Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 13, 2019

Computers, tools of the trade, vehicles, and buildings are the best examples of fixed assets. In a nutshell, a fixed asset is anything that a company buys intending to use for more than one year. The challenge that most companies encounter is in deciding what to do when it is time to get rid of assets.

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Asset Management Depreciation Company Fixed Assets 150

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2020

A vast majority of entrepreneurs, 80% to be precise, fund their enterprises out of pocket, and managing cash flow is a major challenge as most have no prior business cash flow education. Investing in fixed assets. A fixed asset is an asset acquired to liquidate at a later period.

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Entrepreneur Fixed Assets Insurance Outsourcing 80

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 21, 2017

No matter what operating system or type of device you use, there’s a good chance that the software you use can actually be used across multiple different platforms. You can edit it on your Mac laptop, Windows desktop, Android smartphone or even iOS tablet.

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Software Asset Management Fixed Assets Document 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

These choices historically conferred advantage – first-mover, scale – but asset-based scale advantages have diminished in recent years, thanks to technology, cheap information, and outsourcing. Assets are important, but they are, increasingly, table stakes in most competitive industries; everyone in the game has them.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

For example, a Towers Perrin study conducted in 2007-2008 among 90,000 employees in 18 countries found that companies with the most engaged employees had a 19 percent increase in operating income during the previous year, while those with the lowest levels had a 32 percent decline.

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Fixed Assets Competitive Advantage Commitment Definition 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It is derived by adjusting for changes in gross margin, capital intensity (fixed assets as a proportion of total assets), and positively for sales surprise (the degree to which actual sales exceeds or falls short of forecast). Consider the following example that Vishal Gaur of Cornell, my frequent co-author, shared with me.

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Retail Marketing Benchmarking Fixed Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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Long-term EPS Short-term Management 8