N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

The basic flaw in most arguments in support of CEO term limits stems from a belief that tenure is somehow a very relevant metric, and that there is some mystical optimum time to serve. And what if a company finds or is built by just that person…and loses them to a term limit?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

These companies have placed themselves far behind the technology curve because tenured managers hire employees with obsolete skill sets and together they create mediocre solutions. You see tenure is not synonymous with loyalty, but rather is more often a measure of compliance and survival. the company is not leveraging its true talent base.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. My experience is that bonuses are absolutely effective given this caveat: they must be structured and implemented properly. It is not the bonus that is right or wrong, but the manner in which it is rolled-out.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip. In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information.

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RapidStart Leadership

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a friend of mine in the finance industry pointed out, successful teamwork under these conditions is all about finding creative ways to shrink the distance between you and the team. Once you do have your teammates gathered, be sure to plan in some fun team-building time in addition to the production-focused stuff.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# If a person has a small business with product people might use, it could be a great opportunity to add another client.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

In today’s post I’ll address a key metric that all companies should be focused on – Customer Experience Management (CEM)… Before I go any further let’s get the semantical arguments out of the way…Some will claim that a well conceived CRM initiative includes CEM as a subset.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Rajamannar involved finance early. To spearhead analytic efforts, he assigned a finance person – who was already embedded in marketing – to create an ROI evaluation framework and integrated her deeper into the marketing function. MasterCard had always been a data-driven organization. Inside Intel. The result has been transformational.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. and ATIG, Productivity links. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Tweets that mention Brand Exposure | N2Growth Blog — Topsy.com [.]

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Even if you don’t find yourself having to frequently deal with extreme situations, it is often nothing more than normal dealings in the ordinary course of business that can place you at a nexus…Do you make your decision based upon the facts at hand and sound decisioning metrics, or do you let your emotions drive your decisions?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

If you incorporate the following metrics into your decisioning framework you will minimize the chances of making a bad decision: Perform a Situation Analysis : What is motivating the need for a decision? What would happen if no decision is made?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Additionally, it is paramount that the CRO can not just fit but add to the organization’s culture in a productive way. This is primarily because outside of finance, a CRO intertwines with various essential business functions, including sales, marketing, customer service, and, ultimately, revenue generation.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It's one of my great drivers to achieve significance in what I do – even if that doesn't necessarily mean success as defined by any metric you care to choose… Thanks for an interesting read! Best Neil Ron Inspiring post! Success is temporal. Significance is eternal.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Whether your objectives involve increasing business revenue, maximizing your profits, providing better customer service or improving the productivity within your workplace, if you use the right tools you’ll be able to accomplish it. For example: In the Finance Department, an objective could be to cut spending and improve profit margins.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. companies spend more than $37 billion dollars a year on them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. Many British firms have been slow to recognize the direct correlation between corporate empathy and growth and productivity. Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. They followed a sequence that resulted in new products or major updates to products every year or two. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

However it is my opinion that diversity is not being addressed properly, and as a result has become one of the leading killers of corporate productivity. When you force the diversity agenda for the wrong reasons (no matter how well intended) productivity suffers and resentment grows. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

One of the reasons analytics is working for the companies in this select group is because they tend to deploy analytics technologies and expertise across the breadth of the enterprise. Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.” to better understand the effectiveness of a new product launch).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. They will represent the products more consistently. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

For example, the new strategy might have included a core technology that still makes sense, but the timetable for deploying it might need to change. Gather more information and improve your metrics. Thus, you must locate that source of information, then devise (and use) the best metric. Communicate to stop the contagion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

One of the reasons analytics is working for the companies in this select group is because they tend to deploy analytics technologies and expertise across the breadth of the enterprise. Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.” to better understand the effectiveness of a new product launch).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

As growth became a competitive imperative, business leaders began seeing the firm as a system of investment rather than a system of production. What Kunkle is particularly known for is bringing a cross-functional perspective to talent strategy at the consumer products companies she serves. Finance Human resources'

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2024

By automating these processes, HR staff can focus on more strategic initiatives, improving overall efficiency and productivity. This ensures that organizations can stay up-to-date with the latest HR best practices and technologies. Automation also reduces the risk of errors and ensures consistency in the execution of HR processes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

The most digital companies see outsized growth in productivity and profit margins. The results show uneven progress: The technology sector comes out on top — no surprise there. Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. We believe energy could be viewed in many organizations as a “ keystone metric ” — i.e., a primary indicator that aligns the whole organization around the pursuit of operational excellence. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? When successful, these companies improve the productivity and capability of their workers — and that's a good thing. What type of work needs to be done and how can we become more productive and competitive in accomplishing it?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a follow up HBR article , we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks and distilled seven key insights from those discussions. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

The most successful, visionary entrepreneurs dream not of millions of dollars, but of a world where their products change culture. But in technology startups, particularly venture-backed technology startups, the current investment climate does not always support that vision. Entrepreneurship Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. IT as Process Creator.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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