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How to Hire an Effective Chief Marketing Officer

N2Growth Blog

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. Their role now blends strategic decision-making with a deep understanding of market dynamics. A CMO wears many hats in the boardroom.

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Executive Search for Chief Strategy Officers

N2Growth Blog

By crafting and implementing strategic plans, CSOs guide the organization toward achieving its objectives and adapting to industry changes. CSOs also play an irreplaceable and vital role in integrating data analytics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies into strategic planning, enhancing decision-making precision.

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Assess Your CEO’s Strategic Fit Over Time

Harvard Business Review

However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology. Ballmer had done his job, but the strategic needs of the organization had shifted. Boards Leadership Strategy'

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

He or she must believe in and articulate a “higher ambition,” as we call it at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership. Becton Dickinson , a global medical technology company, has made its purpose helping all people live healthier lives. It must be deeper than only making money for shareholders and managers.

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Deciding to Fix or Kill a Problem Product

Harvard Business Review

Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need. Instead of selling the concept of the “connected home,” Nest focused on specific problems their customers wanted to solve in addition to good technology. Situation Three: It Does Not Have Good Strategic Fit. billion in 2014. Fix or kill? Fix or kill?