N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Moreover, the CPO focuses on enhancing these programs by staying up-to-date with industry best practices, leveraging technological advancements, and seeking employee feedback to improve the quality and relevance of the training offered continuously. These reviews are conducted through surveys, focus groups, or one-on-one interviews.

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CPO Human Resources Compliance Human Capital 408

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Often follow-up will be needed to any quantitative data collection, such as a focus group or confidential interviews, to understand the reasons for the resistance. Fear of failure. Lack of trust in leadership. Include a feedback loop so that actions can be calibrated along the way. Address resistance in the right venue.

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Resistance Restructuring Survey Agility 274

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2024

Platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have not only broadened access to funding to companies that might struggle in the capital markets but have also transformed the way companies connect with consumers during product development, replacing focus groups with real customers who have a stake in the final product.

Productivity 23

Productivity Products Focus Group Analysis 23

HR Digest

APRIL 13, 2023

This can involve conducting surveys and focus groups to gather feedback from employees about their benefit preferences, as well as monitoring trends in the industry to identify emerging benefit offerings and ensure that pay equity is prioritized.

Incentives 64

Incentives Motivation Objective Trends 64

HR Digest

APRIL 1, 2023

This can be done through surveys, focus groups, or one-on-one meetings. Leverage Technology Leveraging technology can streamline the onboarding process and make it more efficient and effective. Leverage Technology Leveraging technology can streamline the onboarding process and make it more efficient and effective.

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Long-term Mentor Training Objective 69

Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

There are several ways to collect customer data, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and website/app analytics. 7) Implement technology: . Technology can be a valuable tool for providing excellent customer experiences. This can be accomplished through market research and data analysis. 2) Set achievable goals: .

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Word of Mouth Marketing Brand Goal Customer Loyalty 206

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

While it’s largely foolhardy to place too much faith in the various estimates of individual jobs vulnerability to technological and economic disruption, what seems far more certain is that disruption will become a way of life, especially in an era where our life expectancy continues to grow and therefore our time in work stretches outwards.

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Technology Competitive Advantage Training Report 107

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 20, 2020

They each completed a questionnaire, followed by a focus group discussion. A thematic analysis of the transcripts from the focus groups and a descriptive analysis of the questionnaire results were performed. Dovetail was tested on 23 patients and 13 staff at a GP practice, all of whom have diabetes.

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Focus Group Analysis Quality System 82

HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

Embracing Technology: From Simulations to Virtual Reality In today’s digital age, technology offers endless possibilities for training. Embrace the power of technology by incorporating simulations, virtual reality, and gamified elements into your training materials. What did they find valuable? What could be improved?

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Training Succession Objective Learning-by-Doing 98

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Thanks to technology, we have access to an endless source of data at our fingertips, at any place and at any time we choose. Technology gives us more and more data, but analyzing and understanding ‘more and more’ is arduous and time consuming. Now, I don’t want anyone to think that I don’t value information technology.

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Power Competitive Advantage Information Airlines 100

leaderCommunicator

JULY 3, 2012

Drivers, manufacturing workers, transportation personnel—anyone whose job has limited need for communication technology—present a particular challenge. Technology kiosks and home access —Even when offered access to technology, some workers may be challenged to use it for any length of time.

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Tips Hotels Transportation Technology 146

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Back then, they would run focus groups to see what customers liked/didn''t like about the product and would check competitors that began to do well. They then took it one step further and asked, "How would you find the technology and material to meet this need?" Technology + Methodology. Robust + Comprehensive Insights.

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Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Focus groups and stay-interviews can reveal why people want to come to work every day. With communication methods changing rapidly with technology and social media, it’s important that you deliver messages in a method in which your employees like to receive information. Employee engagement and retention.

Succession 137

Succession Benchmarking Performance Review Handbook 137

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 6, 2011

He was a focus group of one, the ideal Apple customer, two years out. Perhaps, Jobs was the greatest user of technology to ever live. It's not that Jobs didn't think like a consumer--he just thought like one standing in the near future, not in the recent past. As he told Inc. Source: FastCompany, October 2011.

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Micromanagement Leadership Styles Focus Group Magazine 77

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In fact, HR in high-risk industries should implement a variety of avenues/opportunities for employee feedback, such as phone hotlines, online and on-site suggestion boxes, employee surveys, focus groups, new hire surveys and exit interviews. And 37 people would still be alive.

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Mentor Trends Committee Compliance 232

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Some of the outsource administration you could consider are: Surveying, polling, and focus group tests. IT Services and Technology. Regardless of whether you are tech-savvy or not, it is usually simpler to let someone else deal with your technology needs. Many technology duties come tagged with a steep learning curve.

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Outsourcing Human Resources Learning Curve Marketing 63

Modern Servant Leader

MAY 15, 2012

As social media platforms come and go, technology changes, but key principles remain. Domino's Pizza customer blasts the product in a focus group and praises the final result. As a leader in your organization, you need to remember these key principles. A simple, relevant acronym should do the trick: S.O.C.I.A.L.

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Media Airlines Quality Focus Group 197

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Bally Technologies , a leading provider of gaming systems for casinos, has earned more than 60 awards for innovation in just the last four years. How did Bally Technologies do it? But while the foundational elements are the same, Bally Technologies uses them in a distinct way. Through an innovation excellence framework.

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Technology Innovation Kaizen Chief Executive Officer 8

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Here are some options to consider: follow-up surveys reviewing time spent on task completion pre- and post-training focus groups measuring employee engagement rates employee skills levels questionnaires self-assessment job performance reviews one-on-one meetings with each employee to see how they found the training and assess the behavioral changes.

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Metrics Training Benchmarking ROI 52

Tony Mayo

MARCH 10, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? A focus group is not a survey.

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Mayo Execution Executive Coaching How To 158

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. We hear, in interviews and focus groups, that women are consistently spoken over and even robbed of their ideas.

Succession 13

Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 13

Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

See if you can't put a small focus group together, preferably strangers. While a focus group can't fully represent how your idea will do in the wild, it will at least give you an idea of how it could be received by the public.

Tips 95

Tips Learning-by-Doing Industry Long-term 95

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

As one technology executive has explained to us, “We have some very capable women in the middle management and junior VP levels, but they leave our firm to advance their careers as they continually get passed over for promotion.” ” What can companies do to stop the departure of senior women? Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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Focus Group Skills Technology Review 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The prevailing thought is that more data is better, especially given advancements in tools and technologies such as artificial intelligence and predictive analytics. In my conversations with business leaders about how they use data analytics, a primary focus is on technical, large-scale systems.

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Team Analysis Focus Group Influence 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2016

But effective security is driven as much by people as it is by technology. The ways those people interact with technology and each other can completely change the effectiveness of your security strategy. Online security often focuses on technical details — software, hardware, vulnerabilities, and the like.

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Tools Engineering Rate of Return Focus Group 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation. Take Mountain Dew, for example.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2012

The same holds true for consumer focus groups, innovation contests, and more recently the use of social media sites to solicit feedback from consumers. A large consumer electronics manufacturer we recently worked with had launched a new hybrid TV and internet technology focused on teens. They'd certainly done their homework.

Power 14

Power Mass Marketing Focus Group Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In addition to developing programs on pain-management for our broad clinician population, we targeted a focused group of high prescribers. Using the dashboard, we quickly saw that clinicians were prescribing opioids at vastly different rates. Generally, high prescribing clinicians were unaware of their rates.

System 9

System Health Care Review Focus Group 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

Technologies are beginning to pinpoint how impressions cause expressions - specifically, by interpreting social media comments and automatically linking them with their televised source, be they TV shows or ads. A yawning feedback gap opened that researchers have tried for decades to fill with focus groups, dial tests and surveys.

Media 13

Media Audience Brand Advertising 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Enormously more, actually, than the best survey research, focus group, or doctor's interview — the highly subjective and incomplete tools we rely on today to understand behavior. That's the promise of Big Data, to really understand the systems that make our technological society.

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System Analysis Retail Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Periodic market research surveys or focus groups should be replaced by continual data collection, from all interactions between the supplier and its customers. Traditional research techniques (surveys, focus groups etc.) Technology can help here. Observe the customer directly.

B2B 14

B2B Business Objectives Focus Group Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Yes, political hacktivists brag about Web pages defaced and customer information released over the Internet, but companies rarely reveal the attacks that result in the loss of valuable intellectual property — business plans, proprietary technologies or fraudulent payments. These attacks can be devastating.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Alibaba Group. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Technology. Marks & Spencer Group. Technology. Tesla Motor. Automotive.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Doyle’s talk was titled, “How to Transform a Legacy Company into a Technology-Enabled, Nimble, Category-Disrupting Machine” — and it delivered. Domino’s is not just in the pizza-making business, the CEO emphasizes, but in the pizza- delivery business, which means it has to be in the technology business.

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CEO Open-book Price Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

One was a recent project for the Science and Technology Directorate of the U.S. The agency used stagecraft to gather very early learning about how new technologies could be used in equipment for first responders. In the past, the agency’s attempts to design gear around emerging technology had missed the mark.

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Learning-by-Doing Engineering Film Transportation 10

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 27, 2019

Read through the tech and business press on any given day and you’re likely bombarded with news about the latest technologies. It’s a mindset that underpins a constant assessment of the technology landscape to see what’s around the corner. In all of this, the customer gets a bit of a cold shoulder.

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Innovation Succession Incubator Business Model 75

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

They’re naturals with technology and can simultaneously use their phone to order a cup of coffee at Starbucks, Instagram a photo of their name spelled incorrectly on the coffee cup, reply to a friend via text, and talk to their co-worker about the company softball tournament. This is a visual generation.

Marketing 8

Marketing How To Brand Media 8