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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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. For companies where projects are the heartbeat, sales, marketing, and client servicing are the vital vessels supporting this heartbeat.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Utilization goals must strike a balance between short-term revenue targets and long-term considerations to avoid burnout or underutilization, which can lead to cash flow issues. Adapting to changing market conditions and addressing clients’ evolving needs become imperative when growth slows.

Cash Flow 52

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived. This is a very long-term — decade-long — task.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Strategy Consultants Strategy consultants for small business help your company to find it's strategic positioning in the market. They support you in making fundamental decisions regarding your product, your service, your pricing or your target market. Marketing Consultants Many marketing agencies call themselves consultants these days.

Small Business 52

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

They are seeing first hand how many opportunities are being missed to improve profitability and cash flow just from existing operations alone. In 2016, ConsultX launched a Business Consulting Software, with a specific portion of the application dedicated to calculating Profit Leakage.

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Seth Godin Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Over time, as user interface became user experience, and as organizations sought to serve ever larger audiences, UX designers began to take responsibility for how people would engage with their websites and software. For a while, if the software didn’t work for the intended user, that was the software’s fault.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

One of the most stressful things about being self-employed is managing your cash flow. “Before you respond to a request or knock on a door in a marketing capacity, you need to establish that the company can pay you and will pay you,” he says. This information helps you better manage your monthly cash flow.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 13, 2018

And stitched into its origin story is a clue to why some products (and businesses) succeed in the market while most wither and die. They used a harsh phrase to describe this cause of failure: “no market need.” Test your marketing promise. Yes, you would still have to get the attention of your target customers.

Cash Flow 70

Cash Flow Productivity Industry Study 70

Seth Godin Blog

APRIL 11, 2016

It might be because, as in the case of candy, the mass market just won’t pay for premium ingredients, or, in the case of buildings, the cost of retrofitting the billions of buildings in the world is just too big to fix the stuff that’s already out there. But software, software is different. Alas, software tends to be mediocre.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

And you may end up like social media software startup Buffer, which struggled to achieve profitability because its generous cultural practices, including offering vacation bonuses and wellness grants, ate away at cash flow instead of producing employees who were passionate about the brand offering and committed to developing on-brand innovations.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2016

By the 1990s, IBM had become the go-to provider of enterprise information technology — hardware, software, and systems integration — for large and midsized businesses. While these core businesses continued to generate cash flow, IBM struggled to find The Next Big Thing.

Company 70

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Seth Godin Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It’s an investment in future cash flows, but it can be fraught, because, unlike a car, you can’t take a company for a test drive, and they usually need more than a periodic tune-up and charging station visit. The market for used companies isn’t as efficient or reliable as the one for used cars, as surprising as that might sound.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Instead of selling the streetlights and leaving the cities to manage them, the company would rent them out for a monthly fee, with installation, maintenance, and monitoring software all included. Worse, it apparently hadn’t hired or trained anyone to use the software tools. “Higher!” ” Graham shouted.

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Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Other than their strategy consulting counterparts, they don't focus on product, market, positioning, competition and pricing. Implementing effective collaboration structures Better collaboration software or better meetings might not have an immediate financial return, but will undoubtedly increase the companies efficiency and effectiveness.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities.

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Free Agent CFO

MAY 10, 2018

You’re spending far too much time talking about fixing cash flow problems (remember, that’s typically a symptom of a far bigger problem). The last time you upgraded your software skills was when Microsoft quit supporting Office 1997. Most of your clients and client problems are starting to look the same.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. Market trends? Leading organizations have the agility and flexibility needed to respond to disruptions, evolve with market conditions, and act on emerging trends without clunky processes holding them back.

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