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Reasons Outsourcing Your Production is a Good Idea

Strategy Driven

It is essential to find a company that can provide quality products at a competitive price. Outsourcing your production can lead to decreased lead times for your products. In addition, when you work with a company that specializes in manufacturing and assembly, they will have the latest and greatest technology at their disposal.

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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. Diminishing cycle times, rapidly changing intellectual property and fast R&D allow competition to catch up quickly on any breakthrough, so even the most valuable innovations can see their price premium drop rapidly.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business Review

They’ve simply undercut Western competitors by offering cheaper prices. 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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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

Tech IPO prices and subsequent trading prices were disconnected from revenue and profits. But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, and then a golden age and maturity. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies.

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How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric

Harvard Business Review

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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

Harvard Business Review

The main effect of higher productivity is to make labor more valuable; therefore it stands to reason that employers would — in the classic logic of "if you liked it that price, you'll love it at this one" — snap up more of it. Out of their work came a new business focus on "time to market" and "cycle time."

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Performing market assessments. Pricing and revenue modeling. PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product.