N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s. mikemyatt: More thx @BradAustin1 @LeadershipWatch @GBSL.

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Blog Leadership Emotional Intelligence CEO 419

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. The second is the need to lower the costs and risk of retail and trade based primarily on cash transactions.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The cultural and operational challenge for incumbent financial services firms was enormous. In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Wireless Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

In addition to improving the experience for business owners, digitization has the potential to substantially reduce the cost of lending at every stage of the process, making SME customers more profitable for lenders, and creating opportunities to serve a broader swath of SMEs. Banks’ cost of capital is typically 50 basis points or less.

Banking 10

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

She was intrigued by the notion of a rebate for any bad data, but first she had to estimate what it would cost. So she reached out to Stephanie Fetchen, head of operations, who plotted monthly errors on a control chart. That required measurement. Quality was high most months, but they found that errors came in bunches.

Quality 9

Quality Resistance Learning-by-Doing Finance 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

In recent years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has given hospitals, physicians, and other providers incentives to form accountable care organizations (ACOs), with responsibility for outcomes and costs held by a single entity rather than diffused across independent providers. We still operate that way today.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Nearly everyone in health care wants to cut waste and reduce unnecessary costs — until the conversation turns to advanced chronic illness and end-of-life care. This model doesn’t leave patient choice to chance; it’s hardwired into clinical operations. The Status Quo.

Health Care 8

Health Care Sharpe Document Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. In healthcare, change is even harder than in most industries.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

I have often been struck by the way companies operating in industries as diverse as telecommunications and transport manage to collaborate in a competitive environment, yet health organizations find collaboration difficult even when they are not competing. Health care is not the only industry that is resistant to change.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The protests have already cost the CEO of Air France his job : He stepped down after workers rejected his proposal of a 7% wage increase over four years (unions want a 6% immediate increase). last year, unemployment is slowly decreasing , and public finances are improving faster than anticipated. GDP grew by 1.9%

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Airlines Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. Top management told store managers and staff to honor requests and obey directives from their new “colleagues”; the resentment and resistance were palpable.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The first is breakdown , where early experiments fade in the face of resistance. We're moving towards innovation in technology, pricing, business models and partnerships," explains head of corporate responsibility management, Dorje Mundle, of the company's base-of-the-pyramid operations. Breakthrough Finance.

EPS 8

EPS Innovation CEO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

From the same letter: [N]o company operates in a vacuum. That we resisted the temptation to the extent that we did is a source of at least some consolation for me. Why did M&T make such out-of-character investments? The funny thing is, in any other business, such talk would come across as whiny special pleading.

Banking 13

Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. resistance to the AIIB is founded on rational principles. The opportunity costs of not participating could be quite high, with both economic and geopolitical dimensions. No doubt, there has been much for the U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

The commission ratios vary from development to marketing to finance, administration, sales and customer support, and in the various areas are based on the metrics the individuals are most able to directly control. Everyone knows what the monthly operational "nut" is. On the whole, our employees have applauded our structure.

Motivation 8

Motivation Planning Company Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. And we describe steps needed to overcome these obstacles, lowering costs and improving quality. They are also among the lowest-cost physicians available. Barriers to Transformation. How leading providers are delivering value for patients.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 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 14

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. link] Social Influence Measurement – Tools, Resources & Commentary | Digital Marketing Blog // Digital Operative [.] mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Social Media Influence [.] All Rights Reserved

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I'm so curious it's embarrassing, when I visit a house and I pass a bookcase in the hall I cannot resist scanning their shelves to the point of rudeness to see if there's a good book in there which I haven't read yet. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. Lower maintenance costs more than compensated for the higher depreciation costs, they said. But many firms find themselves struggling to take advantage of its promise.

Technology 8

Technology Sample Depreciation Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The differences were dramatic. Trillions of Dollars of Value Creation at Stake.

Long-term 8

Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Investors punish companies with a short-term orientation by applying higher discount rates to them, which increases the cost of capital for those companies. In contrast, companies with a long-term orientation are rewarded with a lower cost of capital, which allows them to afford more innovation—a virtuous cycle.

Short-term 8

Short-term Decentralization Company Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. In fact they are always greatest over the long-term, while the costs are concentrated in the near-term. The result?

Banking 13

Banking Long-term Short-term System 13

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Due to this resistance, I believe that culture CAN trump strategy, to the extend that the strategy and execution thereof are unsuccessful. In my experience, culture is frequently at the center of resistance to a strategy and the required execution. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom.

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Blog Strategy Brand Bottom-up 366

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the system is rife with problems, adding cost through fees and delays, creating friction through redundant and onerous paperwork, and opening up opportunities for fraud and crime. It’s no small wonder that regulatory costs continue to climb and remain a top concern for bankers. Here, blockchain is a real game changer.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8