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This Ain't No Party, This Ain't No Disco…

Growthink Blog

How, for the first time, smaller businesses can harness the power of big data to more efficiently and profitably manage their companies. A far bigger one is simply analyzing anything more than the barest minimum of balance sheet - "i.e. Last week, I wrote about the power of business intelligence dashboards.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

But the world you lead will be much different from the one your professors knew or your predecessors managed. Yet in the face of all this change, traditional firms continue to embrace a management ethos that values efficiency over innovation. To manage these employees companies create metrics to control, measure and reward execution.

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Containing Growth Chaos: Five Things To Do When Your Company Is On The Upswing

YoungUpstarts

We see balance sheets go from being in the red to finally creeping into the black and, if we’re fortunate enough, beyond our wildest dreams. Manage cash flow. This top-of-mind awareness and intentionality with our cash keep us agile and enable us to take on new opportunities. Hell or high water.

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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. Product management tools like Stage-Gate ® emerged to systematically manage Waterfall product development.

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Four New Types of CIO for the Future

www.readwriteweb.com

Past failures of enterprise technology to live up to its promises and ITs lack of agility caused by legacy technology have decreased the influence of the CIO, explained R "Ray" Wang in a piece for Forbes last year. The global recession, the consumerization of IT, the great cloud migration and other factors are changing the role of the CIO.

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Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts.

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Why Board Meetings Suck – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Traditional startup board meetings spend an insane amount of wasted time using Fortune 100 company metrics like income statements, cash flow, balance sheet, waterfall charts.