N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things. Our Freedom.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

A goal is a specific target and the objectives are the attainment components/benchmarks/hurdles which will lead you toward achieving said goal. An organization's purpose often changes over time as advances in technology, changes in customer demands/preferences, etc. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo.

Blog 395

Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 395

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

A more industrialized approach is needed, one that will reduce cost and simplify the decision-making process for buyers. Fast (a project lasting less than a year), Capital-light (or better yet, funded by low-cost capital provided by a third party). To gain market traction, retrofits need to be: Relevant (appropriate to their building).

NPV 8

NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Benchmark data isn''t sexy stuff, but occasionally the numbers reveal surprising findings. Who, for instance, would have guessed that global NGOs spend nearly 80% more to track their finances and employ nearly twice as many finance staff as comparable for-profit multinationals?

Globalization 8

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. How did Sal Khan finance his venture? First, Sal Khan could have continued in finance and made far more money than he does in a nonprofit.

Bond 9

Bond Education Finance Video 9

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” A generic thought, ambivalence, attempting to fly under the radar, and mediocre performance will place you squarely in my cross hairs and may cost you your job. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom.

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). The repercussions of all this uncertainty are dramatic in terms of cost and material use. But inventory is not a minor issue.

Energy 10

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy. The Moral Frame.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. Cable companies enviously and despairingly benchmark Netflix and Amazon to learn how they quasi-autonomously cultivate subscribers and binge viewers.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

What's worse, Facebook's efforts to bring transactions inside the walled garden - through Facebook Storefronts - seem to be decreasingly important to large e-commerce players as they discover the high costs and low returns of doing business on the site. For what it is — an uncertain bet — Facebook is going to be expensive.

IPO 11

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

I see far too many data that don’t go anywhere and that’s just a cost.”. Point solutions, such as focusing on the call center, the store, or the website, no longer cut it in a multichannel environment, not when delivering excellent customer journeys can increase revenues up to 15 percent and cut costs by up to 20 percent.

P&L 8

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

Franchising 12

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 12