Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2024

However, research suggests that ESG ratings suffer from a measurement trap that occurs when a metric used as part of the rating is systematically biased towards certain industries or types of companies.

Metrics 239

Metrics Efficiency Data Research 239

Epicflow

OCTOBER 9, 2024

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.

Resources 130

Resources Metrics Data Cash Flow 130

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This article explores how companies are making their supply chains more sustainable by sourcing eco-friendly materials, reducing waste, and optimizing logistics. Companies are adopting various strategies to make their logistics more efficient and environmentally friendly.

Case Studies 78

Case Studies Case Study Transportation Efficiency 78

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In the previous article , we looked at how banks make money and how they must meet capital requirements. In this article, we will explore the importance of profitability ratios and valuation metrics that are crucial when analyzing banks. It is not a useful metric for comparing different business lines.

Metrics 88

Metrics Banking Balance Sheet Efficiency 88

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. This article highlights the top 15 portfolio management tools for 2025, showcasing their innovative features and ability to streamline workflows and collaboration. Prevents over- or under-utilization of resources, ensuring efficiency.

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

From telemedicine to wearable devices, health-tech innovations are not only improving patient outcomes but also making healthcare more accessible and efficient. This article explores how technology is impacting healthcare and highlights some significant health-tech trends.

Healthcare 78

Healthcare Data Trends Efficiency 78

Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

A recent New York Times article on how Uber is using various insights from behavioral economics to push, or nudge, its drivers to pick up more fares — sometimes with little benefit to them — has generated quite a bit of criticism of Uber. All four groups increased their implementation of fuel-efficient behaviors.

Airlines 189

Airlines Efficiency Study Operations 189

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. This article highlights the top 15 portfolio management tools for 2025, showcasing their innovative features and ability to streamline workflows and collaboration. Prevents over- or under-utilization of resources, ensuring efficiency.

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

Metrics 70

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 70

Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In addition, their focus on effective resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, and change management contributes to enhanced operational efficiency, increased agility, and improved project outcomes. What organizations require a CPO? One of a CPO’s tasks is to ensure optimal resource allocation across a company’s critical projects.

Resources 157

Resources Methodologies Efficiency Metrics 157

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

In our Consulting Interview Bible, we go into the differences in great detail – but that’s not the point of this article. We know we could do an entire article on each one, and very well might in the near future (comment below if you’d like to see more on this)! Today, we focus on 6 types of case interviews.

Case Interview 236

Case Interview Interviews Study Cover Letters 236

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking. See the Wikipedia article.

Metrics 63

Metrics How To Efficiency Resources 63

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. So this measure may mislabel efficient companies as myopic.

Metrics 99

Metrics Study McKinsey Cash Flow 99

Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Find answers to these questions in the article. . Project management maturity (or PMM) reflects a company’s ability to manage projects efficiently. At this level, there aren’t any established project management practices or standards; documentation and metrics are ad hoc. Project Management Maturity Models: An Overview.

Management 130

Management Metrics Resources Efficiency 130

Chad Barr

JANUARY 29, 2025

“Write an engaging thought leadership article about the future of [topic, e.g., AI in consulting], discussing trends, opportunities, and actionable insights.” ” Impact: Maximizes efficiency and focus on priorities. ” Impact: Enhances coaching with deep, reflective questions. Include potential pitfalls to avoid.”

Methodologies 52

Methodologies Exercises Metrics Tools 52

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t optimize for efficiency. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Set up post-interaction NPS so you can tell if someone is still upset even after an issue is “solved,” start tracking the volume and quality of requests coming in along with metrics relating to revenue (i.e.,

Metrics 131

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Operations 131

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

One review of methodologies concluded that, management researchers “…do what they know, what they have done, what is efficient and easier, and what is rewarded (i.e., Metrics that capture the extent to which research achieves these goals could be additional ways to assess scholarly impact.

Research 131

Research Journal Ethics Metrics 131

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

Our article in the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance discusses factors that can effectively “push” HR measures and analysis to audiences in a more impactful way, as well as factors that can effectively lead others to “pull” that data for analysis throughout the organization.

Metrics 133

Metrics Analysis Data Talent 133

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Practitioners and pundits alike have long debated which metric is best for assessing the performance of a service organization. It’s not surprising that the metric figures prominently on a service rep’s scorecard. Why is average handle time such a bad metric for service?

Metrics 123

Metrics Video Fashion Report 123

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

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.” Accountability is vital to the efficiency of the process.

System 130

System Healthcare Metrics Report 130

Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis?

Data 130

Data Risk Analysis Management Analysis 130

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

We then scored the quality of disclosure based on whether there is no disclosure, generic disclosure, backward-looking metrics, or forward-looking metrics for a category. A good long-term plan provides the investor with forward-looking metrics on several issues — not a generic narrative based on backward-looking information.

Metrics 125

Metrics Financial Marketing Trends 125

Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Start by basing your social strategy on business objectives, then follow that by thinking about target market, social media platforms, tools, and metrics. Don’t simply set goals for higher follower or engagement metrics in the brand’s current social media accounts.

Media 135

Media Company ROI Metrics 135

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Metrics emphasized speed. We rebuilt performance metrics to track impact, not to apply pressure.

Metrics 134

Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 134

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. ” If the sales team recognizes the value of this tool, you’ll get all the metric and forecast information you desire. The CIO was unhappy about data integrity issues that arose from the integration of more than 20 discreet databases.

Sales 132

Sales How To Metrics Tools 132

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

Instead, we can invite them to change, by showing the value with the pirate metrics. Back in 2011, I wrote this article: Agile Has Not Crossed the Chasm, A Contrarian View. That's because flow efficiency thinking is so contrary to general accounting practices. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress.

Agile 96

Agile Management Metrics Culture 96

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly.

Strategy 134

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Enterprise 134

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

So unlike your average patient, she described one 12-hour wait in the ER as having a “7% process cycle efficiency.” 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. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt.

Metrics 130

Metrics Education Operations System 130

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Overlooking these realities is perilous, both for the patient’s well-being and for efficient delivery of care. This work cannot happen in a vacuum of forced efficiency. A Way Forward. Medicine is constantly evolving as new ways to treat, heal, and even cure emerge.

Guidelines 133

Guidelines Efficiency System Meeting 133

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. Changes in their behavior led to both lower carbon dioxide emissions (by 21,500 metric tons) and an estimated $5.4

Efficiency 70

Efficiency Metrics Study Groups 70

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Where the organization rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.) All roads lead to Flow Metrics.)

Agile 81

Agile Culture Efficiency Metrics 81

Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Let’s figure it out in the article. . To sum up, preparing a business case before project initiation can increase efficiency of the business – an organization will intake only those initiatives that will bring real value. . This is when a business case document is required. Cost-benefit analysis. References . 5th Edition.

Management 130

Management Resources Analysis Software 130

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

The second constituent in making a great sales force is providing clarity about sales force roles and responsibilities in an effective and efficient organizational structure. It requires directing and managing salespeople using the right metrics, operating cadence, and performance management process. Organization.

Sales 130

Sales Talent Operations Efficiency 130

Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow. Two years later, the follow-up IOM report, “Crossing the Quality Chasm,” reviewed other types of disappointing quality, including gaps in efficiency, effectiveness, timeliness, and patient-centeredness.

Comparison 134

Comparison Financial Report Data 134

Epicflow

JUNE 28, 2023

Read the article to find answers to these and other essential questions. Project managers can use various types of data: historical data, real-time project metrics, customers’ feedback, resource-related data (e.g., How exactly is data used in project management? Are there any challenges in using a data-driven approach?

Data 130

Data Management Resources Software 130

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

As a large team cares for patients, clear and efficient pathways for communication and workflows are necessary to ensure the patient experience is as seamless and organized as possible. Still, these metrics have yet to include broader measures of wellness such as academic achievement, involvement in crime, or job outcomes (i.e.,

Metrics 126

Metrics Efficiency System Development 126

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

I feel certain our public commitment to sustainability is a big driver of this engagement—92% of our people believe energy efficiency and sustainability are critical to our future business success, and we are giving them the encouragement and capabilities to help us achieve this long-term vision.

Company 134

Company Strategy Strategy& Strategy 134