Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

At this level, there aren’t any established project management practices or standards; documentation and metrics are ad hoc. An organization has certain project management processes and corresponding documentation, but they aren’t standardized. An organization uses basic metrics to track project performance.

Management 130

Management Metrics Resources Efficiency 130

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2018

With online technologies and targeted lists, this should be a cost-effective tool for separating the suspects from the prospects, accelerating customer conversion through the sales funnel, and, equally important, optimizing “data-driven marketing” by tying each piece of content to metrics like opens, reads, downloads, and so on.

Marketing 133

Marketing Case Studies Case Study Sales 133

LSA Global

APRIL 7, 2025

Recalibrate the Teams Shared Commitments Facilitate a team session focused on shared team goals , team roles and responsibilities , team success metrics , collaboration norms, communication agreements, and shared accountability. The goal is to put the spotlight on the entire team to reflect, not just the outlier.

Construction 53

Construction Leadership Metrics Culture 53

Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Moreover, some people prefer to review documents like résumés away from their desk, for example while eating lunch or in the evening. (I Much lower in the document they include an abbreviated section for work history with only company names and locations, job titles, and dates. This gives a sense of scale and degree of change.)

Consulting 150

Consulting Examples Case Interview Fashion 150

Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

It’s a well-documented social-science finding called the Hawthorne effect.) million in fuel costs for the airline and reduced emissions of more than 21,500 metric tons of CO 2 over the eight-month period of the study. All four groups increased their implementation of fuel-efficient behaviors. The implication?

Airlines 190

Airlines Efficiency Study Operations 190

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Worker performance data broken down into three metrics: Productivity. Performance was measured daily or weekly, depending on the metric of interest, and then averaged by month.) Monthly reports on each employee’s location and assigned cubicle over time. We measured the average length of time it took a worker to complete a task.

Productivity 134

Productivity Survey Metrics Data 134

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2024

What Managers Want: More Net Income Let me start with a very simplified profit and loss discussion using the ideas of AARRR “Pirate Metrics” to describe what managers want. How have you helped with any of the Pirate Metrics or increasing net income? Consider the flow metrics , because they’re the data that counts.

Agile 75

Agile Metrics Management Balance Sheet 75

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? I have one such document in front of me as I write this. Alicia Llop/Getty Images. That is, what the organization wanted from employees.

Case Interview 133

Case Interview Groups Small Business Examples 133

Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2018

Many business leaders have talked about the phenomenon of short-termism, and research has documented that short-termism holds back good corporate intentions. Time-bound targets based on metrics and a clear strategic plan could do the trick, though. Promising long-term benefits is not enough.

Company 121

Company Financial Media Data 121

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. Data quality and data governance: tools, processes, guidelines to ensure data is correct, gated and monitored, documented, standardized.

Data 132

Data Engineering Software Metrics 132

Management Consulted

JUNE 11, 2017

Tip : Be sure to include metrics wherever possible! You want your document to highlight certain strengths, leadership qualities, and hero stories – times you turned a negative situation into a positive one. Firms will see you’ve always been a top-performer, instead of a flash-in-the-pan at your last role.

Resumes 124

Resumes Consulting Interviews Leadership 124

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

I don't see how you can say you're using a framework or method without reading the defining documents, but maybe that's me. However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. These managers might not know how to ask for what they want, but that's what they want.)

Agile 81

Agile How To Metrics Productivity 81

Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 3, 2021

You should establish metrics that are specific to the scenario, aligned with your goals, and easy to understand or calculate. The filter can be a single metric that results in a yes/no decision, or a multistage process that results in an absolute yes/no or a conditional yes/no. Filters don’t always have to have well-defined metrics.

Resumes 88

Resumes Metrics Leadership Sales 88

Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

It seems likely that the values driving us to be workaholics in the first place are also encouraging us to “optimize” ourselves by using metric-driven “hacks.” .” This raises the question: Are we genuinely interested in feeling healthier and happier? Or reminding ourselves that laughter is healing ?

Study 133

Study Metrics Culture Research 133

Consulting Matters

JUNE 24, 2020

A proposal is not a legal document – it’s an invitation for a strategic partnership. To ensure your system works and scales: Install metrics for each aspect of the system.

Consulting 156

Consulting How To System Sales 156

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

They are having to spend more time on documentation, see more patients in a day, and use unfamiliar processes and tools. Data and metrics can create an awareness of problems, a means to explore them, and a goal post to measure progress. Alignment of common values enabled and motivated them to work through this change adoption together.

Data 123

Data Culture Training Training 123

LSA Global

MAY 27, 2024

A Performance Improvement Plan is a formal document that is part of a larger performance management process to help employees who are not meeting behavior- and/or result-oriented performance expectations. Do your managers know how to set clear goals and success metrics with their teams?

Culture 69

Culture Metrics Management Report 69

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

Changes in their behavior led to both lower carbon dioxide emissions (by 21,500 metric tons) and an estimated $5.4 This is consistent with a well-documented social science phenomenon called the Hawthorne effect, whereby people change their behavior as a result of knowing they are being observed. We estimate a fuel cost savings of $5.4

Efficiency 70

Efficiency Metrics Study Groups 70

Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

From their pre-customer release defect escape data, they learned: The requirements document was out of date almost as soon as the marketing people had completed it. But at most of my clients, I find this data: The longer the backlog or the longer the requirements document, the more problems in the backlog or the document.

How To 81

How To Agile Productivity Data 81

Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

Since the mandate of the board is to represent shareholders’ interests, shareholder votes stand out as a natural performance metric. The second challenge we face is that we only have that measure of director performance for directors who are actually selected to join the board.

Research 111

Research Company Data Study 111

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Nevertheless, an article in the Nikkei Asian Review stated that Japanese prosecutors had obtained internal Nissan documents allegedly showing that the amounts of the deferred payments to Ghosn were fixed and therefore subject to disclosure.

Government 80

Government Financial Insurance Insurance 80

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Doctors are working harder than ever and spending more of their time documenting clinical metrics and measuring patient satisfaction. Groups with high-functioning clinical teams typically empower nonphysician clinicians to take on a wider range of responsibilities, including taking charge of the bulk of documentation.

Survey 71

Survey Leadership Productivity Groups 71

LSA Global

AUGUST 12, 2024

We also know from performance management data that employee underperformance often stems from a lack of clarity around roles, responsibilities, scope, and performance metrics. Document expectations to secure their commitment and set a solid foundation for ongoing accountability.

Culture 68

Culture Resources Data Meeting 68

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements. However, how those metrics translate into revenues remains a mystery to external investors.

Financial 70

Financial Report Company Metrics 70

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Along the way, she's learned about vanity metrics and metrics that work. I love the line about vanity metrics and metrics that work. He's also coached his managers into using flow metrics, not resource metrics. The flow metrics? As I iterate on my bio, I add it to the proposal document.

Conference 60

Conference Metrics Agile Intellectual Property 60

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Chemicals 71

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 71

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

As documented by Walter Isaacson , “After he righted the company, Jobs began taking his ‘top 100’ people on a retreat each year. Executive teams looking to adopt this practice need to focus on fewer things and move from a calendar-based planning process to continuous issue-based planning.

Agile 71

Agile How To Enterprise Leadership 71

Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

As a rule, a project manager creates this document at the planning stage and needs essential data about the project. EVA encompasses three key indicators: Planned Value: This metric outlines the expected amount of work scheduled to be completed by a specific stage of the project timeline.

Data 130

Data Risk Analysis Management Analysis 130

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Conversely, an improvement in manufacturing or supply chain processes often affects sales tasks — and it’s not an “improvement” if it hurts sales while optimizing another group’s performance metrics. These cross-functional interdependencies are visible at senior levels but typically not lower in the organization.

Strategy 70

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Hotels 70

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2018

For example, if a law firm uses machine learning to find documents relevant for a case, what matters is that they don’t miss something important, not explaining why one document is relevant and another isn’t. Explainability is not always important. A business analyst should map out the end-to-end business process.

Data 71

Data System Intellectual Property Policies 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

By using blockchain technology to track their ads, marketing teams can retain control over all their automation practices, ensure that marketing spend is focused on ROI-generating activities, and directly measure the impact of marketing down to a per-user, per-mail metric. Remonetizing Media Consumption.

Marketing 130

Marketing Advertising Media Video 130

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Provide metadata, APIs / SDKs , and documentation enabling multiple teams of multiple selves to productively collaborate. These metrics should inform ongoing feedback as well as training for individuals, teams, and their algorithms. Require networked KPI dashboards for multiple selves management and oversight.

Enterprise 102

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 102

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Here you “benchmark the key revenue and cost metrics in your business against the market and against firms offering the most-comparable products.” Step 4: Document assumptions. .” Step 2: Do benchmarking. The next step is to “figure out how realistic your reverse income statement is,” says McGrath.

Benchmarking 106

Benchmarking Methodologies Company Apparel 106

Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Some of the symptoms of Resistance seem contradictory, but if we go back to the definition, that makes sense.

Metrics 47

Metrics Tools System Meeting 47

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

How To 70

How To Film Productivity Development 70

LSA Global

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The most effective companies view strategy not as a fixed document or a rigid set of guidelines but as a dynamic, evolving process that creates clear direction and high meaning. This static perspective, however, limits the potential of what corporate strategy can and should be. In other words, corporate strategy is a verb, not a noun.

Strategy 63

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Agile 63

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

The team’s project workspace so the team can put project documents in one specific place. This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. The place to store backlog items for near term work on feature sets. The place to see the roadmaps for the longer term. The place to gather team data. The place to report project status.

Agile 80

Agile Tools Management Metrics 80