N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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.

Execution 382

Execution Banking Bond Diversity 382

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

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.”

Resources 55

Resources Industry System Strategy 55

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Heffington, working with Steve Curnutte, a restructuring advisor, realized that as new orders poured in, it became difficult to establish the true cost of fulfilling them. And, because credit was readily available to cover the growing need for working capital, it was easy to ignore the sizable number of unprofitable and late paying customers.

Metrics 8

Metrics Working Capital Restructuring Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Disruption is a systemic problem: Clayton Christensen outlined in 1997 why it was so difficult for any individual business to defuse disruptive threats and embrace disruptive trends. Over time, their products and services became better and better, and those innovative entrants moved up market, slowly increasing performance.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. For instance, a 25% reduction in the time needed to deliver a product or service can double the productivity of labor and of working capital. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate. Highways can’t keep up with demand.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

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. Its market cap has steadily grown over the same period and stood at around US$30 billion as of 2010. The trend is spreading.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10