N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Interim executives have emerged as pivotal assets in steering companies through critical phases of transformation, growth, or crisis management. Companies recognize the benefits of bringing in external expertise to navigate complex situations without the long-term commitment of a permanent hire.

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CIO

JANUARY 15, 2025

With digitalization and the increasing weight of digital platforms in the company, theres an increasing need for interaction. Thats why cross-departmental collaboration is essential, says Santom.Ten or 15 years ago, it was possible to establish a brand strategy almost isolated from the technology area, she says.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The shifting leadership landscape In a fast-paced, tech-driven world, business strategy and technology are more intertwined than ever. One that integrates business strategy with deep technical knowledge. Architects help organizations remain agile, innovative, and aligned by bridging gaps between strategy and technology.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2024

My team supports our colleagues across the organization by enabling their strategies, and my ask of them is that they not wait for the action to come to them but be active participants to drive our agenda and solve problems. We started with the Lace Up plan and assessed the role technology had to play to deliver our strategy.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2025

A savvy CIO must go beyond traditional expectations, driving innovation and aligning technology with business strategy to deliver measurable business value. To lead effectively, CIOs must bridge the gap between IT and business strategy. The chief strategy officer, CFO, CRO, and business unit leaders are invaluable sources of insight.

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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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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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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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Revenue Officer The Chief Revenue Officer is a key member of the executive team, collaborating closely with the CEO, CFO, and COO to steer the organization’s overall growth strategy. Essentially, the CRO’s role is to turn the company’s ambitious visions into profitable actions.

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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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Chief Strategy Officers are crucial for shaping an organization’s strategic vision and ensuring long-term success. They develop and execute initiatives that align with the company’s goals, focusing on market trends , competitive threats, and emerging opportunities.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Many companies have trouble articulating that answer, says Steve Van Remortel, author of the new book Stop Selling Vanilla Ice Cream: The Scoop on Differentiating Your Company Through Strategy and Talent. After helping hundreds of companies build successful strategies, Steve asserts: “There is no difficulty any [.]

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Xebia

APRIL 3, 2023

architecture #enterprisearchitecture #masterofscience Enterprise Architecture – Step 1 – Strategy Enterprise Architecture as a topic is evolving and gaining in interest at various organizations in the Netherlands and abroad. To get here, we first need to zoom in into what is strategy. The strategy of you.

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CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Atento is one of the world’s leading business process and transformation outsourcing companies and serves over 400 clients across 17 countries. Without a strategic plan in place to create uniform and flexible environments and workflows, this growth revealed limitations in how Atento delivers innovation to its customers.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The CEO also balances immediate needs with long-term goals, transforming strategic ideas into actions everyone can support. Every CEO’s impact is most visible in company decision-making. They build connections across the company, fostering trust, transparency, and excitement about the future.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Commercial Officer In corporate leadership, the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) guides a company’s commercial strategies. The CCO’s primary focus is on strategic planning and execution. It allows companies to adapt quickly, seize new opportunities, and maintain a competitive edge.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A few months ago I was asked to review a product strategy a team had put together. I had to give them the unfortunate feedback that what they had created was a document with a lot of words, but those words did not articulate a strategy. There is a formula for articulating strategy. The actions must be, well, actionable.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It means creating a dynamic team excited to drive the organization forward, energized by new challenges, and aligned with the company’s long-term vision. It’s a strategy that brings clarity to your growth plans and confidence to your workforce, positioning the business for success, no matter what the future holds.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Why Your Company Vision Matters. It is essential for every team member to understand the purpose behind every company initiatives, processes, and actions. When a company is able to identify what they are doing, why they are doing it, and how they should execute their roles, they are able to achieve transparency. Long-Term Goals.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

Why Does the Vision of Your Company Matter? It is important for every team member to understand the purposes behind the company’s initiatives, processes and actions. like how you see your company a few years from now. The way you set your goals should be guided by what your company vision is. Mission Statement. ?.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Its all spelled out in its updated strategic plan for the period from 2023 to 2027, whichalso ratifies the organizations pledge to energy transition and decarbonization, reinforcing how digital is an essential enabler to successfully achieve these objectives. The center is deployed in several lines of work.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Mosaic, which aims to change the way CFOs of high-growth companies operate, has raised $25 million in a Series B round of funding led by Founders Fund. The trio moved on to other senior finance roles at companies such as Piazza, Axoni and Everlaw before teaming back up to create Mosaic.

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2024

To address the growing pains, Lovelady reinforced the importance of strategic planning for IT. The company, after all, had been successful historically. Through this strategy, Lovelady and his team have struck the often difficult to balance attributes of business unit flexibility with enterprise scale.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

CFOs are the supposed omniscient owners of a company. While the CEO sets strategy, messages, and builds culture, the CFO needs to know everything that it is going on in an organization. and then provide CFOs and their teams with strategic planning tools to be able to predict and forecast with better accuracy and with speed.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

They align marketing strategies with the company’s vision, maintain the brand’s image, and build crucial relationships with internal and external stakeholders. 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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N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2024

Traditionally part of the company’s executive team, this role is responsible for driving the company’s revenue by creating, implementing, and executing revenue-generating strategies. It’s necessary to analyze the current corporate culture and team dynamics to ensure a seamless integration for a new hire.

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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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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. Early on, I observed that business strategy was rarely driving digital transformation, resulting in very little transformation occurring.

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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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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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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

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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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Interim executives also play an integral role in preparing teams and organizations for the transition to a new phase of leadership by familiarizing them with new processes or strategies. These seasoned experts are parachuted into organizations to bridge critical leadership gaps, often during business volatility or strategic transition.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While indispensable for continued growth, these benefits are, crucially, more accessible than ever, even for those without the financial resources of bigger companies. For one, companies have seen vast improvements in end-user productivity. Many are concentrating their use of GenAI on content creation to score early wins.

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