Financial Strategy, Big Data, and ‘The Paper Chase’ Oh My – Week’s 5 Best Posts

by Donald McMichael
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This week, my 5 favorite busi­ness and strat­egy post cover: Why build­ing your finance func­tion like Groupon, Twit­ter, and LinkedIn works for you How to get your Big Data on – the what, how (stew­ard­ship), and why (BI analy­sis) Bar­ter­ing redone — the new cash flow enhancer As, always I’m look­ing to share with you qual­ity information […]

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The Profitability Paradox – Cash Flow Projections Why Successful Businesses Almost Always Rely on them First

by Donald McMichael
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photo via 401k’s on Flickr.com All to often small busi­nesses obsess on how much money they’re going to make, the total num­ber of clients, and how much profit they’ll gen­er­ate. What they lose sight of is the impor­tant third leg of the busi­ness stool, day-to-day cash flow; doing so almost always guar­an­tees major prob­lems whether […]

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Retooling Your Business Analysis Perspective; 5 Posts to Get You Started

by Donald McMichael
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This week my 5 favorite busi­ness and strat­egy post cover: Why a retooled FP&A (Finance Plan­ning & Analy­sis) is retak­ing a promi­nent seat at the at the lead­er­ship table. Gain­ing busi­ness activ­ity clar­ity by lever­ag­ing your CRM process to fuel accu­rate sales pro­jec­tions. New busi­ness model gen­er­a­tion — media and tech­nol­ogy their never end­ing adop­tion path. As, always […]

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5 Hints on Overcoming Stalled Growth Strategies

by Donald McMichael
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This week my 5 favorite busi­ness and strat­egy post cover: It’s all about grow­ing your busi­ness… here’s the how to do it smartly. What’s old is best again… net­work­ing 1980’s style. Don’t call it a come­back… 4 steps for reviv­ing an ail­ing com­pany. As, always I’m look­ing to share with you qual­ity infor­ma­tion that helps increase […]

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5 Posts that Help You Buck Business Convention and Succeed

by Donald McMichael
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This week my 5 favorite busi­ness and strat­egy post cover: Why buck­ing busi­ness con­ven­tion is often a good thing. Why com­plex sys­tem pat­tern recog­ni­tion should be your arse­nal. Bet­ting on your clients to help grow the busi­ness. As, always I’m look­ing to share with you qual­ity infor­ma­tion that helps increase your busi­ness devel­op­ment skills, enhance your level […]

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Making Solid Business Decisions: 7 Things that You Must Know

by Donald McMichael
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photo: Simon Doggett via Flickr Why are bad deci­sions made by capa­ble busi­nesses? Busi­ness deci­sions are typ­i­cally green-lighted, if not made directly, by sea­soned peo­ple within an orga­ni­za­tion, then why is it so hit or miss? After all, isn’t deci­sion mak­ing some­thing that we as indi­vid­u­als do mil­lions of times a day, day in and day out? […]

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5 Cornerstones of a Powerfully Successful Business Development Pitch

by Donald McMichael
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photo:  Aladair Mid­dle­ton via Flickr You live and die by the pitch in busi­ness.   Pitch­ing is not a sci­ence nor an art & sci­ence it’s pure art. You have mere min­utes to impress your audi­ence and with suc­cess or fail­ure hang­ing in the bal­ance a tight rel­e­vant pre­sen­ta­tion is key.    There are tons of […]

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