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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

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Conduct a Cost/Benefit Analysis : Do the potential benefits derived from the decision justify the expected costs? What if the costs exceed projections, and the benefits fall short of projections? mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

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Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Usability drives adoptability, and therefore it pays to keep things simple. Our Freedom.

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High Speed Rail Versus Austerity

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2010, the Chinese central government spent billions of dollars on new bullet trains that connect second and third tier cities with the mega cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou — but of course bullet trains don''t connect every smaller city to a mega city. Here''s China''s story.