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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

You will also be competing to retain talented employees that other companies would like to lure away. All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. If you don’t have direct competition you’ll surely have indirect competition.

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Some Companies Are Banning Email and Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. So, he took steps to eliminate what he believed were negative effects on company productivity. In February 2011, Breton announced that he was banning email.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

In 1968 an investor named Arthur Rock backed executives from Fairchild Semiconductor to start a new company, which would become known as Intel. Stanford provost Frederick Terman, as well as existing companies such as Hewlett-Packard, also devoted resources to broadening and strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Why Buying Motorola Was a Good Gamble for Google

Harvard Business Review

At the end of 2011, there were one billion smartphone subscriptions activated worldwide (out of a total of more than six billion phone subscriptions), and the market was growing at 37% annually. Google's big stack of chips will finance good hands and big bets. In this case, Google is wagering $12.5

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. Information & technology Innovation' In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S.

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Business Complexity has Grown Significantly Since the Financial Crisis

Strategy Driven

The report also explains the wide range of measures companies are adopting to tackle the complexity; from cutting down management layers to simplifying product portfolios and processes. Businesses are focusing on technological solutions to tackle complexity. More information is available at www.eiu.com. About the Research.

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