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What Happens When Features Are Dropped To Make a Launch Date?

The Idolbuster

When the original product was scoped, it was designed to meet a set of unmet customer needs, and she created a healthy revenue forecast to justify the expense of development. Sabina explained that she felt “pressured to show there is value in doing the project, a positive NPV. There was equal pressure from myself and others.”.

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

For decades multinational corporations have poured hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investments into emerging markets , sometimes preferring the investment climate of "stable" authoritarian regimes over "messy" democracies. Certainly the money at stake is substantial.

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Old Buildings Are U.S. Cities’ Biggest Sustainability Challenge

Harvard Business Review

This is especially true in the commercial buildings market, specifically large commercial buildings, where well over 75 percent of existing buildings will still be in use in fifteen years’ time. Today large commercial buildings address only two percent per year of the NPV-positive investments in efficiency that are available to them.

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Lafley’s P&G Brand Cull and the 80/20 Rule

Harvard Business Review

Declaring he’d cull up to 100 brands — many of which he’d acquired and developed — P&G CEO A.G. Indeed, companies focusing on those 20% customer segments that generate 80% of sales and/or profitability and/or sustainable growth markets and innovate differently from those who seek to serve everyone well. innovation.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Net present value [NPV] is a case in point. 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. One problem is that NPV calculations tend to compare today with some future state. This matters because it can cause you to be blindsided.