N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They remain current with industry regulations and compliance requirements, ensuring their organizations operate within legal boundaries. E ffective financial leaders exhibit a deep understanding of the regulatory landscape.

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Finance Execution Leadership Long-term 409

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

These programs are especially useful for start-ups who are operating with minimal staff and have a lot of team members wearing many hats already. You can purchase software to help with everything from your accounting to employee management and acquisition. Organization. Invest in your team.

Succession 67

Succession Asset Management Software Outsourcing 67

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

You can consider opening a franchise for any established company where you will only require to find a proper location and arrange funds for your operations. It is important to have these answers before starting a small business. Having a solid ground of reasoning behind your idea. Choose Your Business Structure Wisely.

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Break-even Analysis Analysis Licensing Price 76

Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Senior managers at Allianz Global Investors, a global asset management company, attended a workshop called Dialogue in the Dark, led by visually impaired trainers who conducted the entire workshop in total darkness. What extreme step you can take to experience and lead yourself differently?

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Crisis Workshop Short-term Business Model 285

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

. “Utility leaders must find cost effective ways to replace aging assets, transfer knowledge to a new generation of workers, release currently unavailable capital, and optimize strategic operations and maintenance programs,” explains Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven’s Chief Executive Officer. Risk management and compliance.

Energy 58

Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

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Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Once your company begins growing and starts to purchase or lease a number of large, expensive pieces of manufacturing equipment, you’ll need to invest in enterprise asset management software to provide a clear, big-picture view of the operation.

Company 50

Company Software Asset Management Long-term 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

With a conventional business that choice consistently conveyed an incredible danger since you needed to “invest” your own money before you could get something fully operational. Regularly it took, at any rate, a year prior to you could hope to perceive any benefits. Thank heavens for the internet.

How To 76

How To Advertising Affiliate Marketing Chemicals 76

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Large investors rely on an assortment of intermediaries to help them with their investment activities, including asset managers, such as hedge funds, investment banks, and consultants. As a result of this deepening disruption, the ways in which companies are valued and capital gets allocated could change forever.

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Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. We began collaborating when we recognized how interlaced asset management and product recovery were in textbook CEs. We identified these approaches through our work with life cycle asset management company DLL.

Policies 8

Policies Asset Management Cost Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In another example, GSMA, the trade body representing mobile operators, has developed a framework to collaborate in maximizing their contribution towards the SDGs, in particular improving infrastructure, reducing poverty, providing quality education, and acting on climate. The investment management industry has been highly commoditized.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

These “superstar” sectors include financial services such as banking, insurance, and asset management, professional services, internet and software, real estate, and pharmaceuticals and medical products. We find that a handful of sectors account for 70% of value added and surplus across the G-20 group of major economies.

Industry 13

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Concurrently, institutional investors — particularly pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, and other asset "owners" with long-term obligations — can learn to be better shareholders. If trustees possess a stronger knowledge base, they could monitor their investment managers more robustly. over this period.

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Long-term CEO Short-term Asset Management 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The market size for responsible investment is large and growing, with some of the largest asset managers like BlackRock , State Street Global Advisors , and Vanguard responding to demand by opening ESG-themed funds in recent years. How is it that sharp-toothed activists are becoming advocates of long-term sustainable investing?

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Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Recently, my colleagues at the Focus Consulting Group and I surveyed more than 100 asset management firms around the world, testing both for the strength of their cultures and for the effectiveness of their leadership teams. Teamwork is not the only key to success in the asset management industry.

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Teamwork Industry Management Asset Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Presidents and provosts will tell you: operating budgets are tight. Meanwhile, trustees control universities’ sometimes-giant endowments, and most often delegate this control to asset managers who treat the endowments as pools of money with the sole purpose of creating more money. It’s a game of responsibility hot potato.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Yes, financial institutions should be environmentally responsible in their own operations. Don''t get us wrong.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In The OnRamp Fellowship operates on a different model. And last week J.P. In full disclosure, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, J.P. and roughly 50% have been hired into permanent positions.

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Ulrich Cooper Gordon Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat. In the past year Japan's major electronics firms have lost an aggregated $21 billion and have been routinely displaced by competitors from China, South Korea, and elsewhere.

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Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Successful companies between $5 million and $50 million in revenues can't get the capital they need to expand their operations and hire more people in city neighborhoods where the best social program is a job. Tim Ferguson is the Founder, Chair, and Managing Partner of Next Street , a merchant bank for the urban enterprise.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Mass Marketing Banking Asset Management 14

First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription, to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Necessity is the mother of invention. When times or resources are tight, people usually figure out how to make due: they create work-arounds, devise new [.].

Innovation 89

Innovation Newsletter Tips Review 89

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Note that essential experts typically don’t want to manage others; they only want to manage themselves. That makes retaining them very different from retaining someone who wants to scale the corporate hierarchy by managing increasingly larger operations. So how do you keep them? For example, Vail Resorts, a $1.9

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But three years after the financial crisis broke, I remain more convinced than ever that the fundamental cure for restoring economic growth and repairing societal trust in business is to deepen our ability to manage companies for the long term. Here again, CEOs can and should manage that process actively.

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Long-term CEO Short-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

And that’s where software asset management can help. Why Software Asset Management (SAM) Matters. Comprehensive asset management is essential to an effective IT infrastructure, service, and cybersecurity management program. Aligning Data Sources. And Microsoft can help.

Asset Management 8

Asset Management Software Licensing Content 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 21, 2017

No matter what operating system or type of device you use, there’s a good chance that the software you use can actually be used across multiple different platforms. You can edit it on your Mac laptop, Windows desktop, Android smartphone or even iOS tablet.

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Software Asset Management Fixed Assets Document 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

It may seem counterintuitive, but smart companies need to routinely rid themselves of less profitable customers, the same way an asset manager or rebalances an investment portfolio or a Major League Baseball general manager trades a declining player. So how does one take full advantage of a 'window to winnow'?

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P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

We direct this urgent call less at operating managers, who are out there getting muddy and trying to score goals every day, than at other critical corporate players, such as the trustees of pension funds and sovereign wealth funds or a company's independent directors.

Marketing 11

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

I recently employed this principle with a large asset management firm. Beside each operator was a large pile of partially assembled furniture. You must slash the price of your product or service by 50%. Customer acquisition has been halted; you need to maximize value from existing customers.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Hotels B2C Price 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. That modifies his job from solely capital expenditure to operating expense, and effectively a collaborator on growth.

Management 12

Management Software BPM Technology 12

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Performance Improvement through Employee Engagement Initiatives – Led employee engagement/process & performance improvement initiatives at the Sequoyah and Watts Bar Nuclear plants in order to identify solutions to close the $30 million gap in operations and maintenance (O&M) costs and increase generation.

Power 50

Power Licensing Engineering Benchmarking 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

In many parts of the world, the increased operational and infrastructure costs are simply passed on to consumers. Its managerial team first formed a working group of personnel from business units across the organization — from retail and asset management to planning and maintenance crews. As one U.S.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Incentives Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., business continuity").

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

I was meeting with a client last week, the CEO of a global asset management firm. Robert Cialdini’s research on commitment and consistency shows that if we publicly commit to a goal we are more likely to honor it because it becomes part of our identity and we dislike operating in ways that contradict that identity.

Organization 8

Organization How To Cialdini Schein 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

Executives of the “old economy” are certainly aware of their own vulnerability, as they witness the impact of Uber on the taxi industry, Airbnb on hospitality, and automated asset management on financial services. Unfortunately, these investments are unlikely to yield meaningful benefits.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

nonprofit organizations like the Heartland Capital Strategy Institute are bringing together institutional investors, private asset managers, and worker representatives to harness some of the $13 trillion of assets in workers’ pension funds to invest in worker-friendly businesses that offer good investment returns.

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ESOP Company Cooper IAM 13