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How To Create An Exciting Portrait of Hope Through Strategic Planning

Mar 16, 2022 by Jack O'Riley 0 Comments
When many business owners and executives hear the words "Strategic Planning," their minds jump to another topic. Any other subject will do. In their hearts, they know that planning is important to the organization. But knowing where to start is the issue. They have heard the stories from their peers who created a plan, and it sat on the shelf for a year or forever. As a result, planning happened once and then stopped. It amounted to a waste of time and money. The question then becomes: why bother planning at all?
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9 Forecasting Phrases to Listen For

May 24, 2019 by Jack O'Riley 2 Comments
Part of the “secret sauce” in playing The Great Game of Business is developing a consistent Huddle rhythm that includes forward forecasting your income statement by "line owners," or people close to the numbers that have responsibility for reporting each line of the P & L. The level at which associates embrace this practice varies across Huddle team members—some take it very seriously, while others devote little or no time to this critical process. As a business coach who has been a part of hundreds, if not thousands, of Huddles, I've learned what to listen for in a forecast. When I hear phrases like these below, it alerts me to dig a little deeper and ask questions of the line owner to promote a better thought-out and more accurate forecast:
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Tips You Need to Know for Forecasting Cash Flow

Sep 10, 2015 by Jack O'Riley 0 Comments
Forecasting cash flow is the key to the survival of many organizations, yet it’s a non-existent process in others. Often, organizations with abundant cash see little value in taking the time to put a system in place to do this. Other organizations that operate with little or no cash see forecasting cash flow as a critical element in running their business in such a manner as to avoid a crisis of liquidity. The truth is, Forecasting cash flow should be a part of the monthly business cycle, regardless of your cash situation, and here is why.
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Disciplined Forward Forecasting

Aug 12, 2013 by Jack O'Riley 0 Comments
The High-Involvement Method for Improving Financial Performance Assuring that the time and money spent on Forward Forecasting yields greatly improved financial performance is certainly one of the primary results expected from this process. A key element of financial Forecasting success is the involvement of the right people regardless of functional area, organizational position or geography.
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