Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2023

While I will address return on investment (ROI) considerations in a future post, probably one of the first rules of thumb I have is to use some degree of portfolio thinking and management processes for implementing behavioral science initiatives.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These insights allow leaders to identify risks, assess project performance, and make informed decisions that maximize ROI. Budgeting and Cost Control Tracks financial data, including budgets , expenses, and forecasts. Helps identify and address cost overruns early to ensure financial efficiency.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

A more sophisticated understanding of engagement allows community managers to effectively influence and change it, and even to calculate an ROI for engagement. While all of this is helpful, it still doesn’t define engagement in terms of a quantifiable financial value. This is where we start to formulate a ROI for engagement.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These insights allow leaders to identify risks, assess project performance, and make informed decisions that maximize ROI. Budgeting and Cost Control Tracks financial data, including budgets , expenses, and forecasts. Helps identify and address cost overruns early to ensure financial efficiency.

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Few enterprise tools have the potential to revolutionize daily operations and help businesses achieve best-case ROIs like a CRM. Calculating the ROI of your CRM investment is not always as straightforward. How to calculate the ROI of your CRM investment. What was the expected ROI? Time saved in terms of billable hours.

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Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This blog posts outlines what the ROI for hiring a small business operations consultant is. To understand the value that operations consulting generates, let's look at some example ROIs below. If you pay a consultant the same 5,000 USD for that process improvement, you'd have a 400% ROI right away. Provided you have the leads.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 24, 2024

These tools can assess the effectiveness of marketing campaigns in real-time, allowing for quick adjustments to maximize ROI. A financial services firm could use AI-driven algorithms for credit scoring and fraud detection, enhancing security and customer trust.

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Epicflow

JULY 20, 2022

The basic purpose of such a study is to prevent stakeholders from intaking unfeasible projects that will result in financial losses. . A feasibility study will answer the following questions: Does a company have enough resources (human, financial, material) to complete the project? Financial (or economic) feasibility .

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Without a clear, measurable, value-creating goal, companies risk expending huge amounts of human and capital resources without delivering any real financial return. Insight Center. Measuring Marketing Insights. Sponsored by Google Analytics 360 Suite. Turning data into action.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Workplace wellness is under scrutiny by skeptics who argue that the return on investment (ROI) in wellness programs does not justify their costs. The current ROI debate has focused on whether one type of wellness program, lifestyle management (diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes), can reduce health care claims and lead to lower costs.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 29, 2020

Then, budget allocation is done, by shifting money from low ROI mediums to high ROI mediums, thus maximizing sales while keeping the budget constant. MMM assists marketers in optimizing future spends and maximizing effectiveness (i.e. it establishes which mediums are working better than others). Types of MMM. Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

There are a variety of ways to calculate a return on investment (ROI) — net present value , internal rate of return , breakeven — but the simplest is payback period. Payback is by far the most common ROI method used to express the return you’re getting on an investment. What is payback period? What is payback period?

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PM Alliance

MAY 12, 2023

This data enables decision makers to assess financial outlays over time, for example, and can be useful in determining if expenses for an ambitious project are realistic to support given the expected revenue over the same time frame. Growth plans may also change what executives believe is most important in the near term.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing. For example, Pacific Life Insurance Company, which sells insurance, retirement products, and mutual funds to financial advisors via its field wholesalers, uses video coaching.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

See More Videos > See More Videos > Blockchain’s properties — transparency, immutability, and security — make it reliable and trustworthy for applications such as supply chain management, smart contracts, financial reporting, the Internet of Things, the management of private (e.g., in the next years.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2017

On the contrary, there is a clear ROI on engagement, which is to align people’s potential with their actual performance. And when meaning isn’t enough, there are always traditional incentives — including financial rewards, recognition, promotion, and flexibility. “I need a new challenge.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

You have to approach these problems as a manager and do the best analysis you can, including hard-headed financial analysis. Nothing in American corporate law says that business managers have an open-ended, always-on obligation to maximize the financial interests of shareholders. ” Cook was speaking as a true capitalist.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Well, as I explained to my corporate finance students this week, the use of debt by companies is called “financial leverage” That is, debt acts like a lever which can magnify the size of both gains and losses. ROI = Income/Investment = 10%. ROI = Income/Investment = -6%. 1 million – $800,000 = $200,000.

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Epicflow

MAY 30, 2023

Some organizations confine themselves to creating financial plans, but in fact, planning a project, especially when it’s added to a multi-project environment, should involve more details than just the project budget. Empirical Evidence from Programmes Supported by EU Programmes. Retrieved from: [link] Patanakul, P. Retrieved from: [link]

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

Here we present the case of Grupo Financiero Banorte (GFNorte), a large Mexican financial group, where the analytics transformation has been a success story. Second, the ABU team is paid using variable compensation, based on projects that have been fully implemented and based on their ROI. Support from the top.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The assumption is that financial measures like cost and revenue are sufficient metrics to measure progress. In the beginning of a disruptive innovation, the thing to measure is not ROI. You only measure what you can see. And your mental models determine what is visible or invisible.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Financial asset managers have been out-price-cutting one another in exchange-traded funds in a bid to gain market share. Bain & Company and ROI Consultancy Services (formerly PollBuzzer) recently surveyed almost 2,200 consumers in Atlanta and Washington, DC, about the prices at eight retail chains carrying groceries.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

Determining the ROI for any cybersecurity investment, from staff training to AI-enabled authentication managers, can best be described as an enigma shrouded in mystery. Even the known costs, such as penalties for data breaches in highly regulated industries like health care, are a small piece of the ROI calculation.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2023

Financial Modeling and Return on Investment Analysis One of the critical challenges companies face when considering clean tech adoption is evaluating the financial viability of such investments. Consulting firms can assist by conducting thorough financial modeling and ROI analysis.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

Telecom and financial services are poised to lead the way, with respondents in these sectors planning to increase their AI tech spend by more than 15% a year — seven percentage points higher than the cross-industry average — in the next three years. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 27, 2021

In addition, financial resources must be allocated to trainings, events, and, in some cases, the cost of bringing in a consultant or organization to help develop and implement the program. Mentoring programs are not free to implement.

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ConsultX

MARCH 1, 2022

Financial Input The Profit Leakage Calculator requires basic financial information from the business being analyzed. Calculation The Profit Leakage Calculator processes the financial and Business Analysis information based on a highly developed algorithm. David Thexton, Founder of ConsultX. Business Diagnostic Analysis.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 12, 2022

Does it make sense financially? Consider the two financial core metrics when thinking about the COO, cashflow and ROI. ROI Think through the actual return on investment of bringing in a COO. But think through how the COO is justified from a financial perspective. There's a positive ROI to bringing on this role.

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Harvard Business

JULY 21, 2016

The findings show that fewer than half of analytics programs met initial return-on-investment (ROI) goals. But poor ROI is only part of the story. As one financial services CFO told us, “Our mental models were so rigid that even how we thought about data itself needed to be challenged.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 15, 2018

Some factors that make this so difficult include regulatory restrictions, emphasis on ROI, and the increasing number of mergers and acquisitions. Therefore, hospitals are working to define market segments and better comprehend what appeals to each one in terms of access, services, technologies, financial support, etc. Image: Pexels.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Developing leaders to drive financial performance and operational excellence has always been important. More than 50 percent of executives ranked their leadership development ROI as “fair” to “very poor.” Image courtesy of Korn Ferry.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

What makes sense: ROI The other financial metric you have to look at is your return on investment (ROI). Your ROI would be 100%. If the same outcome makes 2,000 customers happier, the ROI is 10x. As this would be a recurring improvement, your budget from an ROI perspective could be as high as 12,000.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” Finally, the CMO began insisting that marketing deliver greater financial accountability.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Consulting is about more than financial return on investment (ROI). Success is fueled by the knowledge, skills, talent, and efforts of individual consultants. As Generation Z comes of age, it is important for consulting firms to understand the hopes and expectations of the newest cohort of graduating talent.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It’s capable of linking a company’s financials, supply chain, operations, commerce, reporting, manufacturing, and human resources activities on one platform. Also, with ERP, project-driven organizations companies receive a quicker ROI and cost-efficient use of the resources deployed.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

Automation is helping a handful of companies accomplish what was once thought impossible: boosting financial performance while also aiding fast corporate transformation work. Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Each growth strategy has pros and cons that must be considered based upon your overall strategic vision and the assumptions you are making regarding your financial strength, current market dynamics, and competitive drivers. What Are the Financial Implications of Growth? How Are We Measuring Success?

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