Author: hillikerconsultingservices

Projecting the Future

Five General Considerations to Guide Your Financial Projection Process Projecting the future involves a degree of uncertainty, and can be described as both an art and a science.  That said, there are various generally accepted considerations incorporated into financial projection methodologies, with five of the most important explained below: Historical Operating Results As the saying […]

Anyone Else Hear That?!

Four Reasons Why an Economic Contraction is Inevitable Here’s a reason to celebrate…With record high stock market and housingvaluations, average American net worths are at an all-time high! At the risk of sounding like the one person yelling “turn that music down!” at a roaring party, here are four consumer-centric reasons why existing net worths […]

Don’t Fear the Reaper

Three Reasons Why AI Won’t Render Knowledge Worker Jobs Obsolete Clickbait articles (which are often times created and proliferated by AI themselves) would have you believe that the knowledge worker reaper is here, and its name is AI. If that were true, we can all go ahead and pack up our desks, head out to […]

A Call for Creativity

How a System Which Discounts Individuality Adversely Impacts Client Solutions To paraphrase Pablo Picasso: All children are born artists.  The trouble is to continue being artists as we grow.  By definition, artistry requires a keen sense of awareness, the ability to see beyond the obvious and, importantly, courage to express oneself. Most times, as college […]

Governance

Three Examples of Governance Failures, and How to Avoid Being Next Elon Musk’s Tesla Pay Deemed Excessive by Delaware Court! Wells Fargo Fake Accounts Scandal Destroys Consumer Confidence! Volkswagen Intentionally Deceives EPA Emissions Tests! Examples of governance deficiencies are not hard to find.  Even within well-known, well-respected global institutions who have (seemingly) limitless resources, governance […]