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The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap to Success

Strategy Driven

They checked out the market, discussed the business idea with friends and family and feels they can come up with enough capital to set themselves up for success. Unfortunately, often the amount of working capital needed to fund the project is simply not enough to account for all the expenses that arise with a new business.

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Unique & Creative Employee Incentives You Could Be Offering

Strategy Driven

People lead busy lives and if you give them a chance to be able to attend family events and doctor’s appointments around their work, you are going to gain a lot of respect from people. Give your staff a reason to want to work for you and you’ll benefit from their loyalty. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Walmart wrings maximum efficiency from its supply chain by integrating four capabilities – aggressive vendor management, expert point-of-sale data analytics, superior logistics, and rigorous working-capital management – that together deliver ‘everyday low prices’ to consumers. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Creating Michelin-star Quality for the Masses

Harvard Business Review

Capital investment and operating expenses are high because cooking equipment and raw materials must be the best: wines devour working capital, the kitchen and serving staff must be paid handsomely, and crystal glasses and crockery will break. Oldani has created a Michelin restaurant for the masses by working on two fronts.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Congestion Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

Shipment volumes through North American ports, which fell 20% in 2009 from a record peak in 2007, are now higher than they were in 2007, and port-expansion plans from Vancouver to Los Angeles/Long Beach are bogged down by political wrangling. Then the recession hit, and the problem receded as port traffic slowed.

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How Startups Overcome the Capital Gap

Harvard Business Review

In the fall of 2007, I met Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho. In the case of Cableorganizer, banks would be delighted to finance their inventory and working capital to help accelerate growth. So there is really no capital gap if you have a proven business model and execution capacity. At that time, no one had heard of him.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

From 2007 to 2014, their R&D spending grew at an annualized rate of 8.5%, greater than the 3.7% ” Economic profit represents a company’s profit after subtracting a charge for the capital that the firm has invested (working capital, fixed assets, goodwill). rate for other companies.