N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you choose to dive into the social media world without a strategy, without understanding how to create social media influence, you will not be pleased with your results. I’m going to tell you the cold hard truth about social media…what you need to know that most people won’t tell you.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

One technology company targeted a 50:50 pay mix for salespeople in new customer acquisition (CA) roles, but a 70:30 mix for salespeople in account management (AM) roles. Franchise sales have nothing to do with salespeople. Within an industry or company, pay mix often varies across sales roles. Free sales come in two forms.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Sales professionals and organizations are responding with new strategies and technologies that allow them to deliver personalized experiences at scale. And once contact is made, the best sellers use technology to gauge whether the information they’re sharing with a buyer hits the mark.

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B2B CRM Franchising Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise?

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Short-term Long-term Franchising Maturity 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

While drawing such a map today would require more boxes and more arrows, (and perhaps an independent web of interconnected assets surrounding the ESPN franchise), the fundamental patterns and the underlying insight and intuition would remain quite consistent. Strategy' Does it reveal uniquely valuable assets and opportunities?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

But if corporations join the public sector in recognizing that this problem is a convergence of societal, economic, and cultural factors and apply good management practices to address it, we can bend the curve. On one level, they need to learn and implement basic business essentials such as financial management and human resource development.

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Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Considering the huge strategic and financial stakes for companies, it’s remarkable how relatively few of them include public policy as an integral part of their ongoing strategy formulation. Unfortunately, engaging in the necessary sophisticated work across varying political cultures is not a natural act for many companies.

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Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Sesame Street , in fact, is a great case study of a brand that has managed to remain powerful over decades and across cultures. The creators and distributors of Sesame Street were successfully pursuing an aggressive global strategy 30 years ago, before "globalization" was a common concept or phrase in America.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

You can make CSR the strategy or even the end goal for your business growth. In McDonald's, he saw that throughout the world McDonald's franchises had similar quality meals for low prices. "If You don't have to separate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goals and project goals. Aravind now makes 7% of all IOLs in the world.

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Self-aware Franchising Quality Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

If you want to see how mobile technology can disrupt the very basics of business models and habits established over hundreds if not thousands of years, look at what’s happening in India. In order to create value in India in the coming decade, companies must have a mobile-first strategy.

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Strategy Banking Venture Capitalist Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Colleagues compare email triage strategies with the fervor they once reserved for their local sports franchise, and an entire industry has sprung up to tackle email pain by offering solutions at both the personal and organizational level. In our ongoing preoccupation with digital overload , nothing comes in for more hatred than email.

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Strategy Franchising Tools Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

That sort of money should allow you to open 10 new centers next year, not through franchising as you'd planned, but under your direct ownership and control. The director wasn't expecting her, but Gloria liked popping into the franchises unannounced to get an unvarnished view. Three million euros.". Hours were flexible.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We’ve hit a point of acceleration in video and wearable technologies that provide us with information that we’ve never had in the past about how to optimize player performance. We talk about things like yield management, demand curves, and perishable inventory — factors that dictate our pricing strategies.

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Price Team Sports Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

.” But if you are the Ford Motor Company and face the prospect of investing billions in new technology while your century-old business model is overturned, you might first have a few questions. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Full disclosure: my company, Innosight, has advised Ford on strategy ). What do they really want?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

But for every Habitat for Humanity , Mothers Against Drunk Driving , and Teach for America that has managed to scale, there are thousands that have stagnated or failed. The answer isn't as simple as we might wish: their leaders have pursued a variety of strategies, and there is no single "best practice" formula for scaling a social venture.

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How To Franchising ROI Entrepreneur 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

An innovation strategy has to include both. Yet, its strategy for almost three decades has largely been that of a sustainer, not a disruptor. Its fortunes have been built upon its successes in pushing the technological frontier of the microprocessor. How has this strategy worked? Let’s examine a few examples. Absolutely.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Real Madrid is one of the most recognized soccer franchises in the world. With over 500 million dedicated fans, it also happens to be one of the most innovative franchises when it comes to fan engagement. “Advances in technology have helped us reimagine fan engagement and create new business models that we never thought possible.

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Sports Brand Content Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. By 2009, however, Verizon had scaled back plans for more fiber and DSL technology was falling behind improvements in cable.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

The idea for the business came to Nadav Sharon, a former Israeli Navy cook living in San Francisco and managing a small family pizzeria, when he realized how much time he was wasting taking endless phone orders. But Eat24 managed to bootstrap their app anyway. To a large franchise, they wouldn’t. Here’s how.

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Marketing Franchising Competitive Intelligence Advertising 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. Management and leadership skills. Financial tools. For instance, after completing medical training in the U.S.

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Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. Essential Background. Sarah Green Carmichael.

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Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 10

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

One might add that at the time of the Founders, America had approximately 2 million people, and many fewer had the franchise than today. These facts raise some profound questions about personnel management of a great power. Now we're over 300 million. link] mikemyatt Hi Mark: Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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