Tom Spencer

APRIL 18, 2025

One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through data-driven product development. By leveraging insights gained from data analytics, companies can make smarter decisions, create products that better meet customer needs, and ultimately stay ahead of the competition. What is Data-Driven Product Development?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In the last 30 years, the multi-century trend of the best-paid workers working less than the lowest-paid workers has been turned on its head. Intrigued by the possibility of a way out of the burnout cycle, a coworker (Colin) and I started meeting every other week to discuss productivity. The same is true for productivity.

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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?

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

These numbers were used to describe the health of a business or industry, to identify trends, or point out top performers. The productivity of a researcher can be evaluated using an index such as the h-index. All industries use numbers and metrics to describe performance, measure trends, and allocate status.

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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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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Sales leaders understand that these potentially high-value customers are looking for more than descriptions of product and service benefits. 3 Ways to Win Over Value Buyers Value buyers want sellers who have solutions to help them achieve key goals, not just products.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This article explores how technology is impacting healthcare and highlights some significant health-tech trends. As wearable technology continues to advance, we’re seeing the development of more sophisticated devices capable of monitoring a broader range of health metrics. Zuhair Imaduddin is a Senior Product Manager at Wells Fargo.

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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

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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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Organizations seek to optimize workforce performance and productivity by implementing effective training programs. Organizations can make informed decisions about their training needs by analyzing metrics, conducting surveys, and gathering input from management.

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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.

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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. They cover walls with graphs, and launch investigations when a number turns red or a trend turns downwards.

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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.].” “Write an engaging thought leadership article about the future of [topic, e.g., AI in consulting], discussing trends, opportunities, and actionable insights.”

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Misalignment between these people strategies can lead to decreased productivity, higher turnover, and a misaligned company culture. Aligned strategies boost employee retention, enhance productivity, reinforce team norms , and drive innovation. Build a Healthy and Aligned Culture Organizational health and alignment can be measured.

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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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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.

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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%. They will represent the products more consistently. Metrics emphasized speed.

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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.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Sales leaders understand that these potentially high-value ideal target customers are looking for more than descriptions of product and service benefits. 3 Ways to Win Over Value Buyers Value buyers want sellers who have solutions to help them achieve key goals, not just products.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Based on our research , inspired employees are three times more productive than dissatisfied employees, but they are rare. Financial capital is relatively abundant and cheap. Energy, too, is difficult to come by.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

It’s not alone in trying to jump on the trend of shared workspaces, of which there are now around 19,000 worldwide. Orange’s VBN is one example; another belongs to a large telco in Silicon Valley, where its teams huddle alongside those from customers to prototype products and services. More villas are now in the works.

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Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Innovation Acceleration AI can act as a catalyst for product and service development by identifying market trends and predicting future demands. Continuously measure the impact of AI on key performance metrics and adjust your strategies accordingly. Step 3: Monitor and Iterate AI implementation isn’t a one-and-done effort.

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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.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Their stories — and the five wider trends they reflect — help illustrate what it means to be a creative marketer today. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time.

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Chad Barr

APRIL 23, 2025

Here’s what ChatGPT produced: Category Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 Item 4 Item 5 Aspirations Be recognized globally as a thought leader Scale a content-driven digital empire Build multiple passive income streams Create a transformational online program Leave a legacy of impact and influence Beliefs Authentic content builds trust AI can amplify creativity, (..)

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Productivity (revenue divided by expense) increased by 20% year over year (far more than the 9% increase in revenue that the control group stores averaged); customer satisfaction increased by 11% (the control group saw it decrease by 4%); and sales increased by 8% (the control group saw only a 2% increase). million in annual benefit.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer, CA Technologies. We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics. What if you could accurately predict product or software delivery schedules?

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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.

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1 to 1

APRIL 10, 2025

CX can be a competitive advantage When products and pricing are similar, superior customer experience can be the differentiator that wins new business and retains existing clients. Action Point: Present CX metrics alongside financial indicators to show the business case for improving customer experience.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2018

This is especially important for marketers whose job is to connect consumers and products. In some ways, the use of Big Data in marketing is only continuing and extending a trend that has been going on for many years already: market-oriented marketing. Undoubtedly, Big Data helps firms to understand their customers better.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2014

This percentage marks an almost four times increase in the trend of enterprise-wise adoption compared to a survey conducted three years earlier, but the question must still be asked — how can we improve this number? Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.”

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Corporate leaders are becoming convinced of the impact that effective data collection and analysis can have on the bottom line, from tracking daily reports against Key Performance Indicators to make informed decisions on where to spend marketing dollars, to monitoring and evaluating customer communications to adjust product offerings.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

When Is the Best Time for Management Training: The Top 5 Scenarios When management development is aligned with both individual readiness and organizational needs, it can become a transformative tool to drive productivity and employee engagement. Training targeted at improving key leadership competencies can help reverse these trends.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

They look at their business as platforms, not just as products and services. Geographic business units are responsible for hiring the right people, selling their products, and provisioning new customers. The senior leadership team meets often to look at metrics and trends. Here’s an example to put this into context.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

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. Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

We see a paradox in two important analytics trends. purchase funnel metrics). For example, to ascertain the effect of advertising on sales, one would need to recognize that concurrent changes in product design can affect sales, lest one misattribute the effect of product changes to the advertising that announces them.

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