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! This article is designed to give you some immediate traction while still setting you up for long-term success. Go through your network and proactively reach out with a free article or other value.

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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! This article is designed to give you some immediate traction while still setting you up for long-term success. Go through your network and proactively reach out with a free article or other value.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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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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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Record number of small business sales in 2018! PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Magazine – 65-75% of small companies in the US – some 10 million – likely hang up a “for sale” sign in the next 10 years (2015). Easy money.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Car sales in the U.S. But car sales are now probably past a cyclical peak, not only in the U.S. 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. When and how are the best ways to do it?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The weather affects consumers’ behavior in terms of what products they buy, where they buy them, and in what quantity. 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.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure. Facing headwinds to growth, executives delayed R&D and capital investments to hit three-year free-cash-flow goals. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. Because of these dubious decisions, GE’s ratio of debt to earnings has soared from 1.5 in 2013 to 3.7

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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. Yet the value of establishing demand before you launch the business is just as important for us, whether we’re launching a new company or simply a new product. People don’t buy products.

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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 company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

It’s about “delivering customers and sales.” To do this, you need to establish your sales baseline. What would our sales and profits have been if we didn’t spend on this marketing program? But even that can be complex, she says: “Last year’s sales line had a bunch of marketing behind it.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Even my hometown can’t get our products right , Cameron thought as he chased Graham over to the playground. The year before, prompted by all this, Lumiscape’s leadership had decided to pivot from a sales model to a subscription model. But they’d already seen three that weren’t working properly. “Higher!”

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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. The title of that landmark article may not sound very appealing, but it does make clear that economies of scope and economies of scale are closely related concepts. Importance. Economies of Scope.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. “The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. “They need to see why it’s a good idea.”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. But this close-up look at cash flows suggests new routes to helping families. households.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. that aggregate sales in the U.S. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 28, 2016

AT&T is merely paying — actually, overpaying — for the cash flows from those assets up front. The term complement refers to any product or service which, when cheap or widely available, benefits a company’s core product. Roads and low-priced fuel help car sales; ornaments help Christmas tree sales.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

In the transactional economy, the most important measures are new customer acquisition and sales. For sales, the moment of transaction is the start, not the finish line. For product development, the offering needs to evolve constantly to meet members’ needs – changes only every year or two won’t cut it.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

If your culture and brand are mismatched, you can end up with happy, productive employees who produce the wrong results. For example, at a grocery store chain I worked with, employees were steeped in an operations culture that valued efficiency and productivity.

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