N2Growth Blog

JUNE 27, 2016

But, this transformation has an ally in “ New IT “–a confluence of cloud-based computing, digitalization, automated operational frameworks and platform-driven execution environments that can be redesigned on the fly through the leverage of highly sophisticated data analytic capabilities. To close, Business 2.0

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A: Microsoft Power BI training is crucial because it gives applicants the know-how to manage data sources, navigate the tool’s interface, and produce informative reports. This demonstrates your capacity to help non-technical teams work with technological teams. A: It’s best to combine brief explanations with clear visuals.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Originally published in Harvard Business Review , this post needs to be reread since my friend Vala Afshar will be a storyteller at BIF1 0 and Sidney Kushner will be attending - in just two weeks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. One of the biggest assets in anyone’s life is a generous network. It is a gift that grows simply by sharing it.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, “Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.” Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. William Matthies presents Instead, How About. ” John R.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, "Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.". Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. William Matthies presents Instead, How About.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

When we don’t, we begin our internal storytelling, ‘He must be thinking this,” “She must be doing that.” For instance, we send someone an email requesting their participation, reaction, decision, and because we know when we sent it, we have a pre-conceived idea about when we might hear back from them.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. What are their preferences?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

Feedback loops and other methods of data-driven storytelling are our favorite way that people analytics makes culture transformation happen. One people analytics team in an engineering company was struggling to help develop the company’s managers, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. ” Instead of just listing facts, compelling storytellers use both soft and hard data. John Fedele/Getty Images.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Every successful communicator is a great storyteller. An executive in a power company who was presenting to an important sales prospect opened his talk with a story about a company employee who cut short his vacation and drove 300 miles to help restore power after a hurricane. You’ll find your path to the heart with your story.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Based on four years of global quantitative research, the book explores the tectonic shifts in consumer sentiment that have come about due to extreme technological immersion. This lack of trust extends into the world of technology, as well. But longer form storytelling still connects with us on an emotional level. Far from it.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

For more than a century, the motion picture has reigned supreme as the world's ultimate storytelling tool. Embedding a product or service into a story masterpiece has seemed like a natural win — especially when the assumption is that brand stories will never be able to compete with the real storytellers in Hollywood.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Adopt emerging technologies, while weighed down by the past. Many CIOs have buckled under the CIO paradox, while others have managed to be effective despite it. Today, however, technology innovation is creating a drastic change — across all major industries — in the way customers want to interact with their suppliers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

According to Constellation Research , businesses across all sectors will spend more than $100 billion per year on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by 2025, up from a mere $2 billion in 2015. The science of storytelling and brand performance. Stephen Swintek/Getty Images. The marketing industry will be no exception.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

a number that’s widely anticipated to double by 2020, executives know they can’t hire their way out of the need for upskilled employees. Executives find themselves confronted with decisions about whether to acquire expertise from outside the company, through recruiting, partnerships, or acquisitions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These changes are driven by seismic shifts in consumer behavior and an explosion of both consumer- and B2B-facing technologies. The tension between human-driven and technology-driven capabilities is often miscast, positioning automation as a threat to the people that drive our industry. Humans and Automation. Distribution strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It''s hard to argue that any computer or technology can create that kind of emotional connection or weave that kind of story. What we can''t deny is that technology is now penetrating the marketing industry like never before. This doesn''t mean that creativity, insight, and storytelling die. It is art for money''s sake.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 9, 2019

Whether marketing, senior management, strategy/insights, sales or other constituencies, each event should be formatted and experiences calibrated to the motivations and level of knowledge of each audience. Kory is a creative director, strategist, business development executive and former corporate lawyer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

To shed a little light on what it takes to manage this process, we asked a group of top CMOs and advertising executives — from Xerox, Leo Burnett USA, Cleveland Clinic, Adobe, and Nike — a question: If you could solve one challenge in the advertising business, what would it be? This cliché is obsolete.or

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

I also prepare our C-suite executives with stories and statistics so they can promote innovation through the ranks and out to the rest of the world through speeches, media exposure, and conferences. That gave hundreds of leaders, physicians, nurses, and other frontline staffers a chance to try out the technology and hear Jenny’s story.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

A number of years ago, I worked on an executive team in which everyone was located in the same building but people seemed frustratingly far apart. Just as doctors use such medical information to assess a patient's risk of heart disease, managers can use "virtual distance" data to predict whether a team is likely to fall short of its goals.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

The science of storytelling and brand performance. I met the team at Albert (formerly known as Adgorithms) while I was doing research into artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted. Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing. Sponsored by Google.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Since this phase involved expanding into more-distant markets, it was supported by investments in content geared toward the preferences of those geographies, as well as technological investments in big data and analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Since this phase involved expanding into more-distant markets, it was supported by investments in content geared toward the preferences of those geographies, as well as technological investments in big data and analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

Technology risk is high when engineering or scientific breakthroughs are required to bring a solution to fruition. Execution risk relates to the entrepreneur's ability to attract employees and partners who can implement the venture's plans. Financing risk relates to whether external capital will be available on reasonable terms.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

We see an interesting pattern across the professionally managed companies, those whose CEOs were hired by the board. Yet these executives also had an outsider role where they worked on an emerging growth business or consciously explored external opportunities, giving them critical distance from the core.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

Increasingly, business consultants, scholars, and executives are coming to the conclusion that culture is the prime driver of organizational performance. In their manager-oriented manual, “ The Moment You Can’t Ignore – When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future ”, they ably explain “how culture drives strategic change.”

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With what I’ve noted thus far I’m always amazed at the number of executives who don’t keep up with their professional reading. Hmmm… Furthermore, studies show that active readers are likely to have annual incomes more than 5 times greater than those who spend little or no time reading.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Co-writer TODD ROBBINS (“Dark Deceptions&# ) stars as the audience’s storytelling guide on an evening exploring death, darkness, and deception. PLAY DEAD takes a more mysterious road than what’s generally seen on, off or anywhere near the great white way.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

No one likes to feel as if they’re being watched, yet with technology continuing to mature, we have found ourselves entrenched in a marketing machine that has become far too intimate for anyone’s liking. The science of storytelling and brand performance. That said, there is always a downside. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data. As a successful manager today, you must be able to make sense of all this information.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

HR is an enigmatic profession, as the authors write, “the sad reality is—even in today’s enlightened age of recognizing the value of people to the business—too many top executives still view HR as a non-strategic cost center instead of a core, profit-contributing function.” HR Professionals must be “data storytellers.”

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. 3) That your intern can manage your content strategy. Stay on top of all technological advances pertaining to marketing. That more is better.

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