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The Value of Value Chain Analysis in Transforming Your Business

N2Growth Blog

All that is left to do is develop the plans for the projects that are needed to actualize the new workflow and institute a process for continual change. Once fully documented, the value chain represents the transformation team’s recommended work environment. Reach out to me to learn more about value chain analysis.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Good Intentions, Bad Results: Learning from the Panic of 1826

Strategy Driven

For what lead Life & Fire’s directors to commit fraud in the first place was in part driven by a desire (so they claimed) to extend credit to high-risk borrowers being ignored by traditional banks. Why was an insurance company doing a bank’s work?

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

And limited credit is in part caused by the difficulty of predicting which small businesses will and won’t succeed. In the past, a community bank would have a relationship with the businesses on Main Street, and when it came time for a loan, there would be a wealth of informal information to augment the loan application.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

And limited credit is in part caused by the difficulty of predicting which small businesses will and won’t succeed. In the past, a community bank would have a relationship with the businesses on Main Street, and when it came time for a loan, there would be a wealth of informal information to augment the loan application.

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A Dedicated Team of Problem Solvers Can Help Big Companies Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business Review

” That’s why he urges startups to “get out of the building” and talk to potential customers before beginning product development in earnest. At a meeting with a large bank, one of the senior executives said, “You know we have a problem that’s really giving us trouble.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

The boom-bust tendencies of Wall Street mean we need tougher capital requirements for banks, Greenspan now says, and maybe even a forced return to the partnerships that once dominated investment banking. For his book, Greenspan dug up an 1863 quote from the first Comptroller of the Currency (the regulator of national banks in the U.S.),