N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Preparing your Business for Unexpected Market Shifts In this volatile and unpredictable economy, businesses must prioritize resilience by taking a proactive approach to strategic planning to ensure sustainability. Corporations can navigate economic uncertainties and volatility through digital modeling.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

As organizations become increasingly digital, CMOs are expected to spearhead digital marketing, AI, social media, and analytics initiatives. As disruptors in the organization, they hold the onus to align the company’s brand mission with a creative yet commercially viable business strategy.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 26, 2022

Amp It Up , by Frank Slootman , shows you how to transform an organization for maximum growth and scale. When your organization has a well-defined purpose, you feel it down in your bones. Your company organization should run on influence, not rank and title.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 17, 2024

Martin , he urges business leaders to toss out the old ways of thinking, and instead try new models in every domain of management – from competition and customers to strategy, data, culture, talent, mergers and acquisitions, and everything in-between. Martin : Strategy and planning are entirely different.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

These changes have necessitated new capabilities and forced even the most established players to make radical departures from their business models. When an organization faces fundamental shifts like these, simply adding a chief digital officer or chief sustainability officer to the leadership team is no longer sufficient.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 20, 2016

How often have you heard people say, “Our strategy is to become the biggest and the best?” This is not strategy. Strategy is not the what. Strategy is the how – how will you become the biggest and the best? Of course, within the realm of the definition, there are good strategies and bad ones. The fallout?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 21, 2021

An organization that embraces a growth mindset positions itself to thrive. A growth mindset encompasses a set of behaviors and attitudes that reflect a business owner’s belief that their company’s business model is not set in stone. Your staff needs to share in your ambition to develop a future-oriented business.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 8, 2023

It's reshaping business models, customer interactions, and the very nature of decision-making. This potential for growth underscores the importance of integrating AI into business strategies. By pinpointing specific areas, you can tailor your AI strategy effectively. Is it customer service? Supply chain management?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth. Most organizations, and even most strategy consultants, are using strategic planning frameworks built for business models that were designed during the industrial age. IT’S TIME TO INNOVATE STRATEGY. By Mark Hefner. Of course you wouldn’t.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

The new CxO will be tasked to define and craft strategy, make investment proposals, and defend them, so they have depth in the related sector and a brain the size of an elephant. From experience keeping an eye on a candidate’s knowledge of how a specific business model works are essential and non-negotiable.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 16, 2021

According to Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer and venture capitalist Robert Siegel , this is false – nothing in life or business is ever that simple. In The Brains and Brawn Company: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical , Siegel brings the digital innovation conversation back down to earth.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Although digitization has a significant catalytic effect on these processes, a successful diversification strategy would still need a solid basis and a set of scalable growth patterns that could apply to target markets. What good can I do as a person, an organization, and a society? Two questions remain: What problem(s) am I solving?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The management team never collectively engaged in discussing how to integrate digital capabilities into business strategy and strategic direction-setting discussions. It began to work the way a Next Practices business should. We fixed the problem by changing the reporting lines. The planning group began reporting to the COO.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

B usiness Model Generation caught my eye in a book store in December – It is rare I find myself in book stores anymore given how many books are sent to me as a blogger and my preference in reading on Kindle or IPad. I could see there was something new about this book and how the authors thought about business models.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 12, 2013

millions US nonprofits don’t support themselves through “competing” or creating better products, services, or business models. Historically, the typical nonprofit business model has been based on dependence. Social business is gaining steam. Any nonprofit can reinvent itself and its business model.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 26, 2020

Recently while working through a merger, I was in several meetings with both organizations’ executive teams. Looking at the image, the Complexity of the work and, therefore, the level of strategy and market opportunity increase as you ascend the from Quality to Societal Progress. Being able to hold multiple concepts (i.e.,

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Big organizations can innovate like small start-ups. In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” Creating an Innovation Strategy. First is the nature of the threat.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Leading with Feeling : Nine Strategies of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership by Cary Cherniss and Cornelia W. The book distills the leaders' experiences into nine strategies that can help any leader or potential leader to be more effective. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2020.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Many brands focus their marketing strategies on out-of-home consumption, socializing with friends and family, and humor to generate engagement. The next generation of CPG leadership must anticipate connecting better with consumers, investing in the right technologies and business models, and using culture to spark innovation and growth.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The Holy Grail of enterprise sustainability is business model reimagination and reinvention – not digital transformation – at least how many businesses are attempting it. If you’re stuck in the purgatory of a legacy based business model, don’t transform – reinvent.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2019

“The old paradigm of strategy departments and planning cycles has been overthrown by agile and rapid team-based problem solving, providing better solutions and better organization alignment to implement.” But what does it mean to adopt agile and rapid team-based problem solving, where strategy becomes a problem solving process?

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

With Horwath’s guidance, leaders will master the four dimensions of strategic fitness that contribute to executive performance: Strategy Fitness : Ability to understand and develop strategy, set direction, allocate resources, make decisions, and create competitive advantage. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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leaderCommunicator

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

When it comes to strategy there are two rules. Rule #1 : Have a strategy. Rule #2 : Make sure everyone is literally on the same page in understanding the components of the strategy and how to implement it. It’s a common term used in just about every strategy (for good reason). Take the word “growth”, for example.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

Many business leaders claim to have competitive advantage and yet they struggle to achieve the growth that they think is possible. What strategies separate winning organizations from the rest? What is required to implement strategy and execute with excellence? Steve Coughran. Elevate Your Results. What is outsizing?

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LDRLB

MAY 17, 2013

Alexander Osterwalder is an entrepreneur, speaker, and business model innovator. In their book, Business Model Generation , he and Professor Yves Pigneur revealed the Business Model Canvas, a practical tool to visualize, challenge and re-invent business models. Business Model Canvas.

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LDRLB

MARCH 11, 2013

[Editor’s Note: We’re delighted to be collaborating with Strategy+Business to bring you interviews with top thought leaders in leadership, innovation, and strategt. MONTGOMERY: Think about who does strategy in most large companies. A strategy shouldn’t be only a document, or an occasional exercise. That has to change.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

I think the real disruption does not derive from technology, but from the changes technology brings to business models. Most larger organizations are not good at managing change. Clever companies know this and adopt change by incorporating successful innovation into their organization. The post Is Innovation manageable?

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 7, 2022

While American entrepreneurs were not particularly likely to demand green credentials from investors, American investors were among the keenest to see startups with strong sustainability strategies. It follows a report last year from Accenture, which found similar sustainability ambitions across larger organizations.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“Given the research-validated outcomes and demonstrated financial impact belonging offers, organizations should make cultivating belonging a personal leadership imperative across the world,” says Brad Deutser , author of the new book, Belonging Rules: Five Crucial Actions That Build Unity and Foster Performance. So, what exactly is belonging?

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LDRLB

MAY 25, 2012

Border’s inability to see the way online retailing forced a change in business models led to closing its doors and admitting defeat by Amazon. McKeown explains how organizations can increase their ability to see the need to adapt, understand what adaptation is needed and lead their organization through the transformation.

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leaderCommunicator

OCTOBER 30, 2012

When it comes to strategy there are two rules. Rule #1 : Have a strategy. Rule #2 : Make sure everyone is literally on the same page in understanding the components of the strategy and how to implement it. It’s a common term used in just about every strategy (for good reason). Take the word “growth”, for example.

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LDRLB

MAY 25, 2012

Border’s inability to see the way online retailing forced a change in business models led to closing its doors and admitting defeat by Amazon. McKeown explains how organizations can increase their ability to see the need to adapt, understand what adaptation is needed and lead their organization through the transformation.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Case Study Uncertainty 121

First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

Ren's journey guides readers through numerous factors necessary for success, including building a solid team with strategic placement of individuals in carefully selected roles appropriate to their skill sets and crafting the all-important business model.

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QAspire

JANUARY 10, 2021

In this situation, businesses are realizing that they need to do more than just align the business models or update their strategy. Businesses need a fine balance of Brain (Strategy), Soul (Human-Centered Approach) and Movement (forward motion through execution).

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2018

This growing trend has some retailers with heavy in-store business models shaking in their boots. Both webrooming and showrooming are increasing in popularity among consumers, as more retailers move their businesses online. Those numbers are up from 47% in 2014 and 48% in 2015. Adapting to the New Normal.

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