N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic. My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. I want to be clear that I’m not advocating for form over substance, extreme self-indulgence, narcissism, or masking insecurity by the trappings you surround yourself with.

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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. Why do some consultants get $50,000 a day for their time, while others have to give their time away?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought. Thanks for stopping by Jesse.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. logistics, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

By parallel, managers themselves might similarly benefit from "reverse-engineering" the criticism of not only outsiders but of their own colleagues: considering both parties as their benefactors on the road to greater performance. Statistical analysis of Walmart's own data by the plaintiff's consultants in the Dukes v.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Mello Weekly Leader ( [link] ) Sea-Fever Consulting LLC ( [link] ) @petermello | @weeklyleader [link] Colby This is awesome. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Thanks also for all of your generous leadership sharing here every day. You are my leadership daily must read! Fair Winds, Peter A. So many great leaders and blogs.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. The disconnect between HR and Procurement often means either choice is suboptimal on its own, so operating managers circumvent both HR and Procurement.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

My team would have people with deep functional knowledge and skills (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, and information technology) to align surrounding processes. Most process engineering starts out as a project," Coco explained. "We To do this, Coco added outside consultants with experience in performance and process design.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources' Bring on the quants.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

I had been an engineering manager at GE, so my areas of expertise included managing projects, inventory, and finances, all of which would be helpful. In our view, they needed to learn what it takes to plan their work, manage their time, interact with customers and vendors, handle the finances, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

There is a lot of taxonomy and local knowledge that needs to be incorporated into the AI system —similar to the old “knowledge engineering” activity for expert systems. Particularly if your knowledge domain has not already been modeled by your vendor or consultant, it will typically require many months to architect.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

If businesses in China can import capital equipment, secure accounting and consulting services, hire the most efficient workers in the country, and secure financing for any project, how then will you compete? They have the resources to hire the world's top designers and consultants.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” Even if you cannot change your circumstances, “you might be able to change the microenvironment in which you operate.” “It really helped to inject purpose and happiness into my career and those of my colleagues in engineering.” Finances were a consideration.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Different operational skills. If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. Diversity on your founding team will give you strength. If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

In my early years as an executive search consultant in Argentina, I was frequently asked to hire senior investment bankers. Citibank and J.P. Morgan were the leading players in the region at the time, but as I contacted and interviewed most of their key bankers, I saw something strange going on.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Much like every other business, a healthcare facility also comprises functions that support its operations. These may include finance, administration, marketing, etc. Search engine optimization is the trendiest marketing tool these days. And this brings us to the topic of our blog today!

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. In consulting, leaders invest in hiring and training people and then carefully track how they use their time.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. ” [link] lightridr Great post, Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. link] Social Influence Measurement – Tools, Resources & Commentary | Digital Marketing Blog // Digital Operative [.] Social Media Influence [.]

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. And a quarter of companies, according to the same survey, confess that not one of their new offerings met its profitability goals.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. True, some of these are low-paying, burger-flipper jobs.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Women entrepreneurs, coders, social networkers and computer engineers alike can find particular pride and inspiration of these 5 women below. This Internet entrepreneur and business executive is currently the Chief Operating Office at. is a Harvard graduate that started LearnVest, an online personal-finance resource for young women.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What is missing is growth capital for the small companies that should be the economic engines of their communities. Successful companies between $5 million and $50 million in revenues can't get the capital they need to expand their operations and hire more people in city neighborhoods where the best social program is a job.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. The best legacies are built moment-by-moment and day-by-day. Have fun with your father in law and congratulations to you and your wife on the upcoming birth.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

How to Pick the Right Consultants for Your Company. Selecting the most appropriate consultant for your company and optimizing their expertise is the greatest challenge facing a decision maker. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. It’s a strategy that has also worked for others on the list.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I have had a front row seat as companies have struggled to enter the emerging world of the Internet of Things — first, 10 years ago as a vice president at Ambient Devices , an MIT Media Lab spinoff that was a pioneer in commercializing IoT devices, and then as a consultant. Operations. These may involve new areas for the company (e.g.,

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