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Nearly Half of Companies Say They Don’t Have the Digital Skills They Need

Harvard Business

Compare that with 67% and 66% in 2016 and 2015, respectively. Jump ahead to 2017, and that same metric is just 18%. Jobs requiring greater analytical skills, for example, grew at a 77% clip from 1980 to 2015. On a global basis, companies are losing faith in their digital smarts. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business

Launched in 2015, Generation works in five countries (India, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, and the United States). The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion. These metrics can be converted into an estimate of ROI for the employer.

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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business

Using an EEOC database of employment data by race, gender, and job classification, it assesses management diversity with a ratio of minorities’ representation in management to their representation in non-managerial professional levels, a metric that Ascend calls executive parity index (EPI).

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Rethinking Marketing Measurement from the Ground Up - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE ANALYTICS 360 SUITE

Harvard Business

It happened slowly at first … but today 91 percent of smartphone users turn to their phone for ideas while doing a task (Source: Google/Ipsos, “Consumers in the Micro-Moment” study, March 2015). Focus on the outcomes you want and map your new metrics back to your strategy. Consumers expect more of marketers now.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. ” Many CEOs in our interviews emphasized the importance of choosing the right metrics to support both/and decision making.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

Our publicly available metrics including CEO approval ratings from staff, ratio of women on boards, and number of accounting infractions and scandals. This year we added a carbon metric. This is evidenced by the drop in Deutsche Bank from 40th in 2015 to 110th this year and by Wells Fargo plummeting from 20th to 130th.

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10 Years of Data on Baseball Teams Shows When Pay Transparency Backfires

Harvard Business

Consider the infamous case of Seattle credit card processer Gravity Payments, which, in 2015, set a minimum salary of $70,000 for all employees. While sports are different from other industries in many respects, baseball makes a good test case for this kind of study for several reasons.

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