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?

Break-even Analysis 74

Break-even Analysis Analysis Licensing Price 74

HR Digest

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Most business managers struggle to understand how to reduce business expenses because they have dedicated teams handling finances. It is not wrong to have a team of financial experts but as a manager, you need to under the basic ways to reduce business cost. The use of cloud computing can help to save hardware and operational cost.

How To 63

How To Budgeting Cost Fixed Costs 63

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2019

Your marketing plan and SWOT analysis are interesting – but they don’t mean a thing if you don’t have realistic figures on your bottom line. This allows you to demonstrate gross margin: sales revenue less sales costs. Then work out your liabilities or debts – the bills for suppliers, finance and loan repayments.

Finance 10

Finance Planning Development SWOT 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

Secondly, expecting a business to be profitable quickly forces it to keep its fixed costs low. Because a business's cost structure determines which customers it finds profitable, keeping these fixed costs low preserves strategic options for the company when it is choosing which customers to target.

Christensen 20

Christensen Fixed Costs Metrics Business Model 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Over the past two decades, there have been many attempts to reform the electric utility market. Consider how Uber opened up the transportation market. In both cases, the two goods (car and real estate) are given value-creating potential through a process of market fragmentation and consumer empowerment.

Energy 8

Energy Transportation Software Price 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 Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

If you are a growth-obsessed startup and venture capital financing dries up and buyers grow scarce, you can run out of money. If you are inside a big company, profit-draining ventures are typically early sacrifices in corporate cost-cutting exercises. A pure focus on growth carries risks. There are wonderful exceptions to this rule.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Long-term Christensen 8