Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

While there will still be high-stakes, time-sensitive issues like beating a competitor to market with a new product, acknowledge that endurance is the goal, and speed is not the best or only metric of long-term success. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

Boston Consulting Group 56

Boston Consulting Group Study Conference Survey 56

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Chemicals 31

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 31

Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

According to a 2016 report from the UNEP-hosted International Resource Panel , water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030. Organizations are also using these tools to improve maintenance, infrastructure planning, water conservation, and customer service (including repair efficiencies and pricing). And demand is increasing.

Industry 28

Industry Data Efficiency Tools 28

LSA Global

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Some blame low morale (TSA ranked 303 rd out of 305 government agencies in 2016). Like most performance issues, the answer to improvements in TSA screening most likely contains a combination of actions related to clear goals/roles/processes, improved technology, better trained employees and aligned performance metrics and rewards.

Training 28

Training Training Process Improvement Metrics 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore. Consider your guiding principles, time and capital allocation patterns, and the key metrics that you track. Extrapolate what implications these new core beliefs would have on strategy, capital allocation and key metrics.

Industry 28

Industry Metrics Transportation Strategy 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. November 2016). This age is ripe with opportunity. In the industrial age, value came from machines.

Agile 28

Agile Talent Data Efficiency 28

Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

link] Most economists hold a belief that a more efficient workforce leads to competitive advantage and lowers the costs of goods and services. It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Mulinge, P.

Leadership 52

Leadership Trends Journal McKinsey 52

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To date, only small steps have been taken at most health care systems (for example, clarifying the costs of specific tests during the test-ordering process), and new clinical analytics systems that offer better insights into costs and efficiency often aren’t integrated into day-to-day clinical care. The visual management board.

Management 31

Management System Data Finance 31

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Beginning in the Spring of 2016, our workplace analytics group worked with commercial real estate company CBRE to calculate the cost savings associated with relocating a 1,200-person Microsoft engineering organization from five buildings into four other buildings. At Microsoft, we went about answering this question in a couple of ways.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Travel Meeting Research 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In March of 2016 we expanded the refund program system-wide to include all patients and all forms of patient individual financial responsibility (copayment, coinsurance, and deductible). At the center of our program lies a “no questions asked” refund policy for patients’ financial responsibility.

System 28

System Healthcare Financial Construction 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

Increasingly available high-quality surgical instruments, greater knowledge of potential complications, and widespread sharing of best practices made surgery more effective and efficient.

Operations 28

Operations Research System Culture 28

Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). Research has linked organizational culture to employee morale, commitment, health, and productivity (Schein & Schein, 2016). & Smit, S.

Culture 52

Culture Financial Leadership Deloitte 52

Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2017

These capabilities might seem like nice things to have, the metrics useful to measure. In 2016 the trend began to reverse. (Disclosure: I’m a partner of Hexayurt.Capital , a fund that invests in creating the Internet of Agreements.). In Globalization 2.0,

System 42

System Accenture Data Transportation 42

Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Spillovers.

Media 55

Media Advertising Metrics Productivity 55