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Businesses Don’t Fail – Leaders Do

N2Growth Blog

If you’re willing to strip away all the excuses, explanations, rationalizations, and justifications for business failures, and be really honest in your analysis, you’ll find only one plausible reason - poor leadership. Poor Branding : A poor brand generally means leadership has failed.

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What It Takes To Turn Your Failing Business Around

Strategy Driven

Identify what could have gone wrong with the leadership team. It involves reassessing your business operations, starting with leadership. You may discover that some poor leadership decisions may have been responsible for your establishment doldrums. It also has a ripple effect on your staff’s motivation.

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100% Of Companies Have This Problem

N2Growth Blog

Process is not the main driver in business, but merely a critical support system built for enablement, delivery, accountability and measurement. It is the natural extension of values, vision, mission, strategy, goals, objectives and tactics. Good process comes as a by-product of clarity of purpose.

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The Unnoticed Analyst: Can analytics succeed while going unnoticed.

Strategy Driven

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” Researchers at the IT Leadership Academy are doing just that in Global 2000 enterprises. Our objective, after all, is NOT to go unnoticed.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. As Dahl puts it, there are various “logs” that stand between us and our objectives. Get strategic.

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Data: One Antidote to Risky Behavior

Harvard Business Review

Investments in database software, servers, storage, and business intelligence tools continue apace. It takes leadership to establish decision management and closed-loop measurement practices. But through decisive leadership and consistent measurement, plenty of companies have shown it can be done.

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Data Analysis Should Be a Social Event

Harvard Business Review

Psychologists believe that creativity flourishes in social contexts, as thoughts are translated into words, objects or images and in turn reformulated into ideas (this is one of the reasons why visualization of data is so valuable). We recently participated in a data-dive type process at a major telecommunications company.