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Jeff Henderson – Catalyst 2013

Ron Edmondson

Finances handcuff non-profits. The number of organizations crossing the $50 million budget. The post Jeff Henderson – Catalyst 2013 appeared first on Ron Edmondson. We pay a corporate executive that makes sugar water more than someone who is trying to cure the world of AIDS. 46,000 for profits. 144 for non-profits.

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Strategizing for Success: Keys for Planning Annual Sales & Marketing Goals, part 2 of 2

Strategy Driven

Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey for 2013 revealed that 70 percent of Americans do not prepare a detailed personal budget. Entrepreneurs who handle their personal finances this way are prone to carry the same habits over into their business planning.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business Review

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Just 6% are using AI in pricing.

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The Sequestration Cuts that Are Harming Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Consider the following impacts of sequestration on Federal health agencies and activities: Cuts to the FY13 budget: $1.71 noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%.

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Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities

Harvard Business Review

Oversee resource allocation and budgeting. Create and improve systems to manage staff’s and students’ needs — schedules, records, facilities, personnel, and budgets. Described by faculty as “the Hope Diamond among the many gems on staff” when received 2016 and 2013 Staff Excellence Awards.

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How CMOs Can Get CFOs on Their Side

Harvard Business Review

In our experience, companies that adopt this marketing analytics approach can unlock 10–20 percent of their marketing budget to either reinvest in marketing or return to the bottom line. This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. Focus on the metrics that matter.

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