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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. EBRD has always been one of the leading innovators in the space of sustainable investing and also FinTech.

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The Ten Commandments of Business Success

Women on Business

Innovate –Think Outside the Box –Do not be a boring cookie cutter. For Harper, it was deciding to franchise her business as a practical way to expand, when she could not get working capital, plus be assured of an ownership base that would strictly follow her dictates.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. When Procter & Gamble purchased it in 1999 for $2.3

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What Netflix and Starbucks Know About Cash Flow

Harvard Business Review

I trusted the brand. The consumer must also have sufficient trust in the brand’s willingness and ability to understand, predict, and invest in meeting that demand. It can also improve working capital. I was in the minority when I wrote that the price increase was a good thing. And it did. Business models Internet'

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. Even when companies do want to expand their product offerings, internal preparation and sequencing can matter more than the innovation itself.

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Creating Michelin-star Quality for the Masses

Harvard Business Review

Capital investment and operating expenses are high because cooking equipment and raw materials must be the best: wines devour working capital, the kitchen and serving staff must be paid handsomely, and crystal glasses and crockery will break. Operating such restaurants is expensive. Why can't more companies do the same?

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

You buy a company, invest in a brand, do R&D to meet that unmet need, expand into a new geography. This, in turn, increases the company’s leverage with suppliers and allows it to be extraordinarily efficient in moving inventory and managing working capital. And, invariably, you invest in assets.