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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 3

Strategy Driven

In time, Stage 1 teams arrive at Stage 2. Stage 2 teams will either get stuck in Stage 2 or move on to Stage 3. Stage 3 teams can slip back into Stage 2 or move on to Stage 4. Progress or slippage depends on whether the team builds on its momentum or rests on its laurels.

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Design Thinking: A Guide to Creative Problem Solving for Everyone

Strategy Driven

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. But design thinking can also be applied to other business-related challenges such as devising entrepreneurial practice models, expanding professional services, operations, and even setting fees or pricing plans.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

’) Of course, time has marched on since the book was written, and plenty of other well-known companies have dropped the execution ball in the meantime (BP in the most spectacular fashion). Much of the blame has been attributed to poor federal oversight. How could something like this, and on this scale, have happened?

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. Many managers have poor people skills, as well as poor verbal-written communications skills. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’