N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Vrio Corp has been committed to following market trends and increasing its value proposition through transformation: investing in technology and content aligned with the consumers’ habits, emphasizing the next generation. Daniel Roldán Chiffoleau is the Chief Transformation Officer at DirecTV Latin America (Vrio Corp.),

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The Idolbuster

JANUARY 15, 2013

I heard a cautionary tale from “George” the former VP of marketing at a mid-sized biotechnology company about how a bogus forecast helped propagate a disaster. Product development is always needed to make a new technology robust enough to work consistently in customer hands. See this post on stress and loss of perspective for more.).

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Biotechnology Groupthink CFO Stress 41

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

The new trainee could have done a first draft of the marketing summary; the groceries could have come from an Amazon standing order. The same kind of technologies that enable you to compete at work — the calendars, the shared work tools — should be used at home. Think long-term to stay in the game.

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

This, in turn, is triggering a shift in the perceived role of the CFO — from bean counters to planters of seed corn. Redefining the CFO role. After all, it’s the CFO who typically sets expectations about growth to investors and then allocates resources to ensure their organizations deliver. Similarly, Corning Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Since its founding just eight years ago, Uber has become one of the best-known brands in the world, has presence in over 80 countries, has market share reported at 77% in its core U.S. Organizations under stress cause people to focus more on avoiding blame than on taking risks and assuming responsibility to solve problems.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. The emotional practices used by Nokia’s board should also be helpful for other organizations under stress. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

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