N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I read an interesting article in Inc. Magazine entitled “ Where Have All the Bloggers Gone ?” If you read this article it would lead you to believe blogging is in decline and on it’s way out as a marketing tool. The article cites a study from the University of Massachusetts in which the respondents (170 executives from Inc. 500 companies) indicated the use of blogging was down 13% from the prior year.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 29, 2012

Like many others here in Portland I’ve been increasing my consumption of a certain vegetable – one that has magical powers. “It’s a superfood!”, the stores proclaim. Low calorie, low fat, high in essential vitamins and minerals, etc, etc, etc… That’s all good, quite good in fact, but there’s one big problem with it.

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Women on Business

MAY 4, 2012

Statistics show women are joining the growing independent consulting sector at a rapid pace. Women make up less than half (47%) of the traditional workforce, but they make up 53% (8.5 million) of the independent workforce. A new study from MBO Partners reports that 77% these women are satisfied and 74% plan on remaining in independent work. The top reasons women cite for taking the independent route are: more flexibility (65%), control of their own schedules (64%), and being their own boss (59%

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Change Starts Here

MAY 1, 2012

Last week, I hosted a free teleclass called, “10 Ways Change Gets Stuck.” I detailed the various things that happen that cause change to lose traction. It includes the things change agents do – or don’t do – that contribute to their own frustration. This episode of The Change Agent’s Dilemma is a replay of that teleclass.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 1, 2012

So, here’s the scenario: You’re the newest member of a leadership or management team. Today is your first regular leadership team meeting. It’s that part of the meeting where you go around the physical or virtual table and everyone reports out for five minutes or so on the latest and greatest things happening in their part of the world. As. Click headline to continue.

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Women on Business

APRIL 30, 2012

Today’s women can work at home and still hold an executive position and even make millions from sitting behind a lap top computer. In fact… you can be extremely HAPPY working from home because you don’t have to get dressed up, fight traffic and you can work out whenever you want to. Just schedule it! The internet allows us to have freedom to raise our children, have more time, and live the life we want.

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Change Starts Here

MAY 3, 2012

I often find myself talking to change agents who are at the end of their rope. They’ve tried everything they can think of to keep the initiative moving forward, but instead, they find their initiatives – and themselves – stuck. As a result, they start thinking about their alternatives. Some seek other roles or projects within the same organization, and others start looking for another job altogether.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 3, 2012

Well, you have to hand it to News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. He knows how to generate a story. The twist on the latest Murdoch story, however, is that he’s the subject of it. This week, a British parliamentary panel investigating phone hacking, email hacking and bribery of police officers by his company’s managers and reporters concluded that.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 28, 2012

You want to win. Whether you are an athlete, an actor or a business leader you are “in the game” to win. You might be competing in a major event (e.g. summer Olympics in London) or in a crowded market (e.g. productivity software); regardless, you want to win. What does it take to set you apart from the competition? In sports it’s pretty easy; you win competitions (ok, it’s not ‘easy’ to win for most of us, but it’s easy to measure).

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Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Women on Business

MAY 2, 2012

As a small business owner you become intimately involved in every area of your company and work closely with most of your employees. There are several perks to this. You gain an intimate understanding of how your company works, understand your clients and their needs, and see the company culture at work on a daily basis. Small business owners do not need to look at reports and analyze data to understand what is happening with their company.

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Sailpoint

MAY 2, 2012

One of SailPoint’s top priorities is to serve as an example of a successful company that is socially aware. It’s an easy mission because our entire company is committed to helping out with local charities. This is something that I am truly passionate about because it not only helps the community, but it also feeds a positive corporate culture. And our employees are just as passionate.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 4, 2012

Every week, I share a recap of some of the best things I’ve seen on Twitter. This week, I’m highlighting tweets and links on how to build your confidence, whether trustworthiness can be taught, and tips for improving your public speaking, among others. Click headline to continue.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

MAY 1, 2012

While traveling around the world recently to discuss social business in Asia and Eastern Europe, I’ve been reminded by the sheer speed at which social networks are changing how we communicate. Most of the Western world has been on social networks for a while but now the rest isn’t far behind. However it’s people like you and me, sometimes referred to as consumers by the business world, that have been leading this particular technology and societal revolution.

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Women on Business

MAY 2, 2012

In the United States, over half a million businesses are launched every month. America is the land of entrepreneurs, but where are entrepreneurs opening businesses and what kinds of businesses are they creating? Doc Stoc and Visual.ly put together an infographic that examines where entrepreneurs are staking claims in the United States. The infographic identifies the fastest growing industries, the best and worst states to be an entrepreneur, and how many businesses are created in the US each mo

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QAspire

MAY 2, 2012

From a number of GREAT bloggers and authors I read, here are a few snippets of thought provoking insights – straight from my feed reader. Note: Important take-aways marked in bold+ italics. Michael Wade on “ What Managers Can Learn from Novelists ”. “ Recognize that life is not a novel. At least, not in most cases. The most powerful characters in life are the quiet heroes who support families, meet obligations, hone skills, and fulfill civic duties.

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Coalfire

MAY 3, 2012

Organizations that work with, or want to work with, government agencies must manage to government compliance regulations. Almost everyone is familiar with the FISMA compliance standards, but with the announcement of FedRAMP, which provides a structure to manage compliance requirements for "a cloud first initiative" for government agencies and organizations working with them, there’s a new set of compliance requirements to adhere to.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MAY 2, 2012

'Image Credit Sure they are successful, but for how long? Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past year and don’t know who Zynga is, they’re the online game company that has ridden Facebook’s coattails to success. They’ve created very, very popular games such as Farmville and Cityville and generated a great deal of money.

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Women on Business

MAY 4, 2012

Last night in a conversation on a treadmill, a friend was rehashing her take on management and questioning why certain efforts were made with no regard to cost, effort and effect. It was an interesting conversation and as a business owner it was nice to see the other side of the table. As owners we sometimes forget how much our decisions influence our staff, so here are the nuggets of wisdom I gleaned from the conversation.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2012

A big software development project collapses just weeks before it is expected to be released to QA. According to the project leadership team, they're dogged by integration problems and as a result, the software is nowhere close to being done. It's going to take far more time and far more money than expected, but until these integration problems get sorted out, it isn't clear how much more time and how much more money.

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Coalfire

MAY 2, 2012

Having some security expert tell you that you should be creating strong passwords that are unique per account and change frequently is like your dentist telling you that you should floss morning, night and after consuming any dentally dangerous foods. The majority of us say, “yeah right” The truth is that you really must do better than what the average person is doing today.

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Six Disciplines

MAY 3, 2012

The Hay Group , a global management consulting firm, today released its seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20 list. The study ranks the best companies for leadership around the globe and examines how those companies nurture talent and foster innovation in their ranks. This year, no surprises - General Electric topped the list, followed by Procter & Gamble, IBM, Microsoft and Coca-Cola. .

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

First-ever article on Dick Clark, as a business case study. Motivating pop culture piece designed to foster better, more successful companies. The passing of Dick Clark brought about widespread nostalgia and cultural interaction in our culture. Those of us who have known and worked with him will never forget his humor, his sense of fairness, his encouraging ways, the optimistic disposition, the gut instinct and the lasting impacts that he made on our later successes.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 30, 2012

The Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence provide a framework for understanding performance management. They reflect validated, proven best-practices against which an organization can measure itself. Baldrige criteria has been accepted nationally (including individual states) and internationally, as the model for performance excellence: a common language for communication among organizations for sharing best practices .

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Six Disciplines

MAY 3, 2012

The Hay Group , a global management consulting firm, today released its seventh annual Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20 list. The study ranks the best companies for leadership around the globe and examines how those companies nurture talent and foster innovation in their ranks. This year, no surprises - General Electric topped the list, followed by Procter & Gamble, IBM, Microsoft and Coca-Cola. .

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Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2012

4. Strategic planning creates the platform for a healthy company. Strategic planning is a critical part of growing a successful business. A high performance work culture needs a system that makes sure that employee goals are aligned and everyone is focused on the right stuff. The fact is that many small- to mid-sized companies do not have a structured process from which to conduct strategic planning.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 1, 2012

It’s difficult enough for a manager to align, streamline, and make efficient those business operations under his or her direct control; adding one or more other work groups to a process’s execution exponentially increases this challenge. Consequently, organizations stand to gain substantial productivity benefits through better cross-functional process execution.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2012

Have you noticed the shift in human focus and concentration? Sitting in the lobby of the Public Hotel in Chicago, there are about 50 people sitting and milling around, engaged in some form of interaction – primarily WITH THEMSELVES. Oh, there are others with them, but these people are head down on their phones. I’m sure you have both seen them and been one of them.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2012

Workforce Analytics. by SAP. Aberdeen Group surveyed nearly 450 organizations in order to determine Best-in-Class practices in human capital management (HCM). Data analysis from that study showed that organizations that integrate workforce and business performance data into their analytics tools are nearly three times as likely to achieve Best-in-Class results as those that don’t.

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