Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

” The modern landscape for newspapers and books resulted from centuries of evolution, but “new media” hasn’t yet developed such strong brands and categories. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See my pairing, swarming, and mobbing post or the Project Lifecycles book.) Ignorance of the flow metrics. Luckily, the flow metrics help everyone see where the teams have value and where there is just cost. Here are the four flow metrics: WIP: the current number of work items in progress.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 2, 2024

return on sales, return on assets, and market-to-book ratio) can be directly attributed to the decisions and strategies implemented by the CEO. Are CEOs worth it? Researchers at the University of Georgia and Penn State found that up to 45% of a company’s performance (i.e.,

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Managers capture all kinds of metrics, from the number of patient falls in a hospital ward, to the first pass yield in a production line, to the number of hits on a website, to the time it takes to repair a bicycle. Too often, leaders react to every up and down in the metrics, asking for explanations and root causes that don’t actually exist.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

To give more rigor to our meetings, we decided to define a metric for our productivity: average weekly hours worked. Define a metric. Choose a metric for sustainable productivity. Then track data on that metric, set goals for improving the metric, and run experiments to see what influences the metric.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This is typically a color-coded spreadsheet with one to two dozen key performance metrics. Each metric is reported each month. Each metric has a goal for the month. When a goal is met, the metric is color-coded in green. When a goal is missed by less than 10%, the metric is color-coded in yellow.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

” By imposing economic discipline , ruthlessly prioritizing segmentation, retention, and monetization, the metric assures future customer profitability is top of mind. When my book Who Do You Want Your Customer To Become? For all its impressive strengths, however, CLV suffers from a crippling flaw that blurs its declared focus.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. The CRM is a tool to help them sell more, access support resources during sales cycles, and manage their territory or “book of business.” Sales management was less positive but acknowledged that it helped them monitor activity.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

We can argue over specific metrics, but we’d all agree that we have to account for physical as well as mental/emotional health. As with individuals, there will be disagreement over metrics, but clearly we have to consider financial performance, internal stakeholders (employees), and external stakeholders (community).

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

Instead, we can invite them to change, by showing the value with the pirate metrics. I wrote the Modern Management Made Easy books to support more humane and agile ways of working, but not because these ways are agile. Yes, do start with the pirate metrics (from Dave McClure's 2007 talk ) so you can focus on the value you can provide.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

His work has taken him to over 20 countries in four different continents, and he is the author of several consulting and leadership books as well as a regular contributor to Forbes.com and the Harvard Business Review. Ron shares the experience that led to his most recent book, Rising To Power: The Journey of Exceptional Executives.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

Metrics that capture the extent to which research achieves these goals could be additional ways to assess scholarly impact. Each of these metrics is a reflection that a management scholar’s research has helped or enlightened communities beyond academia. What would these things look like in practice?

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Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Continuously measure the impact of AI on key performance metrics and adjust your strategies accordingly. Get your copy of my latest new books available now on my Amazon’s author page. The Path Forward: Your Call to Action Ready to transform your business? Let’s create a future-proof strategy together.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 29, 2025

“Help me develop a framework to assess [specific business challenge] by identifying key variables, potential metrics, and critical success factors. “Create a diagnostic tool for assessing [specific business function/process], including key questions, metrics, and warning signs to look for.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

At this level, there aren’t any established project management practices or standards; documentation and metrics are ad hoc. An organization uses basic metrics to track project performance. Project metrics become the basis for making business decisions for the future. . Book a call with our expert. . Want to learn more?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

All too often, a new change spends its first few quarters being undermeasured because the existing suite of metrics the organization uses haven’t been overhauled to reflect the new priorities. Part of the problem is that reallocating resources and changing metrics aren’t the glamorous work of strategic change.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

A small number of these were the initial invitation — far more were reminder notes, requests for headshots or images of my latest book , and sometimes links to elaborate forms (one had 24 questions!) Using that metric, only 10.5% to fill out in advance of the interview. Focus on the few emails that are actually high priority.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

Pivot indicators help ensure your idea will succeed by tracking metrics that answer two questions: When will we know if this doesn’t work, and how will we know? PlayPump’s downfall lay in its failure to measure by those metrics, leading them to run headfirst toward catastrophe.

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

The book The Only Rule Is It Has To Work is the true story of how a couple of clever quants, Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller, tried to bring sabermetric superiority to the Sonoma Stompers, a minor league baseball team nestled in California’s wine country. Even if you loathe baseball, it’s a terrific yarn. ” Indeed.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

The engagement of its drivers, who deliver milk and bread to millions of customers each day, was dipping while management was becoming increasingly metric-driven in an effort to reduce costs and improve delivery times. Organizational Development Book. There are a number of ways to do this, as I outline in my new book Alive at Work.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 22, 2016

Again and again (and again and again and again), we receive 3-4 page long resumes detailing every piece of research and lab work a particular person’s done, lists of every conference they’ve attended, what they had for lunch 3 days ago, and an-in depth review of their favorite physics book. Far from it!

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

To help them in their new roles, companies spend almost $14 billion a year on courses, books, videos, coaches, tests, and executive education programs — and such spending rose 10% last year. Organizations are continuously promoting people into management, and those new leaders struggle with the transition.

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Chad Barr

JUNE 26, 2024

Analyzing Metrics Activity: Review the analytics from your website, social media, and email campaigns. Get your copy of my latest new books available now on my Amazon’s author page. Schedule these pieces of content to be posted throughout the week. Identify what’s working and what needs improvement.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2018

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.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2018

Over the years, we have found, again and again, that a country’s English proficiency correlates closely with metrics of innovation and overall economic well-being. Be creative: read the English version of your favorite book, for example, or enroll in an English cooking class. You and Your Team Series. Working Across Cultures.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Organizational Development Book. But since Tom’s boss was under pressure to meet a number of website metrics, she didn’t have the flexibility to implement his ideas. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. We feel more alive. Adapted from.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2018

The pleasant bike lanes that mayors introduced to make cities more humane have morphed in this driven city into “ cycle superhighways ” where lycra-clad bankers from the City are hell-bent on outperforming their time-to-work record from the day before, complete with iPhone on arm measuring a veritable research-lab-worthy set of metrics.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

Set goals and metrics: After your assessment, with an open mind review your strengths and weaknesse. It is important to also set goals and metrics for implementing servant leadership. Finally, see Rick’s newest book. Visit the RCI store: Books & Training Resources. Partner with RCI Consulting Services.

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Epicflow

JUNE 28, 2023

Project managers can use various types of data: historical data, real-time project metrics, customers’ feedback, resource-related data (e.g., In addition, analyzing various metrics and indicators helps project managers timely identify problems in the workflow and take measures to improve the situation. References Alexander, M.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

In the book The Checklist Manifesto by surgeon Atul Gawande (one of my favorite books on building scalable operations), the author discusses the errors that occur in surgery. This is one of the reasons that I insist on my clients tracking their key performance indicator metrics.

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Consultants' Consultant

JULY 27, 2021

Consultants Consultant: I’m looking at recruitment for a new book. 19 recruiting metrics you should know. The post Recruiting ideas appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants. Books, but that's a much longer effort. I tend to promote my books on podcasts. But you don't need a book to go on a podcast. I'm not linking to the report, because the advice is so bad.)

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Harvard Business

MAY 9, 2017

This approach, famously described in Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball , took time, as the team cycled out existing contracts, so that by 1997 the A’s had a very low match between pay and individual performance. But then things began to change: The match improved to about league average in 1998, and increased further in 1999. .”

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2024

If you're not sure about cycle time, read Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers. And if you have a facilitative role in your team, such as a Scrum Master or agile coach who insists on relative estimation, read the posts about flow metrics. Read Daniel Vacanti's and Prateek Singh's books.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 14, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers. Use Timeboxes to Make Visible Progress I have a variety of larger work: Books, fiction, and some blog posts (the ones that turn into series) New workshops Presentations Client work, which can vary from proposal to implementation and back again. Today, I chose the book first.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

After all, there are hundreds of books written about leadership every year, adding to the thousands of titles already available on Amazon. Explicit in our HR officer’s question was her assumption that the newest thinking on leadership development must contain something essential.

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