CoachStation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Gabrielle Dolan: The Future of Leadership Conference, Bris, Sept 2015 After attending the Future of Leadership – Workplace Culture conference in Brisbane last week I have been reflecting on the content from some of the speakers. Gabrielle Dolan, in particular, caught my imagination.

Storytelling 146

Storytelling Competitive Advantage Conference Cost of Capital 146

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The cost of capital is at historic lows, averaging below 6% for most large U.S. Indeed, for most companies, the value of accelerating growth greatly exceeds the value of returning capital to shareholders. Remember how Netflix transformed itself from a mail-in DVD business to an online streaming company with proprietary content?

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain CEO Discount Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Based on our recent worldwide survey of 2,000 incumbent companies across all major industries and countries, we estimate that the average return on incumbent digital initiatives is below 10% — barely above the cost of capital.

Strategy 8

Strategy ROI Technology Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Some companies establish a threshold for MROI that takes into account its risk tolerance and cost of capital, below which they are hesitant to make investments. For example, do you include just the cost of the media, or do you also include the investment of staff time to create the ad?

ROI 8

ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For any business to succeed over the long term, it must earn a return that exceeds its cost of capital. It is through continuously making incremental progress in lowering costs and increasing revenues that firms achieve competitive advantage in their industry. Here are four things leaders can do.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. All rights reserved.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

They represent content and digital rights management platforms (such as SingularDTV ), distributed venture funds (such as the the DAO , for decentralized autonomous organization), and even new platforms to make investing in ICOs and managing digital assets easy (such as ICONOMI ). But the genie has been unleashed from the bottle.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8