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. If we look around and see that people are disengaged, that leaders are driving toward tactical outcomes and short-term wins, and that organizations are blindly driving ahead.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 265

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

This is a frequently-used tactic by Asians themselves. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Smart Marketing for Small Businesses. Dead”-On Business Rules: Ten Tie-Dyed and True Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead, part 1 of 2. Be ambiguous, so as to leave options open. Consider leaving a comment!

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Open-book Competitive Advantage Marketing Content 60

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Koreans and Chinese may use it tactically, but not in their general comportment. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Relate Articles: Smart Marketing for Small Businesses. Relate Articles: Smart Marketing for Small Businesses. In the East, in the interests of harmony, it is generally avoided.

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Open-book Competitive Advantage Marketing Content 59

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

We believe a clear, forward-looking strategy, translatable to the day-to-day activities of all organization members, is critical to realizing success in today’s fast paced market environment. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

They create value not by making things but by designing what gets made, determining markets for products, and generating consistent customer satisfaction. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Relate Articles: Tactical Execution Best Practice 7b – Are You Thinking Lean? All rights reserved.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

We should be encouraging our teams to approach every area of the business innovatively – including customer service, processes, organizational design, marketing, and leadership. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In the new business world, innovation should not be restricted to product development.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We believe a clear, forward-looking strategy, translatable to the day-to-day activities of all organization members, is critical to realizing success in today’s fast paced market environment. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Industry Chief Executive Officer Compliance Quality 58

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We believe a clear, forward-looking strategy, translatable to the day-to-day activities of all organization members, is critical to realizing success in today’s fast paced market environment. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Consultative CEO Advice Executive Coaching 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

In no particular order, here are six social-digital trends to watch in 2013: The Content Economy Content may become your company's most valuable asset in 2013. For years Google has been refining it's algorithm cracking down on unsavory tactics that compromise the quality of search results. Now it has accomplices.

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Trends Content Technology Follow-up 9

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.

Aaker 64

Aaker Short-term Marketing Benchmarking 64

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

The market is filled with self-help books promising to propel one’s sales career to the top. If the product itself is mature, salespeople have to continue to reinvent themselves and their tactics. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. This stagnation can result in lost opportunities. Lack of Discipline.

Sports 50

Sports Open-book Follow-up Career 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. A business’s life source is its data, and with the recent data breaches and cyber attacks, the state of a business’s data has become a top concern.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) Unfortunately, many of us have developed expertise in only one field (software engineering, information technology [IT], marketing, biotechnology, automobile manufacturing, the food industry, etc.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 6, 2022

. “This is the first study to examine how economic downturns correspond with increasing biases against gay men, and finds that the two periods of economic recession were disproportionately harmful to gay men in the labor market,” the researchers explain. Labor market discrimination. Lack of opportunities. in 2018/19.

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Comparison Tactics Uncertainty Trends 126

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Penney’s recent announcement that it is resurrecting its print catalog reflects a trend of retailers returning to the print medium as an important sales and marketing tool. While Bloomingdale’s and Saks Fifth Avenue have been mailing catalogs for years, now specialty retailers are picking up the tactic.

Retail 8

Retail Brand Fashion Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. It was twice as important as communication (the second most important behavior) and almost 50 times more important than hands-on tactical behaviors. In contrast, a true strategic leader thinks and acts strategically every day.

Organization 15

Organization Development Tactics Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. and spends it in international markets. How did this happen? billion to $8.6

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Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Today, Weaver’s mass-mailing tactics seem quaintly out of date. Sponsored by Accenture.

Media 8

Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The company was an eager user of my “cascading choices” framework for strategy that I have used for decades and written about extensively, most prominently in the 2013 book I wrote, with friend and colleague A.G. For example, Uber made a Where to Play choice that included China because it’s a huge and important market.

First-mover Advantage 15

First-mover Advantage Retail Strategy Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that savvy marketers have figured out that they can use some of the same basic principles to connect with their customers – and that brands have taken on such importance to consumers. On one hand, it’s easy to see why these powerful tactics would appeal to marketers.

Brand 8

Brand Organization Follow-up Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Walmart recently lost $20 billion in market cap in one day, in part because its leadership admitted it needs to invest more into its e-commerce operations. In 2013, Target even told the Securities and Exchange Commission that “digital sales represented an immaterial amount…of total sales.”

Airlines 8

Airlines Retail Loyalty Price 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 13, 2015

This set of aggressive tactics, which could put rival music services at a disadvantage, has triggered preliminary investigations from the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and even the European Union’s Competition Commission. The company is still bleeding overall, but is said to be profitable in the UK as of 2013.

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Licensing Download Advertising Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Earlier this month the Rolling Stones kicked off a brief 2013 tour celebrating their 50th anniversary. While this tactic sounds strange, it can make sense by preserving the value of the brand while finding a justifiable reason to lower prices. Marketing' Sell Via a Different Distribution Outlet.

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Price Discount Brand Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

Over the past year, my firm Collegefeed met with more than 300 companies to understand their college hiring strategies and tactics — from employers with large university hiring infrastructures to recently funded start-ups looking to hire fresh grads, interns, and young alum. According to a 2013 NACE study, 98.1%

Company 14

Company Brand Media Career 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting July 1st — the beginning of the company's fiscal year 2013 — the software giant will charge all of its 100-plus global offices and datacenters a fee for every ton of carbon they produce (mostly from plugging into the electric grid, so-called "indirect" emissions). But executives weren't charged real money.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Others may simply see no alternative to trying to keep the brand going at any cost, even if that means aggressive discounting, cheap licensing, or other tactics that erode long-term brand value. In 1921, two brothers started the company to serve the ham radio market.

Brand 8

Brand Merchandising Retail Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Losing that kind of information can mean a plunge in stock price and market share. Verizon''s newest data breach investigations report for 2013 tells us — yet again — that cyber security depends on people as much as technology. Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition.

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Company Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

To that end, the role of the CIO must be strategic instead of tactical. CIOs must lead the charge in getting other executives to understand that the game has changed, and explore strategies and tactics to win it and keep pace with global market changes. Define Your Strategy. IT management'

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CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

In the same way that markets have always outperformed command economies, the transactional efficiencies possibly lost are more than made up for by the ecosystems value effectiveness. Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. IT management'

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CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They haven’t done so without expressed reservation or opposition, but in the face of an irrational and bipartisan demonization of schoolteachers and their unions, some believed tactical retreat seemed prudent.”

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Marketing is more for ego reasons, rather than a careful strategy. Sales and marketing are not given enough support… especially management’s personal participation. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Strategy 60

Strategy P&L Strategic Planning Tactics 60

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. 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. Learn about planning, tactics, organizational development, systems improvement.

Long-term 56

Long-term Budgeting Quality Consultative 56

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. 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. by Hank Moore. About the Author.

Energy 58

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 58

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Prevention of leaks in customer information and losses in company market position. Crises can have many liabilities upon companies, including loss of profits and market share. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 80

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Food and Drug Administration ban on saccharine, thus restoring the product to the market. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Creating cause-related marketing opportunities, so that local businesses can sponsor the community healing process. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree. About the Author.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 60