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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

‣ Stephen Devaux (USA), is a project management theorist, consultant, author, and educator with 36 years of experience. Ask any project manager how big her project is and you will hear something like: “Well, it’s a ten-month project with a budget of eight million euros.” Business people always fear big losses on projects.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm.

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business

Activist investors challenge management strategies. Properly understood, maximizing shareholder value means allocating resources so as to maximize long-term cash flow. And without knowing how managers decide, it is almost impossible to hold them accountable for what they decide.

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The Top 13 Metrics that CEOs Should Measure for Strategic Success

LSA Global

While the specific strategy success metrics vary across different industries and different strategies, metrics tend to fall into four overall buckets: Financial, Customer, Employee, and Other. Here is a list of the top thirteen metrics that CEOs should measure for strategic success.

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Asset Management – Valuation (Part 2 of 4)

Tom Spencer

Characteristics of Asset Management Firms. Most major asset managers are conservative with their use of leverage. There are a couple of reasons for this: Asset managers can see cash flow and earnings fluctuate wildly with markets. This will have a pronounced effect on leverage and coverage metrics.

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Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business

On the one hand, there are many anecdotes suggesting that pressures to manage earnings hold back investment. On the other hand, some of what is done in the name of managing for the long term may be unmonitored waste. Some companies have great ideas, great management teams, and compelling strategies.

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Looking Beyond Short Term Financial Metrics (Nigel Lake, Part 2 of 10)

Tom Spencer

Nigel is the author of The Long Term Starts Tomorrow , a must have book “for any manager, leader or Minister.” Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? And so, there appears to be a disparity between what companies do and what the metrics are measuring.

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