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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

This is almost 10% higher than in 2016. Their plan for the next couple of years is to prevent quality failures with bold investments by “building a database of previous failure cases and production traceability management.” Due to poor project performance, $99 million is wasted for every $1 billion invested.

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How U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems Can Reverse Their Sliding Financial Performance

Harvard Business

Since the beginning of 2016, the financial performance of hospitals and health systems in the United States has significantly worsened. MD Anderson Cancer Center lost $266 million on operations in FY 2016 and another $170 million in the first months of FY 2017. All these problems contribute to diminished cash flows.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters.

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Martinka Consulting - Untitled Article

Martinka Consulting

A December 2, 2016 Wall Street Journal article was titled, “ Car Sales Roll Along; Aided by Discounts.*” He knew cash flow. Or should we say he knew short-term cash flow. He watched his cash flow like a hawk. It costs more money to provide quality products and services.

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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business

Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure. Facing headwinds to growth, executives delayed R&D and capital investments to hit three-year free-cash-flow goals. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. Japanese companies’ average annual TSR of 14% in the five-year period from 2011 through 2015 is generated by extremely strong margin increases and cash flows. Japan and China are robust markets for ECS value creation.

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Why Life Insurers and Asset Managers Must Join Forces to Win

BCG

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. Increasingly, managers find themselves in sometimes heated debate, pitted against their companies’ actuaries, product managers, risk and finance executives, and boards of directors. Corporate life becomes a series of zero-sum battles in a war with no winners.