N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Operating Officer A Chief Operating Officer (COO) holds a distinctive and crucial role in the corporate ecosystem. Equipped with a holistic view of the organization’s objectives and a deep understanding of its operations, a COO is often considered the key driver of operational excellence.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Efficiency Operations 284

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

They clearly generate higher growth in revenue, EBITDA, and EBITDA/EV. At a Global 50 consumer products company, management has developed a governance structure that allows it think about risk proactively, and has aligned its risk profile and exposures more closely with its strategy. What does maturity look like in practice?

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Risk Management Maturity EBITDA Management 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In addition, we believe that your starting point for strategy development is what you are already great at, rather than studying the industry and market for opportunities. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : Why now? What do most companies do instead?

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

An all-comprehensive financial literacy program requires an understanding of the financial skills required to perform the job responsibilities, identifying the skills gap, developing content to fill these gaps, and an outcome assessment to ensure that each participant has learned and can apply the knowledge obtained.

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Finance Metrics EBITDA Handbook 63

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Celebrate and reward frontline heroes.

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Company IPO Price Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

He quickly dismissed several key opportunities to reach out for feedback and guidance from leadership. It became clear that John had succeeded in the past by doing what he knew and operating rather conservatively within his domain. John struggled with the ambiguity, and he didn’t take prudent risks.

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Agility Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing EBITDA 8