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Reasons Outsourcing Your Production is a Good Idea

Strategy Driven

In addition, by paying someone else to handle this aspect of your business, you can focus on other vital areas, such as marketing and sales. It is essential to find a company that can provide quality products at a competitive price. Outsourcing your production can lead to decreased lead times for your products.

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IT on Steroids: The Benefits (and Risks) of Accelerating Technology

Harvard Business Review

Disruptive innovations begin at the low-margin, high commodity end of the stack and move upward over time, and IT is most likely not going to be an exception. Most CIOs will benefit from this trend through increased competition, better prices, and quicker provisioning. IT management Information & technology Technology'

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices. The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is. They have been displacers, not disrupters.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. Tech IPO prices and subsequent trading prices were disconnected from revenue and profits. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. And it may work.

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others. It has several key benefits: Speeds time-to-market.

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The CEO's Frugal Innovation Agenda

Harvard Business Review

Based on our research, we suggest that CEOs eager to do more with less drive systemic changes across their entire organization — focusing their change management efforts on three functions: R&D, marketing, and sales. Doing so will reduce the problems of brand dilution while ensuring greater market coverage.

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