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Reshoring Of Electronics Manufacturing Buoys Contract Player

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It operates the largest digital platform for electronics manufacturing, from prototype to high-scale production, with a network of more than 70 factories across North America. Govshteyn previously co-founded and built security-industry startup Alert Logic into a $140-million-plus company before its acquisition in 2013.

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Ask for the Cash: Convince Your Customers to Pay You in Advance

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In fact, in most years the membership fees Costco collects cover about two-thirds of their operating profit. By collecting the funds in advance to cover most of their operating costs, and by turning their inventory faster than they pay their suppliers, Costco can run the business on gross profit margins much lower than its competitors can.

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How ‘Titanium Economy’ Companies Can Continue To Outperform

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About 80% of them are small to mid-cap, with sales ranging from $1 billion to $10 billion, each employing about 2,000 to about 20,000 people. The top 380 private industrial companies among them posted a compound annual revenue growth rate of 4.2% Specifically, the book examines, amplifies and praises about 700 publicly traded U.S.

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What Gets Measured Gets Prioritized—And That May Not Be A Good Thing

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It does not follow, however, that there is wisdom in operating an organization with an overly exaggerated focus on what can be measured. There is a certain pragmatism in gauging an organization’s success by referring to objective indicators. Indeed, such a focus can have dire consequences.

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Shared Services Get Strategic

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A decade ago, Sam Barani was at Salesforce cobbling together the first bricks in what would become a substantial organization-within-an-organization, a centralized provider of data processing and analytical services to multiple functions like finance, sales, HR and IT. This is the work that Barani did back at Salesforce in 2013.

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5 Leadership Styles That Can Derail Companies—And End Careers

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Then they turn to more aggressive schemes, such as reporting future revenue streams in quarterly sales or filling customer warehouses with inventory. He built a global powerhouse during 9 years at the helm, growing McKinsey’s revenue by 280 percent to $3.4 Unfortunately, their actions only make the future worse.