Tom Spencer

MAY 2, 2020

If Keen is sincere in his belief that gold is not money, then he should find it truly baffling that the US holds more than 8,000 metric tons of gold in reserve. Free market capitalism is about increasing the stock of productive capital over time. Economies can and should save. Hence, spending less than you earn is crucial.

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Balance Sheet Government System Finance 88

LSA Global

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Nokia was able to transition from one business through others, transforming itself and growing to meet contemporary and future business needs. What constitutes the difference between a successful growth strategy that works and one that fails to meet expectations? Aligned Success Metrics and Motivators. The Bottom Line.

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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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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

With the media, stock markets, and social media going crazy over the topic, I spent a lot of time digging into the data to develop my own conclusions. It turns out that there is an actual metric that measures this. The closest proxy metric that’s easy to measure is # of NEW cases today vs. yesterday.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Let’s start with a recent Seattle Executives meeting where five members talked about multi-generation businesses, succession, transition, and selling. Things like car, travel, non-market rent, etc. Expect the buyer to (blindly) talk to customers, meet key employees, and they’ll have to talk to suppliers to get credit terms solidified.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

What are job goals and key success metrics? After a presentation or big meeting, state one thing you think went well and then ask for advice on one thing you could improve. Try to meet in an informal way: in the coffee shop in your company’s lobby, at the company picnic or golf outing, etc. Seek good counsel and mentoring.

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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.” She went into the meeting prepared for the worst. She went into the meeting prepared for the worst.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Do not make the mistake of investing heavily in sales enablement tools until you have alignment around and commitment to your target clients , value proposition , success metrics, and go-to-market sales strategies. Do not underestimate the need for the right sales culture to meet your targets. Sales Culture. Sales Talent.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Meet regularly to review common customer issues and build fixes into your product roadmap.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.” Selecting the right critical metrics is a cornerstone of success as it brings focus and clarity on what matters most to the business. Establish a center of gravity for analytics. Next, create an Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE) that spans the enterprise.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

We’ll focus on how the software helps to clarify three situations: design of the sales coverage model, alignment of sales resources to market opportunity, and identification and widespread adoption of the behaviors with the strongest positive influence on sales performance. Refining Sales Team Structure and Roles.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are key growth strategies for many organizations: entering new markets, acquiring new technologies, or leveraging scale and size. Organization Level Support the brand image with a unique identity to the market. Organizations become known by their culture. REFERENCES Cameron, K.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. It failed to meet its revenue and subscriber growth targets. Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images. What caused this slump?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. Metrics emphasized speed. We rebuilt performance metrics to track impact, not to apply pressure.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Last week, at an internal Cisco meeting, the company’s VP of Supply Chain, John Kern, proudly reported that the project had identified ways to cut energy use by approximately 30%, which will likely save $1 million per year. Disclosure: I was at the meeting as a paid speaker on sustainability strategy.).

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Management Consulted

APRIL 20, 2016

Located on Broadway in Morningside Heights, it’s no surprise that Columbia is well known for its excellence in finance and relationships with movers and shakers on Wall Street. Since 1881, Wharton has built itself a reputation as an innovative graduate management program with a specialty in finance. Median signing bonus: $25,000.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. D-BASE/Getty Images. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Nonetheless, CareMore’s leaders decided to move ahead and launched a Medicaid care-delivery program in Memphis and Des Moines, serving 8,000 to 10,000 patients in each market. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Community and patient engagement focused on social needs.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Management Consulted

JULY 19, 2015

Okay, so could you just say I’m an economics major, could you just restate that, yeah, I’m an economics major, I love it, I love econ and finance. Yeah, and I do love the finance classes that I’ve had, so I’ve gotten a lot of information about the basics. Okay, so why is that different from the question I asked?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

Fewer than 5% of healthcare systems initially identified for participation in ECEN meet all of the quality requirements for consideration. Business development, contracting, and finance personnel are also required. Hospitals and individual participating physicians undergo a thorough and iterative evaluation process.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. We performed pulse surveys quarterly after every town hall meeting at Saint Anthony Hospital. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

Examples could include speaking up in meetings, holding a door for someone, smiling, or greeting someone by name when walking down the hall. As companies continue to expand into new markets, the makeup of the workforce in our companies and communities served is becoming more diverse.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

History suggests that the main way information technology changes management is through changes in how information is gathered: the large-scale analysis of Operations Research reflected painstaking data collection around a few metrics, which were transferred to punch cards. How organizations are changing.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Leaders… Make sure they have a market/service fit before investing in on-boarding customers. Identify the right metrics. In the digital membership economy, the metrics best apt to indicate success are more likely to be around member churn and engagement. To serve as a marketing channel.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Below, we’ll dig into these market forces and what they mean for professional services firms moving forward. Customers expect digital experiences to meet a certain standard — it doesn’t matter if you’re Amazon, Netflix, an IT provider, or a small accounting firm. Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility.

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