Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow. When employees feel their voices are heard and their input is valued, they are more likely to be invested in the company's success.

Employee Engagement 104

Employee Engagement Implementation Benefits Accounts 104

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. From 2012 to 2014 we set up research sites in 10 communities across the country. households.

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Insurance Staffing Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Boeing is America’s largest exporter and the only American defense contractor to have crossed $2 billion in sales to India. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. Two years later sales were stagnant in dollar terms.

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Government Sales Sales 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2017

Ask any organization what’s happening in the sales department on the last few days of the month and the entire last week of any fiscal quarter. Sales teams are closing deals, at all costs. million sales transactions from the anonymized data of 151 U.S. companies over nine consecutive quarters (Q1 2014 through Q1 2016).

Sales 8

Sales Sales Cash Flow Compensation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

In the third quarter of 2014, Home Depot showed a 21% increase in earnings per share. Sears announced in October 2014 that one of its companies, Kmart, was the target of a data security breach and that credit/debit cards and personal information were compromised by hackers. In the beginning of October, 2014, the largest U.S.

Balance Sheet 13

Balance Sheet Cash Flow Banking Assets 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

The use of switching stations by Tesla also highlights two truths that we have repeatedly encountered in our study of hundreds of business model innovations (we document these in our forthcoming book "The Risk Driven Business Model: Four Questions that will Define your Company", Harvard Business Press, 2014).

Cash Flow 9

Cash Flow Insurance Scaling Sales 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

By the end of 2014, they had improved fuel efficiency approximately 87% compared to the 2005 baseline. Moreover, some studies show that overall sales revenue can increase up to 20% due to corporate responsibility practices. GE’s Ecomagination division, for example, has generated $200 billion in sales since 2005.

Assets 15

Assets Operations Revenue Energy 15