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How to Make the Business Case for Change

Lead Change Blog

Identify potential funding sources for both upfront and ongoing costs. Determine the budget lines that will pay for your proposal or describe the financing for it. If future cost savings will fund the initiative, show the payback calculation. Provide a cost-benefit analysis.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Conduct a Cost/Benefit Analysis : Do the potential benefits derived from the decision justify the expected costs? What if the costs exceed projections, and the benefits fall short of projections? What would your family think of your decision?

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The Skills Gap That's Slowing Down Your Career

Harvard Business Review

Career speed bumps (much like their counterparts in the road ) can take you by surprise. Take not having the right credentials, one common career speed bump. It's easy to ignore if you are speeding along in your career with the same employer, but suddenly losing your job can send you careening out of control.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) Simple : Whether the new idea is intended for your organization, vendors, suppliers, partners or customers it must easy to use.

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How Freelancers Can Make Sure They Get Paid on Time

Harvard Business Review

Over 70% of freelancers have trouble getting paid at some point in their careers, according to research by the Freelancers Union , the non-profit group, that promotes the interests of independent workers. .” And yet, even if you do everything right, clients can still be frustratingly late with their payments. Invoice early and often.