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Innovation is a Lifestyle, Not a Bunch of Metrics

Innovation Excellence

Persistent growth, profit, ROI and NPV are the obvious measures, At least for the big stuff. Innovation activities simply for the sake of doing something without context and insight from the measure may be in fact very misleading.

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

The Idolbuster

Sabina” was a product manager working in lifescience industry who was part of a project that had to make that very choice. Sabina explained that she felt “pressured to show there is value in doing the project, a positive NPV. And life was difficult for the product manager, with lots of questions from his management team. “I

NPV 36
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A Refresher on Internal Rate of Return

Harvard Business Review

According to Knight, it’s commonly used by financial analysts in conjunction with net present value, or NPV. With NPV you assume a particular discount rate for your company, then calculate the present value of the investment ( more here on NPV ). ” The downside is that IRR is much more conceptual than NPV.

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Rethinking Valuation So You Don't Miss a Good Deal

Harvard Business Review

Since the Three Horizons represent different levels of uncertainty, they need to be managed and valued differently. The higher level of uncertainty associated with H2 and H3 necessitates an updated valuation methodology that takes into account more than the net present value (NPV) of the target. Alexander B.

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When It Pays to Think Like a Finance Manager

Harvard Business Review

Most finance managers in both large and small businesses encounter numerous proposals for capital investments and many of the people proposing these investments don’t have a clear picture of what the return will be. Do you think they’re going to do a net present value (NPV) analysis that shows they don’t need that computer?

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

With political upheaval roiling the streets of Cairo, the first concern of top management in many multinationals is to get their employees and their families out of Egypt safely. Anyone who has had to make the argument for an investment knows the basic tool involved: a Net Present Value (NPV) calculation.

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The Worst Failure of All Is Wasting a Failure

Harvard Business Review

Sebell (mark@creativerealities.com), who are managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc. a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. In interviews with a dozen senior managers from a large company, two particular failures came up over and over again. Create a knowledge management system. Triage the failures.

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