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Company Rigor: The Discipline Of Growth

Chief Executive

Most founders did not grow up thinking about company operations, nor do they have the skills or the interest in becoming an effective operator. While effective in early-stage growth, initial underinvestment in other parts of the company pose risks as the company scales. If not you, who? They just need to make sure it happens.

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We Have Ignition: Fusion Breakthrough ‘Exciting’ but Viability a ‘Long Way Away’

UVA Darden

Operations & Technology. We’re still a long way away from this becoming commercially viable and producing electricity at scale,” Lenox said. While nuclear power plants have been in operation since the 1950s, they are powered by nuclear fission , in which the nucleus of an atom is split into multiple nuclei. 17 December 2022.

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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Michael McKinney

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 In 2013, Nokia’s mobile phone business was sold to Microsoft. These transformations typically involve a profound change in how a business operates, encompassing people, process, and technology.

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How to estimate the complexity of organizational change and the effort required to implement it. (METHODS + EXAMPLES)

Wendy Hirsch

The interplay between two factors provides insight into change complexity — Change Impact (Scale, Scope, Pace) and Readiness (Willingness and Capability). Change impact relates to the scale, scope and pace of change. Methods for Assessing Change Impact Scale of Impact – How many people, across how many locations or functions?

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Reshoring Of Electronics Manufacturing Buoys Contract Player

Chief Executive

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

Growth Institute

The pay-in-advance model is one of the five customer-funded models successful companies commonly use to scale up without needing to rely on investors. In fact, in most years the membership fees Costco collects cover about two-thirds of their operating profit. Fast-forward to 2013, and Threadless was serving 2.5 The result?

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Shared Services Get Strategic

Chief Executive

This is the work that Barani did back at Salesforce in 2013. His remit at the time was to deliver operational excellence to the company’s diverse functions, at scale. We’re exploring adding other functions to the GBS that also can be run at scale, such as customer service, sales, marketing and technical services,” he said.