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Meet the Wellness Programs That Save Companies Money

Harvard Business

Workplace wellness is under scrutiny by skeptics who argue that the return on investment (ROI) in wellness programs does not justify their costs. The current ROI debate has focused on whether one type of wellness program, lifestyle management (diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes), can reduce health care claims and lead to lower costs.

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Your Sales Training Is Probably Lackluster. Here’s How to Fix It

Harvard Business

Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training is disappointing. For example, Pacific Life Insurance Company, which sells insurance, retirement products, and mutual funds to financial advisors via its field wholesalers, uses video coaching.

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Consultant Ninja: Dipping my toe in the health care debate.

Consultant Ninja

They also happen to be expensive, not because some greedy fat cat is out there, but because that high price justifies the ROI for the R&D in that product in the first place. overlapping administration costs of insurance companies; advertising costs of new drugs) and decrease the quality of delivery (e.g. July 28, 2009 at 8:24 PM.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

Dozens of companies, ranging from telcos ( Sprint , AT&T ), to tech giants (SAP, IBM), to automakers and insurance companies (MINI, State Farm ) have launched similar experiments. As one might imagine, demonstrating the ROI of this is difficult — most don’t even try. Corporate coworkers seek the same.

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How Customers Perceive a Price Is as Important as the Price Itself

Harvard Business

Bain & Company and ROI Consultancy Services (formerly PollBuzzer) recently surveyed almost 2,200 consumers in Atlanta and Washington, DC, about the prices at eight retail chains carrying groceries. The intense competition on pricing that pervades many industries makes consumer perception more important than ever.

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How CEOs Can Keep Their Analytics Programs from Being a Waste of Time

Harvard Business

The findings show that fewer than half of analytics programs met initial return-on-investment (ROI) goals. But poor ROI is only part of the story. Insurance, a very analytics-intensive industry, saw nearly half of CAOs changing roles over an 18-month period.). Chief Analytics Officers (CAOs) were frequently replaced.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business

These solutions are new to market and some of them may not be included in the standard offerings of your health insurer or third-party administrator. Choose providers that focus on bottom-level metrics like ROI and health care spend; avoid providers that focus on top-level metrics like engagement.

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