N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This role is no longer confined to technical oversight or incremental operational improvements. Instead, it has evolved into an indispensable leadership position encompassing digital innovation, organizational change, and business model reinvention.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2020

You need people on your team with both strategic and operational skills—two very different kinds of people. Once you know who they are, you can optimize not just your products, but your whole business—how you market, how you onboard, and how you support these people. And you don’t want to build products just because “you can”.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Chief Employee Experience Officer harnesses these tools and emerging trends to meet employees where they are, ensuring the organization remains agile and relevant in a competitive labor market. Leaders dedicated to employee experience can cut turnover by adopting methods that encourage mentorship, recognition, and a clear career path.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

From orchestrating integrated sales and marketing strategies to nurturing high-value customer relationships, this role extends well beyond traditional oversight of revenue goals. A well-executed commercial plan fosters robust alignment between day-to-day operations and long-term corporate objectives.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2024

At the heart of every successful business enterprise is the unmistakable influence of a Chief Operating Officer– they oversee daily operations, improve processes, and promote innovation and transformation. The COO’s influence extends far beyond mere operational management.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This position is often seen as the linchpin of a company’s commercial strategy, controlling marketing, sales, and customer service efforts to achieve optimal success. In addition, the CCO manages and implements strategies to drive revenue growth, break into new market segments, and foster customer engagement.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

With this in mind, they offer a new standard of performance defined by nine key strategies in three areas—growth, operation, and organization. Reimagine core operations to deliver societal impact and hence long-term, sustained total shareholder returns rather than regarding social impact as an activity apart from the core.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Technology, therefore, is not merely a convenient tool but an essential commodity that requires strategic allocation and management in the modern business landscape. Observing trends, assimilating data, and adjusting business models to preempt market shifts are aided by predictive analytics and business intelligence tools.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

APRIL 9, 2025

When you go to generate new ideasto run things better,you need to think criticallyabout the way your business runs.I like to look at three things:a business model blowup,a revenue blowup, and a cost blowup. On the business model blowup,fundamentally rethink about how you go to market,even rethink what your market actually is.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

B usiness Model Generation caught my eye in a book store in December – It is rare I find myself in book stores anymore given how many books are sent to me as a blogger and my preference in reading on Kindle or IPad. I could see there was something new about this book and how the authors thought about business models.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

New research from IESE explores “informal disruptors” companies that operate outside legal boundaries but quickly gain consumer acceptance due to the value they provide. Pirate innovators The report investigates how these informal disruptors transition to legality by formalizing their operations. Take Napster, for example.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Darrin had spent the last decade reinventing this sleepy bank—revamping the bank’s finances, providing liquidity to investors, raining new capital, and doubling down on operational efficiencies—and turning the organization into a regional bank that people truly admired.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

CROs oversee marketing, sales, and customer relationship teams to ensure they work together effectively. They are skilled at developing strategies, understanding the complexity of the business, and paying attention to the details of how revenue flows through the organization.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

These changes have necessitated new capabilities and forced even the most established players to make radical departures from their business models. Barra found an organization that not only had fallen behind the competition but was also largely unresponsive to the market. Take, for instance, the automotive industry.

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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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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy).

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

From experience keeping an eye on a candidate’s knowledge of how a specific business model works are essential and non-negotiable. It is imperative to probe candidates into the delicate subtleties of your business, for instance, how return on capital is impacted by elements deep down in the production stage.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Businesses simply have run out of time to embark on multi-year transformation projects – that window has closed. Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility. It’s not enough to digitally iterate, you must digitally reinvent.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. F OR YEARS I was taught that growing the business in an industry with strong competition was mostly a zero-sum game. Or else, you took on the hard work of growing the entire market. It created a new one.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models. To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 Nokia just couldn’t keep up.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

T HE BIGGEST CHANGE being brought about by AI is not human replicas, but the emergence of digital operating models. These models aren’t the sexy, headline-grabbing side of AI, but they are profoundly affecting how we do business and the way leaders of the twenty-first century must think. But here’s the thing.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that the dumber your business is, the better off you are. link] Mark Vickers Do you have any data to support this?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2020

This involves utilizing a Make Your Case initiative that allows employees to apply their unused skillsets and connections in opening up new ways for their companies to operate. They tend to view skills outside of their employees’ job descriptions as irrelevant to the scope of normal business operations.

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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. In fact, I would go so far as to say that CEOs who are not consistently reengineering elements of their business fall into one of the following two camps; 1) They have a perfect business, or; 2) They are an ineffective CEO.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 13, 2024

By strategically focusing on all revenue-related aspects, they bring cohesion to sales, customer relationship management, revenue management, marketing, and customer service. Their capacity to understand and leverage various market dynamics aids an organization in navigating an ever-changing business environment.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

When Bezos faced a wall of doubters, he didn’t play it safe or revert to a standard business model. Bezos overhauled operations, aggressively slashing costs and renegotiating supplier contracts to ensure the strategy was sustainable. But here’s what separates a Catalyst Leader from the rest: vision and grit.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. The fundamental business model that had sustained the great estates for hundreds of years was unraveling. Don’t wait to act.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

AUGUST 17, 2022

Transform your business by completely rethinking how it works. Analyzing your business model, revenue, and costs can lead you to innovative solutions. When you go to generate new ideas to run things better, you need to think critically about the way your business runs.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

The Current Digital Landscape Today’s digital landscape is constantly changing, revolutionizing how businesses and industries operate. Extensive networks, data streams, and state-of-the-art digital technologies are increasingly becoming the foundation of modern operational strategies.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Topping the list of experiences is a thorough understanding of your marketplace; most often, your candidate will have previously operated as a senior leader within a relevant sector. The CEO might find it incongruous the drive for re-invention and accelerated growth bottom and top line with market realities.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Although digitization has a significant catalytic effect on these processes, a successful diversification strategy would still need a solid basis and a set of scalable growth patterns that could apply to target markets. It will most likely overcome cross-cultural barriers as it expands into new markets.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

The C-Suite Executives Role in Business Strategy The C-Suite executive team comprises the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), and other high-ranking ‘chief’ executives. The digital landscape has redefined the boundaries of commercial leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Many brands focus their marketing strategies on out-of-home consumption, socializing with friends and family, and humor to generate engagement. The next generation of CPG leadership must anticipate connecting better with consumers, investing in the right technologies and business models, and using culture to spark innovation and growth.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Re-creating these mindsets inside an established company is challenging because they result partly from the unique pressures and circumstances under which start-ups operate. When faced with a potential threat of technology or business model disruption, you need to consider two things. First is the nature of the threat.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Evolving Role of the CMO Previously, a Chief Marketing Officer’s or CMO role mainly involved traditional marketing activities like brand management, public relations, and market research. Yet, when carried out adeptly, it results in holistic and sustainable marketing strategies.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A recent paper from Ivey Business School highlights how the regulators are often one (or more) steps behind the tech firms at all times. These born-digital founders moved quickly, and they took advantage of the ambiguous rules in their respective markets to colonize the new market opportunities that had opened up,” the authors continue.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

In mature markets, banks are rushing to play catch up with this kind of mobile service before smart new competitors outwit them. By making it clear that the business is open to new ideas, leaders can help create a culture that stimulates them. Their steady, reliable business model of the past is no more.

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