Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

Grow while keeping fixed costs constant. The resistance to the winning now, winning later mindset often comes from the leadership and not the frontline staff because they live the consequences of short-term think every day. Scrub accounting and business practices down to what is real. Invest in the future, but not excessively.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

Apart from conducting detailed market research, finding out fair clientele, performing surveys, retaining target groups, exploring SEO, and researching public data, which are obviously important factors, one must also remain very adaptable to changing situations. What will be the market where you want to get into?

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Break-even Analysis Analysis Licensing Price 77

HR Digest

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The use of cloud computing can help to save hardware and operational cost. Also, the buck money spent on marketing can actually be reduced when social media and online marketing is applied. Not just about the cost reduction, it also gives the business a wider range of profit-making opportunity. Reduce production cost.

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How To Budgeting Cost Fixed Costs 63

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It is useful to to distinguish between two broad classes of business models Cost Structures: cost cost-driven and value-driven from the following categories Cost-driven, Value-driven. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Another issue involves reallocating resources in the face of fundamental market shifts.

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Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

A second important deficiency arises from the fallacy that a cost-plus price is guaranteed to cover costs. Cost-plus prices provide no guarantee of covering costs or earning a profit. If the major competitors in a market use cost-plus pricing, it stabilizes price levels.

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Price Cost Tactics Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

He asked one former major investor for a reaction to the company’s prediction (accompanying poor quarterly results): “that the [current] market contraction will bottom out soon and our profits will improve.” I assumed you had some further cost reduction up your sleeve.” What he heard was uncomfortable.

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