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How to Maximize Your Small Business Success

Strategy Driven

In plenty of scenarios, this means you’re unable to reinvest the money you’ve made through sales of products or services, which means your business plateaus on a certain level of business that prevents its exponential growth. One of the major obstacles to business efficiency is a blockage in your cash flow.

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Who Owns Your Customer Relationships: Your Salespeople or Your Company?

Harvard Business Review

Your R&D group develops a unique new product. Marketing designs the promotional campaign. A sales model that pays salespeople almost entirely on commission and gives them exclusive "ownership" of customers often works for a while for products in unsaturated markets. Manufacturing produces it.

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Which Management Style Will China Adopt?

Harvard Business Review

In Germany, a commitment to product quality and engineering excellence has been key both for multinationals and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It has to develop domestic consumer markets and orient its production towards them. In the case of the U.S., Germany and the U.S. The advantages of the U.S.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

For years Apple’s market penetration hung in the single digits. Fraud prevention can keep platform costs down over the long term but puts friction on user transactions, which dissuades value-creating activity. Sony, Hewlett Packard (HP), and Garmin all made the mistake of emphasizing products over platforms.

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Throw Your Life a Curve

Harvard Business Review

There are time-delayed and time-dependent relationships in which huge effort may yield little in the near-term, or in which high output today may be the result of actions taken a long time ago. Then you enter hypergrowth, which typically happens somewhere between 10-15% of market penetration.