Consultant Ninja

MARCH 4, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. The Company’s cash flows and results of operations have been adversely impacted by these factors as indicated by its net loss of $5.3 Management Consulting.

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Oliver Wyman Airlines Consulting Management 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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Metrics Study McKinsey Cash Flow 102

LSA Global

JULY 1, 2024

Profitability Profitability metrics, including gross profit margin, operating profit margin, and net profit margin, offer a clear picture of the company’s efficiency and financial stability. Cash Flow Cash flow management is crucial for meeting day-to-day operational needs and setting the company up to invest in growth.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2018

It was a very interesting experience, so in this post I will share what I learned, as well as talk about the role played by management consulting firms. The investment bankers assess current and projected future cash flows to determine how much debt they can take on, service, and pay down. Image: Pexels.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 15, 2020

The smart approach is to fully appreciate the ramifications of abrupt market changes, adapt quickly to those conditions, and find a way to be aggressive in the “new normal” imposed by market changes as opposed to stubbornly operating in the paradigm of the “old normal.”. Restructuring costs to improve free cash flow can be learned.

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Case Interview Cash Flow Interviews Resources 119

Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Small Business Operations Consulting An investment makes sense only when you get more in return than you invested. If you hire an operations consultant, this Return on Investment might be not easy to calculate. This blog posts outlines what the ROI for hiring a small business operations consultant is.

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ROI Small Business Operations Consulting 52

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. Robert Woloschanowski/EyeEm/Getty Images. It has been a very rough few months for MoviePass. Will MoviePass survive?

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Cash Flow Case Study Case Studies Advertising 128

Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital. And having a number of small good ideas can keep a company ahead of its rivals for years.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Many management consultants hardly complete two or three years in their jobs before they realize that there’s more to life than consulting. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at tech firms. Helping the organization to identify and manage strategic uncertainty. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at Tech firms.

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Interviews Case Interview Strategy& Strategy 68

Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2015

From this perspective, assets will be resources that are owned or controlled by an organisation, and which can be used to better operate the business. These might include things like cash, inventory, property, plant and equipment. Looking at it this way, assets will be resources that increase in value or generate cash flow.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2015

From this perspective, assets will be resources that are owned or controlled by an organisation, and which can be used to better operate the business. These might include things like cash, inventory, property, plant and equipment. Looking at it this way, assets will be resources that increase in value or generate cash flow.

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Cash Flow Resources Operations Media 60

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

He’s just trying to manage the chaos and avoid catastrophe. In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia. His mission has changed. He’s no longer thinking about serving and delighting his audience (customers).

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Progressus

MARCH 1, 2024

A common area of confusion lies in distinguishing between Project Management and Project Accounting software. The Power of Project Management Software: Project Management software is engineered to assist teams in organizing, tracking, and completing projects efficiently.

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MishTalk

MARCH 21, 2014

Work by Nomura’s Chief China Economist indicates that more than half of Local Government Funding Vehicles, which borrow money on behalf of local governments to invest in infrastructure, have insufficient cash flows to pay interest or principal; the exact manifestation of Minsky’s Ponzi finance regime.

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Finance Cash Flow Banking Government 75

Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Consider, for example, a surgical patient who starts in the pre-operative area, then moves to the operating room, the post-anesthesia care unit, and the inpatient floor, with occasional side trips for imaging, testing, and physical therapy.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 31, 2015

Large corporates typically don’t operate this way because the value of trust can’t be measured, and is therefore either undervalued or overlooked. To meet someone genuinely helpful gave me a utopian glimpse of how life should be, but typically isn’t.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. Investors are paying more attention to ideas and options than to earnings.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 24, 2024

Adopt Conservative Financial Management Maintaining the financial health of a business is paramount if one hopes to thrive during periods of economic challenge. Embrace Innovation Innovation can be a game-changer for businesses by simultaneously enabling them to operate more efficiently and open up new revenue streams.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The root cause is twofold: a mismatch between organizations’ strategies and actual market demand, and a lack of operational discipline. MD Anderson Cancer Center lost $266 million on operations in FY 2016 and another $170 million in the first months of FY 2017. The following areas deserve special management attention.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 19, 2020

For our purposes, let’s identify a boutique firm as one that has less than 100 consultants (emphasis on ‘consultants’ and not staff) and operates from at most only a handful of offices (even if those offices are in multiple countries). Notable Considerations. Compensation. There is also much to be said about other types of compensation (e.g.

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Consulting Cash Flow Financial Healthcare 88

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. When weather conditions are on average adverse over days, weeks, or entire seasons, shortfalls in sales cause reduced cash flows and can lead to financial distress and business failure. These disruptions add up.

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Cash Flow Apparel Financial Small Business 73

Progressus

AUGUST 29, 2023

Ultimately, these hurdles jeopardize the firms’ ability to set and achieve short-term and long-term objectives, forecast cash flows, and strategize for the future. Let’s delve into how a robust project accounting strategy can revamp project management, enhance forecast precision, and uplift profitability.

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BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In their efforts to adapt to this upside-down world, life insurers are focusing on optimizing their investment strategies and operations. How do we manage capital consumption and the volatility of our assets? Many internal asset managers have become caught in the headlights of this rising scrutiny.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 15, 2021

5G networks are a promising wireless technology that online bookmakers and sports betting operators should factor into their business strategy. The onus is on online bookmakers and sports betting operators to incorporate 5G technology into business strategy in order to improve their services and make sports betting more enjoyable.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Is there a growing divergence between net income and operating cash-flow? Management has less flexibility to alter cash flow, whereas earnings can be stuffed for all sorts of "funnies". Visit [link] to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.'

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Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

However, managing them effectively can be challenging, given the intricacies of resource management, project performance, and diverse financial elements such as billing models, regulations, and currencies. People often generate nearly 80% of the industry’s revenue, making efficient resource management critical.

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Cash Flow Metrics Resources Sales 52

Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

Brimstone worked side-by-side with an early-stage consumer goods organization to pursue its vision, build a strategic plan, develop roles and operating mechanisms, and to drive sustainable growth at a challenging inflection point. Revenue increased by 34 times. During the engagement, the organization increased revenue by 34 times.

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Case Study Case Studies Cash Flow Retail 53

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Rarely do people point to encouraging employees to disagree with their managers, as Amazon does, or firing top performers, as Jack Welch did at GE. When you think and operate in unique ways internally, you can produce the unique identity and image you desire externally. Just as brands differ, there is no single right culture.

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Culture Company Cash Flow Operations 73

ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

Imagine being able to quickly and accurately calculate how much money a business is sacrificing through imperfect operation, and which areas of the business are draining the most profit. This is Profit that is being missed out on from areas of the business that aren’t operating as they should. What is Profit Leakage? Printable report.

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Cash Flow ROI Operations Analysis 52

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These threats change the risk management calculus of firms hoping to succeed in a more turbulent world. Owning up to our own behavioral biases is a worthwhile starting point to discussing the problem of managing infrequent, severe events. Small businesses and young businesses are especially vulnerable. Data from the U.S.

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Insurance Insurance Small Business Finance 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed. Take Google.

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Strategy& Strategy Strategy Company 73

CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

For example, the mental model you have about your business is your mental picture of how your business operates. If your end of month cash in the bank differs from what you thought it would be, that means the mental model of your operating cash flow isn’t accurate. Additional Resources. Read Our Privacy Policy.

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Case Interview Cash Flow Interviews Sales 64

Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Operations Consultants Operations consultants look into your company and help you make it run smoothly. What can you afford: Cash Flow Cashflow is king for small business. So first, you must check what size of investment your cash flow can accommodate. Your monthly free cash-flow is 10,000.

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Small Business Cash Flow Consulting ROI 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

Investors, therefore, look not just for reported revenues but for drivers behind the revenues, especially because digital companies’ operating activities often differ from their revenue-generating activities. The first category should describe the amount spent on supporting current operations.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Operating interest (a working capital line of credit). About 15 years ago I started using the term “free cash flow,” which is pretty much the same as what’s above. Not to mention no management reports, no metrics, KPIs, etc. Anticipated capital expenditures. I like the term “real income.”

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