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Tesla Shows How Traditional Business Metrics Are Outdated

Harvard Business

At the core of the confusion over a company like Tesla is that traditional business metrics are outdated and can create overconfidence or underestimation. Classic metrics like market penetration and market share, which many leaders are measured on, are the very things causing us to miss market opportunities and threats.

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Best Business Books 2018: Strategy

Strategy+Business

And in Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs, John Doerr, a legendary venture capitalist, applies an engineer's discipline to the thorny question of how best to use metrics.

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Health Care Providers Must Stop Wasting Patients’ Time

Harvard Business

Like many patients, Jess felt her providers were delivering very little quality of care when defined by the one metric that mattered most to her: time. While Jess didn’t get her care at Kaiser Permanente, we are working to improve on this metric. By the end of 2018 it will be 50%.

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New Research Shows How Employees Feel When Their Requests for Raises Are Denied

Harvard Business

We surveyed more than 160,000 workers between November 2017 and April 2018 as part of our PayScale Raise Anatomy study , which resulted in two major findings. ” Instead of relying heavily on performance metrics, ensure that every raise request prompts a look at market data for the given position.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

In 2018, we counted more than 50,000 fast sessions across the company. We put €50,000 behind 28 of them and by early 2018 we had three pilots: a new business model in animal healthcare, a digital solution for clinical operations, and a gamified education app. This isn’t a challenge we have completely resolved.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

As of June 2018, corporate occupiers make up roughly one-quarter of WeWork’s members and revenues. Some eschew metrics altogether, gambling they will learn as they go when it comes to measuring what’s important. It’s also creating stand-alone locations for individual clients such as IBM, UBS , and Facebook.

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The changing face of digital transformation

The Source

One of the best examples of this is a piece we published at the tail-end of 2018, exploring the changing face of the digital transformation market ; by any metric, it was one of the most popular blogs we’ve ever featured on this site. But of course, the world has moved on a great deal since we published that blog. …

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