Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Insufficient Planning and Strategic Execution : Reason : Inadequate business planning, flawed strategies, or poor execution. Impact : Financial instability, cash flow issues, and inability to sustain operations lead to business failure. Impact : Avoiding the pitfall of launching a product or service without a market need.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 26, 2024

Consultants work closely with business owners to assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT analysis), develop growth strategies, and identify key performance indicators (KPIs) for measurable success.

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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. Let’s delve into how a robust project accounting strategy can revamp project management, enhance forecast precision, and uplift profitability.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the relentless pursuit of profitability, companies often find themselves facing a multitude of challenges. Whether it’s optimizing operational efficiency, enhancing marketing strategies, or making data-driven decisions, the journey towards increased profitability is often complex.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Whether it’s addressing operational inefficiencies, overcoming financial constraints, or streamlining strategic initiatives, business consultants bring a wealth of industry knowledge, strategic insights, and innovative solutions that empower companies to overcome challenges, seize opportunities, and achieve sustainable growth.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

As a result, many consultants shift to industry and join the client’s side so that they can not only offer solutions but also take more ownership to formulate, execute, and implement a strategy from start to finish. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at tech firms. Corporate Strategy. What is corporate strategy?

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 19, 2023

In the dynamic and competitive world of business, companies often face a myriad of challenges that can impede growth and hinder success. Find out how business consultants can help companies tackle common business challenges and provide real statistics and facts to support the benefits of hiring a business consultant.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In today’s dynamic and competitive business landscape, companies often face a multitude of challenges that can hinder their growth and success. Operational Efficiency : Streamlining processes to reduce costs and improve productivity. Market Dynamics : Navigating rapidly changing market conditions and consumer preferences.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 26, 2023

Management Consultants help businesses make strategic decisions that directly impact the entire company. Rather than addressing the operational angle of how to do it, we address the bigger question of what to do. Let’s say a company is looking to relocate to a new market. Your client may present the issue in a biased manner.

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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. 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.

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Management Consulted

JANUARY 1, 2017

All acquirers will want to increase cash flow, but the length of their investment in the company will differ, depending on the type. They will own 100%, usually in the hopes of selling the company for a significant return. They will own 100% of the target company. – The Company.

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Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 20, 2023

In this article, we’ll outline the key steps to start a business and emphasize the crucial role of business consulting agencies and consulting services in ensuring success for startup companies entering the business world. Create a financial plan that includes budgeting, cash flow projections, and funding sources.

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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

Business Consulting Agency

JUNE 9, 2023

Objective Expertise and Fresh Perspective: Business consultants provide an objective viewpoint and fresh perspective on small business operations. Their unbiased approach helps small businesses gain clarity, make informed decisions, and implement effective strategies. Learn about how business consultants empower small businesses.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

Michael Porter: Focus on creating value Professor Michael Porter, a leading authority on competitive strategy , has emphasised that the true measure of success for a company is not just its quarterly financial performance, but also how those results are attained.

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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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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2018

During one of my internships I worked on a due diligence project, which involved conducting market research to help a PE firm decide whether to acquire a major stake in a joint venture owned by one of the largest telecom companies in Asia. This allows them to value the target company and determine a bid price. Image: Pexels.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2014

In his latest Global Strategy Report , Albert Edwards at Societe Generale discusses " earnings season " which he calls " cheating season ". Despite the soothing Q3 headline earnings reports as US companies ‘game’ the system, all is not well once you look into the ‘MUC’ (Manipulated Underperforms Conservative).

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I’m working with a private equity firm to find add-on HVAC, plumbing, electrical, or refrigeration companies for their plumbing construction firm in the Seattle area (so if you know of any doing at least $5 million in sales who want an investor let me know). The founder of the PE firm has a distinct term for the earnings/income of a company.

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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. Increasingly, managers find themselves in sometimes heated debate, pitted against their companies’ actuaries, product managers, risk and finance executives, and boards of directors.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In my book, Company Growth By Acquisition Makes Dollars & Sense I have a list of 19 reasons to consider growing by acquisition. If you acquire their company and create an atmosphere of growth, those employees will want to stay. In one company there was some doubt about the general manager accepting new ownership.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 22, 2017

The president was a very experienced and very good operator but somewhat new to the deal process. He told me something that’s stuck with me when he said how as an operator he was concerned with the profit and loss statement but as a deal person he found an appreciation for the balance sheet and its importance. How is inventory managed?

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Sometimes it’s because they’d sooner “play” with their product than worry about the numbers and often it’s because they’re doing so well it becomes “management by checkbook,” as in, there’s plenty of money so who cares about cash flow, metrics, etc.

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LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

It is not just the purview of finance to interpret the numbers that govern profit and loss; it behooves every employee to understand how and why the company makes money, spends money, and measures financial performance. Operating income. Operating Expenses. Cash flow. Learn How Your Company Measures Success.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics Financial 28

MishTalk

MARCH 21, 2014

The shadow banking system funnels credit to borrowers who can no longer get loans from the formal banking sector, such as Local Government Funding Vehicles, the property sector, and companies in sectors with massive overcapacity and low or negative profitability such as coal mining, steel, cement, shipbuilding, and solar.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And it’s those common links that inform tech investments, transformation strategies, and how firms respond to the disruptive forces that define the modern business landscape. Firms should expect to continuously monitor and improve their strategy – incorporating client feedback as it comes in.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Activist investors challenge management strategies. Investors and others ask why companies binge on buybacks while skimping on value-creating investment opportunities. But discussions of corporate governance invariably miss the real problem: most public companies have extensive governance procedures but no governing objective.

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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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Martinka Consulting

JUNE 18, 2021

Operating experience – Sam said be careful if you don’t have operating experience. You must use free cash flow to truly calculate ROI. We used to call this a mini-audit (not as sexy as QofE or proof of cash) and it means tying the money on the bank statements to sales reports and financial statements.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 4, 2009

Uniteds fuel hedging strategy has all the marks of some smooth-talking consultants or bankers. This significant fuel price volatility drove the Company’s total fuel hedge losses of more than $1.1 Just buying the calls would have been a much better (if more cash intensive up front) strategy. Wednesday, March 4, 2009.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Well, the median revenue of these companies was about $500,000 and the median selling price was about $250,000. Typically these are companies where the owner is behind the counter and if he or she hired someone to do that work they would go broke. 70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Supplier’s company.

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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. Lately the company has resembled a fish out of water, gasping for breath. Will MoviePass survive?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere. But markets and tastes shift, and changing assets and company processes is hard. These questions that doesn’t get asked enough.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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The Fearless Marketer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

– Better cash flow. They hear you’re great at helping companies like theirs speed up their supply chain. Here you’d have a paragraph or two about your insights into the problems of supply chains, what stalls them, where the breakdowns occur, what most companies miss, etc. – Decreased employee turnover.

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