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Winning Now, Winning Later: Playing the Infinite Game

Leading Blog

Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. By taking the right actions to improve operations now, we could position ourselves to improve performance later, while the reverse would also hold true: short-term results would validate that we were on the right long-term path.

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How Do I Start A Small Business?

Strategy Driven

You can consider opening a franchise for any established company where you will only require to find a proper location and arrange funds for your operations. An effective plan is chalking down the purpose and goals of your business. Fixed Costs / (Average Price – Variable Costs) = Break-Even Point –. Conclusion.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

However, despite these massive resources and C-level attention, all this corporate venturing seems to be failing to accomplish strategic innovation goals. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

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Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

These spending choices require tradeoffs, so entrepreneurs must first develop a strategy for allocating limited resources across a wide range of available options. So not only were the current fees too weak to support his fixed costs, but future clients were turned off by his apparently excessive tastes.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

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