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. Karl Popper.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In the intricate world of business, companies frequently grapple with multifaceted challenges that demand astute strategies, operational refinements, and expert guidance. Operational Streamlining : They pinpoint inefficiencies in workflows, implementing changes to heighten operational productivity and optimize resource utilization.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. Leaders must be able to operate both within and upon the organization's culture. But culture change is often overwhelming and elusive.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 12, 2024

Navigating Initial Challenges Launching a new business comes with a myriad of challenges, including market research, legal compliance, business planning, financial projections, and operational setup. They also provide guidance on organizational structure, hiring practices, employee training, and performance management.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 26, 2023

Large companies now recognise that the environment and communities in which they operate can contribute significantly to their bottom line. This realisation has led to an increasing focus on CSR, which involves operating in a way that benefits society over the long term.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

These metrics provide the foundation for more outcome-oriented engagements, leveraging real-time data to secure contracts, monitor progress, and demonstrate the value of client investments. Which Metrics Are Essential for Professional Services Firms? For project-centric firms, profit margins rank among the most crucial KPIs.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 23, 2024

Understanding the Impact of Costly Mistakes in Business Financial Implications: Costly mistakes in business often translate directly into financial setbacks. Whether it’s mismanagement of funds, poor investment decisions, or inaccurate financial forecasting, the repercussions can be felt in the company’s bottom line.

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 2, 2024

How AI Tools Benefit Businesses Streamlined Operations AI tools can automate routine tasks, from data entry to complex analytics processes. This not only speeds up operations but also reduces the likelihood of human error. Risk Management AI tools can help identify and assess risks by analyzing patterns in data.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 13, 2023

He applied for a financial manager job at Disney and was one of 1400 candidates. He is a strategic and operational leader, having led strategic planning, finance and business development teams for these companies, as well as leading large operating units of over $500 million and $1 billion in revenue.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

For instance, financial consultants provide advice to organizations on financial matters. This might include advice on asset management, tax structuring, or capital structuring to reduce financing costs and sources of risk (e.g. liquidity risk, interest rate risk, default risk). Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal).

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Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 12, 2023

In this article, we’ll outline the essential steps to increase profits with the help of consulting services and emphasize the pivotal role of business consulting agencies in achieving financial success. Ensure these goals align with your long-term financial strategy. Develop loyalty programs and personalized experiences.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Business Consulting Services, offered by entities like the Business Consulting Agency, stand as essential partners to Venture Capital (VC) firms, offering multifaceted benefits that transcend mere financial investments. Risk Mitigation and Management Consultants assist VC firms in mitigating risks associated with investments.

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PM Alliance

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As our project management consultants help clients work through their high-visibility and high-risk initiatives, we know that sponsor backing is particularly important when a project requires significant allocations of funds or personnel. The support of well-placed and well-backed sponsors is critical to executing strategic projects.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

We can argue over specific metrics, but we’d all agree that we have to account for physical as well as mental/emotional health. As with individuals, there will be disagreement over metrics, but clearly we have to consider financial performance, internal stakeholders (employees), and external stakeholders (community).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped. It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change. Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 29, 2024

Consultants conduct thorough assessments of startup business models, market opportunities, competitive landscapes, financial projections, and risk factors. Consultants help investors assess startup valuations, determine fair market value, and negotiate favorable deal terms that align with investment objectives and valuation metrics.

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Business Consulting Agency

JULY 6, 2023

These professionals possess a wealth of knowledge about market trends, industry best practices, and the intricacies of launching and managing a successful venture. It outlines the company’s mission, vision, goals, target market, competition, financial projections, and operational strategies.

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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. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These transformative elements, while well-recognized, are evolving at an unprecedented pace, affecting how professional services firms operate, make decisions, collaborate, and structure their services. Reimagining Performance Metrics: Traditional productivity measures are giving way to outcome-based assessments.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 12, 2022

There comes the time where you as the CEO need to step back from operative work and become more strategic. The role manages the day-to-day execution of the tasks that contribute to strategic goals. But without a doubt, having a COO in your startup will help to build a stable operational basis for future growth.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

A dashboard is a powerful information management tool that is used to track KPIs (key performance indicators), metrics and other data points relevant to a business, department, or specific process. operational vs analytical) with the following questions in mind: Who is the target audience? Dashboard defined. Considerations.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Some of these ideas contradict traditional financial thinking whereas others seem highly controversial or pessimistic. We distilled seven key insights from those discussions.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Its most general definition is processing financial transactions by project including costs, billings, and revenue. For those companies, project accounting is one component of several operational mechanisms used in controlling projects, maximizing project profitability, and ensuring customer satisfaction.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. And the chief financial officer is looking at the potential financial impact.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Operating interest (a working capital line of credit). I would add together profit, owner salary, depreciation, and interest and subtract fair market owner compensation, anticipated capital expenditures, and operating interest. Not to mention no management reports, no metrics, KPIs, etc. Anticipated capital expenditures.

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Cash Flow Metrics Construction Financial 40

Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. HR leaders are often asked: Where should work be managed in the organization? Centralized: Some work and decisions need to be placed at the enterprise level, often when the strategy requires policies or controls to enhance risk management and protect the brand. An Example.

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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.

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LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

If you want to create the environment for high performance, you’d better understand the importance of business acumen and the financials behind the business. 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.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2020

One buyer is a fast-moving middle market company driven by information, metrics, KPI’s, etc. If the management team, or part of it, leave and sales go down so does his ultimate payout. If the management team, or part of it, leave and sales go down so does his ultimate payout. The Covid affect – short, medium, and long term.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

With a global workforce of 160,000 people and global revenues of $24.82B for the 2014 financial year, it’s pretty obvious KPMG isn’t messing around when it comes to, well, anything. Within the US, KPMG LLP operates from 87 offices with more than 23,000 employees. Operating Effectiveness. Supply Chain and Operations.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

A recent study of VC firms found that more-diverse teams had higher financial returns than their homogenous counterparts. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Researchers found that CFOs now play a central role in actively creating business value – with 40% driving new business models and revising financial strategies on a holistic level. Progressus helps professional services firms transform operations, tear down silos, and drive long-term profitability.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

How can you boost your financial acumen? ” Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence , says that an absence of financial savvy is “career-limiting.” Here are some strategies to improve your financial intelligence.

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Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2019

About 150 people heard about our featured topic of management buyouts & buy-ins from our panel and our presenters, Tom Varga, founder of CFO Selections, and Kevin Briscoe, CEO. One might say it was “open kimono” time as they shared detailed financial information, their fears, and the results. Financing options, the bank and more.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

Management consulting is a very young profession, especially when you compare it to professions like medicine and accounting. According to the latest research from 2016, as much as 78% of the global management consulting spend is within the boundaries of North America and Europe. The management consulting profession also took a hit.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

More recently, online sites such as Glassdoor and Vault let HR managers view anonymized praises and complaints about their company from employees and former employees – comments the whole world can see. Operations in a Connected World. But it turns out these methods don’t just have to do with technology and operations.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 11, 2014

By the 1990s, emerging supply chain leaders were earnestly building the art and science of managing trade-offs and optimizing value for the enterprise. Arguably, the supply chain was the earliest test case for cross-functional, highly matrixed management. In part, they may not have an accurate understanding of the problem to be solved.

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