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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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If Data Is Money, Why Don’t Businesses Keep It Secure?

Harvard Business Review

Telecommunications company Telefonica is currently developing a “ Data Locker ” scheme that allows users to see their own data, including the social networks of those they talk to and text with. Understand how regulation alters the data cost-benefit analysis. Data Security & privacy Risk management'