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Santa: Why I Was Ghosted by Elon Musk & Faced an AI-Inspired Rebellion
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Santa: Why I Was Ghosted by Elon Musk & Faced an AI-Inspired Rebellion
Phew, just back from a sleigh test flight and nearly had a collision with one of those Space X rockets as it plunged to Earth!
Talking of Elon Musk, my offhand comment back in August about the high cost of keeping my reindeers in shape resulted in a flurry of late-night tweets from the boss of Tesla.
Why and How You Should Scale Up Your Business
Why and How You Should Scale Up Your Business
If you consider what sets companies like eBay, Alibaba, Netflix, Google, Starbucks, Apple, Cisco and Dell apart from other companies, their ability to continuously innovate and create high growth will probably come high on your list.
So should the fact they’ve all successfully transitioned from start up to scale up status without losing their ability to be dynamic and entrepreneurial.
8 Guaranteed Profit Drivers for WA Legal firms – Part 3
8 Guaranteed Profit Drivers for WA Legal firms
Over the last 2 weeks we have explored these 4 Profit Drivers;
Keeping Costs as Low as Possible
Highly Structured and Efficient Billing and Debt Collection
Marketing and Business Development Activities
Strong Cashflow Management
This week – let’s look at;
Retaining Quality Staff
Strong Financial Management
RETAINING QUALITY STAFF
In an ideal world, you would like to have the best quality staff all around in every dept in your practice.
8 Guaranteed Profit Drivers for WA Legal firms – Part 2
Last week we explored
Keeping Costs as Low as Possible
Highly Structured and Efficient Billing and Debt Collection
This week let’s look at
Marketing and Business Development Activities
Strong Cashflow Management
MARKETING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
Generally, this function is considered a soft skill – and not something you may consider a “finance” area of focus. But as you know every area of business has some impact on the money,
8 Guaranteed Profit Drivers for WA Legal firms
8 Guaranteed Profit Drivers for WA Legal firms
Overall, WA legal firms have had a slow and disappointing recovery from our mining boom days. Legal practices Australia wide have shown signs of industry pressure in areas such as automation, outsourcing and the continual client pressure to adjust billing models, while still maintaining revenues and the pressure to improve profit.
With the average revenue growth spanning anything from 18% in Queensland and 10% in NSW,
What to Expect from a Part-Time CFO
What to Expect from a Part-Time CFO
The idea of hiring even a part-time CFO may seem to some SMEs a bit OTT—like paying Quentin Tarantino to make a 90-second home page video or booking Wembley Stadium for the company’s five-a-side friendly football match.
But for companies whose ambition is to get into and survive the coveted scale-up phase, hiring a part-time CFO makes perfect sense. They know that they’re getting a finance veteran,
What A Finance Director Can Do for Your Company
What A Finance Director Can Do for Your Company
You might think a Finance Director’s role is confined to traditional finance activities, but today’s CFO can do so much more than count beans.
In the past, an CFO’s responsibilities might have been confined to high-level accounting such as providing timely financial statements and monthly management reports, managing investments and expenses, monitoring cash flow, and managing risk. But as the business landscape has become more complex over the past decade,
Why Hollywood Actors Should Get Training from FDs
Why Hollywood Actors Should Get Training from FDs
You shouldn’t be surprised to discover that Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Hugh Jackman, Gary Oldman among many other Oscar-winning actors and actresses bear a grudge against Finance Directors.
It’s easy to understand why. For although the likes of Streep and Oldman have achieved fame, fortune and critical acclaim, they can usually only inhabit one role at a time. They take it on for a few months and then move on to the next.
The Rising Power of AI in Financial Services
The Rising Power of AI in Financial Services
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already transforming the way in which financial service companies are doing business.
More and more of them are using AI to process information on their customers, cut costs, save time, monitor behaviour patterns, assess credit quality, automate client interactions, analyse markets, assess data quality and detect fraud.
A pwc Digital IQ 2017 survey found that 72% of business decision makers believe AI will be the business advantage of the future.
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