N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

Digital technology continues to transform both the retail and consumer experience. That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. To stay competitive, brands must innovate and transform.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

In this article, the focus will be on the pros of using SharePoint as a business technology solution. say that SharePoint reduces costs by consolidating intranet, extranet and internet sites in a single platform – either internally or through the use of Cloud technology. Is Sharepoint Adequate For Your Business?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

Microsoft SharePoint is a multipurpose web application platform that makes communication, collaboration and content management more fluid and effective for many businesses. The decisions made by any business consequently determine its future. A company that fails to innovate will lose market share and won’t succeed.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

A good sales intelligence software must be able to merge with other sales software, business intelligence, and analytics or data management solutions. The software is built for sales teams and marketers to meet goals faster. Clearbit is a data engine focused on marketing for interactions of customers.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. I’m always on the lookout for new practitioners entering the market where we have practice areas, disruptive technology, or changes in the landscape that could disintermediate certain aspects of the market.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2019

No matter which industry you are running your business in, you will need to ensure that you are offering more value or lower costs than your competitors to protect your market share. It might also be a good idea to do your research and invest in the latest technology, or you will be left behind by your competitors.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

” If you read this article it would lead you to believe blogging is in decline and on it’s way out as a marketing tool. To acquire knowledge or business intelligence. To extend marketing efforts. Magazine entitled “ Where Have All the Bloggers Gone ?” To communicate with friends and family.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2013

A growing number of organizations are moving toward having more pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) by turning to evidence-based decision making supported by a range of BI and analytics technology and processes that enable decision makers to have the best possible intelligence about customers, finances, operations, suppliers, and the market.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

There is a lot of hype and buzz around business intelligence. Companies are investing millions of dollars in business intelligence technology. So by learning how pilots are successful, leaders can get a much better return on their business intelligence initiatives. How is the pilot successful?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2013

In interviews with more than 100 mobile innovators, they have found four places where mobile engagement transforms services and processes: customer engagement, process acceleration, employee productivity, and new business services. Complimentary Resource – The Truth About Mobile Business Intelligence: Five Common Myths Debunked.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2013

Learn how using analytics to guide a business operations function is the path to continuous improvement and achieving higher operational performance. Arguably no technology is changing job functions within organizations more than analytics. 72% of large and midsize organizations planned to invest in business analytics in 2012.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

But this new world of Big Data is proving to be much more demanding and complex than expected, requiring companies not only to adopt different technologies, but also to make significant changes to their business strategy, internal skillsets, and organizational structures. About the Author.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

Tom Borders told me that they decided to hire a CEO whose experience was in retailing versus a strategic marketing expert. The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

If you're looking to conduct cross-continent business, know that you can, but the task is not easy. Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. Do global business but act local. Create relationships and ask for help.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In most organizations, social media established a marketing beachhead. It served its purpose by raising awareness of a new set of technologies based on new principles of peer-to-peer discussion, openness, and cross-boundary communities. But we need to break out social media and talk about more than marketing and technology.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

The digital marketplace has created a business imperative that every company be — in some way — a technology company. Even the aspects of marketing that aren’t traditionally thought of as being tech-driven, such as event marketing and mail campaigns, now are. Align your vision.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

By Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer, CA Technologies. You’ve probably already heard of the rise in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across many industries and applications. Read more from CA Technologies: The Key to Agile Success? Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant. Core technologies such as cloud, mobility, modern applications, and networks continue to evolve. That’s still true.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Where can you find long-term strategies for your business? Remember, recessions make us stronger.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. How will this economic crisis play out?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. They are tasked with mining through data to find answers to particular business problems. Treating analytical resources like marketing dollars will help ensure wise investment.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Following are some of the richest and deepest places to grab a master''s level education in marketing. One of the marketing industry''s premiere trade magazines offers up a slew of free e-newsletters that are chock full of information and insight. Check out the Advertising & Branding newsletter along with the Technology Today one.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Those failures can mean a lot of things — over-budget, data integrity issues, technology limitations, and so forth. But in my work with clients, when I ask executives if the CRM system is helping their business to grow, the failure rate is closer to 90%. Integrate your marketing efforts with sales activity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Business intelligence is projected to grow to a nearly $26.9 Establishing a data backbone is one part of the business intelligence equation, but fleshing out the ribs (contact information, credit history, competitive intelligence, etc.) This also works for identifying expansion opportunities and new markets.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

Customer intelligence is at an organizational inflection point. This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. The ability to speak "IT."

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Liberate and accelerate data by creating a data supply chain built on a hybrid technology environment — a data service platform combined with emerging big data technologies. bank adopted such a technology environment to more efficiently manage increasing data volumes for its customer analytics projects. For example, a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Every serious technology company now has an Artificial Intelligence team in place. These companies are investing millions into intelligent systems for situation assessment, prediction analysis, learning-based recognition systems, conversational interfaces, and recommendation engines. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

This question has been top of mind lately among manufacturers aiming to drive profitable growth, triggering a fundamental shift to the way a business operates that increasingly focuses on outcomes. Technology advancements and the Industrial Internet of Things are making this outcome orientation more feasible every day. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Consider its decision to pursue the market for pharmaceutical distribution, or the recent announcement that it will be teaming up with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase to create joint solutions for reducing the health care spending of more than 1 million employees and their families. .” So where is the link to health care?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

We are entering an age of social business: a purposeful, planned, orchestrated, and integrated way of doing business in a social context which may feel personal to the outside world but combine complexities internally within organizations that will need navigating. All business functions have to undergo several iterations of change.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Chief "Intelligence" Officer: Fostering business intelligence and getting the right data to the right people. Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation. Indeed, we may begin to see more business unit leaders in CIO roles in the future. Why Can''t a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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