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Get Your Budget Ready for the Upturn

Harvard Business Review

Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. This is the time to revisit the market spaces you occupy and position yourself to ride the uptick. Rethink outsourcing. Here are some steps you should take to build for 2014-2015: 1.

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M&A Without Buying the Company

N2Growth Blog

There is also a great opportunity for adding talent leverage via outsourcing, crowdsourcing, and other contract opportunities that provide cost savings and scale. or informal efforts produced via someone else’s R&D or innovation efforts, companies often start projects that they don’t finish.