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Data-Driven Decisions: Shortcut to Winning in the Market

Tom Spencer

Rather than relying solely on intuition or assumptions, product teams gather and analyze data from various sources, such as market research surveys, customer behavior, market trends, and performance metrics. In 2016, Tesla introduced enhanced autopilot capabilities for all Teslas on the road, which could be downloaded over Wi-Fi.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. This year we added a carbon metric. billion ($1.39

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case.

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Why Technology Matters

BCG

Article Monday, October 03, 2016. In this series of articles, we challenge the conventional wisdom that the powerful effects of technology aren’t visible in economic metrics. The use of proprietary metrics such as “technology intensity” to make the most of technology lies at the heart of creating what we call technology advantage.

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business

On November 9, 2016, the shareholders of Australia’s largest company, and the world’s tenth-largest bank , revolted. Corporations are now taking a further step beyond objective metrics, which can be financial and nonfinancial, to include subjective measures — tagged as “soft.”

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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business

On the “push” side, HR leaders can do a better job of presenting human capital metrics to the rest of the organization using the LAMP framework: Logic. HR leaders in 2013 and 2016 and found that HR departments that use all of the LAMP elements play a stronger strategic role in their organizations.

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The 2016 Value Creators Rankings

BCG

Article Tuesday, October 25, 2016. The 2016 rankings are based on an analysis of TSR at approximately 2,000 companies worldwide from 2011 through 2015. We also show TSR performance from January 1 through June 30, 2016. The global and industry rankings are based on five-year TSR performance from 2011 through 2015.