Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Craft Your Strategy. Identify key metrics to measure success and have a plan to ensure broad buy-in. By exploring every reported difficulty, you can make adjustments if necessary, ensuring you can address any bumps in the road and pave a path toward success. Champion the Change.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

Reporting and performance analysis. This element of MOM involves gathering and analyzing data on key performance indicators, e.g., production output, quality metrics, and equipment efficiency. These insights are used to spot inefficiencies, areas for improvement, and make informed decisions.

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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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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.

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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 To get there, companies should take the time to level-set their efforts with three strategic exercises: Reexamine your goals and strategy. Make sure to use the right metrics when measuring success and identifying areas for growth.

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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

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

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. CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

and (ii) how can digital firms improve their financial reports to communicate sources of value creation in their businesses? CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics. Traditional companies therefore rely on two strategies.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Product portfolio management helps find the most appropriate strategy to gain the desired business objectives as well as evaluate the success of each product or service and make corresponding improvements if necessary. Every product in the portfolio should be evaluated with the help of one of the product success metrics.

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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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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. Consider three examples.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. That was actually an average of a dozen analyst reports. The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. Managers provide coaching to improve, not reporting to inspect.

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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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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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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2015

Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? One of the ideas that I’ve been thinking about recently is that financial metrics are basically designed to evaluate how much you are getting out of a company, your cash flow take from the company.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2020

If you are in a big meeting and want people to go off into working session then come back and report, this is really useful. 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.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Many people have suggested moving away from quarterly earnings reporting as a way to reduce short-termism. We then scored the quality of disclosure based on whether there is no disclosure, generic disclosure, backward-looking metrics, or forward-looking metrics for a category. Fanatic Studio/Getty Images.

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Chad Barr

JANUARY 29, 2025

. “Analyze multiple scenarios for [business decision], including potential risks, benefits, and alternative strategies to mitigate risks.” “Suggest 10 creative marketing strategies to increase engagement and leads for [business or product]. Consider prompts as a reflection of your business strategy.

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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?

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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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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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1 to 1

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The resulting new report, “Bringing the power of data and analytics to the front line,” captures best practices for leveraging data analytics to transform the contact center. When you use lagging metrics at the end of the month, it’s very hard for agents to truly understand what drives the score.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Why Corporate Strategy is a Verb: Driving Focused Action for Business Success Some leaders mistakenly think of corporate strategy as a grand plan conceived during a strategy retreat that is locked in place. This static perspective, however, limits the potential of what corporate strategy can and should be.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

While technology can certainly improve operational performance, the idea that it can replace a sound strategy is a dangerous delusion. Tronc bills their new strategy as “the future of journalism,” but if anything it their shiny new digital strategy seems mired in the recent past. The Downside of Data.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy calls “the most common pathology” , with nearly 40% of Americans reporting being lonely. Workers in our sample reported many of the same troubling side effects of loneliness that others have already observed. Profiles of Loneliness. Singles were the loneliest of all.)

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. What is the output?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% For instance, a recent survey of more than 3,000 Indian companies, by government think tank NITI Aayog, reports that it takes an average of 156 days to get land allotted from the government in India.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

At the most basic level a consulting engagement (or any strategic project) will typically contain three-phases: Structure and propose a strategy. Implement and execute on the strategy. Track the performance of the strategy. Ability to automate reports. Dashboard defined. are built-in connectors available). Final thoughts.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

Understanding the brand strategy. Brand consultancy Tenet Partners reports that only 28% of employees strongly agree that they know their company’s brand values, and that only one in five employees strongly agrees that company leaders communicate how employees should out the brand values in their jobs.

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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.

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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. Why is the previous strategy no longer good enough? And, of course, making changes to resourcing and metrics takes time.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Together, standing meetings should synchronize the entire organization in a meeting cadence that executes strategy and delivers results. At the consumer product company, many of the standing meetings were of groups that had been formed years prior, but as the organization evolved and shifted strategies, were never dissolved.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2016

Yet IBM’s C-Suite Study reports that nearly half of CMOs believe they are not prepared to manage the challenges of social media. This disparity highlights an important, and potentially costly, problem: Marketers continue to increase social media spending, yet many are still uncertain about management, strategies, and integration.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals. Metrics that capture the extent to which research achieves these goals could be additional ways to assess scholarly impact.

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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. Months later, the company discovered that account managers were still spending only one-third of their time meeting with customers, despite self-reporting a higher share of time.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

This will require reporting on new metrics. Dashboards usually include metrics such as number of interactions on your digital platform (sales or other), number of active network partners, value created, for both the firm and its partners, and the overall sentiment of the network regarding its collaboration.

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