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Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation

Andrew Chen

Facebook and Google now control most of the Top 10 apps in the mobile ecosystem: Source: Nielsen, Dec 2016. Paying for acquisition is one of the key channels still available, if you can find the right untapped audience segments with high ROIs. No wonder app store rankings have ossified over the years.

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What is HR Analytics?

AIHR

According to them, HR analytics is the systematic identification and quantification of the people drivers of business outcomes (Heuvel & Bondarouk, 2016). This is often done by calculating a Return on Investment (ROI). Aforementioned examples have an impact on both the cost and the revenue side of the business.

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Writing a Book As an Extension of Your Business | Becky Robinson

Peter Winick

Our conversation begins with the difficult topic of measuring the ROI of a business book. After that conversation, he partnered with Barbara Hendricks, who’s amazing, and they did a book with Barrett Koehler publishers, back, I think it was 2015 when the book came out, maybe 2016. You know, I’m not the greatest math person.

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Are You Getting a Return on Your Investment in Employee Training?

Zenefits

SMBs must weigh the benefits of training against time and money to get a return on investment, or ROI. Simply put, ROI is the gain from an investment measured against its cost. ROI usually is calculated in percentages using this basic formula : ROI = Net Profit ¸ Total Investment x 100. Can training guarantee ROI?

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Why People Analytics isn?t Delivering on its Promised Value

AIHR

That’s an ROI of 13X. Adapted from Cantrell et al, 2016 , Max Blumberg created The Value Profiler to visualize this model. “To In our example, we’ll focus on increasing sales revenue through better recruitment, learning and development, and retention of salespeople. We know that the potential value of analytics is high.

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Skip the Startup: Why More Entrepreneurs are Choosing Acquisition

UVA Darden

The best businesses for ETA, he adds, are those with recurring revenue, for example through subscriptions, or return customers. It's much harder to break a business like that than it is a business that has very project-oriented revenue, where you have to continuously replace your customers all the time,” says Alexander.

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

Suffice it to say that a 2016 Mitt Romney campaign isn’t being championed on Wall Street. This includes cutting unnecessary costs—but it also means finding ways to increase revenue. “ROI and other measures of firms performance were not the focus of our study,” Stiebale said.

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