{"id":2470,"date":"2013-05-01T12:48:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T11:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2013-05-19T20:13:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T19:13:31","slug":"key-test-of-corporate-centre-profitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/from-our-business-transformation-consultants\/key-test-of-corporate-centre-profitability\/","title":{"rendered":"Key test of corporate centre profitability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/businesstransformationmini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37\" alt=\"businesstransformationmini\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/businesstransformationmini.jpg\" width=\"97\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>Key test of corporate centre profitability: whether adding real value or just collection individual businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><!--more--><strong>Extract from World Economic Forum Blog &#8211; Ken Favaro<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"More than half of all companies have unprofitable corporate centres\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/article\/00173?gko=36e40\" target=\"_blank\">More than half of all companies have unprofitable corporate centres<\/a>. No wonder 2011 was a record year for corporate divestitures. When the corporate centre is unprofitable, there\u2019s not much point in having one! On the other hand, 45% of all companies have profitable corporate centres. What do they do that the unprofitable ones don\u2019t? Six things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2013 Booz &amp; Company Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More &#8230;<\/strong> <a title=\"http:\/\/forumblog.org\/2013\/04\/six-ways-to-make-corporate-centres-profitable\/\" href=\"http:\/\/forumblog.org\/2013\/04\/six-ways-to-make-corporate-centres-profitable\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/forumblog.org\/2013\/04\/six-ways-to-make-corporate-centres-profitable\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key test of corporate centre profitability: whether adding real value or just collection individual businesses. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[40,43,41,42,94,95,70,73,71,72,96,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaordicsolutions.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}