LSA Global

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Are Your Employee Engagement and Experience Strategies Aligned ? These two concepts, while interconnected, serve distinct purposes within a talent management strategy. Misalignment between these people strategies can lead to decreased productivity, higher turnover, and a misaligned company culture.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Like many of my classmates, shortly after college, I joined the ranks of a top strategy and management consulting firm. Instead, they’ve tried three different strategies over the last few decades. Fortunately, there are strategies we each can use to cope on our own. The same is true for productivity.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

” When leaders “execute a strategy,” they usually mean the former — putting an idea into action. Execution is often where strategies go to die. So what determines whether execution brings life or death to your strategy? .” On the other, it means, “the carrying out of a death sentence.”

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In an era where environmental consciousness is increasingly becoming a priority, companies worldwide are rethinking their supply chain strategies to minimize their environmental footprint. Sourcing Eco-Friendly Materials One of the primary strategies for creating a sustainable supply chain is sourcing eco-friendly materials.

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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. Strategic buy-in and strategy execution hinges on the ability to measure success accurately and transparently. Satisfied customers should buy more products and services. Makes sense right?

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 29, 2020

We regularly work with CEO’s that are frustrated with leader behaviors that undermine enterprise strategy. Simple financial measures, like P&Ls, are an effective way to visibly drive leader accountability, yet they frequently do not match the complexity of today’s strategies.

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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.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

It helps standardize project management practices, ensure alignment with organizational strategy, and provide oversight to deliver projects successfully. Support and training providing tools, templates, and training to project teams to enhance their productivity and adherence to standards.

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Tools Software Efficiency Resources 130

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

” Beyond the usual financial metrics, JetBlue also measures the strength of its culture and the quality of its experience. But that was the outcome, not the strategy. ” GE is also using very different metrics for its platform businesses.

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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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Metrics Cash Flow Talent Financial 68

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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Metrics Financial Industry Marketing 254

Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2017

To get there, companies should take the time to level-set their efforts with three strategic exercises: Reexamine your goals and strategy. With more and more options for mobile interactions, businesses all too often get their digital strategy wrong — or don’t reassess it often enough. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The company I lead, Ingersoll Rand, is a 146-year-old organization that over the past few years integrated sustainability and business strategy to anticipate and address major global trends, most prominently climate change. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. While this can be disheartening, it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

No strategy is static. That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. At the other is a product or service that solves the problem or addresses the market in a way nobody has thought of before. Insight Center.

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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.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

Here are some of the strategies that we’ve used, which are hopefully helpful for your business whether it’s an early-stage startup with limited funding or a more mature organization that has a restricted budget. A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

In a working group, there is no collective work product beyond individual accomplishments. In a team, however, performance is measured primarily by the products produced collectively by the team. For example, the performance of swim, track, golf, and gymnastics teams is a function of what its members do as individuals.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

” This and a slew of similar maxims reflect a common view of strategy execution: that it’s distinct from strategy, harder to pull off than defining a strategy, and therefore more critical to success — underpinned by seemingly indisputable virtues such as diligence, discipline, consistency, alignment, and focus.

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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Organizations seek to optimize workforce performance and productivity by implementing effective training programs. Understanding the Importance of Identifying Training Gaps The starting point of a successful training strategy is understanding where skills gaps exist within the organization.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

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. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

That’s why, no matter what your social media strategy is, it’s always a good idea to go back and make sure you have the basics covered. Although 97% of Fortune 500 corporations are on LinkedIn, 84% are on Facebook, and 86% are on Twitter, many brands entered the social media front lines without a clear strategy.

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Media Company ROI Metrics 136

Clarity Consultants

APRIL 26, 2023

While developing learning and development (L&D) strategies for their organization, many company leaders are introduced to the concept of instructional design. Instructional designers are professionals who focus on creating and delivering learning products, such as company training and coursework for educational institutions.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In contrast to traditional project/program/portfolio managers dealing with individual projects/programs/portfolios, the role of a CPO is more strategic, he or she is a member of the executive board and oversees all project-related activities and their connection with an organization’s business strategy.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

I have worked on research that has found that a strong company culture is associated with lower levels of myopic decision making, better productivity, and innovation. Corporate culture. One way to gauge this is in how a firm treats its workforce in bad times.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 29, 2025

“Provide coaching questions to help a client struggling with [specific challenge] related to [leadership, business growth, mindset, productivity, etc.].” “Analyze multiple scenarios for [business decision], including potential risks, benefits, and alternative strategies to mitigate risks.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The answer to the shift away from reliance on outbound sales could reside in social selling , the strategy of adding social media to the sales professional’s toolbox. Both strategies create valuable content from the consumer’s perspective and use similar social networks and social software tools.

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B2B Sales Media Survey 193

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Use concrete metrics to demonstrate your contributions, such as cost savings, revenue growth, or operational improvements. By employing these strategies, you can effectively differentiate yourself in the highly competitive consulting applicant pool for top MBA programs. What if your experience is only in consulting?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

At its most basic, productivity is the amount of value produced divided by the amount of cost (or time) required to do so. And while this equation seems simple enough on the surface, the strategies for optimizing it have evolved dramatically over the last two decades. sales-related, product-related, program-related, etc.).

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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. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Facilitates better decision-making by identifying projects that align with business strategy. It prevents overloading or underutilizing team members, increasing productivity and employee satisfaction.

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Tools Management Software Resources 130

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. companies spend more than $37 billion dollars a year on them.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

alone spend more than $20 billion annually (by conservative estimates) to train salespeople on products, selling skills, and territory management, demonstrates the widespread belief that you can help “make” salespeople great. Great sales forces are made by bringing excellence to all of the following: Strategy. Organization.

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Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For business leaders, this requires a balanced approach: leverage AI insights, but apply human oversight to ensure content, strategies, and decisions are fair, inclusive, and ethical. Whether you’re developing marketing strategies, creating content, or solving complex business challenges, AI can help you break through creative blocks.

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Tools Data Ethics Metrics 52

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.

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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.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Operations 132

Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

One client I worked with recently — let’s call it Sales and Product Co. Why is the previous strategy no longer good enough? And perhaps most overlooked of all: How does this new strategy or change link to previous strategies? — was trying to make its business more customer-centric.

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