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Small Business Stats: An easy way to boost performance

Source: Bain & Co. 

Topics: Money People Customers Planning & Forecasting Competitive Analytics KPIs Business Performance Small Business

How would you spend $1.6 million?

Corporate retreat?

Company Ferrari?

Picasso for the boardroom?

If you're like the small-to-medium-sized companies cited in a just-released IDG_Enterprise survey, you'll be spending that amount over the next 12 months on data.

Surprised?

Topics: Money Insights Business Performance Small Business Analytics

Small Business Stats: explanation or excuse?

Source: Intuit 

Topics: Money People Customers Planning & Forecasting Competitive Analytics KPIs Business Performance Small Business

Small Business Stats: Cash Flow Kills

 

Topics: Money People Customers Planning & Forecasting Competitive Analytics KPIs Business Performance Small Business

Goodbye “bean counter,” hello “future CEO” — Why the CFO is the new rock star of American business

  • Dull.
  • Boring.
  • Afraid of change.
  • Afraid of risk.
  • Set-in-their-ways.
  • Uninspiring.

For the longest time, you could pretty much describe any CFO with a word or two from that list.

Not anymore.

Increasingly, CFOs — especially those making a name for themselves — are redefining their role, moving beyond traditional responsibilities like number-crunching and bill-paying to set and control strategy.

Why?

This quote in The Los Angeles Times from Sergio Monsalve, a partner with Norwest Venture Partners, neatly sums it up:

"The world is moving to caring a lot about two things: money and data," Monsalve says. "There's only one person in the company who touches both in an intimate way, and that happens to be the CFO.”

Topics: Money Planning & Forecasting Competitive Analytics Business Performance Small Business Business Intelligence Analytics Data

8 Essential SaaS resources

Software as a Service (SaaS) is exploding, projected to become a $50.8B market by 2018.

Topics: Money People Customers Competitive Analytics KPIs Business Performance Small Business Business Intelligence Analytics Data SaaS