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How Startups Can Accelerate Their Development

The Horizons Tracker

While the speed of the gestation period does not inherently guarantee long-term success, numerous studies suggest that rapid progress enhances the capacity of nascent entrepreneurs to acquire resources, outperform competitors, and establish a foothold in the market. Adapting products to existing demand instead of seeking specific customers.

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The More Things Change, the More They Don't Stay the Same

Harvard Business Review

Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. A static analysis would end there, rather than asking: and then what? It takes a dynamic analysis to anticipate the kind of effects captured by McKinsey's results. Add a steam drill, and you can fire John Henry.

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Five Coaching Tips to Help Business Process Management Leaders Succeed

Strategy Driven

Reduce time to market for this product). Besides comments from the customer and highlights on the visual analysis map, another good sound bite is about quantitative data. I have two that always work: (1) the voice of the customer and (2) visual analysis. Visual analysis is another method.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For each investment category, the generic critical success factors of time , cost , and quality will be different, requiring trade-offs to be made.

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The Biggest Challenges of Data-Driven Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

While the implementation has to be evolutionary and take into account existing installations and relationships in the value chain, the results promise to be revolutionary, with as much as 50%+ reductions in time to market and big jumps in productivity. A Unified Data Model: Data Sharing, Not Just Data Exchange.

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It’s Time for Episode-Based Health Care Spending

Harvard Business Review

REBP identifies which provider is in the best position to affect the clinical outcomes and total costs associated with an episode of care; it then assesses (through retrospective analysis of claims data) the outcomes achieved and costs incurred during each episode over a specific period of time (e.g., quarterly). health system.