N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy). Will I have unfettered access to other CXOs within your portfolio companies? .

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HR Digest

AUGUST 17, 2020

For example: Accounting and finance: Around 65,000 job postings in the 12 months previous for accounts payable/receivable clerks, and 55,000 for financial analysts. For accounting and finance professionals, the answer is “surprisingly little,” at least where demand is concerned. What hasn’t? Down just 2.6

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Which hat, or hats do you wear? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it?

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Finance for the Now Normal: financial stability in the hotel industry CMI Sri Lanka recently hosted a webinar titled 'Finance for the NOW NORMAL' with Mr Nirmalan Nagendra FCMI FIH, who is a senior Hospitality Finance Professional and Consultant for KPMG. Dileepa de Silva for the completion of 25 years of membership.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

When you think of Apple you immediate think of a company that has built a strong brand around quality design. Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

What does your pricing say about your personal or corporate brand? Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. How much is your time worth?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine how managing appearances can have a substantial impact on your personal brand and your success. and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. While they shouldn’t, the reality is that they most certainly do.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Small Business Administration Business Plan Engine. You’ll want to customize it with your company branding (you have your branding down, right?), online invoicing software brand Invoiceberry offers free business plan templates in.docx,odt,xlsx, and.pptx formats. but it’s easier than starting from a blank PPT.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2021

SaaS enterprises need to identify a suitable sales model from the start of their operations. This type of SaaS is often a good choice for large enterprise companies or ones that are targeting specific verticals like finance and healthcare. You need a sales operation to identify, nurture, and close deals with customers on contracts.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

"We think every industry is going to be rebuilt around social engagement," Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said. Sandberg said, adding, and “News, health, finance, shopping and commerce— we think similarly, all of these things will be rebuilt by companies that work with us to put social at the core.".

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Blogs can clearly be accretive, and will continue to add brand equity to those companies and individuals who grasp the value of social media and understand how to incorporate blogging into their social media efforts. What blogs do offer is a viable and robust platform to be leveraged by those that have a message worthy of communicating.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I admire your keen insights and courage to speak your truth. link] Naveen Goel [link] Hi Mike, I am Naveen Goel (Sr. I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer. But I have been doing people and project management for years.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

That year, as management tried to coordinate all the operating details across all the divisions, the company almost went bankrupt when poor planning led to excess inventory, with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash. Within each brand there were several models at different price points.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

Bob Lutz in his recent book Car Guys vs. Bean Counters makes the point that GM was doing fine until in the mid 1970s the MBA-trained finance guys took control of product development from the "car guys," who were engineers and designers. The result, he says, was inferior cars and a decline in the firm. Strategic judgment.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Even if you don’t intend to sell online, you should still have a company website to connect with customers and raise brand awareness. Blog content can also optimize websites for search engines and attract more customers. Doing so will reduce operating and staffing expenses, among others. Customer Support.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The capacity to operate a 747 is incompatible with social media smarts. The promotion was arguably in poor taste given the global economic downturn, but was also inargueably and acutely insensitive given the airline's current labor relations standoff with the unions representing its pilots, engineers, baggage handlers and caterers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

These leaders, mostly consumer-facing brands like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, and IKEA, have been covering their roofs and filling giant fields with solar panels and wind turbines. Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. Get early buy-in. Use cross-functional teams.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. The American social media giant did not celebrate that feat, though, because it never promoted itself as an e-commerce firm.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

In today’s post I’ll share some thoughts on the importance of social media influence in the building of personal and corporate brand equity. Can you generate an increase in revenue and brand equity with social media? Is social media right for business? How does social media compare with other mediums?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

It was a problem regardless of brand, formula, or product — until Atis set her sights on solving it once and for all. Thanks to Windham and her team’s incredible perseverance, the BLACK+DECKER brand has a series of prototypes completed. Atis created a rich ecosystem around her idea.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. This is a break from the traditional paths of finance, sales, and operations to the top spot. Over: CMOs take over new responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

If businesses in China can import capital equipment, secure accounting and consulting services, hire the most efficient workers in the country, and secure financing for any project, how then will you compete? When it comes to day-to-day operations, however, they just don't compare.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Pricing pressure is more intense in retail, less so in areas like top-branded luxury goods or highly differentiated machinery. Madhavan: For many years, CEOs and executives have focused on improving the bottom line through cost cutting, finding efficiencies in operations and the supply chain. Externally, the reasons vary by industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Much like our team of engineers who are constantly testing for the best functionality of our products, our team for emerging markets set up a series of experiments to explore which distribution model functioned best in these remote environments. Customers show up regularly to take out loans, arrange payments, and track their finances.

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