The SIMMETHOD algorithms review business data and stockholders valuation-decisions across business sectors and build industry-agnostic indices in order to identify, measure, correlate and predict your strengths, weaknesses, risks and opportunities against your current and potential future competitors from inside or outside your industry.

1. SIMMETHOD Crowd Competitive Intelligence, C-Level Analytics and Risk Alerts
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Road Map to 2015 Best In Class Performance
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3. The Market Views On Yahoo
“Yahoo rises on Alibaba’s Wings, Could Go Higher”
Reported Barron’s on 11/10/2014
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4. The Market Views On Yahoo
“Thanks to its stake in the Chinese e- commerce giant, Yahoo is selling for far less than its net asset value” Barron’s, 11/10/2014
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5. The Market Views On Yahoo
“Yahoo faces moment of decision, again. The company sold Alibaba’s shares worth $6B after taxes, and its remaining stake its valued at $36B” “Yet Yahoo’s shares have tumbled more than 8 percent since then, highlighting the difficult crossroad that now confronts Yahoo and its Chief Executive, Marissa Mayer” The New York Times
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6. The Way We Measure Corporate Risk and Performance Is Broken
Why do Businesses fail or fail to perform?
Blockbuster
Borders
Circuit City
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Wachovia
Washington Mutual
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7. Competing Outside your Industry
“My fundamental belief is that if a company wants to see the future, 80 percent of what is going to have to learn will be from outside its own industry”.
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8. SIMMETHOD Strategy & Execution
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How to holistically
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9. The CEO Dilemma in the Competitive Intelligence And Analytics Market
•Our industry did not see it coming!
•All my data and product-analytics pointed North while my business as a whole (in comparison to peers and the Best In Class in multiple industries) pointed South.
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10. Silos Analytics Lead to Many Versions of the Truth and Erroneous Decisions
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11. SIMMETHOD Strategy and Execution Performance Predictive Index
•The sum of a snake, fan, tree and wall is not equal to the elephant in the same way that your enterprise strategy & execution is more than the sum of your products and must be measured holistically with new industry agnostic metrics.
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12. SIMMETHOD Strategy and Execution Performance Predictive Index And Risk Alerts
Unlike data, metrics and analytics that:
•Lack context and are silo-based,
•Are industry specific,
•Provide a partial view of your enterprise
•Are disconnected from the KPIs of your customers’ CFO
•Lack risk alerts to fend off competitors from other industries
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13. SIMMETHOD Strategy and Execution Performance Predictive Index And Risk Alerts
The SIMMETHOD Strategy & Execution Performance Predictive Index is a holistic industry-agnostic representation of your strategy & execution that can be used to:
Measure your strategy & execution versus peers and the Best In Class,
Synchronize your products to the KPIs of your customers’ CFO
Provide risk alerts to fend off competitors from any industry.
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14. SIMMETHOD Strategy and Execution Performance Predictive Index And Risk Alerts
SIMMETHOD holistic enterprise strategy & execution performance predictive index, league table and risk alerts
SIMMETHOD algorithms
SIMMETHOD 7 Laws Your data
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15. The SIMMETHOD Algorithms and the 7 Laws of Growth and Value Creation
SIMMETHOD 7 Laws
Integration/alignment
Crowd analytics inside/outside your industry
Growth & value creation
Resource contribution to objectives
C-level Predictive performance & risk Averages & positive trends
Minimum company /business model
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16. SIMMETHOD Strategy and Execution Performance Predictive Index
•What is Yahoo’s position within the 2014 SIMMETHOD Strategy & Execution Performance Predictive Index Business League Table?
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17. SIMMETHOD’s C-Level Trends 2012-2014 Yahoo and the Best-In-Class
The following C-Level indices show Yahoo’s ability to:
•Strategize, execute and compete against peers and the SIMMETHOD industry- agnostic Best-In-Class and
•Are leading indicators of future business opportunities, risk and performance.
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Yahoo’s Strategy & Execution Performance Predictive Index is within the top 10 of the technology league table

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•SIMMETHOD Crowd-Sourced Competitive Intelligence Analytics
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23. SIMMETHOD Crowd-Sourced Competitive Intelligence
It shows your strengths and weaknesses at the enterprise (rather than the product) level and Your ability to compete with existing businesses and potential new competitors with new business models, cost structures, processes, distribution channels and products. 11/22/2014
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24. SIMMETHOD Crowd-Sourced Competitive Intelligence
•The SIMMETHOD algorithms review business data and stockholders valuation-decisions across business sectors and build industry- agnostic indices in order to identify, measure, correlate and predict your strengths, weaknesses, risks and opportunities against your current and potential future competitors from inside or outside your industry.
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25. SIMMETHOD Crowd-Sourced Competitive Intelligence SIMMETHOD’s Strategy & Execution Performance Predictive Indices and Risk Profiles are not deterministic.
Businesses that act on their SIMMETHOD leading indicators and risk alerts will improve their 2015 performance.
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26. SIMMETHOD Competitive Intelligence Trend Vs. Peers And Best-In-Class
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The crowd sourced analytics trend shows Yahoo’s reduced risk and improved competitive advantage vs. peers & B-I-C

27. SIMMETHOD Competitive Intelligence Trend Vs. Peers And Best-In-Class
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SIMMETHOD’s crowd analytics shows that Yahoo is leveraging resources at B-I-C level with a positive trend

28. SIMMETHOD Competitive Intelligence Trend Vs. Peers And Best-In-Class
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29. SIMMETHOD 2014 Competitive Intelligence Across Major Indices
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Yahoo: Best In Class performance across SIMMETHOD’s major indices

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•Yahoo’s 2012 to 2014 Trends And Competitive Advantage Across The SIMMETHOD Indices
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31. SIMMETHOD Strategy & Execution Performance Predictive Index
Yahoo’s 2012 to 2014 trend across the indices of the SIMMETHOD Best In Class showing:
•Competitive strengths,
•Competitive weaknesses,
•Industry agnostic Risk alerts and
•Opportunities for improvement in order to become Best In Class across a range of industries and fend off current and future competitors
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32. SIMMETHOD 2012 to 2014 Business and Industry Trends
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All SIMMETHOD indices are trending up and at B-I-C level except the overheads and the Minimum Company Business Model indices

33. SIMMETHOD 2012 to 2014 Business and Industry Trends
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SIMMETHOD’s crowd sourced analytics shows that Yahoo’s competitive advantage trend is positive vs. peers and SIMMETHOD’s Best in Class with some weakness at the Overheads & Minimum Company Business Model Index

34. SIMMETHOD’s C-Level Trends 2012-2014 Yahoo and the Best-In-Class
•When the Best-In-Class and your SIMMETHOD C-Level indices are moving in opposite directions, your ability to compete weakens in proportion to your widening gap to the Best-In-Class.
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35. SIMMETHOD Trends versus the SIMMETHOD Best In Class
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Yahoo Strategy & Execution Performance Predictive Index shows a positive trend above B-I-C level

36. SIMMETHOD Trends against the SIMMETHOD Best In Class
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There is a strong correlation between the SIMMETHOD Management Controllable Index (resources under management control) and SIMMETHOD’s Value Creation Index

38. SIMMETHOD Trends against the SIMMETHOD Best In Class
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43. SIMMETHOD Trends against the SIMMETHOD Best In Class
•In summary, most SIMMETHOD indices show positive outcomes and trend vs. the SIMMETHOD Best In Class highlighting Yahoo’s increased competitive advantage vs. peers and the Best In Class in the Technology League Table
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44. What are the SIMMETHOD Best In Class and Risk Profiles
•SIMMETHOD Best In Class analytical profiles and risk alerts provide you and your C-level with a large number of levers to improve your performance and reduce your risk
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45. Yahoo 2013-2014 Gap to the SIMMETHOD Best In Class Profiles
•Are Yahoo’s gaps to the SIMMETHOD Best In Class and risk profiles narrowing or widening ?
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46. Yahoo and the SIMMETHOD 2013 Best In Class Profile
Yahoo’s profit per employee is 3x higher than SIMMETHOD’s 2013 B-I-C average
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47. Yahoo and the SIMMETHOD 2014 Best In Class Profile
SIMMETHOD’s 2014 B-I-C average profit per employee is 1.2x higher than Yahoo
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48. Yahoo and the SIMMETHOD 2013 Best In Class Profile
SIMMETHOD’s 2013 B-I-C average value per employee is 1.15x higher than Yahoo
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49. Amazon and the SIMMETHOD 2014 Best In Class Profile
SIMMETHOD’s 2014 B-I-C average value per employee is 1.25x higher than Yahoo
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50. Yahoo and the SIMMETHOD 2013 Best In Class Profile
SIMMETHOD’s 2013 B-I-C average sales per employee are 1.1x higher than Yahoo
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51. Yahoo and the SIMMETHOD 2014 Best In Class Profile
SIMMETHOD’s 2014 B-I-C average sales per employee are 1.4x higher than yahoo
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52. Your gap to the SIMMETHOD Best In Class profiles determines your results
According to the SIMMETHOD crowd sourced analytics and in comparison to the SIMMETHOD Best In Class profiles:
Yahoo’s 2014 sales per employee are slightly below Best In Class levels,
Profit and value per employee are also slightly below Best In Class levels and trending down To generate $1 of business value, Yahoo requires about double the cash of the Best In Class
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53. Yahoo 2014 SIMMETHOD Risk and Performance Summary
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54. SIMMETHOD’s Disclaimer
•The purpose of the SIMMETHOD Strategy & Execution Performance Predictive Index and risk and opportunities alerts is not to make a business right or wrong but rather contribute towards the understanding of management actions in comparison to industry’s peers and the SIMMETHOD Best In Class.
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55. SIMMETHOD’s Disclaimer
•SIMMETHOD’s Strategy & Execution Performance Predictive Index and risk and opportunities alerts do not seek to be exact but rather serve as a conduit to ask better questions and seek better answers in the performance improvement, risk minimization and value creation journey.
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56. SIMMETHOD’s Disclaimer
•Sometimes, the value of a metric in itself does not provide the greatest of insights, but valuable actionable knowledge is gained from its ability to provide a trend or a common comparison yardstick with other businesses across a range of industries.
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57. SIMMETHOD’s Disclaimer
•This Presentation is for informational purpose only and SIMMETHOD shall not be liable for the contents of the Presentation or for any damage incurred or alleged to be incurred to any of the businesses included in the Presentation as a result of its content.
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58. SIMMETHOD Risk and Opportunities Alerts
SIMMETHOD is in the top 1% of most viewed on Slideshare and has been “Hot” on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook 50 times.
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59. Jorge Oscar Tabacman jtabacman@gmail.com Twitter ID: SIMMETHOD
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