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.
Strategy Driven
AUGUST 25, 2020
Investing in fixed assets. Investopedia defines an asset as an economically valuable resource owned, controlled, or acquired with the expectation that it will appreciate later. A fixed asset is an asset acquired to liquidate at a later period. Keep your sidewalks and parking lot in mint condition as well.
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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.
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.
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.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 17, 2018
Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. According to Reuters reporting , until a few years ago the bank operated in Sudan, a country whose government was under U.S. sanctions, like Iran.
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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