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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

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. It will most likely overcome cross-cultural barriers as it expands into new markets.

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Tips for Conducting Business Across Continents

Strategy Driven

If you're looking to conduct cross-continent business, know that you can, but the task is not easy. Managing one location has it's own challenges like keeping up with all of your departments including Human Resources, sales, marketing and the like. Expanding to new markets and managing your global business is in your forte.

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. But by 2013, Linkin Park and Machine Shop had to address the fact that digital music (first downloads and then streaming) had changed the business dramatically. Enter Harvard Business School. and Harajuku Lovers.

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Doing Business in a Post-Fidel Cuba

Harvard Business Review

President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. With many state-run enterprises dependent on public subsidies, Cuba has attempted to shift workers to the much more agile private sector, but progress continues to be slow.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

The only competitive advantage comes though agility, keeping ahead of the competition, moving on to the next technology wave. Managers can no longer take months to develop requirements, then wait for IT, then tell IT that wasn''t what they wanted. Just consume resources that help you drive to the desired business value."

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

It wasn''t profitable, or scalable, but it was a brilliant way to learn what the business would really need. It''s not about price, or code, or agile development. A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. Patient capital.