N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. Social Media Influence [.]

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The need for creativity is no longer limited to thinking outside the box; instead, it involves leveraging multifaceted viewpoints, infusing creativity into the fabric of business operations, and fostering an innovation-driven culture across the organization. It also promotes a collaborative environment conducive to learning and growth.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2024

Many businesses face challenges in managing their finances effectively, leading to cash flow problems and reduced profitability. Automating these processes frees up valuable time for your finance team to focus on strategic initiatives rather than manual data entry. Thank you for reading!

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2013

Improving Business Operation Performance With Innovations. Learn how using analytics to guide a business operations function is the path to continuous improvement and achieving higher operational performance. Click here for more information on Improving Business Operation Performance With Innovations.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2023

Finance is at the very heart of every business! Venturing in Without a Clear Plan Starting a business without a clear plan for your finances is like walking blindfolded. Hence, it is highly advisable to develop a business plan that maps out your business finances, the business model and the nitty gritty involved in its implementation.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Put simply, trucking firms that deliver a range of products that need to be discharged from the trucks will rely on this one piece of equipment in their daily operations. It is vital that any equipment that is used to load, unload, or discharge products is in excellent operational condition.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Finance leaders; find out how to stop struggling with time-consuming, inaccurate incentive compensation processes. This 4-page guide outlines 7 ways that automated compensation management software improves your ROI: Streamlined data and workflow processes. Business application investments that generate ROI. by Ultimate Software.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2020

Do a little digging to see what kind of operating systems and machines people use at work. ERP software has been used to improve a variety of business operations. Certain ERP programs can help you better manage HR, or even your finance department. Do you want to learn other ways to improve ROI?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

If you can capture all that information and move it into your core business systems, it becomes easier to shorten cycle times and lower your operating costs. Sales orders can be distributed to the manager for approval, while the finance manager can promptly receive credit applications to review and approve.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 26, 2021

The platform requires no programming and operates via a user-friendly point and click interface in order to upload data and model a scenario for prediction with naturally written questions. Ease of Use; the intuitive and user-friendly UI facilitates high-level machine learning with no expert knowledge of coding. A Binary Decision?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. Outsourcing parts of the operation to companies rather than individuals can work wonders too. The ROIs gained from this technique are huge. Together, your dream team will build the foundations of success. Financial Backers.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Technology has become increasingly critical for businesses in recent years, and it offers company bosses the chance to streamline and speed up operations, reduce the risk of errors and introduce cost-effective ways of working. Increasing efficiency in business is often an effective means of saving time and money. Negotiating with suppliers.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2019

Financing the venture from your personal savings is an option, but won’t be open to many. Outsourcing parts of the operation to companies rather than individuals can work wonders too. The ROIs gained from this technique are huge. Together, your dream team will build the foundations of success. Financial Backers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Yet this is exactly the challenge facing leaders of the finance function who are asked to help their organization improve the way that work is done. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

But before anyone writes a check, you need to calculate the return on investment (ROI) by comparing the expected benefits with the costs. Analyzing ROI isn’t always as simple as it sounds and there’s one mistake that many managers make: confusing cash and profit. Finance & Accounting Tool. Excerpted from.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The ROI can be hard to calculate — but that doesn’t mean it’s not substantial.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

If you want approval for a new project — purchasing new equipment or computer systems, applying for a patent, building a new store — chances are you need your company’s finance department on board. To get the green light, it helps to understand how finance people think. Finance & Accounting Tool.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. CFOs don’t look just at the ROI of the creative process; they want to know the money is being spent wisely. The opportunity is enormous. And let’s hope it generates demand.’”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

But that mind-set's simply too focused and operational. Conversely, figuring out how to maximize ROI on terabytes and gigabytes can't help but force leadership to reevaluate how orders of magnitude more data should make their business more valuable. That's the essence of the Big Data business case.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Talk about how complex marketing has become is very much in vogue, but there’s much less discussion about the operational (and diplomatic) muscle CMOs need in order to get things done. CMOs need to show the ROI of every pound spent on marketing and how it delivers against the bottom line.”. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Some seek stricter accounting of ROI based on objectively measurable goals and achievements. On a recent trip, he briefed me on his business plan and on the school's operations with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned entrepreneur. Many others simply want a more visceral sense that their dollars are being spent effectively.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

What’s the ROI on a handshake? Can’t control relationships in social media.you have to give up control but make sure you still have command. Social Media is not about technology – it’s about communication. When it comes to social media fail fast and fail smart.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Formal degree programs excel at general education: an MBA, for instance, gives you a little bit of everything you might need as a leader, from finance to marketing to operations. By asking yourself these questions, you can determine which educational opportunities will yield the greatest ROI for your career.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Somehow, a theoretical assumption, widely used in a one cluster of academic specialties — economics, finance, econometric modeling, and the like — became transformed, primarily in the United States near the end of the 20th century, into a supreme decision principle. ” Cook was speaking as a true capitalist.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

OpenTable (a restaurant reservations service), Motivate (the operator of CitiBike, Bay Area Bikeshare, and others), and Luxe (a web-based valet parking service) are examples. There is also immediate ROI for investments in basic services as population moves in, because they capture new revenues from new users.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Leaders of corporate strategic development need to analyze all of these considerations and be prepared for disruption to ripple through many functions — not just product development and manufacturing, but also finance, tax, legal, human resources, and IT. Are there operations you would shed? Threat analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. You may be used to big budgets up front, in the tens of millions of dollars for large IT-led transformation efforts and ROI three years later, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Both in response and pre-emptively, the world’s leading companies continued to aggressively pivot their businesses toward more sustainable and innovative ways of operating. In his pushback, Cook made a larger point about not being a slave to ROI. Financing the clean economy. Rivals embrace radical collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

In the broadest sense, says Knight, “it’s the ultimate ROI” “It tells you what percentage of every dollar invested in the business was returned to you as profit.” You likely won’t make an investment decision or operations decision based on just one of these numbers, or even both of them.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

An effective financial literacy program should clear concepts of finance and accounting in simple terms with examples that are relevant to the organization’s day-to-day operations. Joe Knight is widely considered as one of the world’s most influential finance and business literacy leaders. First, share the numbers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Lotta, who’d joined Ervaring from Marriott two years before, was the first to admit that her new company, with 12 brands operating 5,000 hotels, mainly in Europe, needed help. One fifth of its bookings were currently going through a third-party intermediary, which was turning out to be quite expensive. .

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do. Simply writing blogs or creating other forms of content isn't enough to deliver ROI. Content marketing cannot be done by someone in finance that kinda dabbles in writing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. Increasing numbers of social programs grow with revenue generated by their own operations.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

It took years for Apple to gain traction despite offering what critics consider to be a superior operating system. It began as a small direct sales operation, with no plan for national distribution. And that means marginal products can outsell superior ones — just look at Microsoft vs. Apple. Then, there is 50 Shades of Grey.

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