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The key to scaling profitably beyond $100 billion in sales like Wal-Mart (North River Management Grade: A) is the identification and elimination of cash and capital wait states.

Low-grade organizations have too many cash and capital buffers and implode under their own weight as they grow. They cannot scale profitably.

This finding -- cash and capital wait states are destiny -- has allowed us to develop a toolbox of proprietary future navigation tools, and given us a perspective that is unmatched in the industry.

Our mission? Increasing your cash and capital velocities so you can scale profitably beyond $100 billion in sales. We make this easy for you. Start by checking out your operations on our Management Grading System online calculator. It's free!

If the Grade Calculator throws you an A, you have one of the best performing companies in your sector. You are a top predator. If you come up with a B, or worse, you have too many cash and capital wait states. You are prey.

Course Corrections Overview

You don't want to tell shareholders that you got North River's Management Grade of B or worse, for free, and did nothing about it!

To increase your grade quickly, sign up for North River Course Corrections, and utilize our powerful portfolio of North River Navigation Tools to improve your cash and capital velocities.

Course Corrections is our premium content service in which we give clients multiple course corrections every week that are based on our hard money system of calculating cash and capital velocities.

For over three decades we've helped CEOs of some of the largest companies in the world cut the cash and capital wait states that cripple profitable scalability.  This gives us an unmatched, hard-money system for navigating markets for firms of any size, in any location, worldwide.

Because we have started, built, and sold businesses to Fortune 500 players, and participate in four venture funds in Europe and the U.S., we are not easily fooled.

See what we see: Register for Course Corrections.

Current Course Corrections

Cash is King  November 3rd, 2008
New York — Companies around the world with failing North River Management Grades are scrambling to find new sources of cash as credit markets seize up. They should be looking to their own operations. Cash tied up in working capital is money in the bank.
The car companies provide a stunning example of cash inefficiency. At […]

Circuit City Shorts Out  November 3rd, 2008
New York — A year and a half ago, I advised that consumer electronics retailer Circuit City (North River Management Grade D-) would short circuit because management wasn’t paying attention to retail operating fundamentals as well as Best Buy and nothing like as well as Apple.  Today CC announced that it will close 155 stores […]

Crash Impact Test  October 28th, 2008
New York –  The question facing the U.S. auto industry today is whether or not to merge and the question facing the U.S. government today is whether or not to bail out whatever results.   The free On-Line North River Management Grade Calculator on this page gives clear answers to both questions.
First, U.S. automakers have failing […]

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