N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy). Hint: it’s not about the money. .

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It can bring plenty of benefits to a company – a whole new array of potential customers and the opportunity to operate in a less saturated market. Market Research. Market research is a vital tool for success. You need to ensure the company is strong and secure in its current market. Understand Your Capabilities.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Hard work and due diligence take you to the path of success. It can assemble a team of professionals who are ready to work for business development and growing profits. It would help if you learned how to independently develop a schedule of essential things for yourself and follow it. That saying is very true!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

While novices are urged to start small and do their due diligence and research prior to getting involved with investments, there is a reason why some people choose to jump right in. The stock market is a big draw for novice investors looking for a big payday, and sometimes they do hit big. Starting from Where You Currently Are.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

As data-driven marketers are taking full advantage of collecting, organizing, and analyzing demand management, many are adopting the classic marketing waterfall model from leading experts such as Sirius Decisions. One size fits all’ marketing waterfalls are too rigid. One marketing waterfall view has become a catchall.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

The growing reality in retrospect is that these same principles not only made me an effective leader, but they enabled me to develop something in the workplace that every organization strives for but often struggles to achieve: team cohesiveness. With consistency, trust will be developed. Developing this trust starts with loyalty.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How many times have you witnessed someone holding-out for a higher price, better valuation, evolving markets, technology advances, or any number of other circumstances that either never transpire, or by the time they do, the opportunistic advantage had disappeared? So much so, that if you don’t think timing is everything - think again.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

People can do some due diligence before going to work for a compnay. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] While these articles tended to stir the pot a bit, they were in my opinion mostly missing the mark.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Those that have some money to play with and want to invest it with small business owners, like themselves, rather than putting all of their money in the hands of the stock market are actively signing up on crowdfunding sites. They can conduct due diligence through the site and securities are offered by WRH+Co. HealthTechHatch.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Walk The Talk The Dash, The Race, and Management, Training and Development Resources Workforce Management: information on employment law, human resource development and human resource management.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). A well formulated Go-To-Market Strategy. As for distribution, “smart marketing” can turn faulty launch distribution planning into buzz-worthy spin and drive more sales. Go-To Market Strategy is, in essence, the launch. A great product.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

The importance of research, due-diligence and marketplace understanding surface. Most people and organizations fail due to never having control over certain ingredients, improper planning and the inability to change. Develop attitudes, behaviors and skills as the motivator to create bigger successes.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The way these platforms work is to provide a product or service that is marketable. In return, you provide the marketing muscle to make the sales. In the online business world, marketing is almost always about creating an email opt-in list. But before you make a commitment, I urge you to do just a little bit of due diligence.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

This awareness helped cement my corporate world exit strategy. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. This due diligence included, setting a new household budget, moving investments, setting up a home equity line of credit, and finally, buying a new car (for the first time in 11 years!).

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HR Digest

MAY 12, 2024

How to Prevent This Hiring Errors Organizations need to review the market standard and their existing employee salaries for a particular role and offer to pay the employee appropriately. Graphic designers regularly showcase their work on social media and there are many developers who share their personal mini-projects online.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

A normal acquisition process seeks to ensure something basic: a strategic rationale for a deal, supported by a thoughtful selection process, with known risks identified by a short, intense due diligence. What this requires is doing some integration due diligence as part of the M&A process.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Companies acquire to accelerate their overall strategy and digital transformation, as Publicis Groupe did when it acquired Sapient for $3.7 They’re also likely to be paying an even higher premium for the acquisition, betting on a fast—although uncertain—development. Let’s start with financing the deal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

It’s not implausible to imagine that one day a “strategist in a box” could autonomously develop and execute a business strategy. It must be embedded in what we call the integrated strategy machine. Amazon represents the state-of-the-art in deploying an integrated strategy machine.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

At MyEdu, we had developed a college student profile product, and Blackboard – one of the largest educational software companies in the world – purchased our company to supplement their existing product portfolio with this rich new capability. It might be to optimize the tax implications of new development. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Though recent acquisitions may seem idiosyncratic, they all have in common the need to find new avenues for growth in mature markets or deal with accelerating change. Market breakthroughs. It can take years to build distribution networks or gain a foothold in a particular market.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. But after the Great Recession of 2007-2009, when developed economies effectively froze in place, their appetites only sharpened. Of course, everyone knows that conducting business in some of these markets can be risky. Crime exacts a toll.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

“Think about the offer in terms of your development, your quality of life, and the variety of the work you want to do.” Even when the money on offer is enough to live on, you need to figure out if it’s an amount worthy of your knowledge and skills and whether it’s in line with the local market. Cultural fit.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

So which timing strategy is better? Research I conducted together with John Joseph of Duke University shows that both approaches can be successful — what matters most is not simply timing but whether a company tailors its innovation strategy to whichever approach it adopts. Asking too many questions can slow you down.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Its corporate development group looked at upwards of 150 targets a year, and used a remarkably efficient screening process that rejected any potential acquisition that didn't make good sense strategically. If a target got through the initial screen, the group was able to perform the necessary due diligence in three or four weeks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

When it comes to setting strategy, which is more effective: one great thinker or a wise crowd? To find out, I turned to my ongoing Top Pricer Tournament , in which 884 people — managers, consultants, professors, students — make pricing strategy decisions for a generic business competing against other generic businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Are you ever frustrated by teammates who cling to the past while you try to introduce novel ideas or new strategies? If your team’s strategy can be summed up by the English wartime slogan “Keep Calm and Carry On,” you need some new approaches to tackle their resistance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

Big-company corporate development departments dream of acquisitions that substantially boost revenue or bring assets that turbo-charge growth. Most midsize companies lack the breadth and depth of skilled corporate development professionals whose jobs are to source, make, and integrate acquisitions. The second reason is more important.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Several years ago we came up with a great idea for a new leadership-development offering we thought would be valuable to everyone. We had research demonstrating that when people embarked on a self-development program, their success increased dramatically when they received follow-up encouragement. Indecisiveness. Over-dependence.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2012

The general way around this problem seems simple enough — have a process by which you evaluate ideas in different ways at different stages of development (most call this a "stage-gate process."). This kind of process can help successfully move an idea from a Post-It note to the market. What does that actually mean in practice?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” ” The company took note and duly committed to reducing costs at a rate exceeding market contraction.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Building alignment and commitment to the firm’s strategy (in particular, by emphasizing empathy as much as urgency). Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Financial, legal, ethical and risk perspectives obviously need to be integrated when the corporation is making decisions about new deals, about new types of customers, new geographic markets, new technologies and new products. sales, marketing, manufacturing, intellectual property—in all business units in all geographies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

And stitched into its origin story is a clue to why some products (and businesses) succeed in the market while most wither and die. They used a harsh phrase to describe this cause of failure: “no market need.” Here are three strategies worth trying: Look for successful competitors. Test your marketing promise.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. Strategies for growth in a connected world. The new game is to think about the business model and strategy for not just the company but the entire ecosystem. On both counts. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

The fact that every company you work for can affect your career mobility in the future makes an even stronger argument for due diligence when selecting a company to work for. Develop strong external networks. Consider distancing strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Focus on the specific opportunity, and do the necessary research, due diligence, and soul-searching to figure out whether that particular job is right for you. If, on the other hand, you’re older and have financial and personal commitments, you need to develop a process so that others in your life can help you make the decision.”

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