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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Diversification is not a trend; it is essential for companies to become and remain competitive. Although digitization has a significant catalytic effect on these processes, a successful diversification strategy would still need a solid basis and a set of scalable growth patterns that could apply to target markets.

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

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business Review

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, current trends are moving away from broad offerings in many industries. The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. There it had become the market leader for e-commerce payment processing, but by 2015 it had some formidable rivals.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. Due to huge capital requirements, these investments could exert considerable pressure on the working capital of the carrier company. Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity.