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How Startups Can Accelerate Their Development

The Horizons Tracker

Much like the process of human development, a business venture requires a significant amount of time to progress from its conceptual stage to official incorporation. Spending time on rearranging previously developed plans to adapt to unexpected events. Waiting for specific events to occur, such as investor commitments.

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Big Data In Your Shampoo?

Mills Scofield

This guest post by Amir Golan , VP of Business Development at Signals , shows how important it is to look for the small signals and patterns in big data that are easily lost. after years of being the market leader in a specific product category, they quickly begin to lose market share, they wanted to introduce their product into a new market.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business Review

About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. Develop personal, habitual agility. Develop team agility. We don’t have time to learn new approaches.

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

Harvard Business Review

Top startups already have market leading solutions. Based on this insight, Gimmy proposed a radical rethinking and new corporate venturing tool to boost corporate innovation: the “venture client” model. Private VCs and other professional investors can provide the first two. But only large corporates can offer the last one.

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Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products

Harvard Business Review

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. But what is lost?

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Conversely, why market cigarettes? He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Social media spending?

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