Consulting Matters

APRIL 13, 2023

Today, Brad is the CEO of EHOME Counseling Group, a nationwide virtual mental health counseling business. He is a strategic and operational leader, having led strategic planning, finance and business development teams for these companies, as well as leading large operating units of over $500 million and $1 billion in revenue.

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Consulting Finance Turnaround Healthcare 156

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

There are plenty of different distinctions that one can draw, of course, and any attempt to group data scientists into different buckets is by necessity an oversimplification. In larger and more sophisticated data operations, more fine-grained roles are necessary. Here are five key areas that contribute to data science operations.

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Data Engineering Software Metrics 132

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? And customers can tell.

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Metrics Video Fashion Report 124

Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Think of AI like a calculator for business operations. Process Optimization AI can identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in your workflows, helping you streamline operations. Continuously measure the impact of AI on key performance metrics and adjust your strategies accordingly.

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Tools Data Ethics Metrics 52

LSA Global

APRIL 10, 2025

Alignment might involve reclarifying the business case for change , redesigning roles, updating strategy success metrics , or streamlining workflows. When the internal operating model supports the changes you seek, people are far more likely to adopt and sustain new behaviors.

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Research Change Management System Strategy& 54

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. Corporations are now taking a further step beyond objective metrics, which can be financial and nonfinancial, to include subjective measures — tagged as “soft.”

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Financial Banking Metrics Benchmarking 120

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

Industry 132

Industry Company Metrics Real Estate 132

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

But such a change would probably not change how resources are allocated or businesses operate. We then scored the quality of disclosure based on whether there is no disclosure, generic disclosure, backward-looking metrics, or forward-looking metrics for a category.

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Metrics Financial Marketing Trends 125

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. To measure human capital, you can deploy metrics such as our productive power index , which looks at the cost of organizational drag and the benefits of effective talent and energy management on your overall productive power.

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Management Company Balance Sheet Talent 134

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

As mid-level managers of separate companies (groups of 140 to 210 people) within the same Army Brigade over the past two years, we were evaluated against each other. Dan implemented these ideas in his group and, inspired by the openness of his competitor, described his plan to incorporate courtesy reviews by the inspection team.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

DPPs typically include in-person meetings of a small group of prediabetic adults who, with the guidance of a health coach, progress through a diet and lifestyle curriculum. This group dynamic cultivates a social network that offers real-time feedback, support, and accountability.

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Wireless Study Pharmaceuticals Groups 159

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

However, equally rare is tapping into the minds of a group of imaginative, open-minded employees and managers to scope out potential strategic opportunities. While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend.

Leadership 126

Leadership Pharmaceuticals Company Groups 126

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 same group of stakeholders can occupy more than one role. The fourth step is to identify what these stakeholder groups want from you.

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Case Interview Groups Small Business Examples 133

Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). Prior to this pilot, the operating model of the stores was focused on creating emotional and economic pressure to drive performance. Focus on Learning, Not Pressure.

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How To Retail Productivity Sales 131

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. They operated with a both/and mindset, seeking to deliver on immediate goals in a way that also built a sustainable future.

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Metrics Study Financial Operations 111

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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Operations Retail Banking Benchmarking 40

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Combine traditional machine learning metrics with fairness measures. ” This is a concern voiced within C-suites and machine learning groups worldwide — in regards to both privacy and bias. So how can we mitigate bias in machine learning?

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Data Training Training Metrics 123

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

They were inefficient and difficult for adults to use — and, of course, the adults were the primary operators because the kids got tired of using the equipment after about 15 minutes. PlayPump’s downfall lay in its failure to measure by those metrics, leading them to run headfirst toward catastrophe.

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Metrics Culture System Course 134

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). And fifth, while these companies do have leadership “programs,” they are embedded in the business, and HR does not operate alone.

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Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 134

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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Efficiency Metrics Study Groups 70

Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

After repurposing many of the original structures and facades, the district is now evolving into a retail, restaurant, arts, and culture destination, a forum for local events, a flexible work space for businesses, and a residential area, all while evolving its manufacturing with 21 st century operations.

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Development Real Estate Retail Guidelines 173

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

But to me, the most fascinating thing about the whole initiative is the organizational mindset shift it’s creating: a realization about the value of getting smarter about how — and where — operations use energy. Operations in a Connected World. This black box approach can’t last. Insight Center.

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Energy Company Operations Metrics 70

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

The operating room is one of the most resource-intensive environments in our health care system. We developed Operating Room Cost Accountability (ORCA), a tool that compiles an itemized list of supplies used for each procedure a surgeon performs. In other words, it provides surgeons with cost data for the resources under their control.

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Operations Data Tools Metrics 72

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The physician-sherpa should be a partner on the journey, not simply a medical operative, extracting formulaic rules and implements from a toolbox. In this complex, fraught situation, people need a compassionate guide — a wise, comforting sherpa who knows the mountain, the risks of various routes, the viable contingency plans.

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Guidelines System Efficiency Meeting 133

PM Alliance

OCTOBER 10, 2022

They can also be important partners in securing the cooperation of other internal groups, whether they’re contributors to the project effort or they are among the work groups affected by the initiative’s process and workflow changes. Deal with shifting priorities.

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Methodologies Financial Data Metrics 84

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

We tried to simplify this by creating a security help form on our intranet as well as offering tours of our Global Security Operations Center. Facebook decorates its walls with posters with a distinctive “Hack-o-lantern” design and uses internal groups to share posts about Hacktober.

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Education Culture Engineering Course 133

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% Industry cluster metrics measure the size of the pool of potential customers for B2B or B2C companies, and market stability metrics measure institutional, business, and social stability.)

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Strategy& Strategy Strategy Operations 71

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. Related Video.

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Finance Balance Sheet How To Metrics 70

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

We found that any type of leadership change will result in short-term adverse impacts on a firm’s operational efficiency, but outsider CEOs experienced a clear advantage in productivity gains. We reached these conclusions by comparing 490 CEO succession decisions with a control group of 1,150 firms in the health sector.

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Study Productivity Efficiency Analysis 71

Tom Spencer

MAY 26, 2023

Large companies now recognise that the environment and communities in which they operate can contribute significantly to their bottom line. This realisation has led to an increasing focus on CSR, which involves operating in a way that benefits society over the long term. Here are three examples of skill-based volunteering.

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Financial Metrics Examples Company 88

Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

In many parts of the world, the increased operational and infrastructure costs are simply passed on to consumers. Its managerial team first formed a working group of personnel from business units across the organization — from retail and asset management to planning and maintenance crews. As one U.S. Australia, Israel, the U.K.),

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Industry Data Tools Efficiency 70

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. So in 2010, Holm decided to run his nine-member executive group as an agile team. This takes time.

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Agile How To Enterprise Leadership 71

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

They didn’t exert heavy control in the negotiation stage, and afterward, when strategic, operational, or cultural mismatches between big and small arose, they left it to the innovation teams to solve them — a fix-it-as-you-go mentality. They used the right metrics to measure success. The bad news?

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Intellectual Property Talent Groups Accenture 70

Harvard Business

JANUARY 13, 2017

Single-screen “snapshots” of operational processes, marketing metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) can be visually elegant and intuitive. Not only does the metric itself require significantly more information to drive action, but it simply doesn’t align with his goals and business model. Probably not.

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Data Comparison Metrics Software 70

LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

When roles and success metrics are unclear, it is difficult for teams to perform beyond the sum of their parts. Focusing on the Structure Lens during organizational change is particularly important when a group is being restructured or reengineered, or when the organization desires to have groups become more empowered or self-managing.

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Change Management Management Consulting Metrics 45

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. for all other companies.

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Management Metrics Financial Company 70

1 to 1

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“When you use lagging metrics at the end of the month, it’s very hard for agents to truly understand what drives the score. Now you can have agents self-correcting,” said Peter Tubb, head of Global Trading Services, IG Group. It drove a focus on the numbers, not service,” said Luke Squires, operations director, Sykes Holiday Cottages.

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