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Let's Make a Deal Growing your company larger will allow you to compete if there are economies of scale, if you can establish a local or regional dominance, or if you can attract and larger and more profitable clients.   |
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How to Analyze an Industry Don't buy without considering threat of entry, bargaining power, and more. Take these things into consideration and you may be able to zero in on the most attractive company in the industry. |
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Idea Person How should the threat of new financial planning competition drive your firm's thinking and strategy? |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Managing Profitability: One Year Later The most important issue facing managers in this difficult economy is making more money from the existing business without costly new initiatives. The author revisits this assertion from a year ago. |
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Blueprints for Strategy The times, they are a-changin' for the financial planning industry. Look around you, plan your strategy and execute. |
The Motley Fool
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This Stock Has the Edge Porter's Five Forces examines a company through five lenses: barriers to entry, threat of substitutes, power of buyers, power of suppliers, and industry jockeying. Let's see how Netflix does with these measures. |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2004
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The Perfect Business Understanding the quality of a business is critical to being a successful investor, as it is a major determinant of what one should be willing to pay for a stock. |
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Michael Porter's Big Ideas The world's most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make a difference as a leader, you've got to make time for strategy... |
The Motley Fool
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What Is Starbucks' Edge? A look at Starbucks through Porter's Five Forces. |
The Motley Fool
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Software Companies With Staying Power Everything you wanted to know about moats, but were afraid to ask. |
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Bearish on the Airlines Pricing may be the biggest issue that airlines face in their battle with one another. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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Making the CFO Chief Profitability Officer Profitability management opens a new realm of opportunity for the creative CFO. Using it, a CFO can generate revenues, profits, and cash surprisingly quickly, and at very little cost. But it requires that the CFO move beyond his or her traditional domain. |
The Motley Fool
January 15, 2008
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I Like Big Moats and I Cannot Lie Do you know the most important thing Warren Buffett looks for when evaluating a company? The first thing Buffett looks for is an economic moat -- the bigger, the better. |
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The Age of Precision Markets A look at the shift from mass markets to precision markets as well as the factors driving a precision market. |
CRM
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Add Customer Satisfaction Through Analytics Companies need to improve customer value to boost profitable growth, gain insights into customers' profitability and lifetime value, and monitor customer behavior across multiple channels and social media |
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Squeeze Now, Pay Later A wounded vendor may turn around and bite the CIO who squeezes it too hard. |
The Motley Fool
April 5, 2006 |
Strategy Creates Sustainable Advantage When you're analyzing a company as a potential investment, ask yourself if a few key questions: What is this company's strategy? Is it sensible and distinct? Does it -- or will it -- lead to superior profitability? And, most importantly: Is it defensible? |
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A Tight Ship Profitability management helped PC maker Dell pull off a turnaround. Can it help you do the same? |
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Not All Customers Are Equal: The Case for Differentiated Service Insurers can maximize their customer service technology investments by identifying what is valuable to different tiers of customers and matching capabilities to customer profitability. |
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Profits One Customer at a Time CRM strategists often speak of improving company performance by boosting revenue on a per-customer basis. CRM magazine cuts through the hype to examine what individual customer profitability can--and cannot--do for your business. |
The Motley Fool
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A Tattoo's Forever; Your Stocks, Not So Much We may buy a stock with the assumption that we'll hang on to it for 20 years, then rarely check up on it. Unfortunately though, things change. Hope for the long term, but don't count on it. |
The Motley Fool
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Starbucks Pleased With Overseas CEO Orin Smith says talk of international struggles is overstated. |
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Security National Brings Families Closer Customer profitability software allows a bank to gain strategic clarity about the drivers of its overall profitability, but it's difficult to pin down an exact return on investment. |
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January 2006
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Listen Up Financial advisory firms are demonstrating their ability to weather the tough times of the last few years. But to continue their profitability in the future, they need to make client service a priority. |
Financial Advisor
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RIM Shot Service pricing is not the sole issue for today's financial advisors to deal with. There are several issues unique to Retirement Income Management practices that require attention. |
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Deciphering Fund Fees Profitability is an important consideration for investors and investment advisors. It can help investors and investment advisors judge whether or not a firm has the ability to invest in its own business, one indication of the soundness of the business. |
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This Wireless Stock Is King of the Castle Verizon's moat keeps competitors at bay. |
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A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability Some companies become customer-obsessed rather than customer-focused and lose potential profits. |
The Motley Fool
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Dell-icious! Dell reports another outstanding quarter. Long-term investors will notice that analysts expect earnings to rise 24% this year and 17.5% next year -- pricing the stock at 20.7 times 2006 earnings. |
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CRM
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Predicting Profitability After years of trial-and-error, enterprises are finally developing innovative strategies and incorporating new software to allow them to identify - and sell to - their most profitable customers. |
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The Mobile Advisor Is working without an office a viable business model? |
The Motley Fool
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Foolish Forecast: Pushing the Limited Judging from the rolling margins, the company appears to be slipping, becoming less profitable over time, and thus unlikely to turn in a profits improvement three times better than its sales improvement. Investors, take note. |
