N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. Scores on both surveys reset the benchmark inside the organization. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 302

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. The Powerful Role of Trust. Customer relationships, like interpersonal relationships, are built on trust.

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Aaker Short-term Marketing Benchmarking 64

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2014

Second, assessors need not be as familiar with specific, comparable internal and external benchmark methods; recognizing positive performance results relative to that of other internal organizations or that of the market in general. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Benchmarking Organizational Behavior Article Document 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Benchmark all the economies for which reliable data are available. Is that smart?

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Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. Benchmarking. Living in the past is not good, nor is living in the present without wisdom of the past. Civil Rights Act, 50th.

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Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

It’s hard to underestimate the power of an attractive or unattractive market in driving outcomes for companies, including start-ups. As Andy Rachleff, one of the founders of the venture capital firm Benchmark has said “When a great team meets a lousy market, markets win.”. Is the market attractive?

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Entrepreneur Marketing Venture Capitalist Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Data-Driven Marketing. The service provides benchmarks and insights to ensure sustainable, cost-effective improvements in blast performance. Insight Center.

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B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

But applying this benchmark effectively requires choosing a comparison group, and there are two challenges that inevitably crop up: what we call the “microscope” and “telescope” problems. Finally, Blackacre and Widgets do well in their industries but poorly versus the markets. For the full population of U.S.-based,

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Company Comparison Benchmarking Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Below, you will find twelve of these key sales metrics that benchmark sales organization performance, structure, and effectiveness. Sixty-three percent responded that they have specialized inside salespeople that are dedicated to SMB (small to medium business) or mid-market sales. Percent of Organization Achieving Quota.

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Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. From the inception of Motorola Solutions stock at the end of 2010, its price rose by some 90 percent over the next three years, roughly twice the rise of the S&P 500 benchmark. Singer came on the board in October 2012.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. "Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field.

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Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. Their market value is set by the seller, who often is an appreciator or, at the least, has a profit motive. Who should be the arbitrator and benchmark?

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Long-term Budgeting Quality Career 56

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Benchmarking. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Reconnecting with old friends, former colleagues and citizens for whom you have great respect.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 64

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

One challenge today is that few companies have these numbers at their fingertips, and the lack of common definitions and publicly available statistics makes benchmarking difficult. equity markets* on BusinessWeek's 2008 list ended up underperforming broader market indices between March 2008 and March 2013.

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Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

One challenge today is that few companies have these numbers at their fingertips, and the lack of common definitions and publicly available statistics makes benchmarking difficult. equity markets* on BusinessWeek's 2008 list ended up underperforming broader market indices between March 2008 and March 2013.

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Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

As company that markets fashion apparel, accessories, and home goods (at its namesake stores as well via its other brands, like Anthropologie and Free People), it seems reasonable to think that the perspectives of women could be useful to its board. The median number of women on the boards of Urban Outfitters'' self-selected peer group?

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Diversity Proposal Apparel Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. billion in 2013. to assist with the local go-to-market approach.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

At the same time, we began working with the Human Rights Campaign, which in 2002 had created the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) , the national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. We were intent on gathering more quantitative data.

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Policies Price Due Diligence Human Resources 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

At the same time, we began working with the Human Rights Campaign, which in 2002 had created the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) , the national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. We were intent on gathering more quantitative data.

Policies 8

Policies Price Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

In January 2013 they created “ IBM iFundIT ,” a program in which volunteers decide where to spend seed money using an intranet site for proposing ideas, commenting, volunteering, and funding. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014. There are no titles.

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