Long-term, Market Segmentation and Short-term

How to Drive Strategies By Assessing Your Company Capabilities

N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2017

By market segment? Liquidity: What will be the immediate impact of an unexpected market downturn or product launch failure? Can assets be turned quickly to meet short-term obligations? How long does a typical system move from conception to production? Profitability: How profitable is the business?

Strategy

Strategy Company Strategic Planning Market Segmentation

Using Smart Experiments to Succeed

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

“Experiments are the only strategy for succeeding over the long term.” Given a long list of possible experiments, you want to categorize them. Given that this isn’t the case – and the best leaders have always known this – experiments are the only strategy for succeeding over the long term, sustainably.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Open-book Resources

4 Things Your Innovation Efforts Shouldn’t Focus On

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

First movers and second movers can be just as successful – as long as companies tailor their innovation strategy to their approach. “Small ball” can be effective in the short term. The less science, the fewer ideas for new businesses. Related Video. Innovation Strategy: Timing and Scope.

Innovation

Innovation Market Segmentation GDP Competitive Advantage

What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

It was the initial encroachment from the low-end of the market that made Netflix disruptive. A focus on a larger market segment initially might have induced a fighting response by Blockbuster. Our text analysis confirms what scholars of innovation have long believed: conflating disruptive and radical innovation is problematic.

Disruptive Innovation

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Business Model Human Capital

Oil’s Fall Is a Challenge for Gulf Economies, but Also an Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Saudi Arabia in particular is not only a major player on oil markets and within OPEC, but also the region’s largest economy that shares its vulnerability to sliding global oil prices with its smaller GCC neighbours. Observers are right to be concerned. Also, after achieving large fiscal surpluses that averaged 12.4%

GDP

GDP Price Market Segmentation Short-term

It Takes a Village to Raise an Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

The most striking pattern we found in the data is the recent growth of "hybrid" organizations that integrate aspects of business to address long-standing social problems. The problem, in short, is that although we often think of entrepreneurship as an individual, heroic endeavor, it takes a village to raise an entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator

Data: One Antidote to Risky Behavior

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Every business day, companies cede hard evidence to the political agendas of a willful manager or department, and these companies span geographies, industries, revenues, and market segments. As people from different departments with different ideas and goals work together, philosophical differences are almost guaranteed.

Merchandising

Merchandising Risk Management Supply Chain Retail

When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Amara’s law teaches us that we tend to overestimate the amount of change in the short term but under-estimate it in the long term. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share.

Disruptive Innovation

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation

How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. As Aristotle emphasized a long time ago, “Excellence is a habit.”

Long-term

Long-term Short-term Team Succession

How a Fast-Growing Startup Built Its Sales Team for Long-Term Success

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. As Aristotle emphasized a long time ago, “Excellence is a habit.”

Long-term

Long-term Short-term Team Succession

Protecting Your Small Business: How to Cover the Basics

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Short-term loans, long-term financing, and project-based advances are some of the financial instruments you can use to keep your business running smoothly while you wait for the big invoices to clear. Adding a product that is aimed at different market segments is a good start.

Insurance

Insurance How To Finance Market Segmentation

Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The broadband market was experiencing a classic “prisoner’s dilemma,” where neither cable nor DSL providers felt a competitive threat from the other requiring substantial new investment, trusting in relative peace within their own market segment. In short, Google wanted partners, not antagonists.

Succession

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term

Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But let’s change what we’re asking: Which has the better potential to scale up and create long term value for customers, owners, investors, and employees? Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more.

Supply Chain

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals

Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Finally, under the harsh conditions of a renewal environment, a firm needs to first conserve and free up resources to ensure its viability and then go on to choose one of the other four approaches to rejuvenate growth and ensure long-term prosperity. • Adaptive: Be fast. • Visionary: Be first. • Renewal: Be viable.

Strategy

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution

Why Mexico’s Economy Doesn’t Depend on the Next U.S. President

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

To be sure, these roadblocks to further trade and investment will damage Mexico’s economy in the short and medium terms. However, I fear that Mexico continuing its existing trade-based economic strategy will not necessarily produce different results in the long term — as it wouldn’t for any other developing country.

Cooper

Cooper Long-term Industry Health Care

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What 40 Years of Research Reveals About the Difference Between Disruptive and Radical Innovation

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