N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Interim executives have emerged as pivotal assets in steering companies through critical phases of transformation, growth, or crisis management. The increasing demand for interim executives reflects a broader shift toward flexible leadership models. For example, consider a technology company undergoing a digital transformation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 18, 2018

What made them such great leaders was not just one aspect of their management style or their respective innovations. What made them great leaders was their ability to attain great vision or more accurately a great core business model vision. All great leaders have realized a great core business model vision.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

By utilizing machine learning to streamline processes and leveraging data analytics to gain a deeper understanding of customer behavior, digital tools provide innovative solutions to today’s economic challenges. Engaging in risk management and scenario planning is also paramount. This will serve as a safety net for the business.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

T HE INNOVATION WE PRIZE at successful start-ups is a mindset that is brought into the start-up and not necessarily the inherent quality of every start-up. Innovation isn’t something that just happens; we create the conditions for it. Big organizations can innovate like small start-ups. Creating an Innovation Strategy.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Managing this tension is the key to success in growing and stable organizations—regardless of industry, size, years in business, or profit motive. Here are my five insights on how to manage chaordic tension: 1. One of the assessment tools we use a great deal is the Basadur Innovation Profile. How does Flywheel do it?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

Embracing the Shift Towards Eco-Friendly Green Business Practices In today’s business environment, sustainability has become an essential component of corporate strategy. They strive for business models that not only drive economic value but also make a positive impact on the environment.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For several reasons, such as disruptive threats, digitalization or blurring industry boundaries, established companies are increasingly forced to create new business opportunities, i.e. to come up with adapted or even entirely new business models. Shrinking life times of established business models are tied to the fact that.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 29, 2020

At present, it’s hard to tackle any issue pertaining to leadership or management without addressing Covid-19, which is impacting on marketplaces and workplaces across the globe. With this in mind, the Coronavirus outbreak arguably represents an opportunity for growth and innovation, and good leadership will be central to ushering this in.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

N2Growth, as a premier executive search and leadership advisory firm, recognizes the transformative influence a skilled Commercial Leader can wieldone who interlaces strategic vision, operational excellence, and people-centric leadership into a cohesive path toward profitability and innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In addition, the CCO manages and implements strategies to drive revenue growth, break into new market segments, and foster customer engagement. Above all, risk management skills and sound business acumen are required to drive profitable growth and sustainable business expansion.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Most of the organizations I’m talking to and observing during the pandemic recognize the need to up their levels of innovation and agility. After all, if you need to pivot your business model and set yourself up to succeed in whatever environment presents itself next, you need to have those two qualities embedded in your culture.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 12, 2013

millions US nonprofits don’t support themselves through “competing” or creating better products, services, or business models. Historically, the typical nonprofit business model has been based on dependence. Dependence limits innovative thinking. Social business is gaining steam. Most of the 1.5 million do?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose. It was a model for the future. He wasn’t used to that kind of attention deep in the heart of Arkansas.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

The Holy Grail of enterprise sustainability is business model reimagination and reinvention – not digital transformation – at least how many businesses are attempting it. If you’re stuck in the purgatory of a legacy based business model, don’t transform – reinvent.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement. If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 16, 2013

This week''s post is by Andy Posner , Co-Founder & Executive Director of Capital Good Fund ( CGF ), a non-profit microfinance organization targeting the root causes of poverty through innovative micro-loans and personal financial coaching. It’s time for us to finally put poverty out of business for good. [1]

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Pirate innovators The report investigates how these informal disruptors transition to legality by formalizing their operations. It also examines how established firms can counter the threat of these innovators through collective lobbying and consumer education. of the total economy. This situation doesn’t last forever, of course.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. Give me real leaders who possess courage, vision, and a bias toward action, and spare me the timidity of mediocre managers posing as leaders. The fact is that business is not a static endeavor.

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Innovation Excellence

JULY 15, 2024

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Every enterprise needs to innovate. It doesn’t matter whether you are a profit-seeking business, a nonprofit organization or a government entity, the simple truth is that every business model fails eventually, because things change over time. There […]

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2024

This essay explores the concept of resilience in the context of business and outlines strategies for building a sustainable business model that can withstand and even capitalize on change. Resilient businesses anticipate and prepare for challenges, leveraging their strengths and resources to navigate uncertainty effectively.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 8, 2012

But moreso, Kona is not your average 24yr old - her poise, wisdom, leadership, business acumen and management skills are on par As a C.V. Their story of doing well and doing good is one of the most powerful I’ve seen in blending innovative business models, techniques, processes and social impact.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

But it’s the opposite of what’s needed to drive the things the financial industry needs right now – in particular, innovation. While they may be good at dreaming up new financial products, they are not so hot when it comes to taking a completely fresh look at their business. If one thing stifles innovation, it’s closed minds.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Guest post by Kris Oestergaard: Today, every business is looking to find ways to streamline its innovative abilities. Those successful in establishing a culture of innovation have addressed their organization’s “immune systems.” Organizational leaders need to address all three in order to transform into innovation champions.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Today’s consumers distrust some traditional brands that do not demonstrate a clear value proposition, labeling, innovativeness, and commitment to the environment. We see some of the best candidates coming from startups and thinking first about mobile technology, automated supply chain management, and data analytics.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2020

But given the shockwaves reverberating from the market disruption that’s taking place, many normal business models are no longer operational, and new models must emerge. Compare the diverse and innovative social media postings with some of the messaging coming from companies during this pandemic.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

The rapid development and widespread adoption of new technologies present both opportunities and challenges for leaders to manage. They streamline business operations, process big data to derive valuable insights, and automate tasks previously managed by humans.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

To think of it this way “ obscures Alibaba’s breakthrough business model and the window it provides on how the economic scene is evolving.” The technology and business model Ming Zeng, the chairman of the Academic Council of the Alibaba Group, describes in Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals About the Future of Strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Let me take this thinking one step further…I simply wouldn’t recommend clients accept capital from investors who can’t wield influence on their behalf, and add significant non-financial value to their business model.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s an approach that researchers refer to as boosting the “dynamic capabilities” (DC) of the business, with analysis revealing that firms who adopted such an approach did better than those who didn’t, with the approach particularly effective for smaller businesses.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Another aspect of the challenges faced by FinTech leaders is managing teams through a series of transformations successfully. To do so, successful management of their expectations is essential. FinTech managed to do that by making financial services accessible and affordable globally.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2019

Then in the late ‘90s, early 2000s, we had the tech bubble, and the old business model began to come apart. They were just crazily developing things, business model be damned. And today, especially in tech companies, every mission involves innovation, and every innovation requires speed because of all the competition.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Amazon’s business model has not only turned the retail industry and cloud computing inside out, but now its tentacles are squeezing media and advertising, and disrupting the state of technology, the economy, job creation, and society at large. How Innovation Works : And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 2, 2021

The move towards service-based business models has been notable for a number of years, with companies like Rolls-Royce being among the pioneers, with their “Power by the Hour” model. It’s a business model that has been especially hard hit by a Covid-19 pandemic in which so much activity has been curtailed.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 19, 2022

Working on the business model is a fundamental part of pretty much every “lean startup” program, which makes it a fundamental part of pretty much every accelerator and incubator. Research from INSEAD reminds us, however, that simply having a good business plan is not sufficient to make a startup a success.

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