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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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In today’s data-centric digital landscape, intelligence is central to any business strategy, especially as we look towards 2024. Critical success factors (CSFs) represent the key areas or conditions you need to master for your business strategy to be successful. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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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. For example, there’s McKinsey’s Power Solutions , a suite of cloud-based tools and analytics that clients can embed into their existing stack.

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LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

We believe that employees need to better understand the key factors that affect a company’s operations and financial strength to improve decision-making and strategy execution. How can you expect to pitch a new strategy or product if you are unable to articulate its potential revenue, costs, and return on investment? Cash flow.

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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. Sam gave an example of a trick he uses. That day I put on LinkedIn how it seemed Sam was channeling my thoughts on things to look out for in a deal.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It’s much better for them to buy a larger business with systems, processes and a management team instead of an owner-operator business-and they can do so easier because of the SBA program. Sellers are getting prices they would never dream of under any other circumstances and with more cash at closing. interest rate, 1.5:1

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. When and how are the best ways to do it?

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Activist investors challenge management strategies. Countries that operate under common law, including the United States and the United Kingdom, lean in this direction. Countries that operate under civil law, including France, Germany, and Japan, tend to be in this camp.

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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. Traditional companies therefore rely on two strategies.

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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. This ad strategy led to its quest to scale as quickly as possible, given its cash burn.

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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. Consider three examples.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

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The Fearless Marketer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

– Better cash flow. What automated processes would be in operation? The closer these examples are to your prospective clients, the better. But every day, independent professionals are trying to sell concepts that are just as abstract as transportation. – Decreased employee turnover. – Enhanced teamwork.

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The Fearless Marketer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

– Better cash flow. What automated processes would be in operation? The closer these examples are to your prospective clients, the better. But every day, independent professionals are trying to sell concepts that are just as abstract as transportation. – Decreased employee turnover. – Enhanced teamwork.

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Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 18, 2013

When it comes time to sell however, they want to demonstrate that the business has more cash flow than the tax returns (and financial statements) show. Adjustments , as in, “you can adjust some of our operations to make more profit.” Business Buying Exit Strategies' The company has too much space.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

And our analysis suggests there are strategies that they can use to compete successfully online. We see four broad strategies that traditional banks could pursue to compete or collaborate with emerging online players—and in some cases do both simultaneously. Lending to small and medium-sized businesses is ready to move online.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2017

In addition, firms with lawyer CEOs seemed more likely to deploy strategies that are associated with less litigation, and their firms experienced lower volatility. Second, these actions enhance value only when firms operate in an environment with high litigation risk or high compliance requirements.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

This has been labelled the “second phase of global liquidity”, to differentiate it from the pre-crisis phase, which was largely centred on banks expanding their cross-border operations. As a result, extraordinary accommodation can induce major adjustments in asset prices and financial flows elsewhere. Policy responses matter too.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. In our experience at Bain & Company, however, this strategy-to-performance gap is rarely the result of shortcomings in implementation; it is because the plans are flawed from the start. Take Dell Technologies, for example.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

For example, Culpepper reports Chicago general obligation bond deals have been used by the city as a means to avoid servicing short-term debt. The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund. Chicago’s property tax revenues do not go into its general operating fund. public safety and trash collection).

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

The ready access to low-cost capital should change the way business leaders think about strategy, and in particular the relative value of improving profit margins versus accelerating growth. When capital costs are high, strategies that expand margins are almost always better than strategies that accelerate growth. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Chaos ensued.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. for all other companies.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

For example, Blue Apron rose to become the largest meal kit delivery business in the U.S., For example, they may create revenue forecasts that use inputs such as macroeconomic trends for key demographic segments. Case Study: Blue Apron.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

And so we're in effect fulfilling in some respects our longer term strategy in AQR where we're liquidating the remaining garden apartments we have. Brazil for example? And so we're in effect fulfilling in some respects our longer term strategy in AQR where we're liquidating the remaining garden apartments we have.

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