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How Startups Can Accelerate Their Development

The Horizons Tracker

While the speed of the gestation period does not inherently guarantee long-term success, numerous studies suggest that rapid progress enhances the capacity of nascent entrepreneurs to acquire resources, outperform competitors, and establish a foothold in the market.

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Reasons Outsourcing Your Production is a Good Idea

Strategy Driven

Outsourcing is a popular term these days. There are many benefits to outsourcing your presentation, including more time and money! Outsourced manufacturing companies can provide solutions with short-term projects and long-term engagements depending on your business needs. Labor Costs. Project Management.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity. The hard truth is that companies that do not pursue corporate entrepreneurship are doomed.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. On the other hand, a highly differentiated offering is no longer a guarantee of long-term value creation. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO. Sponsored by Cognizant. Leadership is changing — fast.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

China has not been a huge technology innovator, despite being the world’s second-largest investor in R&D , but Chinese businesses have found ways to use innovations in processes, business models, and customer experience to their disruptive advantage.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

Note that whether the technology used is “leading edge” is secondary. They are essentially R&D investments in unproven ways to use digital technologies. They are driven by novel ideas or perhaps a new technology. For example, it might be a new business model shaped by digital.

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The More Things Change, the More They Don't Stay the Same

Harvard Business Review

Thus, as the McKinsey Global Institute team states, and its analysis of 80 years of data shows, "over the long term. Many business people, especially if they have been trained in microeconomics, think in terms of "comparative statics" rather than dynamics. The extra dimension in a dynamic analysis is, of course, time.