Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) sounds like the kind of thing a “finance guy” says to convey a level of pith when you know it’s merely status signaling amongst peers and decision makers. It tends to be bandied about in conjunction with terms like...

We all tend to get the idea of what a budget is. It’s intuitive. You have a plan, you translate it financially, and then you measure your execution against it. Often the confusion comes with what to do with the plan when it comes up against...

I tend to wince when I hear the word strategy. I know that a failure to plan is a plan to fail but the lack of a plan is a different problem than a “vision” that spans 7-15 years. Because too often a strategy is loved because of the number of...