N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement. If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Test and have ready for business. Being sharp means being succinct. Any professional should have antennae open for business every time you answer the phone, e-mail, or walk out the door. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Rehearse your pitch.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. 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. Sophisticated models around churn prediction start looking very tempting. What to do.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

By now, your company probably has a new busi­ness incubator, an idea wiki, a disciplined process for mining customer insights, an awards program for successful innovators, and maybe even an outpost in Silicon Valley—all fine ideas—and yet, most likely, it still struggles to meet its growth goals and seldom thrills its customers.

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Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. This is where numerous ventures fail. And, they are learning what is fundable and what isn’t, and why.

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