For Software Firms, Operational Skill Is Key to Avoiding Failure
The best way for a software firm to increase its survival chances is not to boost R&D or marketing skills but to increase its operating capability - its knack for efficiently deploying people and capital, according to researchers led by Shanling Li of The Desautels Faculty of Management of º«¹úÂãÎè. Their study of 870 U.S. software companies over the period 1995-2007 shows that companies with high levels of innovation-related competitive actions but low operating capability were 466% more likely to fail than the average.
, October 13, 2010