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Seven Accelerants of Growth To Help You Succeed

QAspire

The seven accelerants are (quoting from the newsletter): Take the right risks. There are two types of risk – competitive risk, which involves head-to-head competition, and market risk, which creates a new field of play. With competitive risk, there is an opportunity, but there is also competition.

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Seven Accelerants of Growth To Help You Succeed

QAspire

The seven accelerants are (quoting from the newsletter): Take the right risks. There are two types of risk – competitive risk, which involves head-to-head competition, and market risk, which creates a new field of play. 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

After the initial “quick wins” are wrung from cost-reductions, executives are turning their attention to new ways to innovate using data. In spite of the investment enthusiasm, and ambition to leverage the power of data to transform the enterprise, results vary in terms of success.

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Benefits of Debriefing

Strategy Driven

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. In a complex world where predictability is impossible and innovation and risk are necessary to survive and thrive, mistakes are not only acceptable, but welcome. For an organization as a whole, the analysis of recurring root causes is a powerful tool of continuous improvement.

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

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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When “Scratch Your Own Itch” Is Dangerous Advice for Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

This approach to entrepreneurship increases your market knowledge: as a potential user, you know the problem, how you’re currently trying to solve it, and what dimensions of performance matter. And you can use this knowledge to avoid much of the market risk in building a new product. Disruptive innovation Entrepreneurship'

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Business Can't Solve the World's Problems — But Capitalism Can

Harvard Business Review

By inextricably linking the two, we confine the practice of real, turbo-charged capitalism to business, and we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to innovate, fund, and bring to scale the kind of breakthrough ideas that will begin to solve the huge social problems we face today. This we call prudence.