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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Alex Lhéritier , Global Head of Working Capital Solutions at Kyriba , says: “Ensuring a two-way transparency and trust can prove essential to a leader in a constantly changing environment. Shared values between colleagues, clients, or customers create long-lasting professional relationships based on trust and integrity.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

Sam Walsh: Upon retiring, I took the advice from a former CEO of Rio, Leigh Clifford, and indicated to all and sundry that I was “holding my dance card empty for a while”. billion), development and sustaining capital expenditure (reduced by a two-thirds), and divested a significant number of non-core businesses (4.7

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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. It became easier and easier for small enterprises to gain customer reach and awareness (along with working capital). A company that can show it is different from other companies, in a way that is relevant to customers, gains a major competitive advantage.

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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.

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Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit. It had 90 days working capital on hand when he took over — in other words, Apple was only three months away from bankruptcy. There were thousands of layoffs.

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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. You need to be inventive, creative, opportunistic, and persuasive, because you rarely have enough resources.

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What You Don’t Know About Sales Can Hurt Your Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Call the investment bankers for advice, since they’ve shown how smart they are in managing their risks and leverage.) Financing needs are in large part driven by the cash on hand and the working capital required to conduct and grow the business. Isn’t that a function of risk parameters and the debt-to-equity ratio?