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[ ]they don’t do away with one fundamental need of business executives: to obtain sufficiently reliable estimates of the likely revenues and profits from making a strategic move, such as, the response to an unexpected aggressive new entrant into the company’s core market (agility), the creation of a totally new value proposition and profit formula (business model), or coping with an escalating price war (execution) Bring together a number of business managers and build on their collective knowledge, experience, ambition and judgment to establish a revenue target that is stretched yet realistic enough to convince or even excite the company’s stakeholders [ ]a supplier of e-bikes may set an ambitious revenue target claiming booming demand and touting its advanced technology or innovative business model to capture an impressive share of an expected emerging market [ ]the provider of payroll outsourcing services found that no single potential customer in the sample was willing to consider the new entrant because it lacked experience in the neighboring country, as measured by the lack of local reference clients
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