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How to Understand Key Metrics in a New Industry

Tom Spencer

The productivity of a researcher can be evaluated using an index such as the h-index. In business, productivity and performance is often measured using financial ratios that can be used to compare firms across the industry. All industries use numbers and metrics to describe performance, measure trends, and allocate status.

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Sustainable Supply Chains Reduce Environmental Footprint

Tom Spencer

For example, Adidas has launched initiatives to produce shoes from ocean plastic waste , turning a pollutant into a valuable consumer product. Companies are implementing various strategies to minimize waste production, from the design phase, lean manufacturing techniques, to end-of-life management.

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Maximizing Impact: How to Measure Training Effectiveness and ROI

Clarity Consultants

Understanding and applying the right training effectiveness metrics is imperative for organizations to assess the impact of their training initiatives and ensure they contribute to the overall business objectives. These objectives should align with your organization’s overall business goals and provide a benchmark for evaluating success.

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Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive

Harvard Business

Many companies are investing heavily to identify what leads to high engagement in order to motivate employees, thereby increasing their happiness and productivity. Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive. We think this is important.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business

Mainstream software companies are beginning to hold “ data mirrors ” up to their customers, allowing scoring and benchmarking of their customers’ strategies. One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management.

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The Most Common Reasons Customer Experience Programs Fail

Harvard Business

Most customer experience (CX programs) are positioned as strategic, but quickly veer away from business objectives and become simply about tracking CX metrics. They have “soft” metrics rather than real business goals. Mistake #2: Linking metrics to business outcomes. So where does it all go wrong?

Metrics 124
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4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Harvard Business

With online technologies and targeted lists, this should be a cost-effective tool for separating the suspects from the prospects, accelerating customer conversion through the sales funnel, and, equally important, optimizing “data-driven marketing” by tying each piece of content to metrics like opens, reads, downloads, and so on.

Marketing 133