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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. That compares with overall global venture capital investment, which grew by 92 percent.

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The Rise of FinTech in Supply Chains

Harvard Business Review

A new type of services company could transform global supply chains: Financial technology companies that act as intermediaries in facilitating transactions between a company and its suppliers. The supplier gives the buying firm a discount on the invoice amount at the buyer’s lower cost of capital. Insight Center.

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

Strategy Driven

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. Finally, many industries are responding to the pressures of the last few years by differentiating themselves.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the relentless drive to embrace digital technologies has been ongoing for many decades. What also seems to have been forgotten are the lessons from these earlier attempts to leverage IT (remember that IT is a digital technology). The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center.

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

Harvard Business Review

The concept is fairly straightforward: The parties define the result up front, agree on a baseline, work out how confident the organization is in delivering the result, and then specify the expectation and payment in the contract. Consider these examples: Education. Making PbR Work. ” U se of digital technology.

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

Harvard Business Review

These card networks were allowed to charge their members just enough to cover cost and provide working capital. In fact, some not-for-profit multisided platforms — hardly household names — have helped drive the major technological revolutions of the last several decades, including the internet and mobile.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. And prior to the latest economic challenges, its middle class was estimated to account for as much as 60% of the total population.