7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth

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Growth is on the agenda for every emerging life sciences company, but exponential growth is the only way to become a billion-dollar company. Discover the success pattern of America's highest-growth companies and how you and your company can follow in the footsteps of these masters.

Please join this Webcast featuring David G. Thomson, author of Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth, Daniel J. Lubin, CIO of Abiomed, Inc., and Jill Jusko, Senior Editor, IndustryWeek.

Cross the Ten-Figure Threshold

By attending this Webcast, you'll learn:

• The quantifiable, successful patterns of winning companies
• How Abiomed and other companies are following the blueprint
• How to create and sustain a breakthrough value proposition
• Why "marquee customers" shape the revenue powerhouse
• How your business measures up to the competition

You'll also learn about the infrastructure investments these companies made early to sustain their exponential growth trajectory. One key to becoming a best-run business and one of America's next “blueprint companies” is the implementation of simple, powerful solutions that give you complete visibility into business operations and customer activities.

About David G. Thomson

A renowned expert in business building and leadership and a former consultant with McKinsey & Co., David G. Thomson is the author of Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth. Released in January 2006, the book is already in its fourth printing. Soundview has recognized this work as one of the 30 best business books for 2006. Mr. Thomson has been featured in the New York Times, Fortune Small Business, Forbes.com, and on CNBC.

About Daniel J. Lubin

Daniel J. Lubin joined Abiomed in April of 2005 with responsibility for all information systems and information technology for the company. Together with its subsidiaries, Abiomed engages in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of medical products to assist or replace the pumping function of the failing heart. The company manufactures and sells the AB5000 Circulatory Support System and the BVS 5000 Biventricular Support System for the temporary support of patients with failing but potentially-recoverable hearts.

About Jill Jusko

Senior Editor Jill Jusko coordinates IndustryWeek's Best Plants Program, which annually salutes the leading manufacturing facilities in North America. A member of the IW Best Plants judging team since joining the IndustryWeek staff in 1998, she was named coordinator of the program in late 2004. In her position as senior editor, Ms. Jusko writes for both IndustryWeek and IndustryWeek.com, addressing general manufacturing topics and is specifically responsible for the consumer products industry and energy-related issues. Jusko also has served as the editorial project director of the IndustryWeek/Manufacturing Performance Institute Census of Manufacturers and as new media editor of IndustryWeek.com.