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The Most Common Reasons Customer Experience Programs Fail

Harvard Business

Most customer experience (CX programs) are positioned as strategic, but quickly veer away from business objectives and become simply about tracking CX metrics. They have “soft” metrics rather than real business goals. Mistake #2: Linking metrics to business outcomes. So where does it all go wrong?

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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

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. Projects are becoming more and more complex, so it becomes difficult and ineffective to address their complex needs with the only PM methodology.

Trends 130
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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

We then offered people the opportunity to learn new innovation methodologies and apply them to real business challenges. This happened not because of a central directive, but because of the energy and skills of a few key individuals. The first priority was to inspire people with stories of successful internal innovators at Bayer.

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How Self-Care Became So Much Work

Harvard Business

We are approaching the pursuit of work-life balance with the same obsessive (and oppressive) energy as we do our careers. 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.”

Study 133
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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005.

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How General Mills and Kellogg Are Tackling Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Harvard Business

In the global effort to limit climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), the energy and transportation sectors are the most obvious targets, but perhaps not be the biggest. Invest in the development of solid measurement and metrics. jennifer maravillas FOR HBR. Consider the food business.

Energy 70
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A 4-Step Process to Help Senior Teams Prioritize Decisions

Harvard Business

Recognizing that ensuring high-quality decisions would require a disciplined process, the executive team embarked on an exercise designed to create a repeatable process for prioritizing decisions and determine the right methodology for each. It consists of these four steps: 1. Compile a list.