N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For example, executive coaching is often likened to general business coaching, which is an incorrect and potentially dangerous comparison to make. When you’re at the top leading organizations, is there still room to grow? Executive coaching doesn’t only serve executives and their organizations.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 7, 2021

Now, more than ever, the volatility captured by the somewhat over-used VUCA acronym is perhaps becoming reality, and with it significant changes in the approach of organizations to this volatility. The data covered the period on either side of the 2008 financial crisis, so allowed comparisons to be made before and after.

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Decentralization Crisis Crisis Management Comparison 100

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Click here for more information on Maintaining Continuity of Operations with a Disaster Tolerance Strategy. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Operations Resources Newsletter Strategic Planning 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2021

You can use delivery quote comparison sites to secure some new business, especially when you are starting out and still have a limited marketing budget. Organize Office Space. Start Marketing. Get your marketing underway. Start by contacting some local businesses to market your courier services.

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Tips Insurance Parcell Price 65

The Practical Leader

MAY 13, 2020

These leaders operate from core values of partnership and participation. Only about a third of downsizing companies increased productivity and profits in the next 3 to 5 years, and underperformed in stock markets. When you look at the comparison companies you find a very different pattern. percent reduction in costs.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2020

Until recently, very few CEOs, IT, or marketing professionals would have put ‘data optimization’ high on the list of agenda items that keep them up at night. The most critical aspect of better data management is the reduction of inefficiencies in operations that cost businesses as much as 25% of their revenue. Direct Sources.

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Cost Comparison Fashion Bottom-up 74

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Plant Maintenance and Operations. About StrategyDriven.

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Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

For those of you not familiar with Kevin, he is a two-time best selling author and the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group , a learning consulting company that has been helping organizations, teams and individuals reach their potential since 1993. In fact your talk matters little, in comparison to your walk.

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Leadership Blog Brand Consultative 353

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 24, 2012

How will this shift--the consumerization of IT--impact the way an organization recruits, engages and manages its workforce? Lagunas: Many organizations struggle with the unique challenges specific to recruiting and managing an increasingly mobile and tech-savvy workforce. Where would marketing be without social media?

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Human Resources Software Media Comparison 78

Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

When organizations first start doing process improvement they use a myriad of ways to decide which processes to improve first, such as: IT bought some software and needs to install it, so let’s look at the current process first. A Macro Map is a graphical rendering of an organization as a portfolio of processes. A Macro Map can help.

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Process Strategy BPM Metrics 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

’ Metrics seem to emphasize what organizations find immediately measurable — even if those are low value — and tend to ignore high value measurements simply because they seem harder to measure (whether they are or not). It is a mindset that permeates organizations from top-down as well as bottom-up.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

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Supply Chain Retail Bottom-up Newsletter 57

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

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Newsletter Career Tools Execution 59

Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

The ability to collect large amounts of data is increasing daily, and organizations are attempting to use analytics to transform this data into usable information to help them gain better knowledge about their products, services, and customers. Education is not unique.

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System Education Comparison Influence 28

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire. The result of frontier analysis is an index for each firm describing its efficiency at transforming inputs into outputs relative to the best performers operating at comparable scale.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2023

Financial consultants are a one-stop solution for all your financial concerns – be it tackling operational challenges or looking for investment opportunities for your business. While this process might seem time-saving, it can in fact jeopardise business operations in the long run.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

But I would argue that the real reason Uber is disruptive is because it is reshaping how we can think about organizing people, not cars. That is a remarkable example of how technology will reshape how we organize to get work done at scale in the future. Airline operations are a huge optimization challenge.

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Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

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Newsletter Bottom-up Welch Tools 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Will younger workers have the knowledge and skills to run our organizations when they do? Assemble some preliminary data: What are the demographics of your organization? Juliano Howard T.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. At the heart of every employee is talent.

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Library Kaplan Newsletter Audience 70

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Overview: An agile environment organizes the resources of an organization in a more adaptive and disciplined way. Through new roles and a few rules any organization or group can become more agile. For this reason, it is adaptable to almost any workflow or operational situation. The result is a more effective organization.

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Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Earlier this year, I received some lessons on what wins in frontier markets from former Coca Cola CEO Neville Isdell. Young markets need a long investment horizon," Neville told me. He''s a firm believer that many US firms struggle in frontier markets because they''re compelled to a short term view. Global business'

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Long-term Marketing Short-term Constraint 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Think about the needs of others – don’t just promote yourself, your accomplishments, or your organization. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. By developing their talent – their uniquely human ability to communicate – your organization will flourish in the digital age. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. At the heart of every employee is talent.

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Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. Juliano Howard T.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. “Numbers that numb” has become an all-too-common description for performance reports in many organizations.

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Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

This notion that there is an open and competitive market for highly talented executives is at the heart of the process by which CEO pay is set. Board compensation committees rely almost exclusively on comparisons to CEO compensation at companies of similar size and in similar industries.

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Comparison Committee CEO Banking 14

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Decision facilitation” enables a smoother, faster process that leads to a better outcome for both the marketing manager and the design firm. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. The result?

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Today's workforce will need three times the amount of training that it now gets if the organization intends to stay in business, remain competitive and tackle the future successfully. It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Niche trainers impart their own perspectives out of context to the whole of the organization.

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Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

that operates consensually to create and maintain our Status Quo; it resides in our unconscious and defines our Status Quo. It’s possible Responders will ultimately get to their answers without Facilitative Questions, but using them, it’s possible to help Responders organize their change criteria very quickly accurately.

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Resistance System Servant Leader Banking 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. Identifying with the global organization rather than your local office. If you feel a sense of belonging with the larger organization, you’re more likely to share its values and goals.

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Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Understand that a Social Nation is organic – it won’t materialize with a proverbial snap of the fingers. Marketing 101 principles still apply. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In a 100-page strategy document you can state everything you want, which makes everyone in the organization feel comfortable. We understand something better when we see it in comparison with something else than in isolation. To understand the power of comparison, let me retell this famous old advertising story.

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Strategy Document Comparison Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Computers wouldn’t just speed up processes or automate certain tasks — they could upset nearly all business processes and allow executives to rethink operations from the ground up. Every update or response to the market required multiple steps; it cost time and performance. And so the reengineering movement was born.

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Process Company Market Segmentation Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. The comparison to the PC is telling.

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Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

ZBB’s resurgence is further fueled by the uncertain markets hindering many companies’ efforts to attract fresh capital, as we see venture capital and private equity funds increasingly pushing ZBB on their portfolio companies, in the hope of securing a more rapid and profitable exit on their investments.

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