N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Prospective employers, especially for highly quantitative roles, look at these scores to benchmark candidates competing for entry-level positions. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Be prepared to discuss the highlights of your academic career – Your GPA and even your SAT scores matter.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Benchmarking and Evaluating. There is no point in implementing any changes if you aren’t going to spend time evaluating whether the processes, teamwork, and technology are paying off. Asking customer testimonial questions will help you to establish their needs, wants, and expectation.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Benchmarking. Technology is but one tool of the trade. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Reconnecting with old friends, former colleagues and citizens for whom you have great respect. This is an excellent way to share each other's progress and give understanding for courses of choice.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM. Benchmarking. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Ideas make the future happen.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 68

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. That having an E-mail address or a website makes one an expert on technology. That technology is the most important driving force in business and society. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Arrogant attitudes. That business runs on data.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

And how can companies benchmark themselves against competitors? The results show uneven progress: The technology sector comes out on top — no surprise there. They take advantage of e-commerce platforms — and may even operate their own. The most digital companies see outsized growth in productivity and profit margins.

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Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Failure to benchmark results and accomplishments. That having an E-mail address or a website makes one an expert on technology. That technology is the most important driving force in business and society. Technology companies must now learn the lessons that steady-growth companies in other industries absorbed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The novelty in this work was the ability to benchmark whether other methods could make a significant contribution beyond what the traditional measures could accomplish. Forward-thinking CMOs who embrace this technology will find a competitive advantage in their enhanced ability to make more accurate predictions about customer behavior.

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Marketing Advertising Benchmarking Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Our study clearly shows that great leadership is a strong competitive advantage, with the top 20 BCL firms far outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark on shareholder returns. Beyond strong financial performance, the top 20 BCL companies have something else in common.

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Innovation First-mover Advantage Chemicals Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

After all, the very purpose of AI is to augment, improve, and ultimately replace human intelligence, which is still widely regarded, at least by us humans, as our key competitive advantage. There is no reason to believe that leadership will be spared the impact of AI. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. Assets are important, but they are, increasingly, table stakes in most competitive industries; everyone in the game has them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

The strategy is fuzzy, and traditional metrics can't be applied early in the process, because that which is truly new has no frame of reference nor benchmark. Organizational change is driven by marketplace factors: customers, competition, government regulation, and science and technology.

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Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

They’ve also written about it in their coauthored book, Discovery-Driven Growth , and in McGrath’s latest book, The End of Competitive Advantage. ” Step 2: Do benchmarking. Since then, they have taught the concepts to thousands of students and managers. What Is Discovery Driven-Planning?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

A company that can show it is different from other companies, in a way that is relevant to customers, gains a major competitive advantage. But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

While the execution of a conventional strategy lends itself to linear progress and clear benchmarks, innovation often proceeds by S-curves , moving at a slow crawl until it explodes at an exponential rate. Unexpected changes in technology, customer preferences, and regulation can disrupt even the best-run operation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

And that same transparency has radically shortened the shelf life of any new competitive advantage. “We’ll To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle. Data revealed the initial sales meeting and RFP were especially influential in shaping buying outcomes.

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