N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

Do you have a business intelligence platform? Do you stack-up as well as you think, or have you just adopted a position out of convenience? When was the last time you conducted a formal competitive study? Do your R&D and innovation programs evaluate the competitive landscape?

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

I was introduced to Van Gorder by one of his executive team, and–even though I’d read his book, The Front-Line Leader –I wanted to hear his advice for entrepreneurs and small business leaders striving to create a positive culture. Get out of the ivory tower. Look for and encourage hidden talents. Be caregivers. .

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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

I was introduced to Van Gorder by one of his executive team, and–even though I’d read his book, The Front-Line Leader –I wanted to hear his advice for entrepreneurs and small business leaders striving to create a positive culture. Get out of the ivory tower. Look for and encourage hidden talents. Be caregivers. .

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CEO Leadership COO Tips 40

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Be aware of the legal compliance needs and requirements in the locations you are conducting business in so you are able to continue doing business legally. By learning the area's customs and traditions, you are able to relate with locals better and establish a positive reputation. Communicate often and clearly.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Customer centricity as a strategy reorients the entire business-operating model around the customer; it means understanding the customer’s point of view and respecting the customer’s interest. By doing this, it increases their overall satisfaction—and in the process, business profitability.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

Today, the new Chief Customer Officer role — a position that I believe most smart companies will create in the upcoming decade — is well-suited to the skills of a CI leader. In his research, he reports that these individuals typically have extensive sales, marketing and operational backgrounds. It sounds like a platitude.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2022

To achieve perpetual growth and increase revenues, businesses need to work closely with all parties involved in fulfilling core business operations. This includes a business’s suppliers, logistics partners, warehousing, distribution, retailers, and end-users or customers. Operational Visibility.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The proliferation of C-suite roles is an indication of the increasing strategic and operational complexity organizations face. For instance, the person who was once the best at analytics may no longer hold that position if a Chief Data Officer is brought in. One of the newest additions to the C-Suite is the Chief Data Officer.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Recently, Enterprise software behemoth Salesforce acquired the startup , sending the signal that listening to social conversations is only one slice of the bigger pie for business. Dell, for example, has a " social command center ", a baby step in the emerging area of social intelligence.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Its use of quantitative information can help organizations optimize their spaces in a way that positively reinforces their overarching mission, and accommodates the unique work styles of their employees. Apply your company’s CRM or business intelligence systems to internal operations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

What positive outcomes would occur if the innovation were disseminated more broadly?), The four finalists represent a mix of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, provider- and patient-facing innovations, and clinical and operational solutions. Application questions focused on potential impact (e.g., evidence (e.g.,

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Ed holds a Master of Science degree in Operations Research and a Bachelors degree in Mathematics.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

For existing health care companies, the operative words in that mandate have been “health care”; for Amazon, the operative words likely are “service that needs to be delivered to a customer.” By simplifying data capture, Amazon frees up resources to analyze that information for purposes of business intelligence.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

million positions in the U.S. What they do need are analyses that solve key commercial and operational problems. What’s missing, more often than not, is a clear strategy and operational model for using these capabilities in ways that are specific to the company’s business requirements. Keep it commercial.

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