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Your Mobile Strategy Can’t Just Be About Phones

Harvard Business

To get there, companies should take the time to level-set their efforts with three strategic exercises: Reexamine your goals and strategy. With more and more options for mobile interactions, businesses all too often get their digital strategy wrong — or don’t reassess it often enough. Insight Center.

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PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: Are you doing enough to ensure success?

Effective Managers

Many businesses today have a similar focus on outcomes for the performance measures used to assess how well they are implementing strategy. This focus can create problems in either diverging from strategy or by ignoring issues in the value chain. Session 2: Metrics vs Strategy. A Common Pitfall in Business.

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Tesla Shows How Traditional Business Metrics Are Outdated

Harvard Business

Tesla just delivered its first Model 3, the affordable model that he envisioned in his “secret” strategy some 11 years ago. At the core of the confusion over a company like Tesla is that traditional business metrics are outdated and can create overconfidence or underestimation. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Why CRM Projects Fail and How to Make Them More Successful

Harvard Business

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. Your sales team needs to understand that they drive the execution of your strategy every time they interact with a client or prospect.

Sales 132
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Rethinking Marketing Measurement from the Ground Up - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE ANALYTICS 360 SUITE

Harvard Business

Does Your Company Have a Data Science Strategy? By 2017, 89 percent of marketers expect customer experience to be their primary differentiator, according to a recent Gartner study. The problem is that many of our measurement tools and metrics were created for a desktop world at a time when marketing focused on channel performance.

Marketing 102
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When Companies Should Invest in Training Their Employees — and When They Shouldn’t

Harvard Business

companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. ” She believed her training solution had strategic relevance because it linked to a vital employee metric. Photodisc/Getty Images. According to one industry report , U.S.

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