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.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. As much as you may wish it wasn’t so, as a CEO you’re really only as good as your last decision.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

In addition to testing, developing a solid set of interviewing questions to sniff out any character flaws is also a good idea. In answer to your question, there are any number of diagnostic tests (personality profiles, psychological evaluations, etc.) that can be administered as part of the hiring process.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Most companies can claim an element of success in some aspect of CRM proficiency such as sales force automation, database marketing, development of a knowledgebase, etc., but the reality is that most companies absolutely miss the boat in harnessing the true power of CRM which is improving the customer experience.

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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

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! I thank you for this opportunity to develop the meaning in real life and make sense of this world essential.

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QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

They use technology to cook more food in less time. They collect some key metrics including cost per meal and constantly look for ways to optimize it. I wondered too, till I visited one of their kitchens in Ahmedabad recently. Innovation in Delivery : Kitchens are specially designed to meet the scale and quality requirements.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Team building, group dynamics, talent management, leadership development, and any number of other functional areas are much more about clarity, focus, aligning expectations, and defining roles than creating equality. ” Great post Mike – it is obvious you have spent a lot of time thing about and work with top teams!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The assessment program contains fully developed process procedures, forms and templates, performance metrics, how-to guides, and a library of best practices. The Sevian Business Performance Assessment Program was developed based on decades of experience managing and improving complex business operations. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 11, 2013

A performance measurement system’s complexity and organizational impact can bring with it many people, process, and technology challenges post implementation. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 18 – Ad Hoc Reports First, Automated Metrics Second.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 18, 2010

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

OCTOBER 14, 2016

We look right at growth metrics, the things that really matter.” Avoid creating it under the auspices of a strict operational or financial leader determined to conform the outputs to legacy metrics. Moss is an award winning marketer who focuses on engaging organizations and applying technology to drive growth. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2014

Determining those managerial, behavioral, environmental, programmatic, and technological factors driving overall outcomes is both an art and a science. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 24 – Diverse Metric Groupings. Identifying Precursor Indicators.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

Many thanks to my colleague Jerry Talley for initially developing this concept of a Macro Map. Some organizations create a Business Architecture graphic to show how business strategy, functions, processes, technology and data relate. Those might now have been my choice, but the organization had these metrics and they worked fine.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This is a leadership issue in which diversity, and the awareness of it, will play a key role in the development of future leaders. While my list had more "diversity" it was a larger list based upon specific metrics as the standard for qualification – diversity was not one of these metrics.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. This is what we call a business’s health , and related metrics explain how financial results were achieved and provide causal insights into future performance potential.

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Sales Wolf Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

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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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 23, 2010

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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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 11, 2010

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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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. In today’s post I’ll examine one of the most frequent offenders; “ Talent is our biggest asset.&#

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

I wasn’t nearly as dazzled by Jim’s statistics and metrics as I was his outlook on life. Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Play offense - Try desperately not to be on defense.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. The initiative should have a beginning, middle and end.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

My recent Harvard Business School Working Paper on small business credit explores new technology-driven entrants in the world of small business lending. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Our stress is compounded by each new performance metric that we're told to track and optimize, but social networking companies keep adding more, because they know each new target motivates us to do the job of growing their networks for them. I will not judge others based on their online metrics. I will not game my online metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The annual gathering in Austin, Texas, has gained a reputation as the mecca for innovation and disruptive technologies. Twitter had its coming-out party in Austin in 2007. But first, some other developments that caught my eye: • Group messaging services. Twelve years ago the key metric was eyeballs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million. They also want to be involved in developing sustainability strategy. Some have even begun to selectively tie compensation to sustainability metrics. They hold their employees accountable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 3, 2016

In 2007, while SVP of Operations for Bresnan Communications, a cable TV company with 300,000 customers in 4 Rocky Mountain states, I was searching for a solution to a problem that had been eluding me for many years – a simple way to connect the 1,100 employees I was responsible for around a higher cause that went beyond profit.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Encourage everyone on the team — including designers, developers, and content producers — to consider deliverables through to execution. If your team today has practices like designers throwing PhotoShop files over the wall for developers to execute, you may need to build in more collaboration. I’ve done that.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2013

Consequently, there are often many people, process, and technology challenges associated with the implementation or significant upgrade of such monitoring systems. Acceptance of a new or upgraded performance monitoring system centers on metric and report accuracy. Consequently, they misinterpret reports and metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

“Just as technology and entrepreneurship have transformed the way we live, applying investment and business tools to social problems is disrupting everything from philanthropy to governments to investing.” ” He points to Change.org , which was founded by Ben Rattray in 2007.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

He had just spent several days reviewing our business operations, and after absorbing our successes and industry-leading metrics, he couldn’t figure it out on his own. I’d multiply your equation by 1/(11-Sy), where Sy equals the effectiveness of your systems (organizational structure, technology, process controls, etc.),

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Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. And you start by developing the simplest working version of your idea.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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