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How To Reduce Business Expenses

HR Digest

Use current business technologies. With the introduction of technologies in business administration, there is a great advantage to leverage on. The use of cloud computing can help to save hardware and operational cost. Not just about the cost reduction, it also gives the business a wider range of profit-making opportunity.

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Business Model Generation : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

It is useful to to distinguish between two broad classes of business models Cost Structures: cost cost-driven and value-driven from the following categories Cost-driven, Value-driven. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” I assumed you had some further cost reduction up your sleeve.” What he heard was uncomfortable.

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

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