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When best to scale up
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- 01 Oct 2023
- Hamdi Ulukaya
- Harvard Business Review
A new study sheds light on the debate into how fast a high-growth company should scale up. From examining job postings from 38,000 start-ups, the researchers found those start-ups that had scaled up in the first year were 20-40% more likely than others to have failed. They also found that using A/B testing software significantly raised a start-up's odds of success.
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Scale up smarter
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- 01 Jan 2023
- Dave Harutian
- Strategic Finance
A company's execution strategy should adapt to the circumstances. Here's how to grow your business today with an eye toward tomorrow.
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The key to a successful business scale-up
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- 01 Jan 2023
- Martin Kupp, Jeffrey F.Rayport, Davide Sola
- Harvard Business Review
How to master the “extrapolation” stage, when business start-ups begin to focus on profitability, not just growth. The authors share their advice, based on their experience teaching business school courses on scaling up enterprises and their analysis of dozens of rapidly growing start-ups.
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Show us the money: A guide to raising capital
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- 01 Feb 2022
- Glenn Baker
- NZ Business and Management
Securing investor funding is the key to accelerating business growth, particularly for fledging ventures. NZ Business magazine shares advice from three of New Zealand's leading funding platforms, including tips on preparing for an equity crowdfunding campaign. As well as venture capital, an emerging alternative is 'venture-debt'.
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Rethinking how to grow a small business
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- 01 Jan 2022
- Christopher Johnson
- Strategic Finance
The right finance strategies will help your business be more resilient in the face of challenging market conditions. Christopher Johnson notes some possible adjustments, including rethinking your working capital, protecting cash flow, diversifying your sources of lending, asking your lender the right questions and considering equipment financing.
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Four basic blunders every new business must avoid
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- 06 Sep 2021
- Stephen Gerard
- Enterprise Salt Lake City
Launching a business requires deliberate actions and full accountability, versus hope or luck.
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Reinvention as a small business
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- 01 Aug 2021
- Heather Bain, Marcine Johnson, Manny Sicre
- Strategic Finance
Small businesses have an opportunity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by reinventing themselves as more efficient, responsive entities.
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Three keys to building a more skilled postpandemic workforce.
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- 09 Jul 2021
- Jutta Bodem-Schrotgens, Angelika Reich, Bill Schaninger, Kartik Sharma
- McKinsey Quarterly
Article discusses the need for new workplace skills in the wake of the pandemic and the move to hybrid working . Employees are energized by it being made clear that reskilling was an investment in talent and directly supported growth plans.
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Identifying embryonic trends that matter
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- 01 Jul 2021
- Bob Goodson, Martin Reeves, Kevin Whitaker
- Harvard Business Review
To achieve strategic advantage, scan the market for surprises. To take advantage of emerging trends, companies must identify them when they are embryonic - identifying and interpreting anomalies to get ahead of their competition.
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Unilever makes sustainability its business
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- 01 Jul 2021
- Mike Troy
An interview with Jostein Solheim, EVP of foods and refreshment for North America at Unilever. He spoke with Progressive Grocer magazine about how innovative products, processes and changed conversations with retailers are helping Unilever advance its sustainability-driven growth strategy.
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How colocation fits with a cloud-native roadmap
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- 23 Feb 2021
- Cliff Saran
- Computer Weekly
The article discusses how colocation datacentres fits with cloud-native architecture to effectively support business organizations in exploiting growth opportunities and rebounding from their loss during the coronavirus crisis.
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Adapt to the new normal
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- 01 Sep 2020
- Michael G.Jacobides, Martin Reeves
- Harvard Business Review
Even in severe economic downturns and recessions, some companies are able to gain advantage. The authors discuss how companies can reassess their growth opportunities, reconfigure their business models and reallocate their capital more effectively during times of crisis.
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Between a cloud and a hard place
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- 18 Aug 2020
- Marc Ambasna-Jones
- Computer Weekly
The article discusses how the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic accelerated the cloud computing technology migration of business applications.
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Barriers to social enterprise growth
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- 01 Oct 2019
- Liudmila Chambers, Iain Andrew Davies, Helen Haugh
The authors investigate barriers to social enterprise growth and suggest three strategic responses to overcome these barriers.
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Release the bots
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- 01 Jun 2019
- David McCann
- CFO
An interview with Marie Myers, chief financial officer (CFO) at robotic automation software company, UiPath. She discusses dealing with hyper-growth, UpPath's strategies, emerging trends in the robotic process automation (RPA) sector, and her views on the robotics software market.
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Why digital strategies fail
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- 01 Jan 2018
- Jacques Bughin |Tanguy Catlin |Martin Hirt | Paul Willmott
- McKinsey Quarterly
The article discusses the reasons why digital transformation strategies do not reflect how digital is changing economic fundamentals, industry dynamics, or what it means to compete. Topics mentioned include the estimated number of digital devices that are expected to be connected by 2025, the concept of economic rent in microeconomics, and the negative effects of digital competition on a company's growth in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.
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How risk management can enable growth
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- 01 Nov 2017
- Matt Shinkman
- Risk Management
The article presents a study on the importance of risk management to promote sustainable long-term corporate growth. It cites the factors that drive efficient growth, including capital allocation, research & development portfolios, and mergers and acquisitions deals. It explores the benefits of using the enterprise risk management (ERM) program to combat risk aversion.
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Unsightly growth
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- 01 Jan 2017
- Marshall Fisher, Vishal Gaur, Herb Kleinberger
- Harvard Business Review
This article lays out a framework for determining when to switch to a low-growth strategy and how to put it into practice.
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The challenge of scaling up
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- 01 Feb 2016
- Director
Too many start-ups fail within their first two years of operating. Nine SME leaders discuss the difficulties of growing businesses and how to support companies in this key stage.
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How franchises grow fast
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- 01 Feb 2016
- Jason Daley
- Entrepreneur
Quick overexpansion is easy. Preparing franchise brands for strong, lasting growth is harder.
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Growth: How unicorns do it
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- 01 Jan 2016
- Harvard Business Review
"Unicorns" - private, venture-backed start-ups valued at a billion dollars or more - seem to be growing faster than ever. But that's no guarantee of success, new research by the consultancy firm Play Bigger suggests.
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Inspired collaboration
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- 01 Oct 2015
- Glenn Baker
- NZ Business and Management
The founders of New Zealand sports clothing brand Ilabb discuss how they're going about growing the company into a leading global 'action sports' brand.
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Virtual board: Carrie Bate
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- 01 Jul 2015
- Christian Koch
- Director
An expert panel gives Carrie Bate advice on how she can take her £2m-turnover company, Little Coffee Bag Co., mainstream whilst retaining its luxury allure.
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Power in numbers
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- 01 Jun 2015
- Jason Daley
- Entrepreneur
Restaurants wanting to grow in a competitive market can benefit from selling to multi-unit franchisees - experienced franchisees who can buy the territory for multiple units and develop them fast.
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Motivating salespeople to sell more
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- 01 Apr 2015
- Mark Roberge
- Harvard Business Review
Mark Roberge, Chief revenue officer at U.S. marketing firm HubSpot, explains the right way to use compensation to build an effective team. Pay your sales team using an appropriate system for the stage your business is in.
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Talent: How companies can profit from a 'growth mindset'.
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- 01 Nov 2014
- Carol Dweck
- Harvard Business Review
Discusses the idea of a 'growth mindset' and how it can be applied to both individuals and organisations.
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9 ways to grow and improve cashflow
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- 01 May 2014
- Sue Hirst
- NZ Business
Sue Hirst shares her tips for ensuring sustainable business growth without cashflow headaches.
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The owner of Chobani yogurt
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- 01 Oct 2013
- Hamdi Ulukaya
- Harvard Business Review
Hamdi Ulukaya reveals how he steered Chobani yogurt to become the top-selling U.S. Greek yogurt within three years of launching, without taking finance from private equity investors.
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How to grow a business when banks won't lend
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- 01 Jun 2013
- Gemma Varriale
- International Financial Law Review
Despite the retreat of traditional sources of credit, financing is available to those that are willing to innovate.
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Defining strategy for growth
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- 01 Mar 2013
- Damon Bonser, Jonathan Sands, Brandon Stephens
- Director
Director magazine reports on a roundtable meeting of 12 business leaders discussing business innovation and growth.
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