Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

Manufacturing companies continually seek ways to improve their processes, optimize costs, and increase competitiveness. Production management helps make sure that a manufacturing company creates the required products of high quality, in the required quantities, and at the right time. and implementing advanced software solutions.

Operations 204

Operations Management Efficiency Resources 204

Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2024

Five years ago, the Business Roundtable issued a statement pledging to “lead their companies for the benefit of all stakeholders.” But that is a far cry from replacing shareholder capitalism as the central organizing principle for U.S. For that to happen, much more is required.

Guidelines 238

Guidelines Metrics Education Resources 238

Kates Kesler

JUNE 29, 2020

Metrics serve as a powerful motivator and unfortunately, are often perfectly designed to drive sub-optimal results. In team sports, measuring vital, non-point metrics and de-emphasizing individual metrics is not a new concept. For a simple comparison, consider this sports team analogy.

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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.

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Metrics Efficiency Data Research 238

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The second trap is when companies measure what they do rather than what they achieve. To fix it, cascade rather than amalgamate your metrics. To fix it, you must organize both around key stakeholders. To fix this, focus on stakeholder outcomes. The third trap is a lack of focus.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

All industries use numbers and metrics to describe performance, measure trends, and allocate status. Using the metrics for decision making. The first step to understanding a new set of metrics is to put them into context. By adding a reference point one can better understand the impact and significance of the metrics.

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Metrics Industry Benchmarking How To 88

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The debate about superstar firms and superstar effects has been intensifying, partly in response to the rapid growth of global US tech companies. To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To Apexphotos/Getty Images.

Industry 132

Industry Company Metrics Real Estate 132

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

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? Then make sure you have the necessary tools and metrics in place.

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Media Company ROI Metrics 135

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.

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Metrics Operations Leadership Efficiency 306

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). They do both.

Company 124

Company Balance Sheet Metrics Engineering 124

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

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Three metrics to guide your company’s international expansion.

Metrics 170

Metrics Marketing Company Research 170

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. It’s typically assumed these companies are seeking a jolt of hipness. Some companies are aggressively testing both.

Company 126

Company Case Interview Engineering ROI 126

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.

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Metrics Cash Flow Talent Financial 68

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. The average company considers only about 15% of its employees to be difference makers. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap.

Management 134

Management Company Balance Sheet Talent 134

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. Consequently, serious customer lifetime value metrics should measure how effectively innovation investment increases customer health and wealth.

Company 133

Company Exercises Metrics Examples 133

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

companies $450 billion to $550 billion per year in lost productivity. They attempt to make people feel that they’re working for a responsible company or that the company’s leaders care about them. MGM wanted to reposition itself from merely a casino company to a worldwide resort and entertainment company.

Company 142

Company Training Training Culture 142

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.

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Case Study Case Studies Transportation Efficiency 78

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.

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Company Strategy Strategy Strategy& 134

Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

government leaders, sustainability is getting more and more attention at American companies. Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind. Having any more than that risks diluting executive focus.

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Metrics Government Energy Company 132

Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2018

As a result, the company says it will be focusing more on promoting posts from friends rather than from media outlets, thereby leading to more-meaningful social interactions. Purpose-driven companies have been shown to outperform their peers over the long term. But purpose-driven companies are also hard to come by. Why is that?

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Company Financial Media Metrics 118

Harvard Business

JULY 28, 2017

The companies that think their employees’ digital IQs are unimportant are probably few and far between. After all, in just one decade the concept of “digital” has changed from a niche skill set to something that’s mandatory for virtually all blue-chip companies. How the best companies get up to speed.

Company 132

Company Tools Survey Education 132

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

Company 131

Company Agile Training Training 131

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Fintona Financial (not the company’s real name) had a problem. They had built their business on customer experience — so, poor NPS scores could be the death of their company. They would continue tracking their normal metrics but, for the next few weeks, these metrics wouldn’t impact teams’ compensation.

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Company Metrics Financial Benchmarking 132

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Profitability is the ultimate business metric , and profitability cases can address a business in any industry. This case type names a company and gives some detailed history and factual data, and poses one of three questions: . What should Company X do about revenues (prices x volumes)? Profitability – revenue-focused.

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Case Interview Interviews Study Cover Letters 236

Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Still, effective project management requires more than profound knowledge and expertise: it demands the right tools to streamline processes, enhance team collaboration, and enable efficient decision-making everything you need to reach your companys strategic goals. Reporting and analytics to assess project health and performance metrics.

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Tools Software Efficiency Resources 130

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 29, 2018

companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. For example, several months ago, a global financial services company asked me to design a workshop to help their employees be less bureaucratic and more entrepreneurial. Photodisc/Getty Images.

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Training Training Company Development 130

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Companies can warp their own ethical climate by pushing too much change from the top, too quickly and too frequently. The lure of incentives are a problem in boardrooms too: Bonus payments and executive share schemes are often based on short-term business metrics, which can be counter to long-term success. Cross-cultural differences.

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Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Study 133

Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

Companies less frequently offer formal training – a trend that has been on the decline for years. During my 11 years at PepsiCo, mostly during the 1990s, “personal development” was treated as a major company initiative. What are job goals and key success metrics? Drawn Ideas/Getty Images. It takes patience.

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Development Company Journal Advertising 134

LSA Global

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Next, they learned how to design a team charter with their teams in order to aligned team goals, roles, and strategy success metrics with overall strategic priorities. Do your managers know how to create strategic clarity and commitment with their teams? Learn more about getting aligned.

Management 68

Management Training Training Talent 68

Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As companies aim to rise above the competition, identifying training gaps and conducting a thorough training needs analysis have become essential in ensuring that training initiatives are effective and strategically aligned with organizational goals.

Training 130

Training Training Analysis Metrics 130

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

Monitoring performance and benefits delivery The CPO is responsible for monitoring project performance, tracking key metrics, and ensuring adherence to project timelines, budgets, and quality standards. Also, a CPO makes sure that a company is capable of applying diverse PM methodologies and executing a variety of projects.

Resources 157

Resources Methodologies Efficiency Metrics 157

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

The airline industry is a cautionary tale of what happens when companies emulate new business models without bringing over the associated mental models. In contrast, companies like JetBlue decided to emulate Southwest’s entire system: mental model, business model, and measurement model.

Airlines 134

Airlines Strategy Strategy Strategy& 134

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The fourth gap between strategy and execution is in measurement and metrics. The assumption is that financial measures like cost and revenue are sufficient metrics to measure progress. You need metrics that tell you how well your game plan is being executed — metrics that all of your players can organize around.

Strategy 133

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Metrics 133

Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

After analyzing more than 250 diverse organizations, drawing on the Fortune 100 and various “best workplaces” lists, I found that over half the companies were rated poorly by their employees in at least one of the three areas, and 20% got very low scores across the board. Support for the research was provided by Cisco and Lever.

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Accenture Survey Interviews Metrics 195