Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Support and training providing tools, templates, and training to project teams to enhance their productivity and adherence to standards. Improved Resource Allocation Efficient resource allocation is crucial for optimizing productivity and avoiding burnout. Portfolio health metrics to track progress, budgets, and risks across projects.

Tools 130

Tools Software Efficiency Resources 130

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Whether its a growing enterprise or a large organization, Epicflow provides the necessary solutions to drive success in multi-project management. Key Features of Aha!

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

Metrics 132

Metrics Survey Software Operations 132

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.

Metrics 70

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 70

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. Siegler at G.V., million posts during that time.

Media 130

Media Metrics eBook Software 130

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

At its most basic, productivity is the amount of value produced divided by the amount of cost (or time) required to do so. It’s tempting to conclude that, if individuals are able to perform their work much better and faster, overall productivity must be soaring. sales-related, product-related, program-related, etc.).

Productivity 70

Productivity Enterprise Data Company 70

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.

Enterprise 138

Enterprise Methodologies Accenture Meeting 138

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.

Consulting 130

Consulting Enterprise Industry Management 130

Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

By seeing exactly where and how people spend their time — rather than relying on recollections, anecdotes, or assumptions — executives have a solid basis for taking actions that will raise productivity. The company had experienced lackluster sales growth, especially outside of its core product category.

Sales 131

Sales Software Productivity Data 131

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive.

Meeting 136

Meeting How To Government Finance 136

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

Enterprise 104

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 104

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The challenge of running a sustainable enterprise has taken center stage among shareholders. The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more. Patrizia Savarese/Getty Images.

How To 128

How To Survey Metrics Energy 128

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Those answers begin building productive paths and platforms for leadership development. A managing partner at a global consulting firm makes a point of coming to the office straight from red-eye flights and radiating productive energy. They’re intended to define leadership behavior in the enterprise.

Examples 136

Examples Leadership Enterprise Development 136

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%. Orange’s VBN is one example; another belongs to a large telco in Silicon Valley, where its teams huddle alongside those from customers to prototype products and services.

Company 128

Company Case Interview Engineering ROI 128

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.).

Ethics 136

Ethics B2C B2B Company 136

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. How organizations are changing.

Change Management 136

Change Management Management Software Productivity 136

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.”

Enterprise 70

Enterprise Metrics Analysis Survey 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In partnership with thinkstep , we created a series of proprietary product greenhouse gas calculators to track our product-related emissions, including emissions generated from electricity.

Company 136

Company Strategy& Strategy Strategy 136

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. The metrics also changed. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous. The results?

Marketing 136

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 136

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the search for profitable organic growth, more and more companies are making major investments in optimizing the end-to-end customer experience – every aspect of how customers interact with the company’s brand, products, promotions, and service offerings, on and offline.

Retail 132

Retail Apparel Financial ROI 132

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

I was buried in the enterprise.” It was a national distributor of milk and other dairy products and in it, farmers occupied two roles. Once it adopted the six-step method, these outcomes were identified as “reducing employee turnover and increasing productivity and innovation.” It was seat-of-the-pants stuff.

Case Interview 133

Case Interview Groups Small Business Examples 133

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. Is your content discoverable across product lines and business units?

Media 86

Media Metrics Education Insurance 86

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 102

Enterprise Data Ethics Emotional Intelligence 102

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Whether improving omni-channel commerce or developing digital extensions to product lines, businesses are working out how to drive profitability through digital. But traditional metrics might underestimate the impact of digital, leaving companies vulnerable to aggressive competitors or pure-play disruptors. (A Digital momentum.

Metrics 79

Metrics Airlines Comparison Methodologies 79

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.

Methodologies 136

Methodologies Culture Company Metrics 136

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.

Agile 73

Agile How To Enterprise Leadership 73

Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Brutally put, the 21st-century enterprise challenge has morphed from “doing more for less” to “creating much more with much less.”

Enterprise 70

Enterprise Metrics Retail Productivity 70

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.

Enterprise 62

Enterprise Organizational Development Metrics Development 62

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step. Shift 1: Automate with a product mindset.

Strategy& 70

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Agile 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

.” As data proliferates across the enterprise, this observation by Nielsen is rendered even more relevant, because data represents the unlit fuel that has the potential to light the darkness, but which often lacks the spark of analytics that enables us to see. Help your employees be more data-savvy. Find the supporting players.

Data 70

Data Methodologies Enterprise Guidelines 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

We believe energy could be viewed in many organizations as a “ keystone metric ” — i.e., a primary indicator that aligns the whole organization around the pursuit of operational excellence. For example, Saint Gobain’s Ohio factory produces 30,000 different products, each with its own energy demands.

Energy 70

Energy Company Operations Metrics 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

And we call this a move from a business enterprise to a social enterprise—one where businesses need to understand what’s happening in the broader society, in their workplace, and with a rapidly changing workforce. Angelia Herrin, HBR. Jody Kohner, Salesforce. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

Deloitte 126

Deloitte Consulting Data Talent 126

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. Global product teams and functions are overlaid onto the existing regional (commercial) organizations without adjustments in legacy P&L structures, creating unproductive friction. Unc ertainty is unnerving for most of us.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Metrics Operations System 50

Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Our research focused on 344 enterprises* listed on U.S. This difference in strategy means that business users are more likely to have access to a consistent set of up-to-date metrics for decision making, and the organization can generate predictions about their business from data they collect. Ecolab is a prime example of this.

Company 70

Company Operations Data Benchmarking 70

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Perhaps the single most important algorithmic distinction between “born digital” enterprises and legacy companies is not their people, data sets, or computational resources, but a clear real-time commitment to delivering accurate, actionable customer recommendations. Bundle products and services better? Personalize offers?

Engineering 76

Engineering Company Data Productivity 76

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?

Bain 100

Bain Survey Banking Metrics 100