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How to Drive Strategies By Assessing Your Company Capabilities

N2Growth Blog

Pricing Options: What is the pricing strategy? By market segment? Liquidity: What will be the immediate impact of an unexpected market downturn or product launch failure? Can assets be turned quickly to meet short-term obligations? How does the firm determine what new products and services to develop?

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Using Smart Experiments to Succeed

Skip Prichard

By doing this, we would improve the customer experience dramatically, release products that were more aligned to customer needs, and price services optimally. “Experiments are the only strategy for succeeding over the long term.” That’s why I appreciate Steven K. ” -Steven K.

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Oil’s Fall Is a Challenge for Gulf Economies, but Also an Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

The price of this fast-track, oil-fueled development has been the region’s high dependence on oil export revenues (and in the case of Qatar, also of liquified natural gas, of which it is currently the largest producer in the world). Observers are right to be concerned. in 2015 and 3.2%

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Why Sales and Marketing Don’t Get Along

Harvard Business Review

Some tension between sales and marketing is healthy and productive. Sales-marketing tension can stem from differences in marketers’ and sellers’ perspectives. Marketers think in terms of aggregate customer segments; sellers think in terms of individual customers. Marketing tasks.

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4 Things Your Innovation Efforts Shouldn’t Focus On

Harvard Business Review

“Small ball” can be effective in the short term. Firms are discovering that customers don’t always want to shop on price — exploiting an emotional relationship can help escape the race to the bottom. The campaign allowed Natura to compete with Johnson & Johnson on something other than price.

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Why Mexico’s Economy Doesn’t Depend on the Next U.S. President

Harvard Business Review

To be sure, these roadblocks to further trade and investment will damage Mexico’s economy in the short and medium terms. However, I fear that Mexico continuing its existing trade-based economic strategy will not necessarily produce different results in the long term — as it wouldn’t for any other developing country.

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It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

The problem, in short, is that although we often think of entrepreneurship as an individual, heroic endeavor, it takes a village to raise an entrepreneur. In terms of funding, most capital is still looking to optimize either social value or financial returns, not both. The situation is particularly dire at the very early stages.