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

Clarity Consultants

MARCH 18, 2025

The right instructional design consultant helps companies revitalize their L&D strategies. Resource Efficiency Leveraging an instructional design consultant can significantly save time and resources for your company. This lets you see whether their approach fits your company’s learning philosophy and needs.

Case Studies 130

Case Studies Case Study Consulting Training 130

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In an era where environmental consciousness is increasingly becoming a priority, companies worldwide are rethinking their supply chain strategies to minimize their environmental footprint. We’ll also look at case studies of companies leading the way in sustainable supply chain management.

Case Studies 78

Case Studies Case Study Transportation Efficiency 78

Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Successful companies are rarely stagnant. Knowing how your company will get from where it is to where you want to be is essential. Identify key metrics to measure success and have a plan to ensure broad buy-in. Instead, change is part of their broader operational paradigm. Craft Your Strategy. Champion the Change.

Metrics 306

Metrics Operations Leadership Efficiency 306

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this article, we will explore the importance of profitability ratios and valuation metrics that are crucial when analyzing banks. There are seven key profitability ratios and two valuation metrics that it is important to understand. 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. These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Prevents over- or under-utilization of resources, ensuring efficiency.

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Your company may discover that it needs a strategic do-over. So how do you ensure that your social media efforts are aligned with what matters to your company — and that you are positively contributing to the bottom line? Philip Kotler once said, “You should never go to battle before you’ve won the war on paper.”

Media 135

Media Company ROI Metrics 135

Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A product portfolio is a set of all products and services that a company creates and offers to customers. In other words, it’s indicative of the company’s growth.

Productivity 245

Productivity Management Resources Software 245

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. 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

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In a recent survey , Bain & Company found that just 2% of companies are successful in achieving their sustainability goals. However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. Simone Golob/Getty Images.

Company 134

Company Strategy Strategy& Strategy 134

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

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Prevents over- or under-utilization of resources, ensuring efficiency.

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

LSA Global

JULY 1, 2024

Knowing what CEOs should measure for strategic success is crucial for making informed decisions and steering the company to where it wants to go in a way that makes sense. Here is a list of the top thirteen metrics that CEOs should measure for strategic success.

Metrics 68

Metrics Cash Flow Talent Financial 68

Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

It’s just one of several stories of late that have cast the company in a poor light. Another example I often give concerns the use of fuel- and carbon-efficient flight practices in the airline industry. All four groups increased their implementation of fuel-efficient behaviors. The result? The implication?

Airlines 189

Airlines Efficiency Study Operations 189

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex.

Metrics 99

Metrics Study McKinsey Cash Flow 99

Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Companies don’t have to coordinate in-person sessions. They can focus the coursework on critical skill areas, allowing them to close knowledge gaps quickly and efficiently. During this stage, eLearning consultants identify critical success metrics related to workforce performance. How Does eLearning Help Businesses?

ROI 173

ROI Training Training Survey 173

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

However, in business, decisions can be effectively and efficiently made based on near-perfect data/calculations. Profitability is the ultimate business metric , and profitability cases can address a business in any industry. What should Company X do about revenues (prices x volumes)? Profitability – revenue-focused.

Case Interview 236

Case Interview Interviews Study Cover Letters 236

Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Project management maturity (or PMM) reflects a company’s ability to manage projects efficiently. They usually describe levels indicating the current state of an organization in terms of project management efficiency and propose recommendations on how to proceed to more sophisticated levels. . Let’s examine some of them. .

Management 130

Management Metrics Resources Efficiency 130

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Practitioners and pundits alike have long debated which metric is best for assessing the performance of a service organization. Given that the service department is a cost center in most companies, service leaders have long relied on AHT as a critical lever for keeping staffing levels, and therefore costs, in check. Related Video.

Metrics 123

Metrics Video Fashion Report 123

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. Removing those support staff was one indication the companies fell into the Economies of Scale trap. Ignorance of the flow metrics.

Metrics 63

Metrics How To Efficiency Resources 63

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Rather than requiring less short-term information, we believe the key to combating short-termism is to encourage companies to share more information about their long-term plans. When asked why companies don’t talk more about the long term, CEOs often complain about the short-term orientation of investors.

Metrics 125

Metrics Financial Marketing Trends 125

Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2015

Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? Nokia is a very good example of a company [that was dominated by this kind of myopia]. And then Apple comes along, and Nokia goes from being the biggest phone company in the world to not being a phone company.

Metrics 60

Metrics Financial Cash Flow Process Improvement 60

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 6, 2017

Moreover, Google will most likely argue that its search engine has made e-commerce more efficient for consumers despite bundling it with AdSense and that its Android operating system has helped make smartphones and apps more ubiquitous and cheap despite bundling them with the Play Store. In fact, Google gives those services away for free.

Company 118

Company Engineering Operations Construction 118

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Bernstein studied assembly-line performance at a company he called “Precision.” 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.

Metrics 134

Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 134

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. They try to address more objectives than are reasonable for any software system.

Sales 132

Sales How To Metrics Tools 132

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. People in the company know what it stands for, and this gives them freedom to lead in different but complementary ways.

Leadership 134

Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 134

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements.

Financial 70

Financial Report Company Metrics 70

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Yet the fact that companies in the U.S. Even the best natural sellers need a strategy around target products and markets and a defined role, along with systems and processes to enable their success and align their efforts around common goals of customer and company success. calling on friends and family) over hard work (e.g.

Sales 130

Sales Talent Operations Efficiency 130

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

Analytics are critical to companies’ performance. On the “push” side, HR leaders can do a better job of presenting human capital metrics to the rest of the organization using the LAMP framework: Logic. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. Sponsored by Accenture.

Metrics 133

Metrics Analysis Data Talent 133

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

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

Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

In this article, we’re delving into the most essential aspects of efficient project management that can ensure successful and timely delivery, and also dwelling on the importance of project data for risk management in single-project and multi-project environments. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis?

Data 130

Data Risk Analysis Management Analysis 130

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

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

For many companies, the price tag and the commitment of resources are too high a hurdle. But the good news is that the early dividends from AI are already within reach of most midsize companies as they look for ways to expand their digital boundaries. And they are , despite the enormous potential they bring to the marketplace.

Company 70

Company Knowledge Base Insurance Insurance 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Our research shows that digital transformation is paying off for those who embrace it: Digitally transformed organizations (“digital leaders”) performed much better than organizations that lagged behind (“digital laggards”), effectively creating a “digital divide” across companies. for leaders and 3.2%

Company 70

Company Operations Data Benchmarking 70

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.

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Research Journal Ethics Metrics 131