N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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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. They can recruit top scientific and operational talent to achieve the desired corporate goals.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Well, for starters, it directly impacts productivity and efficiency. But it’s not just about the immediate impact on day-to-day operations. They train hard and practice relentlessly to hone their skills and stay sharp. Uses time efficiently to maximize productivity and minimize wasted time.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. And, you operate in a fishbowl.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Being sharp means being succinct. Practice pitches and product or service descriptions. Rehearse your pitch.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. The alternative looks enticing. Unreasonably so.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For example, this study examining the rivalry between sales and marketing showed that conflicts between managers from these historically warring functions were not driven by interpersonal issues. Neither alone controlled speed to market, but together they could significantly influence it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S. .” This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

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Rajesh Setty

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

He is one not only very sharp but also one of the kindest people I have met. There are, in fact, myriad operational, marketing and financial strategies that can and do lead to growth. Most of these companies sold what is traditionally thought of as a commodity product.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Meet regularly to review common customer issues and build fixes into your product roadmap.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The innovator's quest has been to find the win-win proposition: a great new product that can create differentiated value for consumers while supporting differentiated profits for the producer. It helped to establish the Symbian operating system in 1998 and spent a fortune trying to attract developers to the platform.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Moreover, China itself is experiencing a sharp decline in labor’s share. Firms with a cost or quality advantage have always enjoyed higher market shares. In the “good old days,” more-productive companies would take a bigger slice of the market, but there would be plenty left over for their rivals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

labor market over the past 30 years. That is, even while most measures of local labor-market strength had converged back to pre-recession levels, differences in advertised skill demands remain. production and operatives). And that’s just what we find. We distinguish routine-cognitive occupations (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

Citing a substantial body of expert research, the letter stated, “We believe there is a clear need for Apple to offer parents more choices and tools to help them ensure that young consumers are using your products in an optimal manner.” Daly, OP ; Sting ; Trudie Styler ; and myself. But it is reportedly not alone.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. There is no Plan B,” says Micah Sharp, GM of Red Giant, “It’s us.”. But putting together a great team is tricky.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

We confirmed this observation by developing a database of all public companies in the global stock markets and tracking their performance over 25 years. Many businesses lose this sharp sense of purpose as they grow. Insight Center. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

The capitals of Europe empty out in August, traditionally because of the weather, but financial markets don't take a holiday, air-conditioning has eliminated the August rationale, and growth countries south of the equator, notably Brazil, keep on with their productive winter pace. Over-communication is better than simply disappearing.

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Contingency Plans Sharpe Bond Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

When and how do we shift our businesses from legacy operating models to ones that better reflect the future? In traditional marketing communications, a well-informed brief will shape a human-driven strategy and insight-guided planning process. Marketing strategies. Distribution strategies. Creativity and Data.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

More often than not, enthusiastic entrepreneurs need to research the market and evaluate their options before being in a position to offer services that meet the audience expectations. In reality, building and maintaining your market presence is the most critical operation. Escape rooms are not only popular in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product. Otpor, on the other hand, created a movement that cascaded through the world. Successful movements do things that failed ones don’t.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. We serve people, lead people, we relate to people, we encourage or discourage people, and we are people.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. I had to learn that lesson, and almost blew it many years ago. link] mikemyatt Thanks for stopping by Bert.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. It was among the fastest-growing Chinese automakers, and it was racing to get into the hybrid market. Worse, could it end up selling those components on the open market? Lin could see that he was awed by the scale of the operation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. The team then turned to the product line.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Marketers tend to like big, bold actions that grab attention and spew off metrics. To market a product or an idea, you have to change minds, and that takes time and a lot of careful work. The arc of history is long—the length of a career, rather than a marketing campaign. Great brands operate the same way.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By comparison, think of the long strides many businesses have made in reengineering their supply chains, boosting product quality, and rolling out lean six sigma. Innovators see their organization, and the world around it, as a portfolio of skills and assets that can be endlessly recombined into new products and busi­nesses.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. At least for voice services, the U.S. As a result, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In doing research on multinational operations in the Middle East and Africa, we’ve learned that companies are well aware of how President Trump’s foreign and trade policies could affect their businesses there. unilaterally pulls out of the Iran nuclear deal), building contingency plans, and diversifying their portfolio of markets.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The crisis in Venezuela has been escalating over the last few years as product shortages, social unrest, and political clashes have grown more severe. Since 1958, the Venezuelan government has failed to diversify the country’s production matrix, attaching the nation’s future to oil windfalls. dollar inflows.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

And Americans convinced everything is now made in China might be interested to know that products made in China accounted for only 2.7% At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S.

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