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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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How can I start my own business?

Strategy Driven

The businesses that succeed today are all meeting the needs of the customers in the market. It is great if you know what makes you work on your idea. If your why is focused on a need in the market Z, your business will be larger than the business that is designed to meet a personal need. Is it worth it? About the Author.

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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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Are You Growing Too Fast?

Harvard Business Review

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.

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

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Congestion Crisis?

Harvard Business Review

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. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate. Highways can’t keep up with demand.