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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Conduct a Cost/Benefit Analysis : Do the potential benefits derived from the decision justify the expected costs? What if the costs exceed projections, and the benefits fall short of projections? What would your family think of your decision? Great post and very insightful blog!

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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business Review

Conducting an accurate cost-benefit analysis requires a holistic approach, one that incorporates costs and job placement and also accounts for how participants are doing after they leave the program. We need to adopt something similar to a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) analysis.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Disruptive innovation is rarely raw genius that bubbles-up, but rather the culmination of several things: a sound idea, vetted through great process, refined by innovative application and brought to market by outstanding leadership. Thanks David.

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How Freelancers Can Make Sure They Get Paid on Time

Harvard Business Review

“When you’re on your own freelancing for a big company, there is a fundamental power imbalance,” says Caitlin Pearce, director of advocacy and member engagement there. So if your paycheck doesn’t arrive on time, “You think, what did I do wrong? This requires due diligence, says Younger.

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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets. Another indication of the speed and extent of dominance is market cap.

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One Year After India Killed Off Cash, Here’s What Other Countries Should Learn from It

Harvard Business Review

trillion in purchasing power parity , it was the third-largest (in PPP terms) and the fastest-growing large economy in the world. The Indian experience holds powerful lessons for policy makers planning economic interventions around the world. A fact-based cost-benefit analysis is essential.