7-1 Final Project: Milestone Three. Management Essay

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Nimble Storage: Business Practice Analysis & Recommendations
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Nimble Storage: Business Practice Analysis & Recommendations I. Business Practice Analysis
Nimble Storage is, as mentioned in current case, a rapidly growing company across markets, in capital value and headcount. This growth, fueled by a wild success of company's hybrid flash-and-hard-drive product offerings, is informed by several critical success factors cutting across different business functions, market dynamics and macroeconomic influences including:
* Visionary Leadership. Typically, leadership is a strong driver of steady growth and success. At Nimble Storage, company’s founders and early senior managers are characterized by a clear vision of company’s raison d'être, mission, and growth strategy. This has helped, for one, create an ideal culture for innovation for skilled workers later hired and retained at Nimble Storage.
* High Skilled & Trained Workforce. Clearly, Nimble Storage’s success is largely attributed to a pool of high skilled and professionally capable workforce. Constantly introducing new innovations to company’s core and support product lines, Nimble Storage’s skilled employees are up to company’s ongoing adaptation to rapidly changing market dynamics as not being a stop-gap technology company.
* Favorable Market Conditions. Given external environment Nimble Storage operates in, company’s exponential growth can be attributed to receptive, or favorable market conditions. Specifically, corporate customers Nimble Storage cater to have experienced exponential growth in customer databases, made possible by IT breakthrough innovations, only to spur demand for storage platforms, applications and capabilities.
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