N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2017

Thankfully, there are a few useful tools that can be easily implemented, even in small companies, and that are designed to provide you with the necessary knowledge to take informed decisions: CRM tools, task management tools, and web traffic tools are already available on the market. How is your SEO performance?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

New technologies : The consistency and predictability of structured data is what gave rise to today’s centralized IT departments – running SQL/Relational Database Management Systems, and ERP and CRM software. Unstructured data is very different. It is a disruptive paradigm shift that most companies have yet to make. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

The camera''s table sits in a virtual cloud, running on an operating system called CloudOS , which is programmed with KRL , or Kinetic Rule Language. Most of us are familiar with them as marketing gimmicks: "robot barf" in the corners of ads. Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

competitive advantage, value proposition, and market position) and drill down to function-level strategy (e.g., marketing, sales, product development, and innovation). accounting, IT, quality, and R&D) and software or platforms (CRM, ERP, etc.), Don’t get overwhelmed by them. It encompasses entire departments (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Create and improve systems to manage staff’s and students’ needs — schedules, records, facilities, personnel, and budgets. Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago. into multiple global markets. Go well beyond job descriptions. Expand from U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Today, however, by exploiting new digital technologies, firms like Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB have made customer co-creation of value central to their business models and in doing so now rank among the world’s most innovative and valuable firms. Example: Jim’s firm has used the same CRM software for ten years.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

This approach to entrepreneurship increases your market knowledge: as a potential user, you know the problem, how you’re currently trying to solve it, and what dimensions of performance matter. And you can use this knowledge to avoid much of the market risk in building a new product. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Urban physics, a more recent addition to Urban Studies, is currently being used by researchers at MIT and NYU to determine how systems within a city interact with each other and with individuals. Groupon’s tiki bar “conference room” acts both as an escape from work and as a space that encourages innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

The payoff is better alignment between marketing messages and consumers'' intent during their paths to purchase — and ultimately, better business results. Attribute the Right Value to your Marketing Channels. As a result, marketers need to experiment relentlessly with their campaigns. Let''s go back to our travel example.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

While discussing a Harvard colleague's world-class work on how big data and analytics transform public sector effectiveness, I couldn't help but ask: How many public school systems had reached out to him for advice? Accountability is often the unhappy byproduct rather than desirable outcome of innovative analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

For example, successfully deploying CRM software on time and to budget will deliver little unless sales, customer services, and fulfillment processes are redesigned, staff trained to have the right conversations with customers, data quality improves, and marketers build the right competencies to use all the data that will now be available to them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

A few innovative executives understand this and have sought scalable, automated solutions that interpret data, unlock hidden insights, and then provide answers to ongoing business problems. Typically, marketing teams toil every quarter to document portfolio performance and add commentary (see an example here ).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

Warren Buffett has earned his nickname because he’s proven time and again that he has an eye for predicting how markets will change and which companies will succeed in the aftermath. When markets or technologies change, it often requires entire segments of the value network to be reimagined. What’s changed?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2012

Increased use of technology, they told us, means that online channels are substituting for traditional face-to-face meetings, and CRM systems are providing new insights into customers. Our thought leaders identified two major drivers for this change: the use of technology, and changes in customer demands. MORE ON SMARTER SALES.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Performing market assessments. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

These ratings are then used by company marketing departments to impress customers, thereby driving volume and revenue. However, it is the challenge the Dorchester Collection has set for itself as a luxury service company, and as global director of guest experience and innovation for our iconic hotels, it’s my challenge.

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Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

What about doing market research?” process, some market research can still be done during the idea development stage. It is now possible to shift a large part of the market research into the product development phase. First, you would do market research to gain some insight into a potential market or an underserved market.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Capital raising strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

You have put in place sales training and a market-leading, cloud-based CRM system. The second reason for the sales manager's pain is that when it comes to gathering data about upcoming sales possibilities, companies and CRM systems rarely measure anything real. You have stayed on top of the major deals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2015

When you’re shopping around for a new technology — be it a customer relationship management (CRM) program or software to better manage employee timesheets — bear your team’s interests in mind. “Show that you are investing time in learning the new system. Get influencers onboard. ” Make it fun.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2013

A pharmaceuticals company we''ve been studying decided to deploy more than 20,000 iPads and other mobile devices to the global sales force to improve its engagement with doctors in emerging and developed markets. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer. It has never before rolled out something at this speed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The next wave of innovation will be driven by business-grade solutions that combine real-time analytics and improved UX to support better decision-making in a host of new areas. Visualizing Communication Patterns: The financial services industry is saturated with structured market data. What sort of social graph could you build?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

ConnectMe leverages the world’s leading CRM cloud solution, Salesforce, to help organizations navigate the changing workplace and deliver an exceptional employee experience. You know, I would add that I think, as someone who’s living this every day, we all know that the talent market is just so tough right now.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

That’s understandable — the growth of the consumer mobile market in Africa has been spectacular. And while almost all the examples I cite are from West Africa, many of these ideas and innovations are well suited for emerging markets around the world. In emerging markets, infrastructure is always an issue.

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