The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 27, 2023

However, the duration needed for entrepreneurs to launch their ventures can vary, depending on how swiftly they shape their ideas, secure financing, develop prototypes, and undertake other essential steps. In recent times, gestation speed has garnered increasing attention as a proximate performance metric.

Development 59

Development Entrepreneur Long-term Planning 59

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Profitability In business, profitability is defined as the income generated by a company from sales of products or services. Profitability is a critical metric in business as it allows a company to determine its success and future growth. It also includes the expenses that are incurred in running the business.

Intangible Assets 100

Intangible Assets Short-term Incentives Metrics 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

You must make sure that your service or product fulfills your customer’s specific needs or target audience. Now you have to make sure that it is possible to forecast finances and pursue funding while growing. Consider your success metrics and funding. You must regularly review your metrics. Lean planning.

How To 139

How To Analysis SWOT Audience 139

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2021

Though the customer has a monthly payment, it isn’t typically charged for every user of the product: instead, they are charged per month or by a number of users. The idea is that customers get what they need and only pay for what they use; this way, the customer can scale their use of a product or service as they grow.

Strategy 101

Strategy Price Self-aware Software 101

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

We talked extensively in this book about how accounting profits or profit growth as a sole performance metric doesn’t lead to value creation. Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2021

You can then look at the metrics to see if these changes had an impact on how many people were interested in committing to a purchase from your company. It’s absolutely vital that you do choose the right price point for the products or services that you are selling to customers. Hit The Right Price Point.

Franchising 83

Franchising Price Audience Marketing 83

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

It has definitely caused its fair share of angst, frustration, and vigorous debate among executives and professional advisors simply for the reason that it is one of the few metrics that touches virtually every aspect of a business. Why will someone pay $30,000 dollars for a Rolex, but feel a Timex isn’t worth more than $50 dollars?

Price 314

Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 314

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

The basic flaw in most arguments in support of CEO term limits stems from a belief that tenure is somehow a very relevant metric, and that there is some mystical optimum time to serve. And what if a company finds or is built by just that person…and loses them to a term limit?

CEO 287

CEO Blog Long-term Short-term 287

The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 10, 2021

A certified team coach, such as a Certified Team Performance Coach (through Team Coaching International (TCI), will address both the productivity (success metrics, KPIs) and positivity (engagement, relationships) of the team. Business coach, finance coach, sales coach. Leadership Coaching. Spiritual coach.

Mentor 80

Mentor Executive Coaching Seminar Globalization 80

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip. In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information.

Blog 419

Blog Reputation Participative Brand 419

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. My experience is that bonuses are absolutely effective given this caveat: they must be structured and implemented properly. It is not the bonus that is right or wrong, but the manner in which it is rolled-out.

Blog 325

Blog Metrics Brand CEO 325

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Rajamannar involved finance early. To spearhead analytic efforts, he assigned a finance person – who was already embedded in marketing – to create an ROI evaluation framework and integrated her deeper into the marketing function. MasterCard had always been a data-driven organization. Inside Intel. The result has been transformational.

Finance 13

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

RapidStart Leadership

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a friend of mine in the finance industry pointed out, successful teamwork under these conditions is all about finding creative ways to shrink the distance between you and the team. Once you do have your teammates gathered, be sure to plan in some fun team-building time in addition to the production-focused stuff.

Team 156

Team Power Bond Conference 156

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

I want metrics that mirror experience. If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. Tenure is too qualitative.

Loyalty 419

Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

In today’s post I’ll address a key metric that all companies should be focused on – Customer Experience Management (CEM)… Before I go any further let’s get the semantical arguments out of the way…Some will claim that a well conceived CRM initiative includes CEM as a subset.

Blog 273

Blog CRM Management Brand 273

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Leaders can be extremely strong in any of the areas above, but if they are not leading effectively or productively, if they are not meeting performance expectations, then they have work to do. I think many in leadership get to choose the metric they use to measure, and they seem to always choose the one that makes them look good.

Blog 310

Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 310

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .”

Finance 8

Finance Skills EBITDA Net Present Value 8

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

We track progress through standardized metrics and measurement. We also offer expanded coverage and support for mental health and provide employees with proactive financial wellbeing tools to improve management and finances and reduce financial stressors, including budgets, property and family planning.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Reinvesting in improvements like equipment, infrastructure, product development, and improving customer service are all valuable ways to build your business. Creating a workplace culture where your employees feel valued, challenged, and happy to come to work every day improves productivity, which turns into profit. Invest in yourself.

Succession 67

Succession Asset Management Software Outsourcing 67

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# If a person has a small business with product people might use, it could be a great opportunity to add another client.

Blog 403

Blog Leadership Self-aware Crisis 403

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. and ATIG, Productivity links. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Tweets that mention Brand Exposure | N2Growth Blog — Topsy.com [.]

Brand 325

Brand Brand Management Blog Media 325

Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

You are team leader on a cross-functional team project that includes; Sue from finance, Jack from engineering, Brian from Quality Assurance, Stephanie from human resources, Terri is the customer representative, Tony from production and Mike (me) is the team coach…. –Ferdinand Fournies. That is a serious problem.”. You: “NO BRIAN!

Team 143

Team Management Project Quality 143

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

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Blog 286

Blog Survey Talent Management Brand 286

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Even if you don’t find yourself having to frequently deal with extreme situations, it is often nothing more than normal dealings in the ordinary course of business that can place you at a nexus…Do you make your decision based upon the facts at hand and sound decisioning metrics, or do you let your emotions drive your decisions?

Blog 409

Blog Leadership Emotional Intelligence CEO 409

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

Consensus 333

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 17, 2012

At first, the answer to this question might seem obvious – the goals you’ve established are meant to ensure your organization’s continued profitability, to increase or sustain your market share, create a new demand for your products or services, and so forth. Have you defined for your team what success means for your organization?

Goal 189

Goal Short-term Long-term Marketing 189

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

Additionally, it is paramount that the CRO can not just fit but add to the organization’s culture in a productive way. This is primarily because outside of finance, a CRO intertwines with various essential business functions, including sales, marketing, customer service, and, ultimately, revenue generation.

Long-term 235

Long-term Due Diligence Quality Leadership Styles 235

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

If you incorporate the following metrics into your decisioning framework you will minimize the chances of making a bad decision: Perform a Situation Analysis : What is motivating the need for a decision? What would happen if no decision is made?

Blog 396

Blog Analysis CEO Brand 396

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

According to a recent survey in USA Today, Americans are far more worried about their finances than their health amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Widening incentive plan payout curves (the shape/slope of threshold to target, or target to maximum), particularly below target levels, to manage the uncertainty of incentive plan metrics results.

Short-term 59

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Top pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies hire healthcare executives who can successfully and consistently create or identify products that will be the next revenue generator for the firm. You must appeal to all of these audiences. Describe the scope of your therapeutic expertise and research, AND your corporate results.

Tactics 51

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It's one of my great drivers to achieve significance in what I do – even if that doesn't necessarily mean success as defined by any metric you care to choose… Thanks for an interesting read! Best Neil Ron Inspiring post! Success is temporal. Significance is eternal.

Blog 396

Blog Succession Influence Brand 396

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

According to a recent survey in USA Today, Americans are far more worried about their finances than their health amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Widening incentive plan payout curves (the shape/slope of threshold to target, or target to maximum), particularly below target levels, to manage the uncertainty of incentive plan metrics results.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Most companies get metrics all wrong.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. The right composition and metrics.

P&L 13

P&L How To Finance Metrics 13

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Whether your objectives involve increasing business revenue, maximizing your profits, providing better customer service or improving the productivity within your workplace, if you use the right tools you’ll be able to accomplish it. For example: In the Finance Department, an objective could be to cut spending and improve profit margins.

Objective 13

Objective SWOT Benchmarking Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. The metric was an attempt to put a thin veneer of respectability on what are extremely disconcerting profitability numbers for the company.

Christensen 19

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

Industry 12

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 12