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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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

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 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. Data Analysis: Proficiency in data analysis is crucial.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Chief Revenue Officer does more than just come up with bold strategic plans. They’re also hands-on in putting those plans into action, ensuring everything runs smoothly, and keeping a close eye on progress to make adjustments when needed. Finding the right cultural fit goes beyond just checking skills and qualifications.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The CEO defines an organization’s direction and culture, shaping a vision that motivates employees, engages customers, and builds confidence with investors. The CEO also balances immediate needs with long-term goals, transforming strategic ideas into actions everyone can support.

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Luis Goncalves

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

While a vision can sound witty and unforgettable, it is meant for your team and culture. How to Strategically Plan for Your OKRs. This should help you really focus your efforts on developing a product or service that you want to offer to your target market. It is not meant to sell products. Achieving them is another.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Effective engineering leadership lies at the heart of a premier academic institutions ability to differentiate itself in a competitive market. A well-orchestrated evaluation process ensures due diligence, including comprehensive interviews, thorough reference checks, and a holistic assessment of leadership style and cultural fit.

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James Shore

JANUARY 10, 2025

Wed work with our internal stakeholders to ensure our products were ready for the real world of sales, marketing, content, support, partners, accounting, and every other aspect of our business. This is a matter of changing organizational culture, and organizational culture isnt easy to change. This is a big cultural shift!

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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. So nobody was looking when a bunch of independent enthusiasts and marketing-department renegades figured out that HTML was pretty easy to figure out. Culture is “how we do things around here.”

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CIO

MAY 9, 2024

She also notes that CAIOs must have experience driving transformation, including leading culture change, and upskilling team members. Collaboration also includes working with product teams on go-to-market opportunities. This creates a positive and productive team culture where everyone feels valued and motivated to do their best work.

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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. Business and operational model innovation is necessary to adapt to today’s opportunities while also creating a culture of adaptation and innovation for the coming waves.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Strategic Planning and Decision-Making: Entrepreneurs benefit from coaches who guide them in developing strategic plans that account for market trends, competition, and industry dynamics. Market trends constantly evolve, and staying ahead of the curve is crucial.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

While the CEO sets strategy, messages, and builds culture, the CFO needs to know everything that it is going on in an organization. Worse, CFOs are expected to be more strategic than ever about finance, but can struggle to deliver important forecasts and projections given the lack of availability of key data.

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Evolution4all

MARCH 11, 2019

While a vision statement can sound witty and unforgettable, it is meant for your team and culture, not to sell products. How to Strategically Plan for Your OKRs. Market research can guide you in identifying industry standards and developing strategies to ensure your products and services are in high demand.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

Support Risk-Taking: Create a culture that embraces experimentation and learning from failures. Under his leadership, Microsoft underwent a cultural transformation towards greater collaboration and inclusivity. Strategic Planning: Implementing structured approaches to achieve organizational goals.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Over its more than 130 years, Tubos Reunidos has gone through various phases of modernization and expansion, including incorporating new technologies and more efficient production processes to stay competitive in a fast-paced market. The need to modernize has only intensified over the last decade.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Navigating complex financial markets, making informed decisions, and driving profitability requires strong leadership that inspires and motivates teams to achieve their goals. As finance executives retire or move on to new opportunities, organizations must have a strategic plan to identify and groom potential successors.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

Navigating uncertainty Like many IT leaders, Saket Srivastava, CIO of Asana, believes ongoing lack of economic clarity on a wide scale, paired with instability in the tech market, will create new challenges for 2024. These external factors can have a dramatic impact on business operations and strategic planning.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Digital leadership is not limited to technology-driven companies; businesses across industries recognize the need for influential digital leaders to stay competitive in the market. Firstly, executive search firms specialize in identifying and attracting top talent in the market.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Karl Mattson, field CISO at Noname Security, an API security solution, says APIs are the foundation of nearly every CIO’s strategic plans to deliver business value. Good governance is the telemetry on that investment, from which operational and tactical plans can be adjusted and focused to achieve strategic objectives,” he says.

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A big aspect of our transformation is to lean into sneaker culture and leverage our unique global position to build deeper engagement around all things “sneakers.” As part of our Lace Up Plan, which aims to differentiate ourselves in the market on product availability and assortment, we’re modernizing our core retail technology.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

A journey full of challenges Since Palladium began its digital transformation journey, the company has been repeatedly challenged, especially in how it managed the cultural impact, which demanded changes to work processes, and an evolution of how business partners adapted to new technologies.

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Luis Goncalves

APRIL 12, 2018

If your building a company that has a ‘culture of sharing’ where people regardless of their roles and tenure are willing to help one another; value learning as an inevitable tool to growth and success; and have the attitude of ‘making each other better’; you are undoubtedly building the right culture of your company.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 4, 2011

I tend to get a bit frustrated with all the “ strategy bashing ” of late – How could sound strategic planning possibly be a bad thing? Let me be as blunt as I can – The issue should not be strategy vs tactics, but strategy and tactics – not strategy vs cultue, but strategy and culture.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Drawing on their extensive leadership experience, they bring fresh, unbiased perspectives to the boardroom, addressing challenges while ensuring that solutions are firmly aligned with the organization’s objectives and culture. They often contribute to accelerated problem-solving.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Additionally, these services create a platform for leaders to explore new perspectives, challenge established norms, and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement. This entails fostering a culture that embraces learning, innovation, and adaptability. One key principle for success is the cultivation of a growth mindset.

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CIO

JUNE 5, 2023

Technical skills topped the list but also crucial are key leadership and culture capabilities such as change management, strategy building, and business relationship management, as well as critical business skills such as cost, product, and vendor management, as shown in the graphic below. And that is the rub.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

“Yes, my team can do that for you,” might mean, “I’m going to have to postpone our team’s strategic planning offsite. For example, “Yes, it sounds like this project would benefit our marketing strategy. I can certainly prioritize this new marketing project if we can shift the product deadline.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A COO dives deep into the company’s strategic plan, turning strategies into action across departments. They also play a crucial role in shaping a culture of efficiency guiding teams through periods of change and growth. A strong cultural fit also influences the COO’s interactions and relationships within the team.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Through comprehensive assessments and interviews, these firms evaluate candidates’ qualifications, leadership styles, and cultural fit. The pool of individuals with the necessary expertise and experience is more limited than ever, making it an ever more competitive market.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The executive search goes beyond traditional hiring methods by leveraging a systematic and targeted process to identify, evaluate, and attract high-performing professionals who possess the skills, experience, and cultural fit required for success at the executive level.

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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. Strategic planners must be well-versed in IT knowledge, project management, and innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Principles provide a broad context for strategic action and guidelines that can be communicated and taught at all levels of the organization, eventually becoming part of the organization’s culture. That is the good news. Engineered to Win. We totally agree.

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Perficient

AUGUST 28, 2024

Perficient continues to make strategic investments to grow our global footprint. This is great for our clients because we span time zones, cultures and capabilities. However, it can present a challenge fostering a cohesive company culture and opportunities for colleagues to connect.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As executive search consultants, we focus on understanding and optimizing businesses’ intended transformations and how they are shaping strategic responses to industry-level changes. Step 2: Culture alignment. Especially implementation challenges of transformation affecting the organizational design. Step 3: Strategy alignment.

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