4. Increase
Sales
‘My team hit
their sales
targets’
+ +
Increase
Experience
‘I increased
customer
retention – and
hit my target for
new customers’
On-time
Product
Development
‘I launched the
new range with
the higher gross
margin on time’
?
=
‘Nobody knew
how our
decisions
impacted the
bottom line!’
INDIFFERENT TO
PROFITABLITY
Delight
Customers
‘We achieved
every fulfillment
and customer
satisfaction
target we were
set’
+
HAPPY PERFORMERS IN SILOS …BUT
PRODUCT
MANAGEMENT
Jef
OPERATIONS
Gary
SALES
Paul
MARKETING
Daisy
MEET THE CORPORATE CITIZENS …
The scene has been set for a tremendous collaboration between the Business and the CFO, or not?
If I tell you the following as a result out of some polls and some recent experiences.
The Business
- does not know that only 10 % of the customers generate profits for the company (90 % of resources…?)
50 % of marketing budgets are spend on the wrong customer segments
Finance
90 % of Finance professionals have never heard about Customer LifeTime Value
50 % of CFO’s admit the urgency for transform but are missing key competences like “Empathy” and “Creativity”
Business and CFO’s should collaborate very closely in evaluating new business models, because what is mostly the biggest pitfall in it, is starting something because of a trend and not understanding is this really contributes to the bottom-Line
Peter will tell you more about how to build new businesses.
Meet the corporate citizens
Each has his own KPI’s defined within the silo and is maximizing his performance on the short term, because this is how they are measured for running the silo in the most efficient and effective manner.
Only, siloed optimizations could lead to inefficiencies elsewhere in the value chain.
That is why bottom-line profitability at always should be brought into the equation when evaluating improvement or transformation programs
Operational Excellence and Customer Experience are absorbing most of the improvement budgets nowadays, but…
Have you considered that running them side by side, still trying to optimize the performance in the short term (profitability) might be destroying Company Value over longer term.
Transformation programs might seem influencing the KPI’s in the right direction, even profits might have increased, while Company Value has gone down.
Therefore I want to make you aware that automating processes without aiming in the right direction will not lead to the expected impact on Company Value.
Let’s make an analogie :
If you are not good in driving a car, take a “2 cheveau” and one day you will hit something “smoothly”,
If you are not good in driving a car, and you take a Ferrari, you will hot something “very hard”
In order to aim right I am presenting a KPI which seems to be looking at a bright future.
I am introducing you the KPI who reflects best Company Value nowadays.
(80 % of Fortune’s 500 Companies are valued based on intanginbles and not on past period performance anymore)
Let me explain Customer Life Time Value based on aa simple formula
-Acq = Cost of acquiring new customers
N = how a customer remains
Margin = what the customer contribuites to the bottom-Line (incl complexity of serving him)
Ret = Effort needed to keep the customer happy and lenghten the relationship
Once you have this youo can calculate what an individual customer is worth.
Company Value is then the Total of all invidual Customer Values.
The scene has been set for a tremendous collaboration between the Business and the CFO, or not?
If I tell you the following as a result out of some polls and some recent experiences.
The Business
- does not know that only 10 % of the customers generate profits for the company (90 % of resources…?)
50 % of marketing budgets are spend on the wrong customer segments
Finance
90 % of Finance professionals have never heard about Customer LifeTime Value
50 % of CFO’s admit the urgency for transform but are missing key competences like “Empathy” and “Creativity”
Business and CFO’s should collaborate very closely in evaluating new business models, because what is mostly the biggest pitfall in it, is starting something because of a trend and not understanding is this really contributes to the bottom-Line
Peter will tell you more about how to build new businesses.