Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In my work analyzing the thinking styles of leaders in organizations, I’ve found that strategy is usually developed by people who have a big-picture orientation, while execution is often done by those with a detail orientation. The fourth gap between strategy and execution is in measurement and metrics.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

” The modern landscape for newspapers and books resulted from centuries of evolution, but “new media” hasn’t yet developed such strong brands and categories. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. These insights allow leaders to identify risks, assess project performance, and make informed decisions that maximize ROI. Key Features of Aha!

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LSA Global

JUNE 17, 2024

How to Increase the ROI of Sales Training Even though $20 billion is spent on business sales training per year, more than a third of sales leaders admit that they do not have a clear idea of what measurable return they are looking for on sales training. That is a costly mistake if you want to increase the ROI of sales training.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” WebMD Health Services has developed a measurement system that addresses this deficiency. The impact went beyond the one specific metric. I contend that what lies at the heart of the inconsistent results is not the programs per se but rather how we define and ultimately measure “well-being.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, for instance, Grid70 houses design, business innovation, and product development teams from a grocery chain, shoe retailer, and consumer goods manufacturer — no coding required. At Grid70, one tenant reported a 30%–40% reduction in product development time after a redesign of their workspace.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. ” If the sales team recognizes the value of this tool, you’ll get all the metric and forecast information you desire. Implement your CRM with that in mind and you’ll be pleased with your ROI.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. These insights allow leaders to identify risks, assess project performance, and make informed decisions that maximize ROI. Key Features of Aha!

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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. A 9700% CX ROI? She’s dissected and painstakingly diagrammed each one. No more layoffs.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

” Agreeing to a networking meeting without a formal agenda may seem like a waste of time, with little ROI. But by using the approach above, you can create your own metrics for success and potentially develop life- and career-changing connections.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Companies deploying emotional-connection-based strategies and metrics to design, prioritize, and measure the customer experience find that increasing customers’ emotional connection drives significant improvements in financial outcomes.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Digital therapeutics are being increasingly validated in clinical trials published in peer-reviewed medical journals and are available or are being developed for most chronic diseases. An additional 32% of the population has “pre-diabetes” – meaning that they are at high risk of developing diabetes. of the U.S.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

For instance, in Marketing, data is being used to calculate ROI on marketing campaigns, or come up with new pricing strategies based on A/B testing of campaigns which helps marketing and managers bring in more revenue, and stay ahead of the competition. Are you having a strategy meeting soon? Get our free 2-Day strategic planning agenda.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. The metrics also changed. .” Everyone likes to talk about being “customer-centric.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

But I’ve learned key lessons to help managers turn lofty goals — such as making learning and development a central pillar of the workday — into real actions that mitigate damage to, and even help strengthen, the bottom line. Get top-level guidance and metrics. Here’s how. There will always be some tension.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

The risk of underestimating the necessary time is that the day-to-day work of tactical community management will prevent planning for future strategic initiatives like new product development. Measure the ROI. Unfortunately, there exists no single, magic-bullet metric that satisfies these requirements for every community.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

Establish new rules, norms, and metrics. Ford’s core business of designing, manufacturing, and selling cars and trucks is governed by long-established business rules, behavioral norms, and success metrics. Instead, Ford has had to develop new norms and new competencies to meet its new challenges.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

How exactly are they doing that, and thereby realizing further gains in ROI? When companies get more proficient in timing their marketing activities, they often realize another benefit: freed-up time for brand building, creative development and data mining. ” What Marketing Leaders Do Differently.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. Let’s develop an up-front “technology ROI” that measures workflow impact, inefficiency, hassle and impact on physician and nurse well-being. Bryan Sexton of Duke University Medical Center.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

No longer will all developers be assigned to project work. These products are typically not for sale, but they do go through a defined development process and provide clear business benefits. A product mindset helps change this. Instead, some will make the shift to think in products that tackle business goals.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 12, 2022

Consider the two financial core metrics when thinking about the COO, cashflow and ROI. ROI Think through the actual return on investment of bringing in a COO. ROI Think through the actual return on investment of bringing in a COO. There's a positive ROI to bringing on this role. Does it make sense financially?

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He installed heavy-weight market leaders in key growth markets (much as GE has done) to bring management attention to market development, commercial capability, and relationships with government entities. The strategy worked until growth slowed in both developed and developing markets. How will we choose to compete?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

That investing in employee engagement is an actual business imperative, and it has real, measurable ROI. Measurement and metrics challenge every company, so how do you measure efforts to build a great experience for employees? Jody Kohner, Salesforce. I think that you really have to focus on investing in your employees.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

What makes sense: ROI The other financial metric you have to look at is your return on investment (ROI). Your ROI would be 100%. If the same outcome makes 2,000 customers happier, the ROI is 10x. As this would be a recurring improvement, your budget from an ROI perspective could be as high as 12,000.

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1 to 1

MAY 20, 2024

This week’s Fast Track CX ROI webinar is the second episode in ECXO’s three-part series of short, practical sessions hosted by Ricardo Saltz Gulko, ECXO co-founder and managing director of Eglobalis , a global adviser in CX, design, and innovation. Learn more about developing a CX action plan and delver deeper into Hunsaker’s insight.

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Nash Consulting

MAY 21, 2024

The true challenge of any training or development initiative lies in keeping the momentum going. It not only reflects a significant loss in ROI from training investments but creates a “flavor of the year” culture, where people learn to hold their breath and wait for the new change to eventually and inevitably go away.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 4, 2020

L&D’s Role Today Learning and Development departments have become increasingly important to the success of their organizations. Professional development for employees is no longer seen as a “nice-to-have” employee benefit. Successful organizations have learned how to design the right L&D strategy.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Step #1: Understand your current CX state Your brand needs to maintain and develop a deep understanding of your customers—their basic needs and unique expectations. Step #4: Develop a digital transformation strategy Now that your current capabilities and future goals have been collected, it’s time to act.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

To succeed leaders must be able to engage and retain top talent from both companies, bridge differences in styles, values, processes, or cultures, and demonstrate ROI quickly. Without clear growth metrics in place, leaders risk losing sight of what’s working and what needs improvement. It is not enough to focus on revenue growth alone.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

ROI calculator. They also help you develop new relationships through outreach. Not only will you be educating and nurturing your leads, but it will help you start conversations and develop relationships with your leads. What were the KPI’s or metrics achieved to show that the project was a success? ROI Calculator.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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