Posts by Wayne Simmons and Keary Crawford
Do Your Services Bring Enough Value to Your Customers?
With service innovation, companies can move beyond products that can be easily copied, to create multiple new ways to interact, serve and create value in the eyes of customers.
Read MoreGrowthToonâ„¢: Package Data into Information
The ability for companies to share, store, compute and analyze huge amounts of data can transform the way customers live and work. Data, while valuable, is a commodity that can be replicated by competitors relatively easily. As a result, true market success will be determined by the degree to which companies can convert raw data into information and information into services.
Read MoreA Conversation about Growth Strategy – Exclusive Interview with MedImmune
Stephanie Duatschek, vice president of commercial operations, provides the Growth Strategy Company with insights into MedImmune’s rapid growth.
Read MoreGrowthToonâ„¢: Collaborate with supplier/partner networks
While partnering can provide cost reductions, there could be future competitive or quality exposure by outsourcing a capability or element of your value chain. As economies become more global, the ecosystem effect provided by selective and cautious partnerships will become even more important.
Read MoreSoftware Leader SAP on their Changing Growth Strategy
Exclusive interview with SAP on their Growth Strategy – The German business software company, SAP, has experienced exponential growth since five system analysts first established it in 1972. David Payne, Vice President, Technology, discusses SAP’s expansion plans with The Growth Strategy Company. SAP is not only facing the challenge of altering its growth strategy, but also the speed in which this strategy needs to be put into effect.
Read MoreGrowth is Human
Can business growth and renewal be more inevitable than decline and failure? The short 15 min film “Growth is Human” takes into an all too familiar story about what happens when companies fail to grow. Whether in Silicon Valley, Dubai, Detroit, Mumbai, Shanghai, or north Philadelphia — is of no consequence. Companies of all shapes, sizes and geographies share the common objective to, not only avoid the fate of companies like Globe Dye Works, but to also find strategies to thrive and grow.
Read MoreDo Investments in IP Rights Generate Growth? [infographic]
A company’s future growth potential is a function of the alignment of a company’s assets relative to future growth opportunities. Along with intangible assets such as knowledge, competencies, willingness and readiness, a company’s growth success is also reliant on tangible assets – culture, intellectual property, technologies and capital – all fundamental elements for sustainable business growth. Collectively, these assets are what makes a company who they are and what makes them unique.
Read MoreIs Your Business Model Letting You Down?
Finding the business model sweet spot can help companies generate both incremental growth from optimizing existing offerings and transformational growth from generating entirely new offerings. Rather than simply figuring out more streamlined or efficient ways…
Read MoreIn Search of Growth Strategy [video]
In 2010 we launched a comprehensive research initiative to explore how companies, globally, were addressing business growth within their organizations. In our data collection, interviews and analysis, we originally sought to identify patterns in growth rates, return on invested capital, and future growth potential. During this process, one thing became very clear…
Read MoreGrowthToonâ„¢: Enable with Advanced Technologies
As Internet and information technology has matured, companies have augmented their physical assets with digital assets—creating new possibilities for reaching, serving and empowering customers. These new technologies provide the next generation of platforms for additional revenues in virtually all industries.
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