Jackie Nagel

AUGUST 26, 2022

Considerations include budget, cash flow, sourcing, and learning about an entirely new industry, human resources, with its many rules and ramifications. Growth sucks cash,” and “cash is the oxygen that fuels growth,” says Verne Harnish, author of Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t.

Cash Flow 130

Cash Flow Balance Sheet Human Resources Revenue 130

Jackie Nagel

JUNE 14, 2023

Cash flow is shrinking. And the worst part is being swamped with day-to-day operations when all you really want to do is focus on growing or scaling your business. Even so, revenue can be sluggish, anywhere between $350,000 and $1 million annually, depending on your industry and service.

Accounts 130

Accounts Sales Funnel Cash Flow Operations 130

Chief Executive

APRIL 13, 2023

Strategy may also need to adjust for customers scaling back on purchases because making higher interest rate payments have hurt their cash flow. Should expansion plans be put on hold or scaled back? Business strategy may need to be adjusted to account for suppliers not having enough capital to meet company orders.

Cash Flow 98

Cash Flow Manager Banking Scaling 98

Zenefits

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Generally, the economy is good, debt is low or paid on time, and cash flow accumulates. If you notice that the business is scaling faster and faster, it’s better to make time to reevaluate: Actual hiring needs rather than anticipated needs. At this stage, a business has just opened its doors, or it’s growing rapidly.

Cash Flow 59

Cash Flow Human Resources Onboarding Retention 59

Chief Executive

MAY 23, 2022

At the time, the digital transformation was the biggest SAP S/4 scale-out deployment. At NCR, CIO Bill VanCuren is riding herd on a different cash-driven automation initiative, designed to reduce the complexities surrounding cash collection, a function of accounts receivable.

Digital Transformation 98

Digital Transformation User Experience Revenue Cash Flow 98

Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 7, 2022

" Hewitt Associates (2004) developed an 18-item scale to measure employee engagement. times higher cash flow. Schaufeli et al (2002) define engagement as " a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption." Employees of diverse companies bring in 2.3

Employee Engagement 97

Employee Engagement Onboarding Diversity Inclusion 97

Chief Executive

OCTOBER 12, 2022

That is not necessarily true for all businesses—it’s totally fine to own and run a small, cash flow-positive company. I once ran a gaming business and there we saw that having size and scale ensured that our company had better margins and could outprice the competition. Travel is a size and scale game.

Marketing 52

Marketing Travel B2B Cash Flow 52

Monday Task Management

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s still fairly high level — compared to, say, a full-scale business report — but it follows a really helpful model of listing KPIs for each perspective, detailing the targets set out in order to improve on the KPIs, and then discussing the projects in play that are expected to influence performance against those targets. Image Source ).

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Strategic Planning Cash Flow Metrics Operations 52

Monday Task Management

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s still fairly high level — compared to, say, a full-scale business report — but it follows a really helpful model of listing KPIs for each perspective, detailing the targets set out in order to improve on the KPIs, and then discussing the projects in play that are expected to influence performance against those targets. Image Source ).

Strategic Planning 52

Strategic Planning Cash Flow Metrics Operations 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

These reports can highlight changes to a hospital group’s insurance-provider portfolio or changes in demographic mix that are affecting revenue and cash flow, while simultaneously identifying room for growth by suggesting changes to a doctor’s workload.

Scaling 15

Scaling Cash Flow Benchmarking Hospitality 15

Chris LoCutro

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But I have made decisions to invest large sums of money in something in different properties, with the goal of making money, with the goal of creating cash flow with the goal of holding on to something you know, putting my money into something that sits for a long period of time. And yes, I get some cash flow.

Real Estate 64

Real Estate Cash Flow Scaling Implementation 64

Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Suppose you've outgrown your start-up phase and are ready to scale up your business, so it can support a larger team. However, they can be beneficial for those companies that have larger cash flow and more resources. In that case, you might want to consider implementing an ESOP plan. trillion.

Benefits 52

Benefits Cash Flow Compensation Sales 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

About half of those will do so in half the time, and may more than double their operating cash flows by 2030. Cash generation is not linear as the impact of AI scales up over time—it might be negative in the early years and only becomes positive and accelerates after a period of five to seven years.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Rollout Benefits Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. Use multiple sources of finance.

Scaling 8

Scaling Cash Flow Banking Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Over time, once personalities gelled and relationships bonded, we were able to scale back the frequent flyer miles by making it a quarterly face-to-face meeting, with monthly conference calls in between. Market share expanded, cost controls tightened, safety improved, operational efficiency peaked, and so did profits.

Cash Flow 16

Cash Flow Business Analysis Travel Operations 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

Despite our belief in the power of impact investing and the need for capital to scale, most social entrepreneurs should not seek this type of capital unless four fundamental conditions are met: 1. You don't need your cash more than an investor does. Equity investors may not need immediate cash, but they need a pay day.

Cash Flow 10

Cash Flow Scaling Revenue Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

With the weight of the world falling on management's shoulders, Xerox decided it was time for a large-scale commercialization effort. Xerox ultimately scaled back its operations at PARC and abandoned the Alto , its personal computer. The investor base became restless. They demanded growth, so management turned towards PARC.

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Sales Sales Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Even a slight tweak — such as moving to a club pricing model like Costco’s — might have solved its cash-flow problems. This ad strategy led to its quest to scale as quickly as possible, given its cash burn. To scale, companies need the right infrastructure to keep consumers happy.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Scaling Advertising Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Joint value in combinations typically comes from one of four sources: increased scale, expanded scope, improvements in management coordination, and expansion of future options. The most common source of joint value is economies of scale , which allow for a reduction in the costs of either production or back-office operations.

Scaling 12

Scaling Cash Flow Assets Benefits 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

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. These range from uncertain revenues to disagreements over guarantees to concerns about political risk.

Cash Flow 14

Cash Flow Real Estate Assets Nonprofit 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital. But the scales have now tipped in favor of accelerating growth.

Cash Flow 15

Cash Flow Balance Sheet Energy Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Amazon announced its quarterly sales were up 30% and its operating cash flow was up 8% to $3.4 While Amazon lost a small amount of money on a GAP basis, its sizeable cash flow funds continued rapid expansion. At the same time online retailers are flourishing. billion for the trailing 12 months.

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Cash Flow Sales Sales Reorganization 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Specifically, the innovative technology offerings of some green technology firms often come with economic characteristics (scale-cost functions, risk profiles, cash flow profiles, etc.) that are drastically different from the traditional technologies that they substitute.

Cash Flow 9

Cash Flow Insurance Scaling Sales 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

When do you turn cash-flow positive?”. And certainly scaling the business will likely involve the existing business. Carol should have a say in how those funds are deployed on ideas that her unit will ultimately have to invest in to scale, especially since her staff will be called on to contribute to up-front work.

Cash Flow 12

Cash Flow Assets Scaling Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

But with IRR you calculate the actual return provided by the project’s cash flows, then compare that rate of return with your company’s hurdle rate (how much it mandates that investments return). You can’t just use the $3,900 total cash flow to figure the rate of return because it’s spread out over three years.

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Cash Flow ROI Accounts Revenue 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A few of these companies manage to transcend national boundaries and scale to a larger size. Firms are realizing what microfinance has known for a while: Local self-policing groups, or village headmen who police honor codes, can hedge cash flows in far-flung places.

Cash Flow 13

Cash Flow Scaling Manager Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

It feels horrible: You’re scaling up aggressively and working harder than ever, but with each passing day you feel more overwhelmed. You’ve hit overload—the internal dysfunction and loss of external momentum that strikes young, fast-growing companies as they try to rapidly scale their businesses. Bottlenecks appear.

Cash Flow 13

Cash Flow Travel Scaling Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

The course teaches four tactics to cope with the challenge: lean experimentation, scaling, partnering, and storytelling. Public entrepreneurs face the same predicament. We can create public entrepreneurs by teaching these skills, more often and jointly, to future public leaders and their partners.

Government 12

Government Cash Flow Administration Scaling 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Airbnb is an example of a win-win quality improvement: landlords realize more cash flow from their assets, and customers gain both better choice and lower costs in their travel lodging options. They should also encourage sources of repayment for such investments beyond just user fees.

Real Estate 14

Real Estate Cash Flow B2B ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

If a company has enough cash flow to service it, debt capital offers an opportunity for them to borrow from investors, in a form of venture debt that allows them to continue to grow while staying independent. In either case, a dividend allows an investor to see a return without a traditional “exit” on the part of the company.

Cash Flow 11

Cash Flow Metrics Revenue Scaling 11

Chris LoCutro

JANUARY 30, 2024

Be prepared, be ready for it to be able to adapt what needs to change not just the urgent, but what's important that needs to change what needs to adjust What do we need to scale differently? What do we need to spread out?

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Administration Revenue Sales Sales 59

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met him again two months ago: six years later he had scaled up by a factor of ten — all the result of organic growth — and employs over 6000 people. Scale-up means growth, and growth means jobs, wealth, and tax revenues. Unjam the exit if you really want to improve entrance and scale-up. Even better.

Balance Sheet 10

Balance Sheet Government Scaling Cash Flow 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

The British bank was involved in hiding cash flows in two dramatic contexts: global drug trafficking (especially relating to Mexican drug cartels) and violations of economic sanctions against Iran and other nations associated with terrorism. billion for money laundering ($1.3 billion forfeitures, $600,000 in civil penalties).

Banking 11

Banking Cash Flow Accounts Government 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Corporate behemoths — like IBM and its innovation jams , 3M''s open innovation efforts and Procter &Gamble''s connect + develop programs — are constantly looking for ways to cost-effectively leverage their scale while safely exploring potential innovation opportunities. Many of these initiatives enjoy some success; most do not.

Cash Flow 8

Cash Flow User Experience Compensation Scaling 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

With the weight of the world falling on management's shoulders, Xerox decided it was time for a large-scale commercialization effort. Xerox ultimately scaled back its operations at PARC and abandoned the Alto , its personal computer. The investor base became restless. They demanded growth, so management turned towards PARC.

Cash Flow 8

Cash Flow Sales Sales Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Our belief is that the earnings of long-term companies will rely less on accounting decisions and more on underlying cash flow than other companies. We assume long-term companies will invest more and more-consistently than other companies. Earnings quality: Accruals as a share of revenue. As noted earlier, if all public U.S.

Manager 15

Manager Revenue Metrics Cash Flow 15

Chris LoCutro

APRIL 23, 2024

Could you do a scale of payouts? If they've never been in the P&Ls, if they've never understood the budgeting, the forecasting, if they've never understood what assets you have, what that looks like, cash flow. So we're projecting that there's gonna be considerably more net profit over the next 10 years.

Small Business 40

Small Business Succession Planning Operations Assets 40