Expansion
Success Elsewhere
How companies turn success at home into repeatable success in another market, and what must change when the conditions behind the original success do not travel.
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Thinking from inside the market.
Original thinking on international growth, markets, decisions and the assumptions beneath them.
Three books. Three forces behind expansion.
Expansion is not only a market problem. It depends on what a company sees, how it makes decisions, and how it turns those decisions into repeatable commercial success. These three books examine those forces from different directions.
Decision
The Invisible Decision
How choices begin taking shape before the formal decision is made, and how assumptions, momentum and earlier commitments influence what a company does next.
Coming SoonPerception
The Reality Gap
How people and organizations act on partial versions of reality, and why what they notice, miss or misread can shape every decision that follows.
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A Distributor Is Not Distribution
Signing a distributor puts a company in a market. It does not tell the company who is buying or why, and it does not make anyone responsible for creating demand. A company that leaves all of that to its partner often ends up knowing least about its own market.
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Latest thinking
Recent writing on international growth, markets, decisions and the evidence behind them.
Entering a Market
Proof Has a Geography
Results at home describe one set of buyers, one level of category maturity and one tolerance for price. The next market may share only part of that geography.
Reading the Evidence
Permission to Test
Meetings, pilots, samples and enthusiasm are useful signals. They are not permission to conclude. They are permission to test.
Making the Decision
When Commitment Outruns Comprehension
Offices, hires and inventory can be added in a quarter. Understanding of a market cannot.