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Accelerating Profitable Organic Growth |
Understanding how value is created across a business system can
yield breakthrough ideas and improved performance. 2006 |
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Achieving Breakthrough Groth: From Idea to Execution |
A manager may have a great idea but the only thing that will really
matter is great execution. Here’s sound advice for making the
execution as brilliant as the idea. |
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Achieving value growth in asset-intensive industries |
The anemic performance of asset-intensive industries results from
inward-looking strategies focused on incremental operational
improvements and cost reductions. A handful of companies that have
reinvented their businesses based on a customer-centered perspective
offer lessons for managers seeking sustained growth in profits and
shareholder value. |
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Balancing the Future Against Today's Needs |
It's hard to dream five years out when your organization is doing
all it can to take care of the here and now. This article from
Harvard Management Update offers a new lens for positioning growth
efforts within your company while staying focused on your core
strengths today. August 2005 |
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Cash for growth - How to unleash hidden potential in your company |
Growth means additional value creation - but it also requires
investment. External funding is harder to come by these days: "Basel
II" has further tightened capital adequacy rules, and capital
injections from the financial markets and IPOs are constrained by a
nervous stock exchange. So the question on everyone's mind is how to
finance the next wave of growth. A recent Roland Berger study gives
a clear answer: Unlock hidden cash reserves in your balance sheet –
now! 2004 |
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Closing the delivery gap: How to achieve true customer-led growth |
Most companies assume they're giving customers what they want.
Usually, they're kidding themselves. 2006 |
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Envisioning Growth |
Research shows that the once-airy concept of "corporate vision" has
a profound impact on growth and productivity. May 2003 |
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Financing Growth |
Financing growth is no good unless a company also manages that
growth. Although there is no secret formula for effective growth
management, the success of most growth efforts hinges on finance’s
ability to structure a long-term plan, track key measures and
provide advice to other managers. |
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Growing to New Heights |
Superior growth is within reach for all companies, in all
industries, in all phases of the economic cycle. 2003 |
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Growth Company Guide 2000 |
Investors, Deal Structures and Legal Strategies , originally
published as The Venture Magazine Complete Guide to Venture Capital,
Updated, revised and expanded in 2000 |
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Growth Scenarios: Tools to Resolve Leaders' Denial and Paralysis |
Businesses increasingly realize that significant growth
opportunities are unlikely to come from incremental change. |
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Growth Secrets From A Renegade Strategy Guru |
For more than 25 years, Michael Treacy has constructed and defined
business strategies for transformation and growth. |
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How
do new and alternative forms of organizations maintain critical
characteristics during growth? |
People, Not Roles: a case study of how a growing organization
maintains certain characteristics. |
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How
Small Firms Plan to Grow |
One-third of firms in survey plan to expand globally. Plans and
problems |
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Making Growth Happen - How to Manage Growth Initiatives Effectively |
This study shows the importance of context in managing strategic
initiatives and provides practical guidance on how to make growth
happen. 2008 |
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Managing Explosive Growth |
Managing explosive growth requires information to make fast,
accurate decisions. It means business owners and executives must
understand and implement a whole new set of cures for their
businesses. |
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McKinsey Growth Pyramid |
The McKinsey model argues that businesses should develop their
growth strategies based on: Operational skills, Privileged assets,
Growth skills, Special relationships |
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Meeting Your Growth Goals In Challenging Times |
When growth options are limited, how can businesses respond? 2005 |
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Pitfalls |
Common Pitfalls on the Road to Growth. An Excerpt from Leading at
the Speed of Growth |
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Pursuing Profitable Growth |
Pursuing profitable top-line growth requires an integrated
strategy. |
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Resources for Growth |
Growth no longer requires optimally managing a firm's resources—it
requires having access to competitive resources, internal or
external, exclusive or shared. |
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Sowing Growth in Your Own Backyard |
Sometimes the best way to grow is by reexamining your core markets. |
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Staying on the Path to Growth |
There's no place like home...and no growth like home-grown growth.
You already have a suitable business system, so the incremental
costs of growing your volume may be modest. You have better odds of
extending your brand. And if you get there first, you may preempt
your competitors' ability to attract your existing customers. 514
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Strategic Management of High Growth Ventures - a Venture-to-Capital
Framework for Professional Entrepreneurship |
What causes a company to become a great company or what is the
language to build up the “DNA” of an enterprise from the very
beginning? 2005 |
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Stretch! How Great Companies Grow in Good Times and in Bad |
Tentatively, perhaps, companies are again starting to grow. But
whether it’s by acquisition or organic, this author has
best-practice advice CEOs will do well to follow. 2004 |
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Systems for Growth |
One of the biggest challenges that companies face as they become
successful is putting appropriate processes and systems into place.
So what happens when the initial growth party is over? |
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The
Company Director’s Role In Company Growth |
The attention of boards of directors is swinging away from oversight
back to where it should be—focusing on company growth. |
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The
Growth Imperative |
Noel Tichy discusses the leadership-side of growth. |
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The
Inside Story on Organic Growth |
While many companies look to external factors to sustain growth, the
leaders know that internal actions are the most effective.
2007 |
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The
Wal-Mart Empire: A Simple Formula and Unstoppable Growth |
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To
Grow, Make Someone Accountable for Growth |
Organic growth is critical, but it does not come easy – even in
companies with powerful brands like Coke. 2005 |
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Transform Or Die |
As a CEO, you're in business to grow your business -- but growth
without real change can kill you. |
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Want to Accelerate Organic Growth? Retool Your Marketing Factory! |
This article points out that organic growth in core markets is
harder than ever. But by integrating strategy and execution,
breaking down marketing ‘silos,’ recalibrating segmentation schemes
into highly focused and actionable growth opportunities, and
investing disproportionately against these opportunities, it can be
achieved. |
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Why
Is Growth So Hard? |
Cutting expenses is painful, but straightforward; finding a strategy
to grow your business is much more difficult. May 2003 |
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