Indies Education · Business Curriculum

Strategy

Make coherent choices about where to play, how to win, and what not to do.

  • COGS Calculation: Formula, Controls, and Decisions

    Cost of goods sold links inventory, purchasing, production, and revenue recognition. This chapter explains the formula, cost classification, inventory methods, overhead allocation, landed cost, write-downs, controls, reconciliation, gross-margin bridges, and the limits of accounting cost for decisions.

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  • Consumer Insights: From Evidence to Strategic Action

    Consumer insights explain a meaningful customer behavior or tension and point toward action; they are not observations dressed up as slogans. This chapter covers decision framing, mixed evidence, interpretation, bias, insight writing, opportunity design, testing, governance, and responsible research.

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  • Bootstrapping in Business: Cash, Control, and Growth

    Bootstrapping preserves control and creates discipline, but undercapitalization can destroy value. This chapter explains customer-funded growth, cash conversion, staged commitments, bricolage, unit economics, founder risk, financing options, governance, and the decision to keep bootstrapping or raise capital.

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  • Market Research: From Questions to Decisions

    A rigorous, practical guide to reduce commercial uncertainty through a decision-led design that combines credible secondary evidence, qualitative understanding, quantitative measurement, and explicit limits. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.

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  • Product-Wise Profitability: A Decision Framework

    Product revenue and gross margin can hide discounts, returns, service burden, channel cost, capacity, and working capital. This chapter builds a reconciled product-profitability system, explains contribution and allocations, and shows how to make pricing, portfolio, capacity, and discontinuation decisions responsibly.

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  • Project Management: A Complete Operating Guide

    A rigorous, practical guide to convert a temporary objective into governed scope, outcomes, work, resources, risk, stakeholder commitments, learning, and an orderly close. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.

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  • ROI vs Margin: Formulas, Meaning, and Decisions

    Margin shows profit earned per unit of revenue; ROI relates return to invested resources. This chapter explains formulas, numerator and denominator choices, DuPont decomposition, incremental analysis, cash flow, time, risk, portfolio trade-offs, and why attractive percentages can still destroy value.

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  • Action Plans That Turn Intent Into Results

    A rigorous, practical guide to turn a bounded objective into sequenced, owned, resourced, reviewable actions while preserving the reason and outcome behind the plan. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.

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  • Burndown Charts: Forecast Work Without Gaming

    A rigorous, practical guide to use remaining-work trends as an honest conversation about scope, flow, forecast, and impediments rather than as a productivity score. It combines a defensible decision model, a worked business case, implementation steps, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators who need to turn analysis into coordinated action.

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  • RiaSiMis Success Ritual: An Evidence-Based Guide

    RiaSiMis has no verified standing as an established academic model. This chapter preserves the catalog term while defining a transparent Indies Education routine—Review, Aim, Single priority, Minimum action, Score—and connecting each step to credible research on goals, habits, feedback, and progress.

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  • Speed as Competitive Advantage: A Systems Model

    Speed can improve learning, cash, service, and customer choice, but rushing creates defects and burnout. This chapter separates customer-valued time from mere busyness and explains flow diagnostics, decision latency, feedback loops, capacity, reliability, economics, and responsible acceleration.

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  • Product pricing strategies: Practical MBA Guide

    A rigorous practical guide to product pricing strategies, combining a defensible decision model, worked business case, implementation sequence, measurement architecture, ethical guardrails, leadership questions, and field exercises for operators turning analysis into coordinated action.

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