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. As wearable technology continues to advance, we’re seeing the development of more sophisticated devices capable of monitoring a broader range of health metrics.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

Remarkably, 97% of those who participated in the study reported that if one of these crises occurred while they were undergoing an operation, they would want the checklist used. Another example I often give concerns the use of fuel- and carbon-efficient flight practices in the airline industry. The result? The implication?

Airlines 191

Airlines Efficiency Study Operations 191

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Prevents over- or under-utilization of resources, ensuring efficiency.

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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. Market Study. Market study questions come in 3 forms: Market Entry. Profitability. Revenue Growth.

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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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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

Relatedly, managers tend to hold on to long-held assumed truths that often management scholars’ studies have dispelled. Third, evaluating professors’ scholarly contributions by counting their “A” journal publications incentivizes scholars to produce as many published studies as possible.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Practitioners and pundits alike have long debated which metric is best for assessing the performance of a service organization. It’s not surprising that the metric figures prominently on a service rep’s scorecard. Why is average handle time such a bad metric for service?

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

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. So which CEOs are “better”? Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

But a Harvard Business Review analytics study of 230 executives suggests a stunning rate of anticipated progress: 15% said they use “ predictive analytics based on HR data and data from other sources within or outside the organization,” while 48% predicted they would be doing so in two years. Consulting firms in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In a Deloitte study of 7,000 organizations this year, 89% of executives rated “ strengthening the leadership pipeline ” an urgent issue. To explain why, I’ll share some findings from a study my colleagues and I just completed at Deloitte. Paul Garbett for HBR. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Bernstein studied assembly-line performance at a company he called “Precision.” 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.

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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

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. The CIO was unhappy about data integrity issues that arose from the integration of more than 20 discreet databases.

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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

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

To sum up, preparing a business case before project initiation can increase efficiency of the business – an organization will intake only those initiatives that will bring real value. . A business case is somewhat similar to a feasibility study, which is why they sometimes get confused. A business case vs. a feasibility study.

Management 130

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

A classic 1998 Stanford University study accurately predicted that by 2020 advances in technology will have eliminated many lower to mid-level jobs. Another study from the University of York and the University of Florida, showed that more than 40% of our creative ideas come when we are taking breaks or allowing our minds to wander.

Boston Consulting Group 134

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Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

In fact, one study showed the average professional spends 4.1 Here are three important lessons I learned from the process, which may be valuable as you think about how to make the time you spend on email more efficient, as well. Using that metric, only 10.5% Andrew Nguyen/HBR Staff/The New York Public Library.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Efficiencies gained in human resources and housekeeping can free frontline unit managers and clinical staff to spend more time at the patient’s bedside. Some systems that we studied have focused on these support departments to introduce their pilots and build goodwill among caregivers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

More than two-thirds of large businesses now offer disease-management programs , but most of these are bricks-and-mortar services that can be converted to better-studied, cheaper, and more effective digital therapeutics. One example is Omada Health , which modeled its product after the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program study.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 25, 2014

Her talk was about “the third metric” in measuring success beyond money and power. 100% recruiter efficiency. He mentioned that there was a full Deloitte study available on the work.). She was insightful, real, vulnerable and inspiring. The results? 27% reduction in cost to hire. Reduction in time to hire. (He

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

.” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. That metric is often expressed in the form of a ratio. “There are four ratios common in every company: profitability, leverage, liquidity, and operational efficiency,” he says.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

In the largest study on climate change data and corporations, 8,000 supplier companies (that sell to 75 multinationals) reported on their level of climate risk. Significant cost reductions can result from improving operational efficiency through better management of natural resources like water and energy, as well as minimizing waste.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Meanwhile, its transmission model reduces the costs of transactions, enables verification and efficient exchange of ownership, and opens the door to real-time micropayments. medical) information, and, even, electrical grid management. Ending the Google-Facebook Advertising Duopoly. Remonetizing Media Consumption.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

So healthcare leaders have long wondered: what’s the best way to change clinicians’ behavior and improve their quality and efficiency of care? A large number of studies have found that P4P is effective in improving processes of care (e.g.,

Healthcare 71

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

.” On the other hand is research about people’s preferences, like this 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology that, according to its authors, “categorically contradict[s] the industry-accepted wisdom that open-plan layout enhances communication between colleagues and improves occupants.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Identify the right metrics. In the digital membership economy, the metrics best apt to indicate success are more likely to be around member churn and engagement. Today, streaming is a more efficient way for me to access professionally created video content, and Netflix provides me with streaming.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The design teams can then use the feedback from their customers to quickly and efficiently improve the products. Agile invention methodology is one of the 152 innovation methods found in Innovation International’s study of 2000-plus corporations. Not all corporations need an agile methodology or this approach to metrics.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2017

You’ll also need to make the case that a new title will help you be more efficient and effective in your job, perhaps by giving you added gravitas or credibility. Case Study #1: Do your due diligence and align the title change with your boss’s priorities. ” Talk to your boss. ” Principles to Remember.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

The table below includes all participants in our study and shows how organizations that scored in the top quartile of our digital transformation index obtained much better gross margins, earnings, and net income than organizations in the bottom digital quartile. Our research focused on 344 enterprises* listed on U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2018

Improved access is another potential benefit, as telehealth tools can free up time for providers to see new and more complex patients in-person by efficiently moving more routine visits out of the office. These are all very different strategic needs requiring different implementation approaches and performance metrics.

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BCG

MAY 9, 2016

BCG’s Retail-Banking Excellence benchmarking study (REBEX) profiles the operational and digital practices and performance of 20 of the world’s leading retail banks, a group of 40 institutions chosen for their size and the strength of their capabilities. At the heart of the benchmarking are core operational metrics.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JANUARY 2, 2007

First of all, it's far "sexier" to say your money is saving children rather than making paperwork more efficient. Additionally, according to a study by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, "It's easier to track funds allocated to program[s]." Talk about metrics. So, how do you make the case for administrative costs funding?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

Some studies have examined just how much time a primary care physician needs to do all of these tasks and the results are staggering. And the whole system, not just primary care, is responsible for quality metrics related to prevention and chronic care (e.g., To be in full compliance with the U.S. million plan members.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To date, only small steps have been taken at most health care systems (for example, clarifying the costs of specific tests during the test-ordering process), and new clinical analytics systems that offer better insights into costs and efficiency often aren’t integrated into day-to-day clinical care. The visual management board.

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1 to 1

MARCH 28, 2022

In addition to greater flexibility, gig workers are less restricted by geographic limits, reducing the need for physical infrastructures reduces costs and increases efficiency. According to a 2019 study by researchers at Yale University, flexibility was the main driver among gig workers.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Clinicians’ knowledge extends far beyond their clinical domain — care procedure knowledge, patient context knowledge, administrative process knowledge — and it’s rare that EHRs can capture all of it efficiently or make it easily available. What’s more, in the U.S.,

Healthcare 70

Healthcare Data System Development 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

They must understand the key operational metrics of the business and their impact on profit and loss, revenue, customer retention, and so on. Translator role: Ensures the solution solves the business problem in the most efficient and interpretable form for business users. Additionally, knowledge of common use cases (e.g.,

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