Peter Winick

JUNE 13, 2024

Exploring the ‘Be Well, Lead Well Pulse Assessment’ A conversation with Renee Moorefield about developing her IP from years of research and scaling it for leaders, teams, and organizations. Wisdom Works is now scaling its impact by working with global organizations, especially in the food and consumer goods industries.

Scaling 247

Scaling Variable Costs Culture Change Metrics 247

AIHR

MARCH 30, 2021

The Society for Human Resource Management declared quality of hire as the holy grail of recruiting five years ago. The perspective of executives, board members, managers, HR, and workers can differ. Cost per Hire = Sum of recruiting costs ÷ Number of hires. Hiring Budget = Total recruiting costs ÷ New hire payroll.

Recruitment 137

Recruitment Benchmarking Metrics Onboarding 137

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

[For example] the longer term payback on solar helps us get to scale down the road.". In essence, Bedore was saying that Walmart recognizes that it can help take the solar market to scale, thus lowering its costs in the future. The company can also reap the immediate variable cost benefits of free power.

ROI 15

ROI Variable Costs Energy Scaling 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2015

Vistaprint disrupted local printing shops by offering web-based design and ordering and centralized production, using economies of scale to dramatically reduce costs. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos recommends looking for opportunities to convert capital and fixed expenses into variable costs. Keep the product general.

Small Business 14

Small Business B2B Variable Costs Scaling 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

And this charge will, in theory, move managers to make greener choices. Cloud service providers are increasingly proxies for utilities — they require 100% uptime, significant quantities of their own power, and predictable variable cost (which for renewables is nearly zero). Accountability throughout the organization.

Energy 15

Energy Variable Costs Travel Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

In response, the management team made a counterintuitive move: It outsourced network installation, maintenance, and service to Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens, and chose IBM to build and manage its IT systems. The vendors for telecom network management were paid only for the capacity utilized by Bharti Airtel, not for the equipment.

Balance Sheet 11

Balance Sheet Variable Costs Telecommunications Fixed Costs 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

In every part of the industry, the open innovation model is changing the economics of advertising by switching significant fixed costs to variable costs and sourcing creative from more relevant and, many times, lower cost sources.

Advertising 13

Advertising Variable Costs Media Fixed Costs 13