N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

While a business cannot scale without growth, a business can grow without being scalable. If your business model requires implicit customer growth your business might grow for a time period certain, but it isn’t scalable. Even their advertising model is simplistically brilliant. Our Freedom.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Adobe’s radical transformation from a product-based business model to a service-based one raised eyebrows in the industry, with many software vendors now wondering how radically they should approach the SaaS model. Make sure existing products, processes, and culture do not prohibit the SaaS model from blossoming.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This is the latest step in the company''s journey to dramatically reduce the cost of space travel, and follows the first private resupply of the International Space Station with the launch of their Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft last fall. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Product and business models are evolutionary by nature, but we see four things a young company must get right: The founding team. In technology companies, engineering talent needs the balance of a business and operations team. Entrepreneurs must reserve time in the early life of a business to be reflective.

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Company Short-term Engineering PR 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policy making, corporate finance, and planning. Ford’s Model T cost just $260 ($3,700 in today’s dollars) and Ford held 60% of the U.S. He had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning. Modern Corporation Marketing. auto market. car market.

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Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Today, the list of disruptive new entrants is expanding and the primary differentiator is clear: they bring new mental models to existing industries and create new business models that customers and investors love. ” In order to get there, he plans to “evolve our business model accordingly.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

There are instances when it might be perfectly legitimate and value enhancing to issue earnings guidance in an effort to inform the market about material disruptions, shifts in the business model etc., but on the whole, the practice is not a helpful way of building a sustainable business that is geared to succeed in the long-term.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

You have no funding, but you have to convince some engineer who’s already juggling 15 job offers (including offers from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google) to join you to help finish your product. Is this engineer going to accept your job offer? Costs are low. The answer, in most cases, is no. Quality of life is high.

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Venture Funding Entrepreneur Attrition Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

They typically hire third parties to help them with IT and never make it part of their core business. These entrepreneurs typically have an engineering background, and schools that support this approach have strong engineering departments. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. For some, it refers to venture capital-backed startups and their kin; for others, to any small business. For example, a new venture might employ a new business model for an innovative product.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The reality is that many businesses are quick to recognize great ideas, but they often have no plan for how to successfully integrate them into their business model. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, when my book publisher was hit by Hurricane Wilma, (thus my upcoming book was literally blown away), I turned to graphic design where I had received all my training and contacts—but with a much different business model. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Klara Eberhart, the head of engineering, interrupted. But why pay for more staff when we have thousands of people willing to do the work at no cost? Besides, this is what our business model is based on. She proposed hiring 15 to 20 new engineers. That’s not exactly fair,” Klaus said once the laughter had died down.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

believes that it demonstrates the contractor’s ability to implement different business models and bring the experience of other business areas to the benefit of the system. This will save costs on redesign, or solve technical bottlenecks created by lack of planning. This risk also relates to the cost of the project.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

He renamed his company and put a team of engineers to work solving the product’s mechanical, food safety, cost, and design flaws. The business model centers on the old razor blade strategy: Sell the machine at just above cost and make high margins on the system’s consumable element – patented plastic pods.

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Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Web developers can personalize recommendation engines, allow users to see their friends' purchase history, and draw on detailed demographic data available through the Facebook network. But it's also not yet clear that Facebook is the next Google; it doesn't have massive tailwinds propelling its business model.

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IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

One of the biggest obstacles is that traditional functional departments often can’t meet the needs of IoT business models and have to evolve. Finance departments also had trouble dealing with the fact that the cost of services and the resulting subscription revenues can accrue in a complex manner. Engineering.

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Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking "lean startups" from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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EBITDA Engineering Travel Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

In effect, they all had skin in the game, which remains one of the most elusive elements of modern finance. Both then and in 1686, when Lloyd’s was born in a London coffee house, the global insurance industry was a business of utmost good faith , as it remains today. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Is a business built on volunteers manageable? There are plenty of examples here at HBR — along with other publications — of social business models that use volunteers. While a social approach certainly lowers the financial overhead of the organization to expand on purpose, the question is, "At what cost?"

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Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Firms like these have created tools like Environmental Profit & Loss (EP&L) statements and Social Return on Investment (SROI) to capture a more complete picture of their businesses. Meanwhile, Al Gore’s Generation Foundation sees sustainability as the new engine of economic growth. The Design Frame. The Moral Frame.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. In the pharma industry, the patent-based business model makes breakthrough innovation critical for achieving high returns.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Most companies, whether start-ups or long-time players live in a world shaped by the laws of demand where low pricing can trump quality, and where targeted marketing, carefully crafted keywords, and social media engineering can build awareness, influence opinion, and generate sales. Of course this depends on a company’s business model.

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Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. At 1/12th the cost, 1M/1M provides far more value.

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Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. By parsing ROE into the DuPont Equation (very rapidly to become a business school mainstay), he provided the basis for organizations divided into functions with their own objectives.

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ROE Debt to Equity Ratio Innovation Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

And the cost in terms of lost output, lost jobs, lost houses, lost opportunities, as well as political repercussions, was so enormous that it seemed to mandate a very big rethinking of the financial system. The flip side of the stress test, though, is that there is some possibility for the banks to reverse-engineer and game the results.

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Banking Crisis System Compliance 8