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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology. From experience keeping an eye on a candidate’s knowledge of how a specific business model works are essential and non-negotiable. If the position is operational, hire an operations manager and a finance head. .

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Scaling Growth Disruption and Capacity

Mike Cardus

Quality: The required business model for quality is observation. Service: The required business model for service is interpretations. Positioning: The required business model for positioning is integration. Differentiation: The required business model for differentiation is conceptualization.

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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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Are Career Interruptions As Harmful For Senior Employees As For Junior Ones?

The Horizons Tracker

. “Most of the evidence on career disruptions covers menial labor and relatively unskilled, low-wage workers, but are there analogous effects for high-skill, white-collar workers with fewer liquidity constraints?” ” White-collar resilience. They then observed the employement status of those people again in January 2019.

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HR Innovation is Best Achieved Internally

LDRLB

After that, constraints tend to fade away in the vigor of the innovation. The business model was highly dependent on word of mouth referrals and did not allow for a carte blanche increase of 10% to all nurses, since the viability of the business depended on the number of cases that occurred in reality.

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Virtual and Augmented Reality Will Reshape Retail

Harvard Business Review

This probably won’t be an issue in the long run, but today the two environments have different constraints. Look for those who have the most to lose without it, as well as for pain points such as budget or time constraints. Finally, connect it to the business model. Evaluate these at regular intervals.

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

A wave of public and private investment worldwide is going into making cities smarter — but that doesn’t change the fact that most municipal governments are working with serious spending constraints. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing.