N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

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. However it is never a good thing to be forced into a low cost position.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I have actually come to cringe every time I hear a so called expert use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a justification for the position they happen to be evangelizing. Therefor by definition it is not unique or likely to generate any competitive advantage. As an example, Look at Apple! But manufacturing?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

Most advice for positioning yourself for executive positions mirrors Martin’s sentiments: If you want to land in the executive chair, the first thing you need to do is get executive experience. If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Map out a path to the executive position you want.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

They don’t tell you how well the business is positioned for future growth and ROIC improvement. Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance. It took many years for the company to regain its lost position.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. Far too often people end up rising the ladder only to find them in position for which they are ill prepared. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

While not all great business leaders have served in the military, those of you who have worked to develop the leadership traits mentioned above understand the advantages you derive from a having a military leadership state of mind. If you’re passionate about something it means you care so much that it hurts.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

The right software will unite your workforce whether they are in finance, distribution or manufacturing so that everyone is up-to-date on all processes. 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

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I look at incremental improvements as a necessary part of day-to-day operations, and a necessary component of keeping things current. I visited his church on numerous occasions.

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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

MAY 26, 2016

Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. That’s more or less how Zingales describes his Medici cycle, and it’s illuminating in that it allows for competition and concentration as parts of the same story. But they didn’t attain that position through crony capitalism.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. They built 75 of version 6 in January 2014 and response so far has been positive. But as Kevin Nolan, vice president of technology, said, “With FastWorks we’re learning that speed is our competitive advantage. General Electric Operations Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Have you staked out a positioning that's different from rivals? Competitive advantage lies in the activities, in choosing to perform activities differently or to perform different activities than rivals. These ultimately are the choices that result in a company's ability to charge premium prices or to operate at lower cost.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Indeed, a failure to understand your ownership options can ultimately cripple your business, causing it to lose its competitive advantage, even resulting in buy-outs or sales that nobody really wants. This model, which we call owner-operator , can be successful for many generations. Think of the British monarchy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development. The company has 10,000 customers for their helpdesk software-as-a-service product, and thus far, $6 million in financing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In years past, an important source of competitive advantage for insurers was the ability to price risk better than rivals. As Deere’s strategy has shifted, so have the business-critical roles at the company—from traditional manufacturing positions to analytics and services roles. Take insurance, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. How can we overcome these free rider problems, to make sure companies are incentivized to have a more positive societal impact?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Second, with the public declarations by many companies to help with the goals , there is likely to be competitive pressure. Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor. of the time.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Even worse is when those sound-bites are used in an attempt to make statements which embolden a corporate position that doesn’t really even exist to begin with. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. Once this was done, the executive leadership and CIO focused on implementing technologies that improve the company''s competitive advantage.".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Since the classical style is the best known to corporate planners and I've already discussed the adaptive style in depth in a previous HBR article (" Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage " with co-author Mike Deimier) let's take a closer look at the other two: shaping and visionary.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Sales could be developing a behaviorally informed strategy, while operations looks for ways to cut costs. If you plan for the team to be self-financing after an initial period, how long do you have to make it work — a couple of months, or a couple of years? Find the Right Home for the Team.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Typically ensconced in corporate databases, and tightly held in order to maintain competitive advantage, this data contains tremendous possible insights and avenues for policy innovation. For all of data’s potential to address public challenges, most data generated today is collected by the private sector.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

And that same transparency has radically shortened the shelf life of any new competitive advantage. “We’ll Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

What’s our biggest risk in this, and what’s your fallback position? How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. What do you need from me in order to make that happen? That’s an interesting thought, what process did you go through to reach that conclusion?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

It shouldn’t matter if you are in the finance department or leading the marketing team. I wanted to know their needs at the level they were operating, and there wasn’t a data point or spreadsheet in the world that could trump simply seeing them in action. Visit the “trenches!”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. In some contexts, they add competitive advantage.

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Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have algorithms for recommender systems, merchandise buying, inventory management, relationship management, logistics, operations — we even have algorithms for designing clothes! Each provides material and measurable returns, enabling us to better serve our clients, while providing a protective barrier against competition. .”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Since positioning is vital in new markets, today’s boards must include Chief Marketing Officers, not just directors with operations or finance backgrounds. Only a small minority thought low-cost operations would be an advantage in three years’ time. Rebrand from the inside out.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

You are able to position yourself as a true thought leader in your industry, separating yourself from competitors. Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do. But yes, they do! Hire a specialist. Hire a professional.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

In fact, at the risk of being controversial I’m going to take the position that perfection does not exist. Moreover, the pursuit of perfectionism rarely results in a competitive advantage, but it will result in time delays, cost overruns, missed deadlines, and unkept commitments. New Flash : speed trumps perfectionism.

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