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How to Make the Business Case for Change

Lead Change Blog

Identify potential funding sources for both upfront and ongoing costs. Determine the budget lines that will pay for your proposal or describe the financing for it. If future cost savings will fund the initiative, show the payback calculation. Provide a cost-benefit analysis.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. What if the costs exceed projections, and the benefits fall short of projections?

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity.

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High Speed Rail Versus Austerity

Harvard Business Review

First, real estate developers respond by building new housing towers in close proximity to the new public transit stops. And while our work quantifies some of the spatial consequences of investing in high speed rail, we cannot claim to have conducted a cost/benefit analysis of such irreversible investments.

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How Freelancers Can Make Sure They Get Paid on Time

Harvard Business Review

Another tip: “Make sure you have the name and contact details of the person in finance with whom you’ll be dealing with,” says Pearce. Vicky has a standard contract that she developed with the help of an attorney. . “A deposit of 30-50% of your estimated fee is acceptable in many industries,” she says.

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An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

Harvard Business Review

Mission-oriented thinking could also be used to develop technology roadmaps for the 17 sustainable development goals. This includes basic research, applied research, and downstream patient and strategic long-term finance to companies. Yozma in Israel, and Sitra and Tekes in Finland have actively shaped and created markets.