Strategy Driven

MAY 22, 2024

In 2024, strategic planning remains a critical driver for business growth. As markets evolve and technological advancements accelerate, companies must adopt comprehensive strategies to navigate these changes and seize new opportunities. Best practices for digital recruitment ensure a smooth and efficient hiring process.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. Whether they’re developed in-house or brought in by outside strategy firms, many strategy methodologies are of little value if they don’t keep up with the times.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

research firm Vanson Bourne to survey 650 global IT, DevOps, and Platform Engineering decision-makers on their enterprise AI strategy. AI a primary driver in IT modernization and data mobility AI’s demand for data requires businesses to have a secure and accessible data strategy. Nutanix commissioned U.K.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

The concept of resilience is evident across all levels of an organization, from its leadership to frontline employees, from strategic planning to risk management practices, ultimately enhancing the collective ability to navigate change and uncertainty. It’s also beneficial to integrate risk management with strategic planning.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2024

In too many companies, an innovation team is allowed to pursue its own agenda and imagine itself to be a separate island from the rest of the company. The root problem is the disconnect between strategy and innovation. The author offers five steps to help embed strategy into the innovation process.

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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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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The worldwide push to digital has quickly promoted the IT department from its back-room origins to the upper reaches within any company or organization. But change, judgment, and potentially clashing IT strategies can saddle CIOs with more tech debt, for example, which can further undercut long-term outcomes and innovation.

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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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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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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2024

CIOs failing to gain organizational traction with generative AI might want to rethink how they are introducing the technology — and how they are honing their AI strategies to suit. Guidelines, however, are important especially with this tier of AI offerings because some may repurpose the company data that’s entered.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Leveraging sustainable architecture principles and practices, organizations can link enterprise business and technology strategies with ESG principles that have the potential to unlock new opportunities for innovation, efficiency and competitive advantage while aligning to a strong mission statement regarding improving societal impacts on the earth.

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

These individuals bring a wealth of expertise and an outside perspective, allowing them to evaluate the company’s situation and design effective strategies objectively. They are particularly effective in crisis management scenarios, using their expertise and calm demeanor to steer a company through turbulent times.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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

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

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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2022

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

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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

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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CIO

JULY 25, 2024

The certification covers business frameworks, IT frameworks, software, database management, information systems, corporate IT strategy, corporate governance, risk, finance, and management of technology personnel. This includes developing and maintaining cyber security programs, business analysis, strategic planning, and management tools.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CDO’s mandate extends beyond mere technology implementation; it encompasses the development of comprehensive digital strategies and the cultivation of a culture that embraces continuous innovation. Essential Skills for a Chief Digital Officer The role of a CDO demands a unique blend of strategic vision and technological expertise.

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