Clarity Consultants

MARCH 18, 2025

Resource Efficiency Leveraging an instructional design consultant can significantly save time and resources for your company. These professionals utilize efficient project management techniques and have the skills to manage curriculum development, allowing your internal teams to focus on core business tasks.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2024

For example, Adidas has launched initiatives to produce shoes from ocean plastic waste , turning a pollutant into a valuable consumer product. For example, Unilever is working towards making all of its plastic packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable by 2030. Utilizing recycled materials is another effective strategy.

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Case Studies Case Study Transportation Efficiency 78

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.

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Metrics Banking Balance Sheet Efficiency 88

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

From telemedicine to wearable devices, health-tech innovations are not only improving patient outcomes but also making healthcare more accessible and efficient. For example, a wearable ECG monitor can detect irregular heart rhythms and alert both the patient and their healthcare provider, potentially preventing a serious cardiac event.

Healthcare 78

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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. Cruel kindness might be one example, and virtual reality might be another. If not, don’t do it!

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

When I read the piece, it reminded me of a question executives often ask me when I talk to them about the benefits of behavioral economics or give them examples of how they could use it in their own organizations: “Aren’t you afraid it will be used with ill intent?” The result? The implication?

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Airlines Efficiency Study Operations 190

LSA Global

JUNE 3, 2024

Top 10 Steps to Better Design Strategy Success Metrics Workplace metrics impact workplace behaviors and performance. Designing the right strategy success metrics can mean the difference between a leadership team collectively steering toward its strategic targets and veering off course. Makes sense right? Wells Fargo opened 3.5

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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 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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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. So this measure may mislabel efficient companies as myopic. Consider three examples.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

However, in business, decisions can be effectively and efficiently made based on near-perfect data/calculations. Profitability is the ultimate business metric , and profitability cases can address a business in any industry. An example of this might be comparing the use of the U.S. Profitability. and the other is 8 oz.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking. Ignorance of the flow metrics.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2015

Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? Nokia is a very good example of a company [that was dominated by this kind of myopia]. HP is an example. And so, there appears to be a disparity between what companies do and what the metrics are measuring.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

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. Articulate the connections between talent and strategic success, as well as the principles and conditions that predict individual and organizational behaviors.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

For example, research has found that 93% of Pinterest users plan purchases on the platform and 87% have made a purchase after seeing a product they liked. Start by basing your social strategy on business objectives, then follow that by thinking about target market, social media platforms, tools, and metrics.

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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. During this stage, eLearning consultants identify critical success metrics related to workforce performance. With that approach, eLearning programs become far more efficient.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Project management maturity (or PMM) reflects a company’s ability to manage projects efficiently. They usually describe levels indicating the current state of an organization in terms of project management efficiency and propose recommendations on how to proceed to more sophisticated levels. . Let’s examine some of them. .

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Metrics emphasized speed. We rebuilt performance metrics to track impact, not to apply pressure.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” Accountability is vital to the efficiency of the process.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

For example, many managers still believe that the errors they make in evaluating their employees can be corrected by training them to recognize the potential errors and suggesting ways to avoid them, while the actual evidence shows that such training can actually increase the number of errors they make. We advocate for three main changes.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 29, 2025

” Impact: Maximizes efficiency and focus on priorities. “Help me develop a framework to assess [specific business challenge] by identifying key variables, potential metrics, and critical success factors. Include specific examples and exercises.” Consider both quantitative and qualitative aspects.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

We then scored the quality of disclosure based on whether there is no disclosure, generic disclosure, backward-looking metrics, or forward-looking metrics for a category. A good long-term plan provides the investor with forward-looking metrics on several issues — not a generic narrative based on backward-looking information.

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

In this article, we’re delving into the most essential aspects of efficient project management that can ensure successful and timely delivery, and also dwelling on the importance of project data for risk management in single-project and multi-project environments. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis?

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow. Two years later, the follow-up IOM report, “Crossing the Quality Chasm,” reviewed other types of disappointing quality, including gaps in efficiency, effectiveness, timeliness, and patient-centeredness.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Right now, for example, the hot topic is “digital leadership” — driving organizations to be more innovative, iterative, and collaborative as they develop digital strategies to disrupt or transform their current business. The culture at GE, for example, centers on execution, simplicity, and innovation.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

So unlike your average patient, she described one 12-hour wait in the ER as having a “7% process cycle efficiency.” Like many patients, Jess felt her providers were delivering very little quality of care when defined by the one metric that mattered most to her: time. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt.

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Epicflow

JUNE 28, 2023

Project managers can use various types of data: historical data, real-time project metrics, customers’ feedback, resource-related data (e.g., Also, data analytics makes it possible to make predictions, for example, foresee future challenges. availability, performance, competences), etc. How does it work?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. Changes in their behavior led to both lower carbon dioxide emissions (by 21,500 metric tons) and an estimated $5.4

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Our Thermo King manufacturing facility in Galway, Ireland, for example, is one of our first zero waste to landfill facilities. Moreover, by sharing these results with external partners and customers, we’re able to provide further insight into the efficiency of our products which can help inform them as they set goals of their own.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

” Good management practices should already be in place — for example, effective budget practices and a stable staff schedule. Efficiencies gained in human resources and housekeeping can free frontline unit managers and clinical staff to spend more time at the patient’s bedside. Management “hygiene.”

Healthcare 110

Healthcare System Operations Metrics 110

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for more information. You can use the flow metrics, too.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

See the Flow Efficiency series.) As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( Here are some examples: Demos, even of partially working product. Any of these individual metrics: number of lines of code, number of tests, hours spent in coding, testing, or reviewing.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

And, they want metrics. See Schedule Game #11: The Schedule Tool is Always Right as an example.). Many of these people want to use a tool to plan from the “bottom” (what the teams do) to the top (roadmaps and portfolio). Worse, they want to start with a tool. That's never worked. I have nothing against tools.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Overlooking these realities is perilous, both for the patient’s well-being and for efficient delivery of care. This work cannot happen in a vacuum of forced efficiency. Convene patient advisory boards that meet regularly with practice leaders to convey concerns and make suggestions about improving patients’ experiences.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2023

But second, this is an example of management micromanagement. That's a classic example of resource-efficiency thinking. That's an example of Shorter Plans Results in More Management Ease and Better Results applied to people. Managers can check on that needing help business with flow metrics. Little's Law at work.)

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Leadership How To Metrics Efficiency 65

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously. Satya Nadella of Microsoft is a great example of a refounder. Use New Metrics.

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