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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

Stephen has introduced innovative methods and metrics to the project management discipline and has taught project management at universities and for organizations worldwide, including Siemens, Ford, Qatar Telecom, and the US Air Force. To have real integration to support decision-making, we need a single metric that works for all parameters.

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It’s Time to Tie Executive Compensation to Sustainability

Harvard Business

Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. 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. Despite conflicting messages about climate change from U.S.

Metrics 133
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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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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.

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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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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

In 2016, the United Nations adopted 17 goals—commonly known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Our network of global Green Teams took this to heart and made considerable strides in 2016 by diverting 2.4

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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. To build a genuine sense of purpose and meaning, the employees in the experiment stores were taught how to connect every product, process, and policy to the benefit and impact they had on customers.

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