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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Tom Spencer

APRIL 25, 2025

Are there specific metrics to track progress so that you know success has been achieved or that the strategy needs to adapt? Jason Oh is a Senior Manager at TD Bank’s Enterprise Strategy team. Does it create measurable impact? If the answer to any of these is no, its time to revisit and refine your strategy.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

Deere’s Enterprise Advanced Marketing Group – which is tasked with identifying unarticulated, unmet customer needs, representing opportunities for innovation and growth – has created a system for surveying the motivation of its employees every two weeks.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

But Slack is generally aimed at the enterprise market and doesn’t specialize in intimate relationships. It’s proven hard to solve these problems partly because of metrics: It’s hard to identify and measure the factors that lead to high-quality information or connection.

Media 127

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Portfolio health metrics to track progress, budgets, and risks across projects. Reporting and Analytics Advanced reporting with customizable metrics for decision-making. Scalability to accommodate growing portfolios or enterprise-level requirements. Reporting and analytics to assess project health and performance metrics.

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Epicflow

APRIL 30, 2025

Key features Business outcomes planning Prioritization Work and product portfolio management Strategy execution management Enterprise architecture management GenSight This product is the next option to consider when the company decides to adopt strategic portfolio management software.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

It can grow and mature together with other enterprises, many of which are driving the economic advances in those areas. the outcome measures, which are culture, performance metrics and ultimately profit, the people measures – how well we use our people to execute our strategy and achieve our outcomes.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

To deliver on it, enterprise marketers need a new approach to measurement that shows them the entire customer journey and lets them see what’s working at each step along the way. The problem is that many of our measurement tools and metrics were created for a desktop world at a time when marketing focused on channel performance.

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Marketing Metrics Enterprise Data 101

Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

A lean startup approach, we are told, can empower big companies to innovate rapidly and effectively in the face of continual disruption, potentially even transforming enterprises into centers of continual new growth. The worst thing you can do is measure a startup against enterprise financial ratios. paul garbett for hbr.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Every product in the portfolio should be evaluated with the help of one of the product success metrics. Therefore, if you want to grow your company or already have a big enterprise with many products being developed, product portfolio management is a great instrument for it.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2016

They’re intended to define leadership behavior in the enterprise. Do employees take enterprise diversity/inclusion initiatives more seriously? That’s why lead-by-example examples must ultimately be incorporated as an essential leadership development metric. Are people refusing to cut corners on quality?

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Kates Kesler

MARCH 7, 2021

We used the STAR model to help them take a holistic and practical approach to thinking through how to build an enterprise capability. . Center-led global team provides integration mechanisms, including common processes and tools, and clear decision guardrails to be utilized across the enterprise. . METRICS/REWARDS . .

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Management Enterprise Metrics Change Management 65

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The challenge of running a sustainable enterprise has taken center stage among shareholders. And at many companies, sustainability efforts are measured with well over 10 internal metrics. Patrizia Savarese/Getty Images. Directors should, of course, continue to monitor and disclose many other aspects of ESG performance.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). The right composition and metrics. There should also be metrics assessing how well a meeting is executing its charter. That’s the equivalent of six and a half years!

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

We mapped this data against dozens of financial and leadership metrics, clustering companies into four groups (ranging from low- to high-performing). Leaders’ growth in these areas leads to enduring growth for the enterprise. Third, these companies believe in learning through exposure.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2014

One of the reasons analytics is working for the companies in this select group is because they tend to deploy analytics technologies and expertise across the breadth of the enterprise. and Western Europe are aggressively adopting analytics across the entire enterprise. Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A case in point is WeWork, the provider of coworking spaces, which has grown its enterprise customer base in the last year by 370%. Some eschew metrics altogether, gambling they will learn as they go when it comes to measuring what’s important. Orange’s VBN has the firm backing of senior HR executives, and so on.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

In this data-rich future, enterprise AI is less about “artificial intelligence” and more about “augmenting introspection.” Only a few years ago, mobile computing in the enterprise was BYOD — Bring Your Own Device. Require networked KPI dashboards for multiple selves management and oversight.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

An enterprise software company confronted this issue after it shifted its strategy to focus on cross-selling in larger, Tier 1 and 2 accounts — those with the most potential spending across the company’s product portfolio. Aligning Sales Priorities and Incentives.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

To successfully transform to a more agile enterprise, companies must make conscious choices about where and how to become agile. Based on our experience working with these teams, we recommend senior teams do the following if they want to become more agile: Treat your enterprise priorities as a managed backlog. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

But traditional metrics might underestimate the impact of digital, leaving companies vulnerable to aggressive competitors or pure-play disruptors. Our findings: A number of digital metrics, or signals, that aren’t widely tracked today are very strong predictors of revenue growth and share price. Digital momentum.

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Metrics Airlines Comparison Methodologies 73

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Several words always come up in practically every discussion, no matter if the company is a large enterprise or a small business, B2B or a B2C, product or service, new or established. Things like organization design, training, improved processes, and new shared metrics and performance standards are.).

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1 to 1

APRIL 21, 2014

April is Customer Loyalty Month, a great time for companies to take inventory of the best practices, processes, and metrics around how they''re engaging with customers across the enterprise in an effort to boost their loyalty. Here are five action items to help increase your company''s customer loyalty in 2014. 1to1Media.com/weblog.

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Metrics Enterprise Strategy Strategy 54

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

While tracking metrics to show local and global improvement is an important element, don’t forget to recognize the employees who make success possible.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In order to assess the current state of their business and their readiness for transformation in the future, content enterprises must address some fundamental questions concerning the maturity of their content ecosystem and their capabilities in both quality and delivery. The questions include: Quality uniqueness. Delivery personalization.

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Media Metrics Education Insurance 84

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

But most companies lack a strategic objective that spans the customer journey, can be understood and operationalized across the enterprise, and, most importantly, actually increases customer value.

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Retail Apparel Financial ROI 132

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Methodologies Culture Company Metrics 134

Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Rather than modeling overly bureaucratic or individualistic behaviors, Navalent has a compensation metric that rewards an intense focus on the client. Relationships that Enable Enterprise Change: Leveraging the Client-Consultant Connection, by Ron A. Compensation within the firm comes from great client work. Carucci and Toby J.

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Development Consulting How To eBook 154

Kates Kesler

AUGUST 11, 2014

By the 1990s, emerging supply chain leaders were earnestly building the art and science of managing trade-offs and optimizing value for the enterprise. This ensures that the right decisions are made for the enterprise as a whole. The term supply chain as an end-to-end, silo-busting concept was first introduced in 1982.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

I was buried in the enterprise.” ” Metrics were developed to monitor these, and targets were set before moving on. As the managing partner of a client law firm recently explained to me: “Before we adopted your approach we lacked the keys to effective strategic planning. It was seat-of-the-pants stuff.

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Kates Kesler

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

We suggest three ways to build organization muscle: Design…the organization (structure, roles, processes, metrics, and talent profiles) against the capabilities. We find it useful to have executive committee members sponsor enterprise capabilities. This builds interdependence across the team.

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Enterprise Organizational Development Metrics Development 62

Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

Lindbergh and I recently discussed lessons learned from their experience bringing analytics to an ambivalent and under-resourced enterprise. ” These Stompers were more open to data-driven suggestion not because they necessarily bought into Moneyball metrics , Lindbergh observes, but out of gratitude and loyalty.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Brutally put, the 21st-century enterprise challenge has morphed from “doing more for less” to “creating much more with much less.” ” The bigger the enterprise, the more jobs at risk. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

Enterprise 70

Enterprise Metrics Retail Productivity 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Just as data science and machine learning algorithms now colonize traditional business analytics and workplace attention, data-driven psychiatric research and mental health metrics will similarly reshape executive coaching, cognition, and emotional intelligence.

Enterprise 83

Enterprise Data Ethics Emotional Intelligence 83

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

The Net Promoter Score is a customer loyalty metric originally formulated by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix in 2003. Because customers are key to bringing about this change, customer satisfaction metrics helps to see the true story. Want to find out what the Ultimate Question is? WHY READ IT?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2017

We’ve adopted a single electronic medical record (EMR) platform, embraced telehealth technologies, developed enterprise-wide departments, and committed to data transparency. Enterprise departments. EMR platform. So far, we have rolled out our integrated EMR platform to 45 hospitals and more than 300 clinics.

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