Remove Advertising Remove Development Remove Metrics
article thumbnail

Sustainability: The Growing Importance of ESG Metrics

Tom Spencer

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) metrics have emerged as critical tools for companies to measure and communicate their sustainability efforts. These metrics are increasingly influencing business decision-making and thus shaping corporate reputation in a way that impacts customer loyalty and financial performance.

Metrics 78
article thumbnail

6 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Development If Your Company Doesn’t Care About It

Harvard Business

We are now in the era of “do-it-yourself” career development. During my 11 years at PepsiCo, mostly during the 1990s, “personal development” was treated as a major company initiative. What are job goals and key success metrics? Drawn Ideas/Getty Images. Understand what you’re evaluated on.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Is Execution Where Good Strategies Go to Die?

Harvard Business

In my work analyzing the thinking styles of leaders in organizations, I’ve found that strategy is usually developed by people who have a big-picture orientation, while execution is often done by those with a detail orientation. The fourth gap between strategy and execution is in measurement and metrics.

Strategy 134
article thumbnail

Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci. I switched careers into learning and development and organization development. What kind of metric do you use to measure that in terms of compensation based on great client work? Ron, welcome. Prayer helps.

article thumbnail

Why Marketing Analytics Hasn’t Lived Up to Its Promise

Harvard Business

For example, while it is true that search advertising can be correlated with purchase because customers are in a motivated state to buy, it does not follow that ads caused sales. Even if the firm did not advertise, consumers are motivated to buy, so how does one know whether the ads were effective? purchase funnel metrics).

Marketing 132
article thumbnail

WhatsApp Grew to One Billion Users by Focusing on Product, Not Technology

Harvard Business

WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton launched their company with a straightforward proposition: They would create a messaging app that people wanted to use without bombarding them with advertising. By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price.

article thumbnail

4 Roles Every Marketing Organization Needs Now

Harvard Business

Today’s marketer needs to go well beyond reporting and metrics, and be more proficient in a full range of analytical skills –including knowledge of data management principles and analytical strategies, and an understanding of the role of data quality, the importance of data governance, and the value of data in marketing disciplines.

Marketing 130