Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2019

Plus it’s a useful number for comparing with different standard industry ratios. Differentiate between fixed costs, such as rent and payroll, and variable costs, such as advertising and delivery. Develop a cash-flow statement. If your business is viable, at a certain point your revenue will exceed your costs.

Finance 10

Finance Planning Development SWOT 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

Conducting a thorough market analysis to understand the target market, industry standpoint, business strengths, market trend, market theme, etc. Describing the offerings of your services, the product life cycles, intellectual properties as well as the research and development procedures of your business. Purchasing an Insurance Policy.

Break-even Analysis 74

Break-even Analysis Analysis Licensing Price 74

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Such a strategy limits an early venture's funding in order to force the business to develop a profitable business model and then invests heavily in growth once such a model is identified — Christensen terms such investments "good money" for incubating growth businesses and extols the strategy for three reasons.

Christensen 19

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Venture Funding 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. Model 3: Joint venture of similar assets.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8