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Company Asset Management

Lead Change Blog

Computers, tools of the trade, vehicles, and buildings are the best examples of fixed assets. In a nutshell, a fixed asset is anything that a company buys intending to use for more than one year. The challenge that most companies encounter is in deciding what to do when it is time to get rid of assets.

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Resolution 2011: Make Your Strategy Coherent

Harvard Business Review

First, let's make sure to define capabilities clearly: by capabilities, we mean the interconnected people, knowledge, systems, tools, and processes that create differentiated value for customers. Putting Capabilities at the Foundation of Your Competitive Advantage. That's because winning strategies don't start outside the company.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

These choices historically conferred advantage – first-mover, scale – but asset-based scale advantages have diminished in recent years, thanks to technology, cheap information, and outsourcing. Assets are important, but they are, increasingly, table stakes in most competitive industries; everyone in the game has them.

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Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Business Software

Strategy Driven

Whether it’s a technical document that is being written by several authors or a project document that has to be edited by several people, Google Docs offers the necessary tools to take advantage of it. Sadly, far too many people use Google Docs as a simple word processing tool and nothing more.

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Retailers Beware: Markets Punish Stores with Too Much Inventory

Harvard Business Review

It is derived by adjusting for changes in gross margin, capital intensity (fixed assets as a proportion of total assets), and positively for sales surprise (the degree to which actual sales exceeds or falls short of forecast). This blog — and the papers referenced in it — attempt to give them some tools to do so.

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