-skill knowledge workers — the kind of workers who help drive innovation and growth, and who are going to be in increasingly short supply. The total potential value at stake in these sectors is $900 billion to $1.3

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. Global giants have to increasingly ask emerging markets branches to go from acting as local distributors to serving as local developers.

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ExactHire - Leadership

APRIL 23, 2021

Your job description must accomplish all these goals for one purpose: to convert only the best job seekers into a manageable pool of applicants. Perhaps you’re writing a job ad for what your company calls a project manager. But many industries employ project managers. Include keywords that specify required skillsets.

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How To Travel Engineering B2B 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

Organizations worldwide are increasingly using design to drive growth and innovation. Tug of war management. Most of the time equipment, control panels, and software in their industrial B2B divisions are still designed by engineers. These efforts were decimated after several subsequent CEOs pulled the plug.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Groundbreaking ideas are no longer a luxury when success is contingent upon an organization''s ability to adapt, innovative, and improve. Failing to do so not only prevents truly innovative thinking; it also ensures failure. You must move from B2C to B2B, or vice versa. However, management was not convinced.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Loyalty and reward programs provide this type of context for B2C companies, while strategic account and relationship management programs do the same for B2B companies. We can see how content, community, and context come together in the owned media strategies of today’s most innovative marketers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

First, other global firms have a deep bench of seasoned brand strategist supported by rich and varied set of brand management systems and tools that are lacking in Chinese firms. Both are largely based on the brand management effort pioneered by P&G some 75 years ago and extended by the many P&G progeny.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. Enter data and analytics, which provide an opportunity for such innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Thus, at this point, it is unable to develop and innovate the sort of software that could realize the full potential for customer advocacy and engagement on its platform. For the most part, they haven't yet developed the skills necessary to build such genuine engagement. Managing customer advocacy programs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Technology-enabled services are the backbone of this industry, and the fastest growing sectors have demand for high-end skills, such as mobile app development and data analytics, as well as middle-level skills, such as video production, copywriting, and financial analysis. That’s significant for a country with a GDP of $270 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Roche allows you to monitor and manage your own diabetes like a doctor. The average consumer did not have access to the quality of equipment that professional athletes and healthcare providers had, until breakthrough innovation created higher quality yet affordable options. Both UnderArmour and Roche are great examples of this.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

As I wrote about in Innovation X , when the team developing the second-generation Ford Taurus bought a Toyota Camry (with great difficulty) to try it out, it brought to light critical quality factors that significantly changed how the team approached its work. Encourage Competitive Use, Don't Punish It. Go Further.

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Software Wireless B2B Library 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Yet for all the shared responsibility, the marketing and sales relationship has often been a contentious and lopsided one, with sales dominating in B2B sectors while marketing leads in B2C ones. One important way to focus the effort is by managing the sales pipeline together. “It Collaborate around the customer decision journey.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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. Today’s consumer (B2B or B2C) does their homework, is well informed, and buys…they are not sold. I "sell" day to day B2c and B2B and its about relationship and problem solving.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

But in my experience, visibility is rarely the real issue (especially with B2B companies selling bigger-ticket, complex services and products). Either there''s a bottom-up communications problem where the messages aren''t connecting with their targets, or there''s a top-down problem where management isn''t clear on what its message is.

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