David A Fields

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Those are okay metrics; however, if you look around your office you’ll find a better clue. How do you know if you’re doing well at the consulting game? Client feedback? Somewhere nearby, you probably have a stack of business cards from people you met at conference or trade show or similar event. Who’s In … Continued.

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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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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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David A Fields

AUGUST 10, 2021

With a single, straightforward metric: Infrastructure Strength Before we define this metric, let’s examine your job. How do you know if you have the right team doing the right things at your consulting firm?

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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

JANUARY 10, 2024

Traditional employee engagement surveys just aren’t working how we need them to. And they’re expensive, too. As the employee disengagement trends upward, the author suggests dispensing with these surveys and reinventing them internally, tailored to your organization’s unique context.

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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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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In a misguided attempt to improve quality, the management posts monthly scores on a variety of metrics. without understanding anything about effective use of metrics. Pity the employees at a Starbucks in midtown NYC.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Data will help you identify the biggest problems — and get buy-in from skeptics.

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David A Fields

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

When evaluating the success of their year, consultants often review metrics like revenue, profit per partner, utilization and leverage. But what should you ponder to determine those actions that will make next year waaay better than this year?

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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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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2022

How to create a road map to ensure you’re measuring what matters.

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2022

Don’t just focus on tactical, operational goals. Ask what your customers are actually experiencing — and continuously push for improvement.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

All impact investors report the financial returns from their funds and investments, and many provide metrics on intended social outcomes, such as numbers of individuals served, or quality jobs created.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2024

3) Have you designed RAI metrics, such as KPIs and OKRs? To assess how ready their company is to implement an RAI program, leaders should ask eight questions: 1) Have you determined what its objectives are? 2) Are your RAI’s values clearly connected to procedures? 4) Have you trained the people responsible for overseeing its implementation?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

When researchers at the University of Cambridge pitted human competitors against a leading LLM, the chatbot beat the top participants on almost every metric. It also was fired more quickly.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This is typically a color-coded spreadsheet with one to two dozen key performance metrics. Each metric is reported each month. Each metric has a goal for the month. When a goal is met, the metric is color-coded in green. When a goal is missed by less than 10%, the metric is color-coded in yellow.

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Managers capture all kinds of metrics, from the number of patient falls in a hospital ward, to the first pass yield in a production line, to the number of hits on a website, to the time it takes to repair a bicycle. Too often, leaders react to every up and down in the metrics, asking for explanations and root causes that don’t actually exist.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Profitability is the ultimate business metric , and profitability cases can address a business in any industry. What should Company Z do about overall profits (including both sides of the profit equation using metrics such as profit/unit or profit/channel)? Profitability. What should Company X do about revenues (prices x volumes)?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

Instead, we can invite them to change, by showing the value with the pirate metrics. Yes, do start with the pirate metrics (from Dave McClure's 2007 talk ) so you can focus on the value you can provide. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress. That's the bounce-back to pre-agile ways of working.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2024

What Managers Want: More Net Income Let me start with a very simplified profit and loss discussion using the ideas of AARRR “Pirate Metrics” to describe what managers want. How have you helped with any of the Pirate Metrics or increasing net income? Consider the flow metrics , because they’re the data that counts.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2024

However, research suggests that ESG ratings suffer from a measurement trap that occurs when a metric used as part of the rating is systematically biased towards certain industries or types of companies.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

How CMOs can move beyond short-term metrics and convince their colleagues that long-term growth requires patience.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2020

He excels at assessing needs, linking business impacts and success metrics to strategy, identifying issues and driving their resolution, and implementing new processes, policies, structures, and behaviors. Much of Donald’s work has been international in scope, including projects in Europe, Asia, and South America.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 27, 2021

This becomes a tougher question the further you progress in your career as there are fewer established metrics to base your assessment on. Once you have watched a few talks and have a list, categorize your list into key areas which you can call your performance metrics. In college, a good student will have a high GPA.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2024

Proponents will need to define more clearly what stakeholder capitalism is, strengthen its theoretical foundations, and develop a playbook for implementing it, including metrics for measuring performance and guidelines for making tradeoffs. For that to happen, much more is required.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

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

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

To fix it, cascade rather than amalgamate your metrics. The second trap is when companies measure what they do rather than what they achieve. To fix this, focus on stakeholder outcomes. The third trap is a lack of focus.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

These skills plus my deep agile and lean understanding, would allow me to use the flow metrics to increase agility. Remember the pirate metrics so you can consider how you affect net revenue in some way: customer acquisition, activation, retention, referral, revenue. Notice that I did not discuss any specific framework or method.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Understanding and applying the right training effectiveness metrics is imperative for organizations to assess the impact of their training initiatives and ensure they contribute to the overall business objectives. This might include test scores, feedback surveys, and performance metrics.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for more information. You can use the flow metrics, too. Use the Flow Metrics to Monitor Your Progress The four flow metrics are: WIP, Work in Progress. The older the work is, the more cognitive load people have, thinking about all that work.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

We can argue over specific metrics, but we’d all agree that we have to account for physical as well as mental/emotional health. As with individuals, there will be disagreement over metrics, but clearly we have to consider financial performance, internal stakeholders (employees), and external stakeholders (community).

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Makarios Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The end of the year came and the metrics were in line: they had achieved 25% sales revenue growth! As it was, she made plans and measured her team’s success based on one metric (total revenue growth), whereas the CEO had a combination of metrics in mind (total revenue growth + percentage of new clients). What happened?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. Here are some ideas that might relate your agile experience and expertise to value: How you've used the flow metrics while supporting a project and/or the managers.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 24, 2020

You falsify the various metrics for projects, such as cycle time. If your organization wants you to take time off, take it. Here's why: You need a break. So do your colleagues. Can you really finish something without other people? I wrote a management myth about this, called I Am Too Valuable to Take a Vacation.

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