N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Foremost, the responsibilities of the Chief Marketing Officer have transformed significantly. Today’s CMOs aren’t just the masterminds behind ad campaigns or marketing projects—they’re key players in driving business innovation , focusing on customer needs, and harnessing technology. A CMO wears many hats in the boardroom.

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Marketing Marketing Strategy How To Trends 221

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Chief Strategy Officers are crucial for shaping an organization’s strategic vision and ensuring long-term success. They develop and execute initiatives that align with the company’s goals, focusing on market trends , competitive threats, and emerging opportunities. Data Analysis: Proficiency in data analysis is crucial.

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Execution Strategy Strategic Planning Diversity 221

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It had earlier set an ambitious target of taking a quarter of Japan’s auto market, but to achieve that, the chief executive had said that the old way of making and selling cars would no longer suffice. Nissan’s market share in Japan had stalled at just 16 percent, it was faring little better abroad, and losses were mounting everywhere.

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Chief Operating Officer Short-term Strategic Fit Strategy 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2017

This location, consisting of a series of islands in a marshy lagoon, also pushed it to develop a (then unusual) trading and moneylending economy, since there was little land to support agriculture. The next opportunity (or threat) may lie outside those walls, at the messy intersection of sectors and markets.

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Innovation Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights.

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Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

A major customer may default, a promised source of funding may disappear, or the world's markets may sour — any of these can shift your trajectory in an instant. After all, if he were on a desert island without a capital market, the value of his skill goes nearly to zero. Then again, you may be lucky. So, Luck matters.

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Net Present Value Entrepreneur Strategic Fit Open-book 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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