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Research Shows That Investing In Tech Matters

The Horizons Tracker

Efficiently managing the money a company needs to run its daily operations, known as working capital, is crucial for success. This connection between good working capital management and how well a company does can be complicated. The research looked at 1,054 American manufacturing companies from 2011 to 2013.

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

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.

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Some of the Most Successful Platforms Are Ones You’ve Never Heard Of

Harvard Business Review

These card networks were allowed to charge their members just enough to cover cost and provide working capital. That standard may then become a platform for many firms that produce complementary products and their customers. A recent study found that SSOs published more than 200,000 standards between 1975 and 2011.

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What Netflix and Starbucks Know About Cash Flow

Harvard Business Review

The success Netflix is enjoying was far from certain if you recall the summer of 2011. For that to happen, consumers must know their demand for a product or service is predictable and likely to go up. What successful companies are doing right. This allows you to better manage operating and capital expenses.

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How Startups Overcome the Capital Gap

Harvard Business Review

You may have another kind of track record, such as working successfully at a large company. He decided to go after Salesforce.com with a Software-as-a-Service Customer Relationship Management product at a price-point that was one sixth of what Salesforce.com, the market leader, charged. No venture capital. And play he did.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

These preparatory steps are of particular importance for carve-outs that are not full-fledged business units with profit & loss responsibility, such as R&D centers or production units whose only customer is their parent. Successful spin-offs tend to have a management team that comprises both insiders and outsiders.

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New Research: If You Want To Scale Impact, Put Financial Results First

Harvard Business Review

Their fast-growing companies work in almost every industry, from online retail to manufacturing to professional services, and together they have created more than 200,000 jobs and generated revenues of more than $5B in 2011. Adam's business has not been as successful as Roberta's. Or keep margins healthy? And what about Adam?