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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. Undoubtedly, this is putting added pressure on FinTech executives.

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The Ten Commandments of Business Success

Women on Business

Innovate –Think Outside the Box –Do not be a boring cookie cutter. For Harper, it was deciding to franchise her business as a practical way to expand, when she could not get working capital, plus be assured of an ownership base that would strictly follow her dictates.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

The company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. Gordon Berridge: Did you have a mentor at Rio Tinto, if so, how important was that person to you and your development?

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

Product expansion is often used as a path to growth, but it can have unintended consequences for other aspects of the business — including the customer experience central to the company’s value proposition. Each was set loose to develop or acquire products to satisfy those markets.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. But it didn’t quite work out that way.

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

Strategy Driven

Further, they need to limit their focus to, at most, six capabilities, and make those capabilities work together as a mutually reinforcing system that perpetuates competitive advantage. Is it more important to consider capabilities when you develop a strategy now than it was, say, five years ago? SD : What is the ‘coherence premium?’.

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What to Know Before You Sign a Payment-by-Results Contract

Harvard Business Review

The UK’s Department for International Development uses “results-based” aid to improve the educational outcomes of young girls in Africa and Asia. Pearson, the educational publisher, measures the efficacy of its products to improve educational outcomes. Making PbR Work. Consider these examples: Education.