Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Support and training providing tools, templates, and training to project teams to enhance their productivity and adherence to standards. Enhanced Decision-Making With advanced analytics and reporting features, PMO software delivers actionable insights, empowering leaders to make data-driven decisions.

Tools 130

Tools Software Efficiency Resources 130

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.

Metrics 127

Metrics Sales Software Meeting 127

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

But we discovered a surprisingly simple way to increase productivity, one that was low-cost and had immediate impact: better office seating arrangements. Monthly reports on each employee’s location and assigned cubicle over time. Worker performance data broken down into three metrics: Productivity. and Europe.

Productivity 137

Productivity Survey Metrics Data 137

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. It supports data-driven decision-making Portfolio management software equips businesses with real-time data, analytics, and reporting capabilities. Enhances efficiency and reduces manual workload.

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Clarity Consultants

APRIL 18, 2025

Time Management and Accountability When employees know how to prioritize, manage deadlines, and stay focused, productivity increases. Without clear metrics, it’s impossible to know whether your soft skills training programs are driving change or just checking a box. Is someone making better eye contact on Zoom calls?

Training 130

Training Training Emotional Intelligence Strategy& 130

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Products fueled by data and machine learning can be a powerful way to solve users’ needs. Classic examples include Google search and Amazon product recommendations, both of which improve as more users engage. Data products are a team sport. Develop the data-savvy of product and business groups.

Data 123

Data Productivity How To Development 123

Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

After all, online user ratings and reviews are now one of the most important sources of product quality information. Online ratings may not reflect a product’s quality at all. Statistical issues stem from the fact that we only observe review scores from a subset of product users. Sounds reasonable, right?

Productivity 122

Productivity Comparison Metrics Study 122

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Many companies are investing heavily to identify what leads to high engagement in order to motivate employees, thereby increasing their happiness and productivity. Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive. We think this is important.

Productivity 133

Productivity Culture Data Metrics 133

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. It supports data-driven decision-making Portfolio management software equips businesses with real-time data, analytics, and reporting capabilities. Enhances efficiency and reduces manual workload.

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

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.

Metrics 70

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. McKinsey’s margin growth measure classified firms that report higher earnings growth than revenue growth as myopic. Corporate culture.

Metrics 103

Metrics Study McKinsey Cash Flow 103

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

and (ii) how can digital firms improve their financial reports to communicate sources of value creation in their businesses? Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource.

Financial 85

Financial Report Cash Flow Metrics 85

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.

Metrics 130

Metrics Video Fashion Report 130

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers.

Financial 70

Financial Report Company Metrics 70

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Across those fundamentals, eight key topics are reported every day. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.”

System 130

System Healthcare Metrics Report 130

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

Implement or Fix Customer-Facing Problems When customers report problems, how does your organization react? See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) Remember this: If your customers want to use your product, make it easy for them to do so. ” Let me take each of these in order.

Productivity 72

Productivity How To Metrics Tools 72

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. They are decision scientists. They are modeling scientists. What is the output?

Data 132

Data Engineering Software Operations 132

LSA Global

APRIL 21, 2025

Yet too often, organizations f ocus too narrowly on product training and neglect the foundational skills for new sales hires to be set up for success. Foundational business sales training should include a primer on business acumen : key business drivers, financial metrics, and industry-specific trends.

Sales 62

Sales Balance Sheet B2B Training 62

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

On the “push” side, HR leaders can do a better job of presenting human capital metrics to the rest of the organization using the LAMP framework: Logic. Yet most HR systems, scorecards, and reports fail to make these distinctions, leaving users to navigate an often confusing and strange metrics landscape.

Metrics 136

Metrics Analysis Data Talent 136

Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Yet much of the data from sources such as CRM reporting tools and time studies is self-reported, and thus inherently flawed. The company had experienced lackluster sales growth, especially outside of its core product category. Consider the case of a company selling basic supplies to businesses. But some behavior was surprising.

Sales 132

Sales Software Productivity Data 132

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. As a result, they’re able to build relationships until prospects are ready to buy.

B2B 195

B2B Sales Media Survey 195

Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

Resource optimization Ineffective capacity planning and running too many projects lead to overloading employees, which in turn reduces their productivity and affects their performance and engagement. One of a CPO’s tasks is to ensure optimal resource allocation across a company’s critical projects.

Resources 178

Resources Methodologies Efficiency Metrics 178

Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

This is a particularly acute issue at the entry level, where employers have come to accept that high levels of attrition and low levels of productivity and quality are normal. The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion.

Training 135

Training Training ROI Metrics 135

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Most customer experience (CX programs) are positioned as strategic, but quickly veer away from business objectives and become simply about tracking CX metrics. They have “soft” metrics rather than real business goals. Mistake #2: Linking metrics to business outcomes. So where does it all go wrong?

Metrics 124

Metrics Data Benchmarking ROI 124

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

If you read the article above or any of the other articles you can find online, you might notice Economies of Scale focus on production—specifically manufacturing production. That's not product development—and that's the first place we get stuck with Economies of Scale thinking. Ignorance of the flow metrics.

Metrics 63

Metrics How To Efficiency Resources 63

Chad Barr

JANUARY 29, 2025

“Provide coaching questions to help a client struggling with [specific challenge] related to [leadership, business growth, mindset, productivity, etc.].” “Suggest 10 creative marketing strategies to increase engagement and leads for [business or product]. . Provide specific suggestions for strengthening each section.”

Methodologies 52

Methodologies Exercises Metrics Tools 52

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The experiment succeeded: Teams temporarily stationed there worked better and faster than colleagues elsewhere, and they reported greater satisfaction and engagement (along with bouts of depression upon returning to the office). But our research and reporting show this isn’t the case. Some companies are aggressively testing both.

Company 128

Company Case Interview Engineering Metrics 128

Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. Forward-looking incumbents recognize the need to cannibalize their own products, rather than leaving it to other startups, who are more than happy to take on the challenge.

Productivity 70

Productivity Company Recruiting Recruitment 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. The right composition and metrics.

Meeting 137

Meeting How To Government Finance 137

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. What to do. What not to do. What not to do.

Metrics 132

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Operations 132

Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy calls “the most common pathology” , with nearly 40% of Americans reporting being lonely. Work Friends Make Us More Productive (Except When They Stress Us Out). Workers in our sample reported many of the same troubling side effects of loneliness that others have already observed.

Research 137

Research Report Study Survey 137

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Even most disheartening, however, is that the focus of these efforts seems to be on the production process—meaning the mechanical aspects of publishing text and image online— rather than helping journalists originate, report, and develop stories. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission.

Data 110

Data Journal Media Video 110

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

companies $450 billion to $550 billion per year in lost productivity. Then they showed those leaders how to train their direct reports, cascading the desired culture throughout the organization, so that after eight months all 77,000 employees would be trained personally by their managers.

Company 158

Company Training Training Culture 158

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

Too many followers tasked with delivering strategic change report that their leaders weren’t clear enough about what they wanted the change to achieve or about what it would entail. One client I worked with recently — let’s call it Sales and Product Co. — was trying to make its business more customer-centric.

How To 137

How To Metrics Resources Sales 137

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

There are findings that point to positive gains in both cost savings and productivity measures, while other studies, including the recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, find that programs can make for good recruitment tools but won’t do much to lower costs or improve health. While more than 60% of U.S.

How To 128

How To Metrics Groups Energy 128

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Those answers begin building productive paths and platforms for leadership development. A senior project manager cited the highly public immediate dismissal of a direct report who had fudged a quality control audit and then lied about it. Reciprocity: How do one’s bosses, colleagues and direct reports lead by example?

Examples 137

Examples Leadership Enterprise Development 137

Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2017

According to Mary Meeker’s latest Internet Trends Report , smartphones are now in the hands of 3.4 Make sure to use the right metrics when measuring success and identifying areas for growth. This means the metrics used to assess mobile strategies should expand beyond the mobile interactions themselves. Insight Center.

Strategy& 115

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Metrics 115