Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

Strategy 51

Strategy Strategy& Strategy Enterprise 51

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. The work of support and operating functions like finance, marketing, supply chain and human resources must change to leverage these technologies, and do so in a way that serves enterprise objectives, as well as the needs of individual businesses.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Metrics Operations System 50

Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. As organization designers this trend intrigues us.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50

Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. Every product in the portfolio should be evaluated with the help of one of the product success metrics. In other words, it’s indicative of the company’s growth. The revenue must be reasonably invested to be doubled.

Productivity 98

Productivity Management Resources Software 98

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The market now rewards the long-term vision and continual investment in new growth represented by these younger enterprises. Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development.

Management 28

Management Enterprise Metrics Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

They do this with methods proven useful in accelerating software development, such as “ Agile ,” and which are increasingly being used for hardware product development, too. Deere managers call it a “motivation metric” or even a “happiness metric.” Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Metrics 47

Metrics Survey Software Operations 47

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies. Geographic Zones (consolidated P&L, plus infrastructure). 4: Build Capabilities for the Future.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step. Chiefly, it gives technologists accountability to your business teams.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy& Strategy Agile 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment.

Agile 28

Agile Talent Data Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

However, many are not equipped to confront the legion of new, more agile competitors—and run the danger of becoming the losers in that war. Are your metrics set up to gauge whether the content you generate delivers the outcome the customer expects? Tomorrow’s IME Landscape. The questions include: Quality uniqueness.

Media 29

Media Metrics Education Insurance 29

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The metrics also changed. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. Adopting an agile method of customer testing and rapid iteration, they worked with engineering to rethink the product and bring a “minimum viable product” to market for these new buyers.

Marketing 50

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 50

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

She and the CEO now agreed that she should play an upstream, strategic, enterprise-wide role. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making. They have different strategic priorities; they are held accountable for new, shared metrics; they spend more time with cross-functional peers.

Agile 28

Agile Advertising Marketing Meeting 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs must be agile and adaptive, operating from a mindset of continual anticipation and appraisal in order to make timely investment decisions and oversee speedy execution. Investment opportunities arise and disappear with alacrity — and woe to the CEOs who underestimate the risks.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Talent Industry Culture 28

Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

more likely to refresh critical marketing metrics and dashboards at least weekly. Whether it’s a larger enterprise or a new brand, our research found that being agile and working across business silos is key for marketers to find and engage the right audience and motivate them to action. Beaudin: No.

Data 28

Data Marketing Bain Media 28