Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Applied Value Group. Boston Consulting Group. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. The Hackett Group. Parthenon Group. Applied Value Group. Address: Applied Value Group. Boston Consulting Group. Address: Boston Consulting Group. Cambridge Strategic Management Group. BearingPoint.

BearingPoint 99

BearingPoint Capgemini Strategy& Strategy 99

Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

One cohort reports 0%–20% year-over-year annual revenue growth rates; the second is a faster-growing group experiencing 20%–200% year-over-year growth. This time, the firm ranked in the top quartile of all companies and handily beat our benchmark. Two distinct sets emerged.

Culture 134

Culture Benchmarking Company Sales 134

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

The diversity of local accounting rules precluded perfect standardization, and the geographic dispersion of the teams made it hard for the transformation group to gather information the way they normally would — in conversation.

Culture 143

Culture Strategy Strategy Strategy& 143

Tom Spencer

MARCH 6, 2012

Bremmer highlights the importance of LIBOR by explaining that it is “a key benchmark rate that affects the price of $350 trillion worth of securities and loans around the world.” ” Indeed, the British Banker’s Association notes that LIBOR “is the primary benchmark for short term interest rates globally.

Benchmarking 99

Benchmarking Consulting Banking Financial 99

Tom Spencer

JANUARY 26, 2024

This article explores the nature of inflation, delving into its impact on different socioeconomic groups, the balance between inflation and unemployment, and the historical theories that have shaped monetary and fiscal policy decisions. Most mainstream economists have a strong aversion to deflation.

Policies 147

Policies Financial Benchmarking Groups 147

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in tech, the hiring and retention rates of underrepresented groups in the industry remain abysmal. I interviewed more than 50 people from underrepresented groups who have made it in the tech industry, asking them to help me understand why they weren’t applying for my open tech jobs.

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Company Recruitment Recruiting ROI 129

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Our research for the book The Power of People showed that HR professionals can be broadly categorized into one of three groups with respect to their current analytical capability: Analytically Savvy — These are HR professionals who are formally trained in analytics techniques and are adept at working with data and interpreting analyses.

Data 132

Data Development How To Culture 132

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

My senior year in college, a black sales rep from IBM encouraged me and a group of fellow black students to consider a career with the company. And yet the ecosystem supporting diversity is quite large — government agencies, formal corporate diversity programs, universities, consultants, and dozens of civil rights advocacy groups.

Metrics 119

Metrics Analysis Data Groups 119

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

.” In 2012 the Commonwealth Bank restructured its evaluation system so that 75% of CEO incentives came from the bank’s total shareholder return (TSR), relative to a set peer group, and 25% from customer-satisfaction results, benchmarked against another peer group.

Financial 123

Financial Banking Metrics Benchmarking 123

Tom Spencer

MAY 31, 2012

Nous Group. The Birchman Group. Nous Group. Founded in 1999 by Tim Orton (ex-McKinsey), Nous Group has grown to be one of Australia’s most influential strategy firms. The Birchman Group. The Birchman Group operates across 7 countries. Tier One – Australian. Pacific Strategy Partners. Accenture.

Oliver Wyman 122

Oliver Wyman Strategy& Strategy Strategy 122

Tom Spencer

JUNE 13, 2021

Always check before the presentation who the audience is and what this group wants to know. Still use business logic to order and group the findings. All the possible drivers should be grouped into “mutually exclusive” but “collectively exhaustive” categories. Sort and group consumer views.

Benchmarking 88

Benchmarking Case Interview Groups Analysis 88

Women in Consulting

MAY 21, 2019

As solo practitioners and entrepreneurs, often we have limited access to relevant benchmarking resources. Without violating any price-fixing laws, the Best Practices Survey lets us benchmark our success against our peers. My clients are happier too since I can use my virtual assistant for administrative tasks on their business as well.

Benchmarking 67

Benchmarking Survey Case Study Case Studies 67

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But the comparison at least provides a benchmark. In many cities, urban revitalization has also led to increased rents, gentrification, and movement of low-income, minority groups away from jobs. In some ways, avoiding applicants with long commutes makes a lot of sense from the employer’s point of view.

Research 132

Research Transportation Management Benchmarking 132

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

As mid-level managers of separate companies (groups of 140 to 210 people) within the same Army Brigade over the past two years, we were evaluated against each other. Dan implemented these ideas in his group and, inspired by the openness of his competitor, described his plan to incorporate courtesy reviews by the inspection team.

Operations 128

Operations Exercises Conference System 128

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

In reality, McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group are tied for first, so Booz & Company is a close 2 nd place. This group then began conducting studies and investigations for clients including commercial and trade organizations. DIVERSITY GROUPS. We want you to nail it. In the U.S. What about lifestyle?

Interviews 181

Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Prior to the past recession, both eventual winners and eventual losers in a group of 3,500 companies worldwide experienced double-digit growth rates. Our recent benchmarking of nearly 900 B2B companies underscores the importance of these tools. Commercial operations groups tend to be early targets for cuts in a recession.

Sales 131

Sales B2B Tools Software 131

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This gave us two groups: those who work long hours (above the median) relative to their colleagues and those who work shorter hours (below the median). Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive.

Productivity 133

Productivity Culture Data Metrics 133

Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2017

These can evolve into group-level behaviors. As a result, an informal group regularly met to cover up his mishandling of situations. However, the problem became unsustainable and the same group, within the year, helped to ease him out to protect the organization’s reputation.

Guidelines 134

Guidelines Advertising Groups Examples 134

Management Consulted

MAY 22, 2016

While originally founded as an independent strategic firm, Archstone Consulting was acquired by leading enterprise benchmarking firm The Hackett Group in 2009. Fernandez, Chairman and CEO of The Hackett Group. Archstone Consulting Locations: 8 countries, 13 cities. Archstone Consulting Chief Executive: Ted A.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Benchmarking creates additional complexity for public sector consulting, which private firms do not need to face. Unions, lobby groups, and other pressure groups can occasionally wield disproportionate influence on policymaking, forcing politicians to act against the ‘common good’ or their original publicly declared intentions.

Government 88

Government Consulting Policies Benchmarking 88

Harvard Business

MARCH 26, 2018

” Underlying all these messages is the belief that although the deck may be stacked against women as a group, individual women can break through the glass ceiling if they make certain choices: forego the trappings of femininity, learn the rules of the male-dominated working world, and assert themselves accordingly.

Talent 135

Talent Benchmarking Research Study 135

Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2017

This was our benchmark for the other two conditions, in which we asked the participants to guess the enjoyment ratings of people in the first condition. One group simply made their guesses with no other information.

Study 134

Study Benchmarking Journal Exercises 134

MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Fed’s decision to keep benchmark interest rates at record lows for six years has encouraged investors to funnel cash into speculative-grade securities to generate returns, raising concern that risks were being overlooked. And this is a mania.” It is like a Whac-A-Mole game: You don’t know where it is going to pop up next.”

Energy 78

Energy Marketing Benchmarking Cash Flow 78

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

OPEC took no action to ease a global oil-supply glut, resisting calls from Venezuela that the group needs to stem the rout in prices. The group maintained its collective production ceiling of 30 million barrels a day, Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister, said yesterday after the 12 nations met in Vienna. in Calgary.

Productivity 76

Productivity Benchmarking Airlines Banking 76

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

There’s a similar assumption underlying much of the discussion around how to measure the return on marketing investment, where it seems to be tacitly accepted that attitudinal insights are insufficient at senior decision-making levels, and behavioral insights represent today’s benchmarks.

Survey 71

Survey Pharmaceuticals Benchmarking ROI 71

BCG

MAY 9, 2016

BCG’s Retail-Banking Excellence benchmarking study (REBEX) profiles the operational and digital practices and performance of 20 of the world’s leading retail banks, a group of 40 institutions chosen for their size and the strength of their capabilities. At the heart of the benchmarking are core operational metrics.

Operations 40

Operations Retail Banking Benchmarking 40

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The Center for Orthopedic Research and Education (or CORE Institute ) — a group of musculoskeletal, neurologic, and rehabilitative physicians in Arizona and Michigan that includes orthopedic, spine, and pain-management physicians and a number of other types of clinicians — is pioneering an approach that represents a middle ground.

Benchmarking 70

Benchmarking Insurance Insurance Tools 70

MishTalk

MARCH 3, 2014

percent against the dollar today, more than any other currency tracked by Bloomberg, while the benchmark Micex stock index plunged more than 11 percent and benchmark bond yields soared. “So So far, the panic goes on,” Dmitry Dorofeev, a money manager at BCS Financial Group in Moscow, said by e-mail. The ruble sank 1.8

Marketing 59

Marketing Benchmarking Banking Financial 59

Tom Spencer

MARCH 8, 2024

Competition-based pricing: Setting prices based on what competitors are charging can seem like an attractive pricing strategy since it uses competitor’s prices as a benchmark to determine the market price and ensure that the company is charging the ‘going rate’ for its products.

Productivity 158

Productivity Sales Strategy& Strategy 158

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Temkin Group reports a correlation between employee engagement and success in customer experience. In its 2016 Employee Engagement Benchmark Study, the firm showed that companies that excel at customer experience have one-and-a-half times as many engaged employees as customer experience laggards do.

Benchmarking 70

Benchmarking Culture Groups Company 70

Chad Barr

JUNE 11, 2014

As we were crafting the message and content, it occurred to me that the simple benchmark I use in order to determine the quality and provocativeness of the content is to simply ask myself two questions. appeared first on The Chad Barr Group. Is my immediate reaction to the content? “So what?” © Chad Barr 2014.

eBook 52

eBook Benchmarking Video Leadership 52

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Disruption has accelerated dramatically, and the numbers prove it.

Industry 71

Industry Enterprise Boston Consulting Group Benchmarking 71

Chad Barr

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Measuring everything we do is the prime benchmark to our progress and where we might need calibration and adjustment. The post 10 Crucial Business Lessons appeared first on The Chad Barr Group. Recognizing what we must stop doing is as critical as knowing what we must be doing. It’s an eye-opening experience.

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Benchmarking Energy Study Meeting 52

Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

But the camaraderie can serve as a huge motivator, as can the desire not to fall behind the group. Set a golden benchmark. Of course, that benchmark will change as you develop. Often, these kinds of programs offer materials you can work on individually. Make a pact to do online learning together weekly.

Benchmarking 71

Benchmarking Course Development Study 71

PM Alliance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Internal benchmarking can help reveal inefficiencies and even identify workers who would benefit from additional vendor support or targeted training. Are there skills missing from your project team that would help reduce the time needed to transition tasks between cross-functional groups?

Data 73

Data Methodologies Training Training 73

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a 2015 report, the Boston Consulting Group labeled the occurrence “ leapfrog successions.” The result blends qualitative and benchmarked data on other C-suite executives to give us a solid indication of each individual’s abilities, mindset, and development needs.

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Boston Consulting Group Case Interview Leadership Talent 70

BCG

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Yet, for decades, most of the research on family businesses has focused on benchmarks from developed markets. To understand how this context should influence decision making, The Boston Consulting Group conducted extensive research on family businesses in both developed and emerging markets. Article Thursday, September 08, 2016.

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Boston Consulting Group Marketing Benchmarking Talent 40