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Recommended Resource – Built to Sell

Strategy Driven

Built to Sell by John Warrillow highlights the many factors preventing business owners from successfully transitioning away from their companies and how to resolve this situation. All too often, business founders embed themselves within the operational fabric of the company they create; setting it up for failure upon they departure.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

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The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success

Strategy Driven

Those of us who grew up working on typewriters know how to master the medium. I took that typewriter mentality with me when I had to compose a brochure and do the desktop publishing graphics in the same two-hour window where I was learning how to work on a computer. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95

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A Budget Does Not A Strategy Make!

Strategy Driven

It is used to identify, document and oversee all of the strategic, tactical and operational-related initiatives underway (and intended to be done) within an enterprise in order to achieve its vision. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. It is not budgeting.

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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?, part 2 of 6

Strategy Driven

Thus, two leaders operating with different sets of distinctions may come to widely varying interpretations of the future based on the same factual evidence. Taking the same set of facts available to IBM, he constructed a vastly different narrative anticipating that technological advances would continuously drive down the cost of hardware.

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A Refresher on Return on Assets and Return on Equity

Harvard Business Review

Technology companies have very few assets so they’ll often have high ROAs. You’ll want to compare this percentage against others in the same field to understand where you stand — and how you might be able to make better use of your assets. How do we have fewer assets so that we can raise our ROA?

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The Big Picture of Business- Professional Education Necessary for Company Success

Strategy Driven

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Further, what we do with lessons, how facts are interpreted, how we approach problems and the faculties of common sense are vital to economic, social and self-betterment success. Book value is not guaranteed.