N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

If you’re passionate about something it means you care so much that it hurts…Refusing to surrender, and having the ability to make the tough decision or the needed sacrifice, will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Rankings, Lists and Recognitions The Power 150 – Top Marketing Blogs This list ranks the top 150 marketing blogs based on an algorithmic approach using Google page rank, Technorati rankings, Bloglines ranking and editorial quality. N2 is a proud member of Linked-In.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2015

The balance of power is tipping toward the feminine with more women taking on the workforce by graduating en masse from higher education well and above their male counterparts as well as starting businesses and taking a leading role in how major companies around the world are run. These are well worth participating in and supporting.

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Diversity Conference Competitive Advantage Participative 50

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. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Therefor by definition it is not unique or likely to generate any competitive advantage. Again a core that keeps customers loyal & provides a competitive advantage. By definition 'best practice' is something codified by someone else. I always appreciate your insights William. Manufacturing, oh yes!

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2012

While meritorious competition between initiatives tends to best serve the organization, reality dictates that politics, power struggles, and positioning often hinder the progression of top ideas in favor of less deserving ones. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Resources Proposal Competitive Advantage Politics 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. Power outages are inevitable and can result in devastating implications for businesses that thrive on their data integrity. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer N2growth Author/Moderator Facebook Twitter LinkedIn You Tube Blog Feed Favorite Posts Dont Negotiate.Facilitate Leadership and Opportunity Leadership & Political Correctness How To Make Great Leadership Decisions Buzzwords Arent All Bad Success vs.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

Refusing to surrender, having the ability to make the tough decision, the needed sacrifice, and the focus to place fiduciary obligations above your self interest will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise. I hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend as well.

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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. Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In order to leverage the power of customer care in your business, it must be integrated into all aspects of your business by recognising your internal and external customers. Superior customer care can become a powerful business driver that is not centered on major investments but simply an awareness of how you do business.

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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. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

Leadership 64

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. economy may be succumbing to what he calls “the Medici cycle,” named for the powerful family of medieval Florence. Their motto — or at least the motto often attributed to them — was “Money to get power.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. That is to say: they are finding competitive advantage in what were historically reckoned to be (or ignored as) externalities. and people mean relationships. Thanks again for sharing Gwyn.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Posing that question continues to be a powerful way to catalyze important strategic conversations. The first is a true “consumer is boss” mind-set, which recognizes that the only path to sustainable competitive advantage is to create customer value. And short-term numbers at that. It’s time to make business human again.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. Working together, finance and strategy executives can forge better links between resource allocation and strategic goals. There are two reasons for this.

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Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

” Building an organization and amassing a competitive advantage work much the same way. I’ll bet that front and center is a powerful sense of community.” That is because, ultimately, competitive advantage comes from people, rather than products or patents. .” “No kidding?!

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Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

No, the issue I have with the suggestions that adopting Flash or allowing iTunes to work on devices made by Sony is that it reflects a misunderstanding of the competitive advantage that Apple has forged by the way it has structured its industry category. But this strategy comes at a price. Sound familiar?

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Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

Comparatively, online lenders have limited brand recognition, and acquiring small business customers online is expensive and competitive. But banks’ ability to use these strengths to build real competitive advantage is not a forgone conclusion.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The rise of private-label banks, like The Bancorp , which power the new offerings — not only by upstarts like Simple and Moven but by major players like T-Mobile and Google — shows how regulatory barriers are lower than they seem. Banks possess inherent competitive advantages in the digital world.

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Banking Retail Finance Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. In that strategy , the country uses state enterprises, industrial policy, and the power of its domestic market to dramatically increase the country’s industrial production.

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Welch Software Industry Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, one of eHarmony’s competitive advantages in the matchmaking market is that it limits competition on both sides of the match. It''s a nice primer on a range of views about what search engines should and shouldn''t reveal, and how the extraordinarily powerful company in the middle of the battle is responding.

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Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. No matter how advanced technology is, it needs human partners to enhance competitive advantage. Beyond its predictive power, this approach also achieves speed, scalability, and evolvability.

Strategy 8

Strategy Supply Chain Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The most painful board conversations that I hear about machine learning revolve around how much power and authority super-smart software should have. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. ” Firms look to leverage, amplify, and network autonomy into self-sustaining competitive advantage.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., There are all kinds of new energy providers (especially in U.S.

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Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

With these tools, every employee can get some of the powers previously available only to CEOs. The next frontier in capturing machine intelligence’s value is building a lasting competitive advantage based on this new kind of software. These tools can aid with monitoring and predicting (e.g.,

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. I want to start by actually defining what an idea is, and is not. Best wishes Tom.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid. Don’t hype…stop complaining…fix the problem.

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Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 310

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival. I read a great post yesterday by Dan Rockwell ( @LeadershipFreak ) in which he asked: &# what’s the most powerful question of all?&#

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

This makes ownership a powerful concept for those seeking to galvanize a company around sustainability. Companies can fill this need and gain competitive advantage by transforming their stakeholders from bystanders to owners and make sustainability, including as it pertains to social good, part of their purpose.

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Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

However, most companies require considerable planning and need both a competitive advantage and a solid business plan in order to succeed. Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. Will customers be able to identify and discuss your competitive advantage?

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 9

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. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Google’s “20% time” acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy. For executives, the first step is to identify digital priorities, keeping in mind the overall business transformation needed to maintain a competitive advantage.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

For most governments, financing the global goals campaigns will be a stretch; governments have already reneged in the past on commitments for similar targets. Furthermore, if membership of this club develops significant cache, then it becomes a powerful branding tool and a lever for competitive advantage.

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Goal Supply Chain Development Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. Size once gave organizations purchasing power. It was created at a time when being big and having scale was in itself a key aspect to competitive advantage and profitability. Big Isn't Enough. Generic vs. Distinct.

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Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17