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Outcomes Vs. Processes: What’s Driving Your Business?
Business outcomes are the goals of a business. They are essentially the reason that a business exists. Business processes are the series of steps used to achieve those goals. They represent how a company does business and how it interacts...
Recession? Realities.
Are we in a recession? Headed for a recession? In today's article, let's respond to realities rather than react to rumors. Read on as we explore how to align your actions to strategic goals, why it's critical to develop a...
Construction Accounting for Contractors: Building Better Business
In construction projects, contractors must understand the complexity of budgeting, timing, cash flow, purchasing, delivery, labor allocation, and accounting for their projects. In this article, we're breaking down a few aspects of these realities and exploring some characteristics that, when...
Tech, Transitions and Tomorrow: How We’re All Technology Companies Now
You - yes you, whatever you do - have a technology company. Some of us are creating solutions that require certain technologies to function, some of us are developing those technologies, and all of us are using, benefiting from, or...
Understanding and Executing Strategic Agility
Agility in business is the ability to move fast. Strategic agility is moving fast with purpose. In this article, we’ll discuss the value of being strategically agile. Not all organizations are designed for moving fast - yet market dynamics (and...
Problem Solving in Supply Chain Distribution
In the past year, distribution and supply chain factors have impacted us all in our businesses and lives. Let's develop an understanding of the domino effects that can happen with supply chain and distribution disruption and learn to manage their...
Mastering the Month Closing
When it comes to the progress of your company, how can you be sure of your performance? That you're moving closer to goals? Are you certain that key stakeholders are receiving the insights they need to make smart decisions? The...
How to Use Scorecards to Drive Higher Performance
If the only numbers you or leaders in your organization ever see are long spreadsheets requiring a two-hour meeting held once each quarter... you're doing it wrong. This article explores the value of scorecards - simple, specific reports that tell...
Financial Realities & Risks in Healthcare: Innovation in Leadership
The healthcare industry has experienced business and financial dynamics in the last few years that have challenged not just the industry but all of us as patients, customers, or receivers of care. In many ways, the healthcare industry parallels what...
Raise Your Prices Right Now
Inflation coming so quickly off the heels of the pandemic is creating cash flow and revenue issues for many organizations. In this article, we’ll explore how once-in-awhile price increases, especially knee-jerk reactions to outside dynamics, aren’t the path to sustainable...
Budgeting and Reporting for Non-Profits
Non-Profits have many unique characteristics in generating revenue, cultivating “customers” (or donors), and providing services. But they have a lot in common with for-profit businesses, too, including the need for accurate budgeting and reporting. This article will explore some of...
Business Transactions: Understanding the Flywheel of Business Evolution
In this article, we'll seek to simplify what seems complex: Transactions. To understand transactions in business, we have to go beyond buying and selling and dive into motivating, contributing and complementing factors. As a company is younger and smaller, for...
