Liquid Planner Collaboration

JULY 18, 2022

Success used to be defined in terms of scope, scale, and efficiency. With more than 20 years’ professional experience, James Arrow has played a key role in successfully delivering critical capital assets, in a variety of locations, around the world. Today, it doesn’t matter where you are located to perform project work.

Risk Management 97

Risk Management Transportation Software Benefits 97

Chief Executive

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Good Marketing Is a Growth Engine, Not a Cost Center. Customer loyalty is an important asset for any company during a recession. Layoffs at Twitter and Meta have been dominating headlines, but the need for such large-scale reductions is not likely to be a reality for most companies.

Marketing 98

Marketing Revenue ROI Assets 98

Chief Executive

JULY 19, 2022

Failure helps shape future business strategies, makes you think bigger and leads to accelerated growth—but it may also limit you as you continue scaling past that honorable $100M mark. The latter route would put the risk squarely on our product, engineering and customer success teams. I had to un-learn some things to mature as a CEO.

Sales 98

Sales Sales Marketing Assets 98

Chief Executive

JUNE 16, 2022

And although the 2021 attack did not target user funds, it was on a far greater scale. The hacker, according to the firm , had gained access to user data not through some kind of sophisticated tech wizardry but by socially engineering “a customer support employee by phone,” allowing them to “obtain access to certain customer support systems.”

Human Resources 98

Human Resources Onboarding Engineering Accounts 98

Chief Executive

JULY 29, 2022

But in doing so, company chiefs may be neglecting to unlock the considerable innovation engines that already exist right under their noses. But where you run into difficulties is scaling it into a business,” Binns says. They’re typically an insider; they think how to get there quickly with the assets they’ve got. COACH ’EM UP.

Software 98

Software Assets Engineering Marketing 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. The model enables the organization to rapidly experiment, learn and scale.” This allows people to focus on what's most important, while not losing sight of all the detail and scale that's needed to operate in a large complex enterprise.

Scaling 52

Scaling Assets Operations Engineering 52

15Five

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

After 30 years working in the HR industry and most recently as the Chief People Officer at SharkNinja, I have a career-long passion for leader and manager development and the need to deliver it at scale. I believe effective managers can be a linchpin for change and a huge asset to the HR team.

Manager 97

Manager Change Management Implementation Organizational Change 97

Chief Executive

MARCH 2, 2023

Many mid-market manufacturers face a big decision as they attempt to scale up: To make or buy their goods? And now we’ve spent more than $100 million just in manufacturing assets.” You’d better be able to continue to support that with your volume and scale. There are people way smarter than you about that.

Scaling 52

Scaling Assets Engineering Marketing 52

Peter Winick

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” Peter Winick So let me let me pause you there, because it’s not like if I was looking for a systems engineer or a SAS software person, whatever, that’s easy. And that leads to all sorts of troubles down the line, because asset based thought leadership doesn’t work. Is this sticky? Is it creating impact?

Marketing 237

Marketing Metrics Accounts Payable Media 237

Andrew Chen

MARCH 18, 2019

Same for social networks before Facebook, or there were more than a dozen investor-backed search engines before Google. – when you’re growing a bit: your lowest paid engineer. – scaling: mid level engineer. But I never liked the model because it felt like it could never scale. This is pretty great.

Metrics 94

Metrics Revenue Retention Marketing 94

Chief Executive

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Across our client base, we are seeing several organizations evaluating assets amongst utilization shortfalls or considering adjacent markets to counter relatively clear consolidation plays. The trade-offs early in product development for fragmenting scale are often used as a premise for risk concentration.

Accounts Payable 98

Accounts Payable ROI Operations Accounts 98

Peter Winick

JUNE 29, 2023

You cannot develop a viable thought leadership engine inside of your organization in a short period of time. Those are the pieces that cause an idea to reach scale further and faster. And that helps scale the idea faster. And you’re not getting diluted or twisted up or whatever by having assets to share.

Sales 130

Sales Sales Education Scaling 130

Peter Winick

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So again, coming back to the to the overall arching is like figure that out because then you can build the right assets around it. I have never seen a platform that can kind of tap into those evangelists at scale, and because those are the people that can really make it so. They have a very visible network.

B2B 268

B2B Marketing B2C Sales 268

15Five

APRIL 1, 2020

The very first thing we do is have each member of the team (who then calls on the next) rate how they’re feeling, in that moment, on a scale of 1–10 and then share a few words about their current state, their weekend, or whatever. This also allows new engineers to ramp up in record time. hours every Monday following our Boost.

Engineering 97

Engineering Revenue Manager Sales 97

Chief Executive

JULY 5, 2023

The reason you need to automate is because you can’t scale your existing staff. Data is an important organizational asset, so there should be a plan around how we grow this asset. How are we managing this asset? How are we protecting this asset from risks? Global mobility is a constant theme.

Assets 52

Assets Accounts Risk Management ROI 52

Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In many cases, being an introvert can be an asset. He became the search engine's CEO in 2011. But he transformed his introverted nature from an oxymoron to a company asset. He has always been open about being an "introverted engineer." Many people associate leadership with extroversion.

Inclusion 52

Inclusion Engineering Assets Marketing 52

Vantage Circle

MAY 6, 2024

From efficient content management to personalized learning experiences, an LMS empowers companies to invest in their most valuable asset—their people. Brightspace stands out with its ability to create personalized learning experiences at scale. They also provide mobile-first interfaces for more straightforward navigation.

Manager 94

Manager Software Education Administration 94

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

The value of UX as a corporate asset is no longer in question. 1 billion price tag paid by Facebook for Instagram, whose primary asset is not technology, but the best photo sharing UX in the business (and some of the best UX talent as well). How can large organizations deploy this capability on an enterprise scale?

Scaling 13

Scaling User Experience Assets Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

But to compete long term, insurgent companies also need to develop scale and scope, which very often dulls their insurgent’s zeal. The companies that find a way to achieve scale without losing their insurgent mission—we call them “ Scale Insurgents ”—remain acutely alert to this difference in perspective.

Scaling 12

Scaling Engineering Assets Energy 12

Andrew Chen

MARCH 18, 2019

Same for social networks before Facebook, or there were more than a dozen investor-backed search engines before Google. – when you’re growing a bit: your lowest paid engineer. – scaling: mid level engineer. But I never liked the model because it felt like it could never scale. This is pretty great.

Metrics 40

Metrics Revenue Retention Marketing 40

Walk Me

DECEMBER 12, 2023

With this continual learning, employees enhance their work efficiency and become an asset to any organization. It’s a launchpad for career advancement, equipping employees with the resources they need to scale professional heights and fulfill their career ambitions. But it goes beyond that.

Compliance 52

Compliance Retention Employee Engagement Software 52

Vantage Circle

MAY 6, 2024

From efficient content management to personalized learning experiences, an LMS empowers companies to invest in their most valuable asset—their people. Brightspace stands out with its ability to create personalized learning experiences at scale. They also provide mobile-first interfaces for more straightforward navigation.

Manager 52

Manager Software Education Administration 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

Strategic management of knowledge focuses only on those knowledge assets that are critical to your firm's competitive performance — from the tacit expertise of key individuals right through to explicit company-wide general principles. In our simplified format, knowledge assets map along two dimensions. Figure 1: Map A.

Manager 16

Manager Assets Revenue Scaling 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Here are some ways to think more like a software company: Codify proprietary knowhow and use digital platforms to scale and monetize your offerings. They support profitable growth: a business can deliver margins that increase with scale as it adds each new user to the platform at modest incremental cost.

Software 14

Software Scaling Engineering Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

But what’s even more notable is that these digital companies are staying small and keeping headcount low, even as the business scales. Look at WhatsApp, which had 55 employees (35 of them engineers) and reached more than 450 million users when it was acquired by Facebook in 2014. Throwing headcount at a problem is not.

Scaling 14

Scaling Engineering Assets Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

We have argued in previous work that the Industrial Internet and Advanced Manufacturing are not only transforming individual machines and systems, but they are also changing the nature of economies of scale, transforming the economic landscape and blurring the lines between manufacturing and services. GE now employs 14,000 software engineers.

Engineering 13

Engineering Software Assets Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla. But can these experiments scale into an alternative business, or will the need to keep factories engaged across Michigan and Bavaria make it impossible for these automakers to morph into a new kind of business?

Scaling 15

Scaling Engineering Transportation Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Indeed, The Economist proclaimed that data are now “the world’s most valuable asset.” Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Fourth, companies need technologies to deliver at scale and low cost. Quite obviously companies need technology — you simply can’t scale and deliver without it.

Balance Sheet 14

Balance Sheet Assets Scaling Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

It is big in terms of the total corporate assets that are being re-assigned to new owners. Alternatively, if I sell my car to an Uber driver, or the owner of a taxi medallion, that same asset may be put to a different use and become more valuable to customers or society.

Scaling 12

Scaling Cash Flow Assets Benefits 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Driven by economies of scale, container ship size has been increasing for decades, with the largest ships now costing roughly $200 million. Building a large-scale biopharmaceutical facility requires up to $500 million.

Assets 12

Assets Operations Insurance Telecommunications 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What is missing is growth capital for the small companies that should be the economic engines of their communities. The banks have retreated from that business — pursuing economies of scale, rather than helping scale up small companies. What is missing in cities is not revitalizing new ideas.

Real Estate 15

Real Estate Revenue Banking Scaling 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation. Startups may be generously armed with venture capital but they have nothing along the scale of, say, Vanguard’s war chest. billion in discretionary assets under management — more than the above competitors combined.

Transportation 14

Transportation Assets Engineering Software 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Valley companies think in terms of ecosystems, networks, and sharable services — elements that are crucial to scaling very quickly. Any business needs to make money eventually, but the power of rapid scaling is a huge competitive advantage that those in the Valley understand keenly. Think like engineers and customers.

Scaling 14

Scaling Travel Assets Compensation 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone. The main challenge is that investors are very good at understanding a single asset with standalone cash flows — a toll road, for example, or a power plant, or an apartment building.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Real Estate Assets Nonprofit 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. The primacy of asset building. The importance of scalability. The business model WhatsApp has today is essentially the one it started with.

Banking 15

Banking Engineering Advertising Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.

Engineering 15

Engineering Metrics Assets Accounts 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Namely, we ask ourselves four questions that help us determine whether on-demand companies are downright disrupters, efficiency engineers, process engineers, or just plain old sustainers. If you’d determined a way to make use of an expiring asset, you’re likely in a strong position. It’s a simple question.

Transportation 13

Transportation Assets Engineering Marketing 13