N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

The plan must be cascaded properly from top to bottom of the organization so that front line staff knows how their work impacts the organization’s goals. of Business Administration with an emphasis on Marketing at the University of Nevada, Reno. Strategy strategic planning strategy' Ryan received his B.S.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Improve productivity, Enhance the bottom line… StrategyDriven Premium Subscriber Login Align Your Organization and Become StrategyDriven! Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Click here to cancel reply.

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Leadership Newsletter Drucker Strategic Planning 50

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

You could easily predict the performance of your leaders, your teams and your organization ? Such a solution exists and can unleash the potential and performance within your organization. A successful CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) is likely to have such MAPs as – strong motivation toward options (ie., Below are 2 examples.

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Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Steve Farber

MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers with Deloitte , for instance, found that “ mission-driven ” companies typically are first or second in their market segment, have 30 percent higher levels of innovation, and have 40 percent higher retention levels. Every organization is unique and so is the cultural personality that brings its work to life.

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Company Mission Statement Market Segmentation Franchising 40

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. Once they have a strategy to fit the context, they can sequence out the various steps to implement it. The company had been a star of the dot-com boom, eventually selling to eBay in 2002 for $1.5

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Eric Jacobson

JULY 19, 2016

Debbie Laskey is one of my go-to experts when I seek advice about a number of business topics, including marketing, social media, and nonprofit marketing and leadership. If they do, they need to enter the 21st century and understand that the communications specialty is just one aspect of an overall marketing plan.

Marketing 50

Marketing CPA Leadership Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The term “company DNA” is sometimes used as a shorthand for an organization’s culture and strategy — a metaphor for what makes it unique. We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. Second, DNA does not change over the life of an organism.

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How To Decentralization Environment Collins 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

This requires applying different approaches to strategy and execution in different parts of their business, as well as constantly re-balancing exploitation (generating cash to support growth) and exploration (finding winning products and models). Eventually the company is likely to be out of touch with changing market requirements.

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% Of the worst-performing industries between 1992 and 2002, almost 60% percent wound up in the top half in the most recent 10-year period. When you do that, it creates a disruption in the market that can work to your benefit.

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TSR Industry Company Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

It's rare to find a corporate human resources function that accelerates change by actively finding ways to help drive new strategies. HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. But not at IBM. In developed countries, such as France and the U.K.,

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

The answers, we were hoping, might help our readers better understand how Murdoch's beloved, hack-riddled broadsheets fit into the rest of his organization. Whether or not this is good business strategy wasn't necessarily up to us to decide; however, it laid the pure economics of it out in an easy-to-grasp story.

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Sports Trends Media Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The key for every firm — regardless of size — is to figure out how to consistently create value in a demanding, ever-changing market. Back in 2002 , when Sam Palmisano took over, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services,such as back-office outsourcing, and personal computers.

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Operations Innovation Industry CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The new conventional wisdom on corporate structure is that companies can do better by organizing themselves around customer groups. He also emphasized in a 1999 book that “the wrong structure can doom all other market-driven initiatives in the organization to failure.” Is there a flaw in the logic?

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Its resurrection convinces us that other organizations can do the same by creating a culture of consideration, coordination, and communication, and marrying that culture to a responsive business model. People are driven to do their creative best when they know that they, their ideas, and their work are valued by the organization.

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Innovation Business Model Wilde Brainstorming 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Notably tech firms acquired an average 250 tech companies annually between 2002 and 2011 and 350 in the years since. That means that 70% of acquisitions of firms in the technology sector over the past three years have been made by organizations outside of it. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. The answer in too many cases is no.

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Company Business Model Price Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. Here are some key strategies I've observed from PARC's experiences. Strategy #1: Go beyond just the ideas. Know the risks and the costs.

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Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., We’ve spent the last few years studying what makes rivalry unique, how it affects our behavior, and how it impacts organizations. Ford versus GM), or between nations (e.g., should U.S.

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Participative Rogers Influence Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

The idea that shareholder value should be the organizing principle of the corporation is of relatively recent vintage — it was only in the 1990s that it really became widely accepted — and as legal scholar Lynn Stout keeps explaining , corporate law has far from fully embraced it. No, and no, actually.

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Short-term Collins Bottom-up Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2013

Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% This economic growth has not only led to the development of a burgeoning middle-class in these markets, it has fueled an increase in the number of citizens actively engaging in philanthropy. growth in GDP.

Globalization 8

Globalization Venture Capitalist Class GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2010

While he was at Amazon from 1997-2002, Greg Linden prototyped a system for making personal recommendations for other products to customers as they checked out. Problem was, a marketing Senior Vice President thought these would distract customers from completing their purchase and didn't think Linden had proof it would work.

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Execution Education Long-term Guidelines 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Drucker’s theory of the business was a set of assumptions about what a business will and won’t do, closer to Michael Porter’s definition of strategy. In addition to what a company is paid for, “these assumptions are about markets. They are about identifying customers and competitors, their values and behavior.

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Business Model Drucker Christensen P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.” years in 2002 to 7.2

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term EPS 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

R&D has been starved at HP for years, and it will be hard to pull enough irons out of the fire to propel organic growth. and smooth succession to a new CEO in 2002, while continuing an innovation thrust that included grid technologies, cloud computing, and supercomputing. It's a safe bet that resumes are already in play.

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Tips CEO Software Drucker 10

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Any company or organization is like a tree. Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Without always noticing it, individuals and organizations change 71% per year.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Yesterday’s strategies simply do not work anymore.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

But Tirole’s 1980s work on industrial organization also found its way into thinking about business strategy. In the early 1980s, the game theory approach to studying industries promised to be the next big wave in strategy. His 1988 book The Theory of Industrial Organization became the standard graduate textbook on the topic.

Strategy 8

Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). Step 1: Craft the strategy and organization to implement the vision. The CEC was dissolved.

Software 15

Software Outsourcing Committee Consultative 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

After breaking even in 2002, net profits continued to rise, to 3.8 Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. It has now become the largest bank in the country. Importantly, profits kept pace. Resisting revenue temptations.

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Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

While you need no credentialing to be a coach, you will find no shortage of organizations willing to sell you their certifications. As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. Here is my bottom line take.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They pointed out that we were a very young company, but our market value was $45 billion—more than the entire U.S. In 2002, we had an offsite strategy session, and we had some consultants come in. In 2002, the worst-case models showed we’d still have over $1 billion in revenue. How did you execute on that strategy?

Industry 8

Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 What is your company’s strategy? How can you tell if the product you are working on is likely to succeed or fail? billion in 2014. Fix or kill? Fix or kill?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Any company or organization is like a tree. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Part of their growth strategy to go public, offering stock as a diversified company. by Hank Moore.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57