N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As executive search consultants, we focus on understanding and optimizing businesses’ intended transformations and how they are shaping strategic responses to industry-level changes. Especially implementation challenges of transformation affecting the organizational design. This is where the CTO role gets into the spotlight.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Idea Generation: Struggling to come up with ideas for a team activity, product innovation, or rewards? Innovation and Strategic Planning Exploring AI-driven innovation strategies, trend analysis, and long-term planning to keep the organization ahead of the curve. Ask AI for a list of suggestions.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

While numbers are important in planning, true strategic thinking is qualitative. It is about HOW you think as a leader, and less about the contents of your thinking. Strategic thinking is NOT the same thing as strategic planning. In fact, many strategic plans have little strategic thinking behind them.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2013

As soon as what was once a surprise became managed by the computer (like hotel or flight upgrades) and not left to the ingenuity of the front line, it became yet another basic assumption in the expectations of customers. “We have a strategic plan,” said Southwest Airlines founder and retired CEO, Herb Kelleher.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. As the title indicates, the book’s content is geared towards people starting new businesses. Validated learning: “Startups exist to learn how to build a sustainable business.”.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

A thought leader in her field, Ann has worked with many hundreds of organizations around the world of all sizes and industries, helping them increase their thinking agility to improve profitability, leadership, productivity, innovation and overall business results. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2014

Document management software can put important documents at your fingertips in seconds and help you keep everything organized. But which document management solution would work best for your office? Here are three tips to help you understand how document management software can help and which features you’ll need to make it work.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 18, 2012

This style of leadership is easy to integrate into the existing management structure. The above certificate classes can be adjusted to fit your organization and team and management. The content and application are accessible to large groups and individuals. to read more and register. to read more and register.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 7, 2013

Senior level managers are challenged by the need to deal with some of the most complex issues in the organization requiring decision making and problem solving, even at times when the future is unclear or uncertain. Very few leaders are trained to effectively handle managing change in times of organizational complexity.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 22, 2015

You want to earn more money by innovating and pioneering. Consumers love innovation and will always flock to buy the “next big thing.” This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. Relate Articles: Strategic Planning Best Practice 4 – Ongoing Planning and Execution.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

To achieve growth, economies the world over rely on small businesses to create jobs, increase competition and spur innovation. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. Complimentary Resource – Strategic Vision & Scrum: Looking Beyond The Next Sprint. by Symantec Corporation.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

1 killer of collaboration, cooperation, great ideas and innovation in organizations. During a strategic planning meeting, he suggested that they should explore how to be more effective in how they manage certain new initiative assignments. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For example, the goal for your training could be to teach new recruits how to use a lead management system. Training content should be flexible and versatile. Webinars, mentoring, quizzes, e-learning and more can be included in a training plan to encourage employee development and knowledge retention.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. But design thinking can also be applied to other business-related challenges such as devising entrepreneurial practice models, expanding professional services, operations, and even setting fees or pricing plans.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. When a company is content with being merely mediocre it may survive but it will never do extremely well. Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”. Focus on excellence.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Many a Strategic Plan was written by piecing together song fragments, nostalgic remembrances and movie scenarios, then were aptly converted into contemporary corporate nomenclature. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2013

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. We explore the reasons for this shortfall in detail and discuss an innovative approach to maximize the off-site experience.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. His first book Strategy Execution Heroes reached the Amazon bestseller list in 5 countries and was nominated for Management Book of the Year 2012 in the Netherlands. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service.

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CO2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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CO2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant.

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CO2

AUGUST 17, 2010

Independence Accountability Verification It appears that young readers today have one of two opinions on news: 1) nothing is true or 2) anything people send me is true With so much user generated content it is critical that the readers of today’s media are more informed about how to decode truth verses opinions.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

The already inflated world of ‘reputation management’ websites lured people into buying advertising in order to create the facade of being a ‘consultant.’ Faster innovation. Start your FREE trial membership * and receive: FULL ACCESS to StrategyDriven’s premium content for 14 days. Higher sales.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2015

Use the 'How' question to uncover critical success factors necessary to develop an effective strategic plan. Use this question to exercise wisdom, patience, discernment and caution when building and executing your plan. Learn to make change, not just manage it. Tip #6: Ask “When?” Remember, timing can be everything.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The first thing we cover at our two-day strategic planning session is our ‘Rules of Engagement’ It’s posted on an oversized sheet and taped to the wall. The manager stood up at the start of class and said, “We paid for Intertech to just teach us so we could have an environment where we can discuss anything.”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

We can choose to look at failures, at least in our daily lives, as life practice, learning, a pilot project, as experimentation, or even a legitimate part of any innovation process. We look forward to answering your strategic planning and tactical business execution questions. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Remove them and you will find more time to focus on innovation. Get strategic.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

Innovate and build products and services customers love to use. If you want your company’s leadership and employees to be forward looking, imaginative, and open to innovation, you need to pursue innovative approaches yourself – to the business as a whole, to the processes involved, and to the products or services you produce.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. Our job was to come up with innovative ideas to move our country forward and for that we needed the space to think and be creative. Tawfik Jelassi is IMD Professor of Strategy and Technology Management. Build bonds to strengthen trust.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2012

This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. Complimentary Resource – Improving Organizational Performance Management Through Pervasive Business Intelligence. Complimentary Resource – How Scientific Business Intelligence Can Drive Top Line Innovation Growth. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Innovate and build products and services customers love to use. Mahesh has received numerous corporate, client, and industry accolades for coaching senior executives at Fortune 100 companies to become successful transformation leaders and organizational innovators. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

You will discover how to understand your audience, create persuasive content, and elicit a groundswell response. Ken Blanchard Co-author of The One Minute Manager and Golden Gavel Award recipient “Finally! Think about it this way: You likely spend countless hours collaborating and innovating to put forth really good ideas.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

Defining and Managing the Category or Subcategory. Brand Relevance provides the tools companies need to generate innovative offerings that can create long-term financial success. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. Evaluating a Concept’s Prospects. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

In The Zig Zag Principle , Rich Christiansen applies a foundational law of nature to business management, entrepreneurship, goal-setting, and life in general as he explores why zigzagging toward our intended outcomes is far more effective than trying to bulldoze our way through whatever stands between us and our objectives.

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