N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Today’s COO wears many hats and is instrumental in executing corporate strategy, fostering innovation, driving technological integration, and steering the company toward its goals with insightful leadership. Thus, empathy and inclusive leadership have emerged as indispensable traits in the modern COO’s repertoire.

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Invid Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

4 Friendly Strategies for Federal Agencies BY: INVID Navigating the intricate landscape of federal contracting while concurrently meeting diversity goals presents a significant challenge for many agencies. This plan should outline specific objectives, initiatives, and measurable outcomes, fostering a culture of diversity within the agency.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Business alignment is often heralded as a key tenet of successful IT strategies. Popular ways of ensuring IT efforts align with business goals range from co-developing strategic plans with executives on the business side of the company to actively collaborating with business users on projects aimed to derive more value from their efforts.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 13, 2016

As a strategy consultant, I have had the opportunity to review a lot of strategic plans over the years. It’s been truly amazing to discover just how many major organizations develop strategic plans that contain little more than a whole lot of budget estimates and revenue projections. Strategic Planning 2.0

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CIO

MARCH 14, 2024

“An MBA exposes IT leaders to critical business competencies by widening their perspective, developing leadership skills, and establishing management skills,” says Pranu Bhargava, executive vice president of technology at AllCampus, a company that partners with universities to offer online degree and certificate programs.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As companies start to adapt data-first strategies, the role of chief data officer is becoming increasingly important, especially as businesses seek to capitalize on data to gain a competitive advantage.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Most companies have transitioned to become more software-centric, and with this transformation, application programming interfaces (APIs) have proliferated. If companies want to input, leverage, and embed these digital brains into their business, they’ll need an API to connect the LLM to various business applications,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Many managers view strategy as a complex subject, but at its essence it boils down to three questions: Where are we now? Once a company understands its present situation, it can chart a path to creating a truly differentiated offering that can create economic value. Where do we want to go? What is a credible path to get there?

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CIO

MAY 9, 2024

They should lead the efforts to tie AI capabilities to data analytics and business process strategies and champion an AI-first mindset throughout the organization. Companies want candidates who can drive innovation, deliver meaningful business results, and work closely with other leaders to manage risks.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And in charge of the group’s technological strategy and digitalization processes is global CIO Vanessa Escrivá. I’ve been on the company’s management committee for 14 years and I’ve had roles in various departments. And in what state is the execution of this strategic plan? The third pillar of our strategy is data.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Digital technology has become a guiding light in these uncertain times, taking on a more prominent role in companies’ strategic plans. It allows them to test different strategies and forecast potential outcomes. These factors are redefining the shape of the global economic terrain.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2017

Every company has a set of capabilities that, when properly leveraged, can serve to devastate the competition. Once a solid profile is established, it can be used to inform the strategic planning processes used to build a winning strategic plan. Pricing Options: What is the pricing strategy?

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CIO

APRIL 22, 2024

Scavuzzo, partner and chief information and digital officer, ensures it acts like one, with his technology team identifying and seizing on opportunities that drive company growth. If we were just starting a company, and we have all this tech, what would we do?’ But now we’re integral to the strategy as it’s being created.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Are your strategic planning practices flat and uninspired? Have you reduced your planning process to a once per year, budgeting exercise? Do your senior people feel disengaged and removed from your strategic planning? Does the rank and file even understand what’s in your strategic plan?

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CO2 Business Leadership

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard, the main cause of strategic planning failure is poor execution. And Kotter International determined that, on average, 70% of new, large-scale strategic initiatives fall short of their goal, as did a similar McKinsey & Company 2009 study.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2024

Here, we explore how companies can strategically integrate AI into their sales operations to drive efficiency and improve overall performance. With AI, companies transform their sales strategies to meet modern consumers’ dynamic needs and behaviors.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2024

The senior vice president and chief information and strategy officer at National Life Group, has spent years executing a technology roadmap to modernize the insurance company. Case in point: Mehta, who now has the responsibility of developing National Life’s three-year enterprise strategy.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Just months after partnering with large language model-provider Cohere and unveiling its strategic plan for infusing generative AI features into its products, Oracle is making good on its promise at its annual CloudWorld conference this week in Las Vegas.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2022

To cope with volatility, companies should rethink how they approach strategic planning.

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2024

Until then, the IT part of Radisson was considered a cost center, but thanks to that plan, it became a central pillar of the group’s strategy. Also during the pandemic, we completely restructured and created every IT element the company needed: new ERP, purchasing systems, hotel management systems, and HR systems, for example.

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CIO

JULY 5, 2023

Around the same time of the release, Repsol appointed Juan José Casado Quintero as its new chief digital officer (CDO), another strategic move to digitally transform and accelerate the company’s strategy to become a data-driven company.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This position is often seen as the linchpin of a company’s commercial strategy, controlling marketing, sales, and customer service efforts to achieve optimal success. 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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Evolution4all

JUNE 14, 2018

The goal of OKRs is for every member of the organisation – from the key stakeholders and leaders down to the team members – understand the objectives of the company through a set of defined, specific and measurable actions. OKRs have changed the way many companies achieve their GSDs. But it wasn’t a new concept. How do they do it?

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2022

This is a radical change that is redefining strategic planning and purchasing of enterprise storage solutions. Yet, in 2022, the first three conversations are laser-focused on cybersecurity and how storage is a critical element of an overall corporate cybersecurity strategy. They are thinking ahead.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 24, 2024

Defining the Key Elements of a Strategic Succession Strategy A robust succession plan depends on thorough strategic planning and preparation. Another crucial aspect is building a pool of talented individuals closely connected to an organization’s talent management and development strategies.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

The first use of generative AI in companies tends to be for productivity improvements and cost cutting. CIOs are well positioned to cut costs since they’re usually well acquainted with a company’s digital processes, having helped set them up in the first place. But there are only so many costs that can be cut.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning.

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The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

The following article — Time is Money: The 3 Different Approaches to Strategic Planning — was written by Gabriel Najera — Founder, Najera Consulting Group. Time is Money: The 3 Different Approaches to Strategic Planning. Who has the time do a strategic plan with so much work to do?”

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth. Most organizations, and even most strategy consultants, are using strategic planning frameworks built for business models that were designed during the industrial age. IT’S TIME TO INNOVATE STRATEGY. By Mark Hefner. Of course you wouldn’t.

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CIO

MAY 16, 2024

Meanwhile, the corporate philosophy of Generalfinance, a financial services company focused on SMEs in difficulty, also combines innovation and sustainability. Business plans are focused on digital and sustainable transformation to bring us closer to the goal of a data-driven company,” says its CIO, Stefano Biondini.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 13, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Data Officer The role of a Chief Data Officer or CDO is fundamental in modern data-centric companies and is multifaceted, requiring a unique combination of skills. However, creativity drives innovation and offers novel solutions to business problems, giving companies a competitive edge.

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Luis Goncalves

APRIL 12, 2018

How Communities of Practice Help Companies Have Learning and Growth-Driven Employees. Some CoPs are highly organized, with codes of conducts, standard roles and responsibilities, strategic plans, even budgets. They are ideal for all types of organizations, from brick-and-mortar companies to web-based companies.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Take, for example, how IT’s strategic planning process paved the way for smoothly deploying personal computers throughout the enterprise. Repurposing the company org chart to organize the company’s AI efforts would encourage AI-powered silo-based dysfunction and little else. Oh, that’s right. Expert No. And yes, I agree.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

What we’re noticing about leadership, teams, and company culture. I love to reflect on what we’re seeing in our work with clients and within our own company at Let’s Grow Leaders. We’re also noticing a surge of motivation around strategy as they invest in focused time together. What are YOU NOTICING?

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. Equally telling is another statistic from that research: Just 35% of these enterprises have achieved their digital goals or are on track to do so.

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CIO

MAY 17, 2024

“In order to get more money, you need to ask for it,” says Tracy Podell, senior partner at Evolution, a professional coaching and leadership development company. Going for a raise involves strategic planning, just as any project you manage would. That doesn’t mean you should just demand a spur-of-the-moment raise, of course.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2022

High-growth companies often set significant goals, knowing full well that the idea of “overnight success” is for the storybooks. However, there is no better time than the middle of a market downturn to start planning for the leap from a private to a public company. Growth investors have recently pulled back.

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