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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

The fast-paced expansion of FinTech companies into long-distance geographies has increased the Penrose effect , thus escalating the managerial constraints affecting organizational growth and development. The FinTech industry is not an exception and is yet to strike the right balance between timing and scope.

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Leadership & Perfectionism | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I would suggest that rather than seeking what cannot in most cases ever be achieved, that it makes more sense to seek the highest standard of quality that can be delivered in the shortest period of time, and that is economically balanced relative to the constraints of an ever shifting marketplace.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

Financial capital was recognized as the scarce resource and its shortage a significant constraint on growth. Nearly 40 percent of the 312 CFOs and other executives participating in Deloitte’s 2013 Global Finance Talent Survey said they are either “barely able” or “unable” to meet the demand for the talent required to run their organizations.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

.” The history of the founders and entrepreneurs behind unicorns is therefore rich in failures; this allows them to instill in their companies a culture that emphasises the importance of anticipating the constraints behind an innovative idea as fast as possible by testing its viability. Financed by VC firms.

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Each of these units acquires its own resources within constraints authorized by its departmental budget. Instead, the finance office can allow the department to keep some of the savings it created, in excess of the original acquisition cost, in future year budgets.

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The CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us

Harvard Business Review

As real space and cyberspace merge, do financial practices like budgeting provide value over their costs of time, money, effort, agility? Historically, people got to the C-suite by progressing up the career ladder in one discipline, moving among multiple companies until they made it to an executive role in finance, sales, etc.

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