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Mario Harik

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
924 total appearances

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The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

You have a project plan that says over what period of time are we going to launch these terminals, going to renovate them and make them look like an XPO terminal effectively, over what period of time you're going to launch them.

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

Once we launch each one of them, we have a certain assumption.

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

This is how much we expect to improve productivity.

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

This is how much we expect to improve efficiency.

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

This is how much market share we expect to gain.

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

And our FD&A team tracks all of these things.

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

And now you can see the trajectory of how you are

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

delivering on what you expected to deliver.

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

And when you see something deviating, then the team's getting together to say, well, okay, did we have the wrong action plan?

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

Or what should we be doing differently to then get back this initiative or this project back on track to make sure it's delivering to the right outcomes we expect?

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

So our FP&A team is financial planning and analysis.

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

Effectively, it's the team that looks at all of the financial metrics, financial KPIs of how is your top line trending effectively?

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

What is your top line doing?

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

What is your cost structure doing?

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

And ultimately, what are the profits that you are generating?

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

But then when you double click, they look at first for any period, they are looking at a list of what we call risk and opportunities.

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

So effectively, what are the opportunities based on initiatives that we are driving that can deliver a better financial outcome?

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

And what are the risks that we see in the environment that can take away from the financial outcome?

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

And then for each one of those levers, we assign a probability.

The Knowledge Project
Mario Harik: Playing to Win

So now we can probability adjust what is the projected financial performance of the company for the week, for the month, for the quarter, for the year, as we think it through.