Epicflow

AUGUST 11, 2022

In this article, we’ll consider some essential metrics that can be used to assess the fruitfulness of change management efforts. . To assess the organizational performance, the following metrics can be used: . Change practitioners use surveys, observation, tests, and performance evaluations to gather the necessary data.

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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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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2024

While the specific strategy success metrics vary across different industries and different strategies, metrics tend to fall into four overall buckets: Financial, Customer, Employee, and Other. Here is a list of the top thirteen metrics that CEOs should measure for strategic success.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When managing a project, it’s vitally important to regularly monitor its state: whether or not it has deviated from the approved schedule and budget; how much work has been completed and how much is left; how efficiently your resources are utilized, etc. What are these metrics, what are they used for, and how to calculate them?

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PM Alliance

JULY 14, 2023

But if you’re looking for more sophisticated and flexible ways to manage your project’s financial resources, consider how data can help make any approach more effective. Timely data can give your team an edge on controlling costs by ensuring that resources are used efficiently. What’s the latest insight into best practices?

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Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

Read the article to learn more about this practice and its role in manufacturing, and explore recommendations that will drive MOM’s efficiency. Its main purpose is to produce better products more efficiently and at lower costs. This practice increases supply chain efficiency, makes it cost-effective and responsive to market changes.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

And, they want metrics. Tools Offer Data, Not Problem-Solving. And the only data the tool offers is based on the data you give it. (The managers promised certain customers/the market/investors certain deliverables.). Worse, they want to start with a tool. That's never worked.

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Epicflow

JUNE 28, 2023

More and more business organizations are becoming data-driven – they are leveraging technology and data to gain actionable insights, improve operations and decision-making, and as a result achieve better outcomes. How exactly is data used in project management? Are there any challenges in using a data-driven approach?

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis?

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

A vast portion of a management consultant’s career is spent analyzing data, summarizing information, extracting insights, and helping to convert knowledge to action. With this step well done, you reduce the chances of misinterpreting the data or missing any key insights. Substantiate your findings with strong arguments from the data.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Having a filter to deal with these decisions can increase our awareness of the decision making process, and allow us to make decisions more efficiently and effectively. When creating a filter it is necessary to be data driven. Filters don’t always have to have well-defined metrics. What is a decision filter?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2023

That's a classic example of resource-efficiency thinking. When I see managers or organizations invest in spyware, I ask them what information they expect to receive and which decisions they will make based on that data. Since I now know about flow efficiency, I might do this differently if I was still a manager inside an organization.

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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. What organizations require a CPO? One of a CPO’s tasks is to ensure optimal resource allocation across a company’s critical projects.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

These metrics provide the foundation for more outcome-oriented engagements, leveraging real-time data to secure contracts, monitor progress, and demonstrate the value of client investments. Which Metrics Are Essential for Professional Services Firms?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The top trophy hire in data science is elusive, and it’s no surprise: a “full-stack” data scientist has mastery of machine learning, statistics, and analytics. Today’s fashion in data science favors flashy sophistication with a dash of sci-fi, making AI and machine learning the darlings of the job market.

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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.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. Every product in the portfolio should be evaluated with the help of one of the product success metrics. All team members must have access to historical and real-time data to be able to timely react to transformations.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 27, 2024

Insights This feature presents data from Jira boards and indicates the team’s historical progress. It visualizes work based on the data from boards and projects. With these metrics at hand, teams can monitor their progress, identify roadblocks, and make better decisions. This helps team members make better decisions.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 29, 2023

They can focus the coursework on critical skill areas, allowing them to close knowledge gaps quickly and efficiently. Essentially, they gather data to create a baseline, allowing them to evaluate the impact of the online training created for an organization more effectively.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

As Noam Scheiber writes in the Times article, “Employing hundreds of social scientists and data scientists, Uber has experimented with video game techniques, graphics and noncash rewards of little value that can prod drivers into working longer and harder — and sometimes at hours and locations that are less lucrative for them.”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

Here's how I find that data to see the project's current progress and a little into the future. Too often, that means people work in resource efficiency, not in flow efficiency. Yes, Little's Law and the flow metrics rule our work. That's because the Gantt chart focuses on people-based tasks, not watching the work.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

This is one of the reasons that I insist on my clients tracking their key performance indicator metrics. Check out our Privacy Policy below for details on how we protect and manage your submitted data. If you can catch the false premise early enough, you prevent the amplification of the error. Read Our Privacy Policy. No, Thanks!

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Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These forces encompass digitization, the adoption of data-centric business strategies, the ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. Intelligent Automation: Advancements in AI analytics and automation support professionals in delivering deeper expertise efficiently and at scale.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

In a nutshell, AI automates repetitive tasks and makes predictions thereby increasing efficiency, streamlining the workflow, and improving decision-making. Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

To help solve this problem, organizations are using digital technologies and data analytics to improve leak detection. Organizations are also using these tools to improve maintenance, infrastructure planning, water conservation, and customer service (including repair efficiencies and pricing). As one U.S.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 17, 2016

5. Structure solution only. • Changes do not stick as processes, metrics, and reward mechanisms still reinforce old ways of work. • Sub-optimized results as employees struggle to deliver on new expectations. 7. . • New conflicts around allocations, chargebacks, and decision rights.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia. However, such coarse data doesn’t capture how widely practices can vary between individual companies. So this measure may mislabel efficient companies as myopic. What would better measures be?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Now, you have data. That's often the case that the managers ask team members to do work that's not the team's work, or if the managers believe in resource efficiency. I might ask the team if that's okay, but I wouldn't stress until I had more data. The wait time for cycle time is why thinking in flow efficiency is so important.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Stephen has introduced innovative methods and metrics to the project management discipline and has taught project management at universities and for organizations worldwide, including Siemens, Ford, Qatar Telecom, and the US Air Force. To have real integration to support decision-making, we need a single metric that works for all parameters.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

Managing HR-related data is critical to any organization’s success. Putting Data to Work. 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. Vincent Tsui for HBR. Consulting firms in the U.S. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Indeed, our experience with senior teams corroborates these data. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. This is an area where the data present a more complex picture.

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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.,

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1 to 1

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

For too many years, contact center measurements have been focused on efficiency instead of customer experience. Metrics such as average handle time (AHT), number of contacts handled, average wait time, and average speed of answer have all been heavily used and tracked.

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1 to 1

JUNE 13, 2024

Talk to someone like Lynn Hunsaker and she’ll tell you there’s some 24 metrics to convey the value of the customer experience. The “Four Gold CX ROI Metrics” webinar was the final episode in the three-part series hosted by ECXO. She’s dissected and painstakingly diagrammed each one.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Those failures can mean a lot of things — over-budget, data integrity issues, technology limitations, and so forth. The CIO was unhappy about data integrity issues that arose from the integration of more than 20 discreet databases. The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow. An Example.

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1 to 1

MARCH 28, 2022

Individuals who are looking for a remote work environment with flexible hours are increasingly joining customer care, back office, growth services, data annotation, and content moderation teams. Measure the right behavior Make sure a gigCX worker’s performance metrics are aligned with the right results.

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