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Selling Medical Devices: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurial Breakthrough Success

Strategy Driven

You’ll need to read some journals to find out where medical trends are going and where they are currently to help you make an informed decision on what devices you may need contract manufacturing for. Staying with the trends and anticipating shifts are a huge part of succeeding in this business. Find Suppliers.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact. Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch).

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CEOs Need to Get Serious About Sales

Harvard Business Review

When tracking trends for future growth opportunities, for example, invest real money (2 to 4 percent of the sales budget is good) to develop analytical tools and teams that monitor trends such as demographic shifts, regulations, and new technologies. Make sales a team sport.

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3 Kinds of Jobs That Will Thrive as Automation Advances

Harvard Business Review

As technology transforms our economy, one trend is getting more and more attention: the prospect that it will increasingly automate the work that we human beings do. While it’s true that technology is taking over routine tasks from many workers, it is also reshaping many supply and demand trends that drive our global markets.

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It’s OK to Move Down (Yes, Down) the Value Chain

Harvard Business Review

Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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It’s Time for Companies to Be Strategic About Energy

Harvard Business Review

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

The real issue is whether anything can be done about this investment trend. The company's contract manufacturer, Colorado-based Vergent Products, will fill orders from value-added resellers and for pilot programs with potential new OEM partners. The answer is yes. An American "making things" company is off and running.

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