Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources.

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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. When you believe several acquisitions are the key to stellar sales growth.

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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 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

AUGUST 13, 2018

” This one flaw harmed significantly more companies than well-known startup challenges such as cash flow (29%), competition (19%), and poor timing (13%), to name a few. They’re paying for the benefits promised in the sales copy and testimonials. Yes, you would still have to get the attention of your target customers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

The year before, prompted by all this, Lumiscape’s leadership had decided to pivot from a sales model to a subscription model. 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.

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. After all, it’s easier to determine your impact on the bottom line if you’re in sales, but it’s not as straightforward if you’re in, say, HR. ” Principles to Remember.

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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. Companies usually start and end with their founders. One way to look at this is the think of the assets you’ve built.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

As the industry moved toward an emphasis on customer service and merchandising, the company fell behind, because its employees were focused more on increasing inventory turns and sales per square foot. And your sales and marketing departments aren’t working at cross-purposes, each with its own view of what success looks like.

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