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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

Those are all prerequisites of successful business growth, especially when dealing with international expansion to distant markets. 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.

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What Netflix and Starbucks Know About Cash Flow

Harvard Business Review

Converting consumer certainty into consumer cash flow is a key part of making money from digital business models, many of which use subscription models. Making Money with Digital Business Models. Improving cash flow is extraordinarily healthy for any business. It can also improve working capital.

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Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition

Harvard Business Review

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. For some, it refers to venture capital-backed startups and their kin; for others, to any small business. For example, a new venture might employ a new business model for an innovative product.

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Creating Michelin-star Quality for the Masses

Harvard Business Review

At least one Italian entrepreneur is showing that it's possible to meet both criteria in an intensely competitive business: Italian food and wine. Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion. Operating such restaurants is expensive.

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Best Buy Can't Match Amazon's Prices, and Shouldn't Try

Harvard Business Review

The article, " Surviving Disruption ," represents our first attempt in two decades to outline the other side of disruption — how to manage legacy businesses. To survive disruption, managers of legacy businesses need to change the game. It should be competing differently.

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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

They lack customer insights that would help tune their business model to attract more customers. Their business plans often betray a misunderstanding of how scale generates financial returns. They need new executive talent, infusions of capital, and systems capable of supporting an expanding organization.

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What to Know Before You Sign a Payment-by-Results Contract

Harvard Business Review

And providers want the flexibility to deliver outcomes in the best, most innovative, and most efficient way possible without being micromanaged by the customer. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too.