Gambling on Growth: How to Manage the Small High-Tech FirmIntegrates the strategic and organizational issues small high tech firms must face. Examines management practices and tactics used by successful companies, explaining why growth is difficult to achieve and hard to sustain. Provides excellent insight as to what management should do to reduce their vulnerability and improve their chance of success. |
Contents
Successful Startup Strategies | 27 |
ProductMarket Development | 72 |
Managing the People | 106 |
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Apple Apple Computer approach areas base cash causes of decline Chapter characteristics chief executive company's Compaq competitive advantage competitors computer-aided design Conner Peripherals core Corporation costs credibility crisis culture customer group decision difficult distributors diversification entrepreneur EPROMS established example factors firm's focus founder founding team fragility growing high-tech start-ups implementation investment involved John Sculley lack Lattice Semiconductor London Business School Lotus major management team manufacturing market entry market segments market-place ment niche operating organization organizational overseas markets panies personal computer potential problems product development product innovation product-market professional management recruited risk sector Seeq selling Silicon Valley Slatter small firms small high small high-tech companies small high-tech firms small technology-based firms sources specialists staff stage Steve Jobs subsidiary Sun Microsystems suppliers tech firms technical tend top management typical usually venture capitalists
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Corporate Venture Capital: Bridging the Equity Gap in the Small Business Sector Kevin McNally No preview available - 2002 |
Human Resource Management: A Strategic Approach to Employment Chris Hendry No preview available - 1995 |