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Seven Accelerants of Growth To Help You Succeed

QAspire

Personally, I have seen friends in industries like travel and hospitality whose businesses and hence careers were suddenly disrupted with no where else to go. The seven accelerants are (quoting from the newsletter): Take the right risks. With competitive risk, there is an opportunity, but there is also competition. Smart Growth.

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Seven Accelerants of Growth To Help You Succeed

QAspire

Personally, I have seen friends in industries like travel and hospitality whose businesses and hence careers were suddenly disrupted with no where else to go. The seven accelerants are (quoting from the newsletter): Take the right risks. With competitive risk, there is an opportunity, but there is also competition.

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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. While it can offer valuable lessons for other industries and other problems, the model is not universally applicable. This is a dangerous mindset.

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Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

One study , of an industrial conglomerate, found that estimates of cost-saving initiatives, line extensions, and new products had average accuracy of of 1.1, respectively, suggesting that market risk is the major driver of our inability to predict. Look at the variance of your new-market products.

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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

The motivation behind it, as with many, many articles published over HBR's nearly 90-year history, was to take an effective practice developed in one corner of industry and spread it to managers everywhere. He went on to explain: "One practitioner might use the 1-year Treasury as their risk-free rate, while others may use the 10 or 30-year.

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