Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

More and more offices exist at the corner, situated in the messy confluences of cultures and technologies and in the borderlands of traditional disciplines. Every time I have assigned someone a task, rather than taking it on myself, the net effect – short-term, long-term, or both – is decidedly positive.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Investing in technology to improve efficiency. Technology has become increasingly critical for businesses in recent years, and it offers company bosses the chance to streamline and speed up operations, reduce the risk of errors and introduce cost-effective ways of working.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2020

For your business to be a success, you need to make both short and long-term plans. The chances are high that they have switched to a more relationship-based model that uses technology to improve their customer experience and loyalty. Common Reasons for Business Failure. Failing to plan. Increase the product selection.

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Kaizen How To Outsourcing Efficiency 76

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

To this day I’m amazed at how many CEOs still own tasks, roles, projects, and responsibilities that should be delegated to others. There is a simple short-cut which allows you to quickly extrapolate an hourly rate from a total annual compensation figure that I find useful for quick comparative purposes.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. An organization's purpose often changes over time as advances in technology, changes in customer demands/preferences, etc. impact the competitive arena.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

For your business to be a success, you need to make both short and long-term plans. The chances are high that they have switched to a more relationship-based model that uses technology to improve their customer experience and loyalty. Common Reasons for Business Failure. Failing to plan. Increase the product selection.

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Kaizen How To Outsourcing Efficiency 57

Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But don’t be discouraged; for many the hard work is worth it when you consider the freedom over your own time and finances. If you want your business to be a success, you need to make a long-term commitment to it, so you’d better make sure it’s something that you truly feel passionate about.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

No, I bring this up because as we watch the shows that close out the year, as face after face of the celebrities who passed away are projected on our television screens, as tributes and speeches are made about the talent, beauty, genius and uniqueness of a particular dead celebrity or entrepreneur—I am thinking about their estates.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

Efficient allocation of resources, by definition, is the process of analysing all the available resources at any given point of time, and devising effective strategies to make the most out of them, keeping in mind short-term as well as long-term goals, in a way that there is minimal wastage and an optimal usage of all the resources.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. I think your approach makes most sense in project teams. One just left to lead a new project so now there are three of us.) Here I'll just add a couple thoughts. In my case. That's consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. Innovation projects often fail because the resources are spent on the wrong kind of innovation. This includes technology and people, as well as tangible, intangible, and financial assets. We think there is.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Some are short-term, meant for immediate action and achievement. Others are long-term and involve multiple stepping stones to get there. These allow you to work towards something specific in your career whether that’s a better job role or a project that inspires you. What are my strengths and weaknesses?

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Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

They greatly admire companies that come up with breakthrough ideas and talk about them in glowing terms, boosting their market valuation. They should be banging the drum for companies that make bold long-term investments, increasing their market value and spurring them on. That’s not good for companies’ long-term prospects.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting. Because no one is managing the store. How did we get here?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

In stark contrast, at a disruptive organization like Google, innovation is built into jobs through " 20% time " projects — engineers are expected to spend 20% of their time on projects that are creating and testing new ideas. No company is immune; no market niche is safe.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I am fortunate enough to work with these people all the time across a span of industries and professions: finance, health care, education, energy, technology. Your boss wants you to be: Relentlessly focused on making your numbers and completing projects or initiatives in a timely, responsible fashion. You should be.

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Health Care Short-term Report Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Not only has business investment in R&D been outpacing economic growth in recent years (2012 is the most recent year available), but it’s also outpacing longer term trends. And it’s not just short-term investors that like buybacks and dividends. The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies are spending millions on digital transformation, yet studies find many leaders feel their projects aren’t achieving their objectives. I’m Angelia Herrin, Editor for Special Projects and Research at HBR. Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. The glamorous projects inevitably get the bulk of the funding, while more experimental, more complex, and more pedestrian projects lose out. Finance Innovation' It''s like that. You can see why: For decades in the U.S., Ready to Innovate?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

The bricoleur is a French term for the person who employs such construction methods—in short, a handyman or jack-of-all-trades. APIs are a technology that allows firms to interact and share information with other firms at an unprecedented scale. Theirs is a “bricolage” approach to digital.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Corporate R&D too often focuses on refining technologies that are already in use. The glamorous projects inevitably get the bulk of the funding, while more experimental, more complex, and more pedestrian projects lose out. Finance Innovation Insight Center_Innovation no-intromercial' It’s like that.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Innovation Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios. The investment portfolio.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

But only athletic events produce clear winners and losers in the short-term — and most organizations are not actively engaged in those. Rather, we need to better understand how these numbers were achieved and what they are actually saying about a company's long-term health.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

The short answer is, that managers, from C-level executives to supervisors, who are financially literate appear poised to make a greater contribution to the organization’s overall profitability. To reassess projections about future performance. I like to think of finance in an organization as a three-legged stool.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In short, they want to come to the rescue of victory. Andy’s research was financed by DARPA at the university. The technology allows automated cleaning up of large code-bases, and was licensed back to the company by Stanford. As an entrepreneur, how do you go from concept to traction? How do you bridge the seed capital gap?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

.” Adesina competed for the AfDB presidency against several accomplished bankers and finance ministers. Later, as a project officer at the Rockefeller Foundation, he channeled resources to risk mitigation schemes that allowed banks to better serve small farmers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I’ve developed this framework based on the experiences that my collaborators and I have had implementing prediction systems over the last 25 years in domains like finance, healthcare, education, and sports. The framework differentiates problems along two independent dimensions: predictability and cost per error.

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Uncertainty Simon Cost Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Bloomberg New Energy Finance has estimated that between now and 2030, around 70% of the power generation the world will add will be renewables. And while the new electrified vehicles market is growing fast, it’ll be many years until those technologies dominate. This level of investment is happening because the economics work.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

It’s tempting to give the workhorse more projects than others (especially if she’ll get them done the fastest) or to ease up on someone who is struggling, but you also need to be fair. Let’s talk about what else you may have going on,” and which projects can be moved to the backburner. ” Clarify roles. .”

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Delegation Project Team Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2015

I talked with Joe Knight, author of the HBR TOOLS: Return on Investment and cofounder and owner of www.business-literacy.com , to learn more about this financial term and how it’s used by businesses, bankers, and investors. Technology-based businesses and those that do a lot of R&D tend to have a ratio of 2 or below.

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Debt to Equity Ratio Long-term Short-term Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. Women must project gravitas in order to advance at work, yet they also need to retain their "feminine mystique" in order to be liked. The Double-Bind Paradox.

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Leadership Pipeline Short-term Venture Funding Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

The average outside equity financing round, from the beginning of the roadshow to when the money is wired, takes six months. But getting to that point can take even longer, especially since investors like to fund projects from founders with whom they’re familiar. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Insight Center.

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Long-term Learning-by-Doing Advice Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In short, change would happen, but at a dangerously slow pace. It has business applications in areas from manufacturing to architecture, as Exploration 's project to 'turn the desert green' shows. Breakthrough Finance. The third scenario is breakthrough , where business leaders work to address problems inherent in the system.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. As a startup, your finances will likely be very thin as is. The bad news is that you can't get back the time you spent working on any projects for this client. That's okay!

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