N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Rankings, Lists and Recognitions The Power 150 – Top Marketing Blogs This list ranks the top 150 marketing blogs based on an algorithmic approach using Google page rank, Technorati rankings, Bloglines ranking and editorial quality. … Executive Development Opportunities. … Executive Development Opportunities.

Directory 167

Directory Magazine Blog Brand 167

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

In today’s post I share my thoughts on how to develop a sound pricing strategy… While the topic of pricing is certainly not rocket science, it has indeed been a thorn in the side of business people since the dawn of commerce. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. The program taps into an underutilized talent source, reducing barriers of entry so qualified individuals can fully develop their potential.

Ries 76

Ries Skills Human Resources Software 76

N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

I strongly recommend to all business leaders that they learn to develop a command presence, and lead from a committed and passionate position of strength. I’ve rarely come across students of military history that don’t have a great command of both strategic thinking and tactical implementation.

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Brand Depreciation Blog Politics 353

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? Therefor by definition it is not unique or likely to generate any competitive advantage.

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. With the development of modern business management solutions, it is easier than ever to stay connected with your teams all over the world. Create relationships and ask for help.

Tips 50

Tips Globalization Compliance Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Create a competitive advantage, set the right tone, make effective decisions, keep talent inside your doors, and establish credibility-all while navigating unfamiliar and turbulent waters. If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Address the nuts and bolts of business too.

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Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

While not all great business leaders have served in the military, those of you who have worked to develop the leadership traits mentioned above understand the advantages you derive from a having a military leadership state of mind.

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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 52

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

I started in the insurance business in 1993 as a fresh graduate from East Carolina with a finance degree. How to hire, fire, train, and market business. John says, “It's about the developing core networking places and participating, getting involved, and establishing a leadership position. Chamber New Member Orientation.

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Insurance Committee Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 50

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance. Candidates for newly created organization processes include those that are common across business units/markets, that are transactional in nature, and that can be “operationalized.” finance, I.T., Recall how the U.S.

Industry 268

Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 268

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

The borrower would then sell the discounted $970 post note on the money market, also paying a discount to the post note purchaser of say $30, receiving $940 in cash. The insurance company would repay the money market investor’s post note of $970, yielding a $30 profit for both the insurance company and the investor.

Insurance 53

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 53

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” The first is a true “consumer is boss” mind-set, which recognizes that the only path to sustainable competitive advantage is to create customer value. And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. New digital entrants have spotted the market opportunity created by these dynamics, and the result is an explosion in online lending to SMEs from fintech startups. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If I read your definition correctly, you are limiting game-changers to positive developments or innovations. That is to say: they are finding competitive advantage in what were historically reckoned to be (or ignored as) externalities. Is that the only way to think of it? Serve to Lead discusses this at some length.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Since then, as the composition of top executive teams has changed, responsibility for leading strategy development has been shared by more members of the C-suite. In our experience at McKinsey, creating this ideal partnership usually requires the CFO to become more directly and deeply involved in strategy development.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Could lean manufacturing have a similar positive impact on jobs in the developing world? Insight Center.

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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. Real estate developers are integrating automation systems, sensors, and mobility options into their properties. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Company Transportation B2C 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. Private equity and the new capital markets.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

I want you to think about acquisitions from this perspective – anything that has been well engineered or properly developed has also been heavily invested in. In today’s market you can buy anything from a single note to an entire portfolio of debt (both performing and non-performing) at deep discounts.

Real Estate 353

Real Estate Company Brand Operations 353

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. IT went from being a potential source of competitive advantage to being a necessity for competitive parity.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. In years past, an important source of competitive advantage for insurers was the ability to price risk better than rivals. Take insurance, for example.

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Company Insurance Engineering Software 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In 18 short months, search engine Google erased 85 percent of the market cap of the top GPS companies after launching its mobile maps app. Alibaba , China’s equivalent to Amazon, became a $16 billion lender in less than three years, and China’s largest seller of money market funds in only seven months.

Banking 11

Banking Retail Finance Insurance 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Craftsmen allied themselves to essentially create firewalls around their primary competitive offering in the market. Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. How do companies differentiate in a world where access to technology is no longer a competitive advantage?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Information Technology How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

Incubator 11

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

The question of how to outcompete others in a given market is not only a concern for firms. He nodded: "That's our competitive advantage.". How is winning in markets about clean toilets? Of course, this is not to say that trying to develop and protect IP is futile because it will all be stolen. What did he mean?

Globalization 13

Globalization Competitive Advantage Software Consultative 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

Public and private markets alike are starting to remember this, correcting for years of overly exuberant startup funding. As financing dries up, entrepreneurs would do well to remember the benefits of bootstrapping. Though taking money from investors might seem like the path to success, bootstrapping has several advantages.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Long-term Short-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. They became a tight group as they went down to the factory floor and built products together and looked at market research together.

Ries 11

Ries Waterman Finance Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It’s true that some technologies need further development, but some (like traditional machine learning) are quite mature and have been available in some form for decades. System Development Time. First, there is the time required to develop AI systems. We think this is a bad idea. Human Interactions with AI Time.

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Company Maturity System Engineering 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid. Don’t hype…stop complaining…fix the problem.

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Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 366