N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Strategy, pricing, positioning, branding, distribution, compensation, or any number of other metrics tied to sales force productivity all rest with executive leadership. Toxic Culture : The truth is nothing stifles productivity and creates conflict like a toxic culture. No Market : Good leadership pursues sound market opportunities.

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Brand Entrepreneur Marketing Execution 379

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As the need for mobility grows and environmental concerns rise, businesses are keen to optimize their fleet operations not only for cost-effectiveness but also for sustainability and efficiency. Moreover, as global markets expand and new business opportunities arise in distant lands, car transport providers play a pivotal role.

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Transportation Management Efficiency Long-term 97

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

In business, your competitor is the enemy. For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars. Your success or failure can be quantified by such measurements as market share, financial ratios, brand awareness, new products and deadlines.

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Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Liz Weber of Weber Business Services provided Your Silence Speaks Volumes: Speak and Lead Proactively. Productivity. Communication.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Ethics 267

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Business Success Checklist. The business you’re in. Running the business.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

It's no secret that sales and marketing executives don't always see eye to eye. In a recent Corporate Executive Board survey, sales executives' top terms for their marketing colleagues included "paper pushers," "academic," and perhaps worst of all, "irrelevant." Here are four rules Challenger marketing organizations live by: 1.

Marketing 15

Marketing ROI Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Companies in all varieties of B2B markets have moved beyond selling products and services to offering complete "solutions" to their customers. For customers, these solutions offer better value than the products and services that went before. Achieving a solution economy will require these providers to change their mindset.

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B2B Business Objectives Focus Group Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A better metric is how many products you sell as a result of tweeting a link to your purchase path. If you can, build analytics into your products to improve focus and accuracy. Figuring out whether a number is a vanity metric requires analysis of your particular business. The Social Solution to Innovation Challenges.

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Metrics Media Ries Reference 20

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Craftsmen allied themselves to essentially create firewalls around their primary competitive offering in the market. Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. But Frito-Lay stocks its own products.

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Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

We find that the most forward-thinking companies are identifying and growing leaders in the midst of pursuing critical business objectives, as opposed to sending them off to far-flung educational programs and hoping they return with “big” insights about themselves and the world. What works instead?

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

We first introduced Neve Compacto, a low-energy paper product, in Italy, to help retailers save shelf space and moms save room in their storage closet. Our Brazilian team saw how well it was working there and adapted it for use in their market. We look for a connection to the business objectives for the target market.

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CEO Company Reputation Energy 9

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

It provides valuable insights into employee behavior, performance, productivity, and interactions, enabling organizations to make data-backed decisions that drive business success. Enhanced Employee Experience: HR analytics helps uncover factors that contribute to employee engagement, satisfaction, and productivity.

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Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

CEO 9

CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. Those three business portfolios are: The future state portfolio. The innovation portfolio. The investment portfolio.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. Click "READ MORE" to see the 44 content marketing agencies and 70 related tips from the experts!

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

While almost all business units, such as HR and sales, have started working more closely with IT, we have become especially interested in the marketing-IT relationship because we’ve seen firsthand just how much of marketing is increasingly powered by technology. Align your vision.

Marketing 8

Marketing Enterprise Architecture Technology Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

And the merchandising vice president had difficulty understanding why “product” was one of the categories we were discussing. Each of these executives offered plenty of ideas when the discussion turned to promotions, social media tactics, and marketing messages. I was stunned.

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Brand Reis Objective Merchandising 8