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

Leaders want to hold their recruiting and talent operations accountable for quality and efficiency. Cost per Hire = Sum of recruiting costs ÷ Number of hires. Hiring Budget , a measure recently devised by SmartRecruiters , benchmarks recruiting costs to the variable costs of different types of roles.

Recruitment 137

Recruitment Benchmarking Metrics Onboarding 137

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

They have massive amounts of currency (cash and stock); huge storehouses of customer information; and cloud computing resources that make them low-cost providers in any digital endeavor. A virtuous cycle is baked into their strategy: use these resources to achieve scale in ways that help achieve even more scale.

Advertising 16

Advertising Variable Costs Scaling Media 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But amidst a seemingly scripted set of responses on Walmart's supply chain and operational greening efforts, the discussion took an interesting turn. For example] the longer term payback on solar helps us get to scale down the road.". The company can also reap the immediate variable cost benefits of free power.

ROI 15

ROI Variable Costs Energy Scaling 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. As Microsoft takes on more of its customers' operations through cloud-based services, reliance on the utility grid creates real operational and price risk (from outages and volatile prices).

Energy 16

Energy Variable Costs Travel Operations 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. Through the outsourcing arrangements, Bharti dramatically lowered its costs while ensuring high quality for customers, since vendors had world-class competencies in their domains.

Balance Sheet 12

Balance Sheet Variable Costs Telecommunications Fixed Costs 12

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 Innovation Marketing'

Advertising 13

Advertising Variable Costs Media Fixed Costs 13