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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. Havens, accustomed to selling benefits services to Fortune 1000 human resources departments, found its key contact person assigned to IBM procurement instead.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Make you more innovative. But just because you know that a network is important to your success, it doesn’t mean you are devoting sufficient time and energy to making it useful and strong. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation.

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