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Transforming Commerce: Chief Commercial Officer Search

N2Growth Blog

The CCO works closely with executive teams to define the company’s commercial path, making pivotal decisions about brand positioning, market competition, and revenue growth. 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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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

In the commercial world, factors ranging from sudden disasters to evolving market trends play a crucial role in shaping the business landscape. While some of these elements are within a business owner’s control, others are external forces that require a well-thought-out strategy to manage.

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How to Drive Strategies By Assessing Your Company Capabilities

N2Growth Blog

Response: Is the management team accessible? By market segment? How quickly can ad-hoc management reports be delivered? Here’s a simple framework that I use with clients to form their company capabilities profile. Are decisions reached quickly and enacted swiftly? Profitability: How profitable is the business?

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4 Things Your Innovation Efforts Shouldn’t Focus On

Harvard Business Review

But too often CEOs find themselves stuck in what I call an innovation plateau. A main indicator of how widespread this plateau has become is the decline in corporate investment in R&D, the invisible infrastructure that supports true innovation. Innovation Strategy: Timing and Scope. Efficiency is not innovation.

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

” It’s important to distinguish between different types of innovation, and the responses they require by firms. In a recent publication in the Journal of Product Innovation, we undertook a systematic review of 40 years (1975 to 2016) of innovation research. This may happen in two ways.

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Evade an Innovation Blackout

Harvard Business Review

Innovation can be stifled — even snuffed out — by normal business processes. To start off the project, I asked senior managers to see some data and to speak to the employees getting the work done. Circular discussions with management on how to increase forecasts ensued. The numbers need to be checked (and rechecked).

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How Ad Agencies Can Make the Shift to Open Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Digital disruption has clearly been one of the major catalysts for this change, but less has been said about how the transformation is a prime example of open innovation , a focus of my research for many years. What it takes to make the successful shift to open innovation is always an important theme in our discussions.