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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

This resource-intensive and time-consuming process put additional pressure on FinTech executives while leading highly diverse and remote teams. The diversity across markets results in a mixture of backgrounds of different belief systems, habits, and perceptions that govern the behavior of local team members.

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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. That belief stems from having chosen a differentiated way to play that is supported by a strong system of mutually reinforcing capabilities.

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Some of the Most Successful Platforms Are Ones You’ve Never Heard Of

Harvard Business Review

Both associations managed their brands and ran the clearing and settlement systems for banks that issued cards or helped merchants accept cards. These card networks were allowed to charge their members just enough to cover cost and provide working capital. Other SSO rules are important too.

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Social Impact Investing Will Be the New Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

Interviews conducted in 2000 by the Social Investment Task Force in the United Kingdom , revealed what most nonprofit leaders already know: Almost all social sector organizations are small and perennially underfunded, with barely three months' worth of working capital at their disposal. Compare that to the world of venture capital.