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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Value-driven organizations thrive in this new economy because they promote trust, open communication, diversity and inclusion, thus making fertile ground for innovation. We can see many of these examples on the market; some even developed with Chief Innovation, Chief Impact, and Chief Sustainability Officer roles on their executive boards.

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PRIMO-F Model for Business Development

Rapid BI

The post PRIMO-F Model for Business Development appeared first on RapidBI. While theSWOT is a wonderfully flexible tool, it is too easy to miss out key elements. We tend to use a SWOT based on our experiences, rather than the actual situational needs. As […].

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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

As a 2017 World Bank report noted: “the WMS initiated by Bloom and Van Reenen … has permitted a quantum leap in the comparative quantitative analysis of management practices and their implications for productivity and innovation.” Ill-equipped Research from Gallup highlights the importance of good management.

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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? What about competing to maintain key business relationships with vendors, suppliers, partners and the like? Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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Capital vs. Influence

N2Growth Blog

The bottom line is this; I view one of the primary obligations of venture capital and private equity firms to be to drive collaboration and innovation across their portfolio companies. The moral of this story is don’t get so hung-up on valuation that you fail to get the in the trenches expertise your company will need in future.

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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. In the case of the former, they typically would want to know why and how could they innovate their current product to regain their position as number one.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Sure, it’s your business, your idea, your net worth at risk and certainly nobody else will work as hard as you will, but is this really the right way to evaluate who should be the chief executive? In most cases the answer is no it’s not…however this is often times exactly how the decision is made. That’s about it.