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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

Design and re-engineering of products-services. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Business development.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. This is also true of executives.

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Better Risk Communication

Harvard Business Review

Vague risk communication happens when a product is not thoroughly tested or when the constructs of the risk model is not sufficiently broad. It eliminates the worst case scenarios and relies largely on favorable risk scenarios. When risk communication fails, people become vulnerable.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

Ageas contributes its expertise in insurance product design, marketing, finance, and risk management, while the partner, often a well-embedded local financial institution, contributes its customer portfolio, distribution channel, brand, and relationships. They also took an equity stake in ASML of 15%, 5%, and 3%, respectively.

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There Is No Invisible Hand

Harvard Business Review

Finally, in 1954, Kenneth Arrow, at Stanford, and Gerard Debreu, at the Cowles Commission at Yale, developed the canonical "general-equilibrium" model , for which they later won the Nobel Prize. An engineering analogy may help. Supposedly practical economists develop models that aggregate — homogenize.

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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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