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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. By Vera Sharova & Teodora Cosic.

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Best Buy Can't Match Amazon's Prices, and Shouldn't Try

Harvard Business Review

Key to our advice is the implicit acknowledgement that all disruptive businesses find their strength in some technological or business model innovation that is fundamentally better positioned than their upmarket competitors in serving some segment of the population. It should be competing differently.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

And we see many executives trying to take this advice to heart. But starting in the early 2000s, the advantages of scale were mostly eliminated, in large part because of globalization, deregulation, and the rise of digital technology. As business strategists, we see endless amounts of writing about how to achieve differentiation.

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Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition

Harvard Business Review

With most high-potential ventures, however, founders must mobilize more resources than they control personally: the venture eventually will require production facilities, distribution channels, working capital, and so forth. Demand risk relates to prospective customers' willingness to adopt the solution envisioned by the entrepreneur.