N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

While this is understandable, it is nonetheless naive, and it constitutes a major flaw in the business logic of most strategic plans. This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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. Business awareness is a vital aspect of IT leadership today.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Every sound business initiative begins with a solid strategic plan. However while most anyone can cobble together a high level strategic plan, very few can author a strategy that can be successfully implemented. Actionable : A successful idea cannot remain in a strategic planning state.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

What we’re noticing about leadership, teams, and company culture. About your leadership? We’re seeing more offsites, leadership training kickoffs, executive leadership workshops, and team innovation events. We see a renewed commitment to strategic planning groups. What are YOU NOTICING?

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CIO

MARCH 15, 2023

Without hesitation she says she was responsible for the change in IT leadership. There are many ways to implement an ITSC, but to start, you and your committee members must work together continuously on a strategic plan until the planning group can finalize an immediate one-year plan that is approved by all departments.

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CIO

APRIL 10, 2023

What IT’s role is in corporate strategic planning Next, the company’s top executives must ensure that the CIO participates in the corporate strategic planning process. I would strongly recommend that current CIO’s and their senior staff develop plans to present these ideas to their peers.

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CIO

AUGUST 20, 2024

From there, the phrase went viral among practitioners, media, researchers, and executives as it described strategic plans for competitiveness and growth. 4) Past: Lack of leadership support, cross-functional collaboration, and proper governance kept silos not only intact but fortified. Automation simply scales business as usual.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

What do great CEOs do when the business model, the strategic plan, and the revenue hurdles don’t seem to be in alignment? This isn’t rocket science, rather it’s just plain-old, good leadership. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. They make changes.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

How is a CIO ever going to get good at doing this strategic planning thing? I hate to have to be the one to share this with you, but the reason that you are not finding the time to be strategic is because you are not making the time to perform this function. Strategic planning is a very important part of the CIO job.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Women in leadership are well positioned to influence and guide their team members for greater success. Daniel Pink’s book “ Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us ” offers leaders valuable insights into motivation that impacts how we engage our team members. Contact her at grayce.belvedere.young@proutyproject.com.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Episode 239: Antonella Pisani, the CEO and founder of Eyeful Media , a digital marketing and consulting firm, joins host David Dye, and discusses the importance of culture, values, and remote culture in leadership. She emphasizes hiring experienced talent and creating an intellectually stimulating environment.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

But to the surprise of most leaders today, increasing overall performance has become a complex, and in some cases, a Bermuda Triangle-like mysterious process that continues to baffle even the smartest people in the field of leadership and change. Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Jon Mertz of Thin Difference tells us that preparing is more than an act of getting ready or having a fixed plan. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership suggests that we forget resolutions. They are also going to have a nice party in January to celebrate the publishing of his new book, which was a collaborative, group effort.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Facebook page last Friday, that showed a black woman turning white, could have been avoided with better leadership. It was a lack of leadership that led to this kind of tone deaf flub on the part of the company. It’s that simple! No more discussion or debate needed.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

Recognition Today’s IT is a business-critical organization that develops systems to facilitate the corporate strategic plan. In my book, The 9 1/2 Secrets of a Great IT Department , I wrote primarily about working with other departments. IT Leadership, Staff Management

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In his book Good Strategy, Bad Strategy , Richard Rumelt puts forward the three essential elements of a strategy. I’ve seen the aftermath of a number of failed strategic planning initiatives. There is a formula for articulating strategy.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 26, 2016

7 Leadership Questions That Will Move The Needle in 2016. BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” To learn how to develop and test your BHAG, refer to Collin’s book, Built to Last. How do you know if your leadership ladder is against the right or wrong wall?

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Kaseya

MAY 6, 2020

You started 2020 with a strategic plan that has almost certainly not played out. Revisit that plan and ask: What can and must we still do? is a leadership advisor and coach who helps CEOs and other senior executives navigate through critical “inflection points” in their careers and businesses. Author Bio. Nevins, Ph.D.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The Lean Startup delivers a lot of great insight for leadership and product management. Five key principles: The book focuses on five key principles: Entrepreneurs are everywhere: “The concept of entrepreneurship includes anyone who works within my definition of a startup” (see above).

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

In his book, “High Output Management”, he talked about the need to attach key results to goals (referring to these goals as “objectives”). The setting of milestones was very relevant in Intel at that time because theirs was a large company that needed to convert strategic planning into actionable goals and milestones.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

If you’re leading a team within an organization, your strategic M.I.T.s often come straight from the organization’s strategic plan. Strategic M.I.T.s Initiatives Every strategic objective will have one more initiative or project that helps the organization achieve that strategic M.I.T.

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Puppies, Flowers, Rainbows and Kittens

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

I realized that while there are some books on technology leadership careers, there aren’t many resources explaining the most senior levels. If they also manage the development team, they will solely represent engineering in the senior leadership team. As a result, they do not work cross-functionally.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

In this fast paced business environment, people are just too busy to seek you out so you need to strategically plan how to create your visibility, how best to communicate your value proposition and to whom. Without this GPS or strategic plan, you are quite simply less likely to reach your career destination.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2014

Let’s see how many of us have been involved in this type of conversation: Strategy Consultant: “ Do you have a Strategic Plan? Strategy Consultant: “ Umm, this isn’t a strategic plan. ”. Strategic Planning is one of those things that every leadership team claims to do, but, few actually perform.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

Strategic thinking is NOT the same thing as strategic planning. In fact, many strategic plans have little strategic thinking behind them. For most companies, strategic planning focuses on breaking down a goal into action steps and connecting those steps to resources, timelines and budgets.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JANUARY 13, 2016

How is a CIO ever going to get good at doing this strategic planning thing? I hate to have to be the one to share this with you, but the reason that you are not finding the time to be strategic is because you are not making the time to perform this function. Strategic planning is a very important part of the CIO job.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 30, 2014

The lessons of Leadership 101 are not optional for any leader and yet, so many talented, smart people are struggling because somehow they skipped important steps or were pushed up before learning and integrating the BASICS of good leadership. Excellent leadership is the exception not the norm. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

But today’s VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world makes it incredibly difficult to plan and predict the future. So while thinking – and strategic thinking, in particular – is a key leadership responsibility, it often gets pushed aside in the midst of the day-to-day challenges of running the business.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Episode 46 – Your Leadership Off-Site is Wasting a Lot of People’s Time examines the effectiveness of leadership off-sites today and shares insights on how these events can be reshaped to deliver greater impact. why leadership off-sites are so often a missed opportunity. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95

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CO2 Business Leadership

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

My new book, Jumpstart Your Service Revol ution , has just been launched – and it is chock full of practical examples of how to win an age of disruption. The leader armed the company with a solid strategic plan and the organization was focused on execution. Good question! And the answer is…everything! the leader wondered.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Leadership authority Roxana (Roxi) Hewertson is a no-nonsense business veteran revered for her nuts-and-bolts, tell-it-like-it-is approach and practical, out-of-the-box insights that help both emerging and expert managers, executives and owners boost quantifiable job performance in various mission critical facets of business.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2014

Question : My boss wants a strategic plan next month. Just saying the words, “We need a strategic plan,” often elicits a groan and eye rolls. This is the response because most strategic plans come to nothing or almost nothing. Step Four: Action plan the strategies! About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

I’m a big advocate of Strategic Planning and Visioning. I know from experience that planning while going through the ‘alligators’ is the most effective way to conduct the process. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Accounting firm utilization plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Banking and investing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Assets are adequately valued and managed.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It is a compendium book, containing quotes and extrapolations into business culture, arranged in 76 business categories. Hank’s latest book functions as a ‘PDR of business,’ a view of Big Picture strategies, methodologies and recommendations. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Never stop planning for the next phase. From careful study (not whims or gut instincts) stem true strategic planning. It is a compendium book, containing quotes and extrapolations into business culture, arranged in 76 business categories. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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