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

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Chemicals 71

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 71

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process. The next step is obvious: Enable digital twins — or triplets, quadruplets, septuplets — to help GE’s human assets become more productive and efficient, too.

Enterprise 103

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 103

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Facing strict regulation on chemical release and competition from flowers from Africa, the Dutch flower industry developed a closed-loop system that grows flowers hydroponically in greenhouses, lowering risk of infestation and reducing the use of fertilizers and pesticides. In 2005, they launched a U.S. Attracting and Engaging Employees.

Study 70

Study Productivity Efficiency Operations 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When care is delivered with less dignity, compassion, or efficiency than it should be the experience can easily be perceived as negative, even if the care is successful in strictly clinical terms. Correct care is not some absolute invariable value.

System 70

System Healthcare Financial Construction 70