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Businesses Don’t Fail – Leaders Do

N2Growth Blog

The amount of capital required to run a business is based upon how the business is operated. Therefore if leadership operates the business without consideration for capital constraints, or irrespective of capital formation issues, then the blame should fall squarely on the shoulders of leadership.

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Six Meaningful Lessons you can Learn from Entrepreneurs

Strategy Driven

Being a successful entrepreneur does not come easily because learning to operate a successful company takes long. Influential business people know how to capitalize on adversity and learn from their failures. It’s vital to plan time for reading and learning, whether in business strategies or just general information.

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What It Takes To Turn Your Failing Business Around

Strategy Driven

It involves reassessing your business operations, starting with leadership. Leadership is a significant part of any business, and it’s highly recommended to get the right executive team to hold the fort. Do not forget that your open-mindedness as a leader is reflective of your company’s operations.

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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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IT Organizations Built to Last

Strategy Driven

Customer centricity as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest. By doing this, it increases their overall satisfaction—and in the process, business profitability.

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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.” In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed. And that’s what analytics provides.

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Meet Your Company's New Chief Customer Officer

Harvard Business Review

In his research, he reports that these individuals typically have extensive sales, marketing and operational backgrounds. I'm not suggesting that these folks need to run SPSS, or sit in front of a business intelligence tool all day. But they do understand the importance of data in addressing business questions.

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