Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 23, 2021

In a 2015 study, Deloitte reported that diverse companies earned 2.3 times higher cash flow per employee. An inclusive workplace can improve the wellbeing of your employees, boost moral, and increase productivity. And while diversity may just be a measure of success, inclusion is the ultimate goal.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Economies of scope exist where a firm can produce two products at a lower per unit cost than would be possible if it produced only the one. If properly understood, economies of scope could be used by SMEs to drive profit growth and reduce the risk associated with product failure. Importance. burgers, fries, sundaes and salads).

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CaseInterview.com

JULY 20, 2022

A company has a product or service that solves a customer’s problem. Customer buys product or service from company. Customer is very happy and tells friends about company. Whether the product is the iPhone, a delicious ice cream cone, or a million-dollar piece of enterprise software, this makes sense to me.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

Most companies see investor relations as a one-way street. 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. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images. What he heard was uncomfortable.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

If you greatly reduce the production volume, the cars that do come out have to absorb more of the fixed costs, and that eventually sends the product into a profitability death spiral. But markets and tastes shift, and changing assets and company processes is hard. These questions that doesn’t get asked enough.

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Management Consulted

MAY 29, 2016

Most of us business-minded individuals understand natural competition, which is good, but by itself, it’s not enough to set your company apart in a few short years among the competitive piranhas. The focus here is completely on cash flows and not projections. OVERALL SUMMARY & CONCLUSION. competition. competition.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The observation that many “unicorn” companies with no profits — and sometimes no revenues or even fully developed products — get valued so highly makes me skeptical of the idea that the capital market is systematically myopic. Some companies have great ideas, great management teams, and compelling strategies.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2016

Perhaps your most fundamental career choice is whether you will work in someone else’s company or for yourself. Rather than flashy, fast-growth tech companies, these are firms that share two characteristics which on the face make them seem dull — but that actually make them enduringly profitable: Recurring customers.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 13, 2015

Break Even Analysis: Relevant when trying to decide whether to launch a new product or invest in a project with high fixed costs. Customer Lifetime Value: Customer lifetime value is a prediction of the entire future value that a company expects to derive from its relationship with a customer.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2024

What CEOs Should Measure for Strategic Success CEOs are responsible for the company’s overall decisions and performance. Knowing what CEOs should measure for strategic success is crucial for making informed decisions and steering the company to where it wants to go in a way that makes sense.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Since I last wrote about the company , theater operator AMC entered the subscription market, to early success , and MoviePass took out and paid back a $6 million emergency loan and flip-flopped both its pricing and its product. Lately the company has resembled a fish out of water, gasping for breath. Will MoviePass survive?

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Tom Spencer

MAY 24, 2024

Although it is fairly common for a successful business to generate 80% of its profits from 20% of its products, relying heavily on a small number of products, services, or markets exposes a business to significant risk.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Leadership then specifies a plan that it believes will position the company to win in this predicted future. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Each of these companies has aligned and integrated its culture and brand to create a powerful engine of competitive advantage and growth. Their leaders understand that a strong, differentiated company culture contributes to a strong, differentiated brand — and that an extraordinary brand can support and advance an extraordinary culture.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

The publicly traded, limited liability company is the engine of the modern western economy. It is our money that funds these companies, and, through investment institutions, we reap the dividends from their profits to pay for our pensions and other costs. Publicly traded companies have become essentially ownerless.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production. Finally, one large change broke the production server. Now, the company uses a specific time of day to deploy all the changes.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

It has been practiced to varying degrees in companies around the world for decades. Companies as large as Michelin and Carrefour are questioning their control structures and seeing real results from replacing them. On the contrary, the specific actions that we observed in close to one hundred liberated companies prove the opposite.

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MishTalk

MARCH 21, 2014

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth to 5.0% There is evidence that this debt growth has become excessive and non-productive. Based on our analysis, our baseline case is that China may slow from the current level of 7.7% over the next two years. trillion of private sector debt to a $9.7 trillion GDP.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. The first category should describe the amount spent on supporting current operations.

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Women in Consulting

JUNE 12, 2014

We can also do specific things that can increase our cash flow. Here are 5 things you can do to increase income and profits: Offer new services or products. Upsell additional services/products to current clients. Think of creating a product to sell that can help provide a solution for those clients.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! level, title, company size, industry, etc.) This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Before we get started. AND their psychographics (e.g.,

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 4, 2009

This significant fuel price volatility drove the Company’s total fuel hedge losses of more than $1.1 The volatility of and increases in crude oil prices, a weakening economic environment and a highly competitive industry with excess capacity have created an extremely challenging environment for the Company. Productivity. (6).

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Tom Spencer

MAY 25, 2019

There are a couple of reasons for this: Asset managers can see cash flow and earnings fluctuate wildly with markets. For alternative asset managers such as hedge funds, their cash flows may be cut by more than half as profits fall and they collect a smaller fee from their profit participation agreements.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! level, title, company size, industry, etc.) This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Before we get started. AND their psychographics (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

To hear long-term investors tell it, company executives have embraced short-term thinking like never before. Two obvious pieces of evidence: The use of earnings for share buybacks that cost more than they’re worth, and dividend increases that divert cash from long-term investment. How could anyone object to such an effort?

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Tom Spencer

MAY 10, 2015

Employees are required to be in the office regardless of whether this improves productivity, initiatives that provide value to consumers but don’t generate revenue get discontinued, and the mantra “time is money” might on occasion be heard echoing through the hallways.

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Successful Independent Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

Determine your legal structure , for example a sole proprietor, limited liability company (LLC) or S-corporation. Register a DBA (“doing business as”) with your local city/county if you will use a name different than your legal personal name or official company name that is registered with the state. See prior bullet point.)

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Women in Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2014

Technology can help increase productivity and provide convenience in running a business. Hootsuite – Hootsuite helps you improve productivity by managing all of your social networks within one area, the “dashboard” which is designed for you and your team to engage from one simple interface. By: Renee Daggett.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2018

During one of my internships I worked on a due diligence project, which involved conducting market research to help a PE firm decide whether to acquire a major stake in a joint venture owned by one of the largest telecom companies in Asia. This allows them to value the target company and determine a bid price. Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. Two of the four options are low-integration strategies in which banks contract for new digital activities in arms-length agreements, or pursue long-term corporate investments in separate emerging companies.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors? in 2013 to 3.7 The average size of U.S.

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Consulthon

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hi All, With all the innovation and products on the market to support small and medium companies, how to manage cash flow and keep the money rolling in? I would like my accounting team to move away.

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Consulthon

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hi All, Even if our company has a good level of cash flow, it looks like we have a strapped budget to fully reach the customers with our products/services. I have never believed that we will reach.

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