How To Maximize Your Profit Health Index
This measurement, which reflects pricing in the new Age of Diverse Markets, can be far more helpful than EBITDA.
This measurement, which reflects pricing in the new Age of Diverse Markets, can be far more helpful than EBITDA.
Analyzing and remediating budget variances is a critical way to identify opportunities and risks, but too few CFOs focus on the right concerns. Here’s how your finance chief can fix that.
With many organizations looking to transform their supply chains this year, MIT’s Jonathan Byrnes wrote a piece last week on How to Design a High-Profit Supply Chain. In this week’s Part II, he focuses on supply chain management.
A recent HSBC survey of over 2,000 executives found that 42 percent plan to transform their supply chains in 2023, and 47 percent view this as a priority in the near future. A look at how to make sure yours maximizes profits in this first of a two-part response.
‘In today’s business era, sales, operations and product management have surprisingly aligned interests. They are poised to form a natural alliance to maximize profitability, often without realizing it.’
Most budget processes are based on the old “more revenues, less costs” paradigm. To root out embedded unprofitability, look at exactly where you are making profits. Here are three steps to profit-driven budgeting.
To make artificial intelligence and machine learning work for you, take on the management issues that can get in the way. Here’s how.
To do it right, let go of your company’s “evolutionary past” and take a granular look at where your profitability comes from today—it might surprise you.
The key to this common but often destructive challenge? Turn the price war into a value war.
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Over 70% of Executives Surveyed Agree: Many Strategic Planning Efforts Lack Systematic Approach Tips for Enhancing Your Strategic Planning Process
Executives expressed frustration with their current strategic planning process. Issues include:
Steve Rutan and Denise Harrison have put together an afternoon workshop that will provide the tools you need to address these concerns. They have worked with hundreds of executives to develop a systematic approach that will enable your team to make better decisions during strategic planning. Steve and Denise will walk you through exercises for prioritizing your lists and steps that will reset and reinvigorate your process. This will be a hands-on workshop that will enable you to think about your business as you use the tools that are being presented. If you are ready for a Strategic Planning tune-up, select this workshop in your registration form. The additional fee of $695 will be added to your total.
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Female leaders face the same issues all leaders do, but they often face additional challenges too. In this peer session, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices and how to overcome common barriers to help women leaders be more effective within and outside their organizations.
Limited space available.
10:30 - 5:00 pm
General’s Retreat at Hermitage Golf Course
Sponsored by UBS
General’s Retreat, built in 1986 with architect Gary Roger Baird, has been voted the “Best Golf Course in Nashville” and is a “must play” when visiting the Nashville, Tennessee area. With the beautiful setting along the Cumberland River, golfers of all capabilities will thoroughly enjoy the golf, scenery and hospitality.
The golf outing fee includes transportation to and from the hotel, greens/cart fees, use of practice facilities, and boxed lunch. The bus will leave the hotel at 10:30 am for a noon shotgun start and return to the hotel after the cocktail reception following the completion of the round.