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Author Archives: Stuart Nokes

Netflix Price Increase – good business sense or a boondoggle?

Recently Netflix raised it prices 60% for many of their subscribers. While I do not have insight into their financial model or how that will impact profitability, I think the price increase was a mistake for the following reasons:

What are Profit Levers?

Your CEO asks you to increase profitability.  First, find your profit levers.

Creating the Client Profitability Map

Making a client profitability map using a 2 x 2 matrix.

Increase Profits by Eliminating Low Performers

Visual analytics is a great way to uncover insights in complex financial data while highlighting opportunities for improvements. A quick way to visualize profitability is by using the Client Profitability chart.  This chart quickly highlights and orders clients by margin as well as contribution to total profits.  The chart clearly shows the unprofitable clients and [...]