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High Expectations: Managing For Value In The Automotive Industry

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Since shareholder value is driven by investor expectations of future cash flow and EP growth (See S&P 500 Warranted Value of Discounted Economic Profits vs. Actual Traded Value chart, below), EP has been used as the profitability metric for AlixPartners’ Automotive Value Creation study.

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Variable Compensation: All HR Needs to Know

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Variable compensation, also known as variable pay , is supplementary compensation typically tied to performance goals measured by specific metrics. Lowering fixed costs: Variable pay programs allow you to lower base salaries because you’re offering employees the prospect of earning additional money.

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Talent Strategy: ‘It’s About Being Intentional’

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And the already significant fixed costs of adding staff are only getting steeper. Every other week, he meets with his talent acquisition team to review the pipeline and the dashboard of metrics on what the market demands are, what they’re searching for, how they are doing in terms of speed and agility of hiring and how it’s changing.

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Exclusive: Jim Collins on ‘Thriving In Chaos’

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But they had this march, which was doubling components at affordable cost every 18 to 24 months, no matter what, like clockwork. It speaks to figuring out what that one key metric is that moves your business, and committing to it over and over. And if we do that, we can’t help but grow revenues per fixed cost.