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Let’s face it, we all want to grow. Regardless of company size or business category, growth is your goal. And yes, you want to be smart about it. Certainly M&A strategies can play a role, but what about organic growth? Whether you are expanding your product or service offerings or entering adjacent markets, before you begin deploying resources around the new opportunity, consider these four critical guidelines:

As companies seek organic growth, launching new products and services makes sense. Innovation is key to long term success and competitive advantage. Opportunities to sell more to current customers is an obvious motivation for creating new offerings.

We’ve all head the expression, “Can’t see the forest for the trees.”  When you hear this, it usually means that someone has a blind spot. Could that apply to you …

Developing new growth ideas can be exciting, but at the same time fraught with risk. What can be better than leveraging the unique competencies of your organization to solve customer problems in a way that no one in the marketplace is currently doing?

All great questions that beg great answers. Don’t let your lack of preparation spoil the party.

There are many different ways to define market intelligence, but the 1^st Resource Social Intelligence Method takes a slightly different approach. We believe that considering the “human factors” of how people make decisions puts more meaning behind the findings.