Data is moving from something you use outside the workstream (support-mode) to becoming a part of the business app itself. The growing challenge in corporations is how to organize for “data as a platform.” What is the right organizational structure that will help monetize data? John Wanamaker, considered a pioneer in modern advertising, said: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the problem is I don’t know which half.” Today, we can say the same of enterprise investment in business intelligence (BI), analytics, and big data.
Even after doing their best for over 20 years to build centralized, scalable information architecture, I found that only a small percentage of organizations’ data is actually converted to useful information in time to leverage it for better insight and decisions. The other challenge facing leadership is the rapid evolution of the data platform (see below.) Leadership Challenge How do you become a world-class data-driven firm? CoE elements include: Summary. WIT DotMatrix. Are you destroying shareholder value? - Rusk O'Brien Gido + Partners, LLC. Most small businesses destroy shareholder value, rather than create it. This was the conclusion of a study by a well-respected business professor I recently heard lecture on the subject of small to mid-size business capital markets. The premise is simple. If your business cannot provide a return on investment equal to or greater than its cost of capital, it is destroying shareholder value.
This theory raises many interesting questions for the small business owner/manager. Is this value destruction true of most A/E and environmental consulting firms? If it is true, then why do we have over 300,000 small business entities in these industries and how do these businesses continue to survive if in fact they destroy shareholder value? To answer the first question, we need to define the cost of capital, specifically the cost of equity capital that would apply to the typical small businesses in the A/E and environmental consulting industry. The table below illustrates three examples.
Business Model Innovation. What is core in your Business Model? Focusing on what a business does best, is often argued the easiest and most efficient way for companies to grow and be profitable. In the 1980s Tom Peters and Robert Waterman referred to this as "sticking to your knitting" in their classic book In Search of Excellence, a decade later Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad described the concept as focusing on "core competencies" in the Harvard Business Review article The Core Competence of the Corporation. The core is not only unique competences For me working primarily in intellectual asset and intellectual property management, the core is very often a set of innovations, unique technology, patents or developed software.
But the core in a business model can equally be a unique way of delivering services, a unique position within a network of actors, a strong relationship with a certain kind of customer, strong strategic alliances, a unique recipe, a low cost operation, an established brand etc. Increasing levels of collaboration Also: Solman Videos. SaaS Metrics - A Guide to Measuring and Improving What Matters |
This blog post looks at the high level goals of a SaaS business and drills down layer by layer to expose the key metrics that will help drive success. Metrics for metric’s sake are not very useful. Instead the goal is to provide a detailed look at what management must focus on to drive a successful SaaS business. For each metric, we will also look at what is actionable. There is an updated (re-written) version of this post available here: SaaS Metrics 2.0.
Before going any further, I would like to thank the management team at HubSpot, and Gail Goodman of Constant Contact, who sits on the HubSpot board. Let’s start by looking at the high level goals, and then drill down from there: Key SaaS Goals Profitability: needs no further explanation. Two Key Guidelines for SaaS startups The above guidelines are not hard and fast rules. In the next sections, we will drill down on the high level SaaS Goals to get to the components that drive each of these. Three ways to look at Profitability Other Metrics. Profit Builder Network LLC. Business Model Generation. BeyeNETWORK: The Future Role of Business Intelligence within the. Depending on who you ask, there are 195 countries in the world today. While the majority of economic resources are controlled by a small, yet very powerful subset of global corporations and sovereign nations, the impact of their actions is felt by the entire world community.
That the recent economic crisis was triggered by a variety of factors including faulty assumptions, greed, malfeasance, ineptitude, lack of oversight and a host of other causes is not surprising in retrospect. One of the most important revelations is how interconnected our world has become in the past 50 years. In his speech to the Council on Foreign Relations on March 10, 2009, FRB Chairman Ben Bernanke highlighted the significance of managing the systemic risk of the global financial system. Traditional assumptions around financial institutions once considered “too big to fail” or “too interconnected to fail” are being challenged in light of the enormous cost of the recent crisis to society as a whole.