Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Facilitates better decision-making by identifying projects that align with business strategy. Strategic Alignment Links projects to organizational goals to prioritize initiatives with the highest value.

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Tools Management Software Resources 130

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Facilitates better decision-making by identifying projects that align with business strategy. Strategic Alignment Links projects to organizational goals to prioritize initiatives with the highest value.

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The company I lead, Ingersoll Rand, is a 146-year-old organization that over the past few years integrated sustainability and business strategy to anticipate and address major global trends, most prominently climate change. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. While this can be disheartening, it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Company Strategy Strategy Strategy& 136

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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Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 70

Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

It helps standardize project management practices, ensure alignment with organizational strategy, and provide oversight to deliver projects successfully. By identifying risks, tracking KPIs, and forecasting project outcomes, businesses can adapt their strategies to achieve better results. Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid).

Tools 130

Tools Software Efficiency Resources 130

Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Product portfolio management helps find the most appropriate strategy to gain the desired business objectives as well as evaluate the success of each product or service and make corresponding improvements if necessary. Every product in the portfolio should be evaluated with the help of one of the product success metrics.

Productivity 246

Productivity Management Resources Software 246

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 131

Media Metrics eBook Software 131

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

Does Your Company Have a Data Science Strategy? 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. Focus on the outcomes you want and map your new metrics back to your strategy.

Marketing 103

Marketing Metrics Enterprise Data 103

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. I think of these organizational systems in three buckets: the structural elements such as business models, strategy and organization design. Effective Managers is an adherent of focusing on the whole enterprise.

Consulting 130

Consulting Enterprise Industry Management 130

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. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. The worst thing you can do is measure a startup against enterprise financial ratios.

Enterprise 139

Enterprise Methodologies Meeting Accenture 139

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. ” And when those strategies are core to the business, incentive plans should link bonuses to fulfilling them.

How To 129

How To Survey Metrics Energy 129

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). Together, standing meetings should synchronize the entire organization in a meeting cadence that executes strategy and delivers results. The right composition and metrics.

Meeting 136

Meeting How To Government Finance 136

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

Methodologies 136

Methodologies Culture Company Metrics 136

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. Leaders’ growth in these areas leads to enduring growth for the enterprise.

Leadership 136

Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 136

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 . .

Management 65

Management Enterprise Metrics Change Management 65

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? ” The latter is a list of actions interspersed with a sprinkling of desired results, all utterly useless in terms of strategy.

Case Interview 133

Case Interview Groups Small Business Examples 133

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

As Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com has noted , “When I look at [our] largest transactions…every transaction was done with the CEO [and] that’s why we’re selling more enterprise software than Oracle or SAP.” How many have the required business acumen and enterprise knowledge?

Strategy 70

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Hotels 70

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.

Retail 132

Retail Apparel Financial ROI 132

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. Take the subscriber-first strategy of The New York Times.

Strategy 70

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Agile 70

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. 50% more likely to have weekly pipeline reviews with their direct managers.

Sales 132

Sales Software Productivity Data 132

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.

Metrics 54

Metrics Enterprise Strategy& Strategy 54

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.

Metrics 80

Metrics Airlines Comparison Methodologies 80

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.,

Agile 73

Agile How To Enterprise Leadership 73

Kates Kesler

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

If execution of strategy is the goal, then the organization is a means to that end. 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.

Enterprise 62

Enterprise Organizational Development Metrics Development 62

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.

Media 88

Media Metrics Education Insurance 88

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.

Enterprise 62

Enterprise Exercises Metrics Operations 62

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Our sports-apparel CEO had the right idea in challenging his team to think about the organization and ask: are we fit for growth, given our strategies going forward? At a glance, the study revealed these themes: There is no common pattern for a ‘best organization design’ regardless of size, strategy, or industry.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

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. Data analytics is a powerful and promising source of competitive advantage.

Data 70

Data Methodologies Enterprise Guidelines 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Disclosure: I was at the meeting as a paid speaker on sustainability strategy.). This basic argument, and its repercussions, are laid out in a new strategy guide that I co-authored with PwC’s George Favaloro and Tim Healy, the CEO of EnerNOC, a leader in energy intelligence software.

Energy 70

Energy Company Operations Metrics 70

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. Companies do not become more global just because they have added worldwide product and brand teams, or global functions and councils, to manage centrally driven growth strategies and programs. Unc ertainty is unnerving for most of us.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Metrics Operations System 50

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The metrics also changed. Today, the ability to measure data and adjust strategies in real-time enables marketing to prove its value to the business in entirely new ways. However, recently they began to take a more holistic approach, focusing on lifetime value and their most profitable segment, the “fashionable spender.”

Marketing 136

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 136

LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2018

Good Strategy Execution. There is not really any secret to good strategy execution…it’s really just a matter of applying some good common sense. But you’d be surprised at how many companies fail to succeed at strategy implementation of even very well crafted corporate strategies. 90% Failure Strategy Execution Rate.

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Cash Flow Strategy Strategy Strategy& 34

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

APRIL 19, 2016

And while this equation seems simple enough on the surface, the strategies for optimizing it have evolved dramatically over the last two decades. It turns out that enterprise productivity is different than just the sum of personal productivity. With trillions invested during this time period, that’s a hard number to reconcile.

Productivity 70

Productivity Enterprise Data Company 70

Tom Spencer

MAY 26, 2023

Therefore, it’s time for companies to recognize that CSR isn’t just a “nice to have”, it’s a critical component of a successful business strategy. Measurable Impact Partnering with a non-profit that has measurable metrics for success is crucial to ensuring that the partnership has a meaningful impact.

Financial 88

Financial Metrics Examples Company 88

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Here are some strategies to improve your financial intelligence. ” Focus on key metrics. That metric is often expressed in the form of a ratio. Overcome your fears.

Finance 70

Finance Balance Sheet How To Metrics 70

Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? Or, are these companies failing the acid test for organization effectiveness, stumbling on execution brought about by lumbering, layered, and siloed organizational models, unsuited to delivering on diverse, global strategies?

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Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50