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Measuring the Long-Term Impact of L&D Initiatives on Business Performance

Clarity Consultants

For example, if your goal is to increase sales, your L&D programs might focus on enhancing sales techniques, product knowledge, or customer relationship management skills. Productivity metrics: Assess changes in output per employee or team efficiency. Output per employee: Track changes in individual or team productivity levels.

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Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business

The observation that many “unicorn” companies with no profits — and sometimes no revenues or even fully developed products — get valued so highly makes me skeptical of the idea that the capital market is systematically myopic. It has a reasonable methodology.

McKinsey 117
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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. Using a 3-to-1 matching of hospitals with no change as a comparison, we analyzed 1,640 firms in all.

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Are you a Loser, Struggler, Con Artist, or Winner?

The Fearless Marketer

You say your team building program will increase the productivity and engagement of a client’s employees, leading to a more successful company. It’s more likely true if you have actually measured increases in productivity and engagement as well as company success. Comparison. Honesty seems simple but it’s not. Technology.

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Is Your Business a “Service” or a “Brand”?

The Fearless Marketer

Almost nobody does because when a new product enters the market, branding isn’t important. Instead, the new product is compared to what came before – in this case the “wired telephone.”. And all the selling points of this new product were about the advantages of the new technology. By proprietary methodologies.

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Case Study: Should an Algorithm Tell You Who to Promote?

Harvard Business

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. In contrast, Molly’s network was concentrated mainly within cleaning products. “Shall we get started?”

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The 4 Dimensions of Digital Trust, Charted Across 42 Countries

Harvard Business

What these stories underscore is that our digital evolution and our productive use of new technologies rests on how well we can build digital trust. We wanted to calibrate trust holistically so we could measure it and develop global comparisons. We always urge you to read the methodology carefully.

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