money coming in to a business, which hopefully delivers a contribution margin which. leads to profit

a requirement for a company is to be sustainable (more)

one type of NGO, one that isn't expected to earn a profit (more)

revenue less variable costs - can be expressed as a $/period or as a % of revenue (more)

can refer to liquidity (personal or business), or real-net-profit (cf EBITDA)

Jobs To Be Done guru. https://medium.com/@Ulwick https://strategyn.com/tony-ulwick/

Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI) is a strategy and Innovation process developed by Anthony W. Ulwick (Anthony Ulwick). It is built around the theory that people buy products and services to get jobs done.[1] As people complete these jobs, they have certain measurable outcomes that they are attempting to achieve.[2] It links a company's value creation activities to customer-defined metrics. Ulwick found that previous innovation practices were ineffective because they were incomplete, overlapping, or unnecessary.[1] ODI attempts to identify important but poorly served, and unimportant but over-served, jobs and outcomes. ODI focuses on customer-desired outcome rather than demographic profile in order to segment markets and offer well-targeted products.[2] Ulwick was granted the first of twelve patents on the ODI process in 1999... Clayton Christensen credits Ulwick and Richard Pedi of Gage Foods with the way of thinking about market structure used in the chapter "What Products Will Customers Want to Buy?" in his Innovator's Solution and called "jobs to be done" or "outcomes that customers are seeking".[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcome-Driven_Innovation (more)

The WikiWikiWeb is the first ever Wiki, or user-editable website. It was launched on 25 March 1995 by its inventor, programmer Ward Cunningham, to accompany the Portland Pattern Repository website discussing software Design Patterns. The name WikiWikiWeb originally also applied to the wiki software that operated the website, written in the Perl programming language and later renamed to "WikiBase". The site is frequently referred to by its users as simply "Wiki", and a convention established among users of the early network of wiki sites that followed was that using the word with a capitalized W referred exclusively to the original site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb (more)

aka WikiWikiWeb

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Theory Of Constraints Thinking Processes (more)

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