Epicflow

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

High-performing companies are characterized by high revenues, productive and engaged employees, high-quality products or services, satisfied clients, and growing or at least maintaining market share. If we talk about project-based companies, we cannot assess their performance only by completing their projects successfully.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2017

As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics. Wins are the most common metric used across sales roles and industries.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Three metrics to guide your company’s international expansion.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

These metrics are useful but miss the big picture, in part because they mistake a program’s cost for its value. We developed a new metric — cost per employed day (CPED) over the first six months — that we believe better defines how well employment programs work. Data and metrics are part of the solution.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

New research from economists at LinkedIn suggests that conventional metrics may be misleading.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory. It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change. Measuring inventory momentum can help leaders address the problem.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

This practice increases supply chain efficiency, makes it cost-effective and responsive to market changes. This element of MOM involves gathering and analyzing data on key performance indicators, e.g., production output, quality metrics, and equipment efficiency. Maintenance management. Reporting and performance analysis.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Stephen has introduced innovative methods and metrics to the project management discipline and has taught project management at universities and for organizations worldwide, including Siemens, Ford, Qatar Telecom, and the US Air Force. To have real integration to support decision-making, we need a single metric that works for all parameters.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this article, we will explore the importance of profitability ratios and valuation metrics that are crucial when analyzing banks. There are seven key profitability ratios and two valuation metrics that it is important to understand. It is not a useful metric for comparing different business lines.

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2021

Four indicators that will give executives a clearer picture of the revenue pipeline.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

All industries use numbers and metrics to describe performance, measure trends, and allocate status. Using the metrics for decision making. The first step to understanding a new set of metrics is to put them into context. By adding a reference point one can better understand the impact and significance of the metrics.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2018

In the past decade, content marketing has become a widely established practice. Companies have hired writers and Chief Content Officers to run departments, create blogs and other materials, and, in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold calling. HBR Staff/Chris Minerva/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Organizations can capitalize on opportunities, adapt to market shifts, embrace emerging technologies, and take other steps that keep them ahead of the competition by being open to change. Identify key metrics to measure success and have a plan to ensure broad buy-in. Successful companies are rarely stagnant. Champion the Change.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

The most recent results from The CMO Survey conducted by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and sponsored by Deloitte LLP and the American Marketing Association reports that the percentage of marketing budgets companies plan to allocate to analytics over the next three years will increase from 5.8% Data-Driven Marketing.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Two, you solve them the same way you solve a market sizing question (see below) – by breaking down the solution into component parts. . The market for lead pencils has been declining at 4%/year for the last 3 years. The original market was $24M/year. What is the market in year 3 (now)? Market Sizing.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. This combination creates a natural barrier to entry and has likely caused marketers to take a “wait and see” approach.

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LSA Global

JUNE 3, 2024

Top 10 Steps to Better Design Strategy Success Metrics Workplace metrics impact workplace behaviors and performance. Designing the right strategy success metrics can mean the difference between a leadership team collectively steering toward its strategic targets and veering off course. Makes sense right? Wells Fargo opened 3.5

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. In fact, consumer research we’ve worked on at Accenture shows that in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The lack of narrative is particularly a problem in the relationship between sales and marketing. This behavior is a result of the underlying mental models of sales and marketing. Marketers see the world as campaigns, messages, channels, and audiences. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Digital marketing consultants provide marketing advice and optimize the online presence of organizations so that they can be easily found by their target audience. Businesses, non-profits, and governments are all interested in increasing their online visibility, and digital marketing consultants have the ability to make this happen.

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2024

While the specific strategy success metrics vary across different industries and different strategies, metrics tend to fall into four overall buckets: Financial, Customer, Employee, and Other. Here is a list of the top thirteen metrics that CEOs should measure for strategic success.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 21, 2019

Brand attachment is a metric that speaks to the level of emotional buy-in. People don’t just like these brands or these people, they adore them. They have a higher than normal word of mouth or advocacy, and thus tend to spend lower than their competitive set on traditional media.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Signed by leading institutional investors, the letter describes the components of a long-term plan that enables a CEO to address enduring issues of investor interest and help plug an unmet market need for information with a long-term time horizon. Given the limited sample we have to analyze, we consider our results preliminary.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case. had a diversity metric.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

Is marketing solely a game of chance, or might there be a way to bring scientific methods to the table? At the micro level, the various pieces of the marketing puzzle can be, and should be, optimized on an on-going basis: The overall positioning and strategy should be evaluated. Let’s draw a distinction between the micro and the macro.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Its main focus is customers’ satisfaction and market changes, by tracking which it is possible to create the products with the biggest value, and therefore, earn more. Together with that, the market is under strict and continuous examination to reveal current trends in the domain the company works in.

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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.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Over 90% of medium and large businesses have used social media in their marketing for five years or longer. Yet the CMO Survey reveals that nearly half of marketers are unable to show the impact of their social media investments. Social was an add-on to existing plans — another outlet to deliver the marketing message.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Read further to learn about the top winners in the market and get tips on choosing the right tool for your organization. Portfolio health metrics to track progress, budgets, and risks across projects. Reporting and Analytics Advanced reporting with customizable metrics for decision-making. What is a PMO?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

CRMs today also serve a lot of masters, from executives in the C-suite, technology, marketing, finance, and, oh yeah, sales. ” The EVP of marketing was pleased she could now track the assignment of every single lead. The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

This is different than social media marketing , where a brand engages many, aiming to increase overall brand awareness or promote a specific product or service by producing content that users will share with their network. Salespeople should also collaborate with their social marketing counterparts to make the most of their social efforts.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

Therefore his mental model was not how to gain market share from other airlines, but how to create a completely new market for air travel. ” Beyond the usual financial metrics, JetBlue also measures the strength of its culture and the quality of its experience. ” Other carriers fly airplanes that carry people.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As wearable technology continues to advance, we’re seeing the development of more sophisticated devices capable of monitoring a broader range of health metrics. This approach has the potential to speed up the development of new therapies and bring life-saving drugs to market more quickly.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 2, 2024

return on sales, return on assets, and market-to-book ratio) can be directly attributed to the decisions and strategies implemented by the CEO. CEOs must also navigate uncertainty and adapt strategies in response to shifting market dynamics, technological advances, or regulatory changes. Are CEOs worth it?

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Ignorance of the flow metrics. Luckily, the flow metrics help everyone see where the teams have value and where there is just cost. Flow Metrics Help Everyone See Reality I wrote about the effect of delayed releases in Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take.

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