Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Later, marketers found themselves working backward to connect their social strategy to business strategy, as managers demanded greater proof of ROI. Unless you connect your social media actions to broader business goals from the beginning, ROI can be elusive, and social media becomes an end unto itself.

Media 136

Media Company ROI Metrics 136

LSA Global

JUNE 17, 2024

How to Increase the ROI of Sales Training Even though $20 billion is spent on business sales training per year, more than a third of sales leaders admit that they do not have a clear idea of what measurable return they are looking for on sales training. That is a costly mistake if you want to increase the ROI of sales training.

ROI 64

ROI Training Training Sales 64

Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

Almost half (49%) said that it was difficult to ensure a return on investment (ROI). The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion. These metrics can be converted into an estimate of ROI for the employer. and sixfold in India.

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Training Training ROI Metrics 132

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.

Media 129

Media Metrics eBook Software 129

1 to 1

JULY 22, 2014

Companies are increasingly using customer experience metrics to gauge the health of their customer relationships. customerexperiencemeasurement roi temkingroup' There’s more… To read the rest of this blog posting click here or visit www.1to1Media.com/weblog. customerexperiencemeasurement roi temkingroup' 1to1Media.com/weblog.

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ROI Metrics Company Management 51

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 125

Metrics Data Benchmarking ROI 125

1 to 1

JUNE 13, 2024

Talk to someone like Lynn Hunsaker and she’ll tell you there’s some 24 metrics to convey the value of the customer experience. The “Four Gold CX ROI Metrics” webinar was the final episode in the three-part series hosted by ECXO. A 9700% CX ROI? She’s dissected and painstakingly diagrammed each one. No more layoffs.

ROI 32

ROI Metrics Sales Benchmarking 32

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. ” If the sales team recognizes the value of this tool, you’ll get all the metric and forecast information you desire. Implement your CRM with that in mind and you’ll be pleased with your ROI.

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Sales How To Metrics Tools 132

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

As one might imagine, demonstrating the ROI of this is difficult — most don’t even try. Some eschew metrics altogether, gambling they will learn as they go when it comes to measuring what’s important. With the metrics so hazy, the decision as to whether these spaces are worth it is being made on a case-by-case basis.

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Company Case Interview Engineering ROI 128

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The impact went beyond the one specific metric. In short, our definitions and measurement tools have gotten in the way of capturing the true value of well-being programs for employees and their employers, and traditional metrics, such as ROI, don’t always reflect whether the program is relevant to the employee.

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How To Metrics Groups Energy 128

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

After experimenting with a number of potential behavioral metrics, we settled on using one that approximates average weekly working hours as our primary measure. Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive.

Productivity 133

Productivity Culture Metrics Data 133

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. These insights allow leaders to identify risks, assess project performance, and make informed decisions that maximize ROI.

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Tools Management Software Resources 130

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2018

With online technologies and targeted lists, this should be a cost-effective tool for separating the suspects from the prospects, accelerating customer conversion through the sales funnel, and, equally important, optimizing “data-driven marketing” by tying each piece of content to metrics like opens, reads, downloads, and so on.

Marketing 133

Marketing Case Study Case Studies Sales 133

Management Consulted

JUNE 11, 2017

Taking up just one line in the Education section of your resume, the ROI is well worth it. Tip : Be sure to include metrics wherever possible! Firms will see you’ve always been a top-performer, instead of a flash-in-the-pan at your last role. How much money did you raise? How many people did you lead?

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Resumes Consulting Interviews Leadership 124

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

” Agreeing to a networking meeting without a formal agenda may seem like a waste of time, with little ROI. But by using the approach above, you can create your own metrics for success and potentially develop life- and career-changing connections.

Meeting 132

Meeting ROI Sports Groups 132

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Companies deploying emotional-connection-based strategies and metrics to design, prioritize, and measure the customer experience find that increasing customers’ emotional connection drives significant improvements in financial outcomes.

Retail 132

Retail Apparel Financial ROI 132

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Instead, they create hypotheses, review all their flow metrics, and change several things at the same time. Too often, we can't calculate the real ROI for at least a year post-release. Some examples: If a team is trying to reduce their cycle time, but the team doesn't do just one experiment at a time. Sometimes, even longer.

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Metrics ROI Data Agile 69

Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

These decks contain benchmarking tools, customizable ROI calculators, and other content to showcase the potential impact of the firm’s solution, and, most powerful, they use the language and metrics of the stakeholder receiving it. A health care software company uses networking events early in the sales process.

B2B 122

B2B Travel Benchmarking Sales 122

Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. These insights allow leaders to identify risks, assess project performance, and make informed decisions that maximize ROI.

Tools 130

Tools Management Software Resources 130

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

The other opinion (based on my experience) was that of using ROI to predict which product, project, or feature a team should do first. First, here are circumstances in which I’ve seen people successfully use ROI and earned value. Remember that ROI is the (Gain-Cost)/(Cost). For my clients, it appears to be better than ROI.

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Agile ROI Productivity Sales 55

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

Determining the ROI for any cybersecurity investment, from staff training to AI-enabled authentication managers, can best be described as an enigma shrouded in mystery. Even the known costs, such as penalties for data breaches in highly regulated industries like health care, are a small piece of the ROI calculation.

ROI 75

ROI Metrics System Data 75

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

These may be as simple as “reduce year-over-year health care spending” or as specific as “help employees with chronic disease improve medication adherence” Metrics. The best cost structure may vary with your firm’s goals and metrics.

Metrics 70

Metrics ROI Journal Study 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Measure the ROI. It requires a great deal of energy and focus from both staff and external resources, which is why demonstrating the value and ROI of the insights provided by customer communities is so critical. Unfortunately, there exists no single, magic-bullet metric that satisfies these requirements for every community.

ROI 70

ROI Recruitment Recruiting Metrics 70

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

For instance, in Marketing, data is being used to calculate ROI on marketing campaigns, or come up with new pricing strategies based on A/B testing of campaigns which helps marketing and managers bring in more revenue, and stay ahead of the competition.

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Report Data Strategy Strategy& 98

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. The metrics also changed. However, recently they began to take a more holistic approach, focusing on lifetime value and their most profitable segment, the “fashionable spender.”

Marketing 134

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 134

Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

Establish new rules, norms, and metrics. Ford’s core business of designing, manufacturing, and selling cars and trucks is governed by long-established business rules, behavioral norms, and success metrics. But as Barclay’s CEO Ashok Vaswani says, don’t let the mother ship kill the pirate ship.

Transportation 71

Transportation ROI Metrics Productivity 71

1 to 1

JULY 25, 2024

Introduction The Net Promoter Score (NPS) has long been a widely used metric for assessing customer loyalty, satisfaction, and the potential for customer churn as a relationship and transactional metric. The Broader Critique of Singular Metrics The issue with NPS is not unique. Read the original here.

Metrics 20

Metrics Analysis B2C B2B 20

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Get top-level guidance and metrics. What metrics will be used to determine how well your unit is doing at embracing learning and development, and how will that in turn affect your review? But those same managers have come to recognize that the ROI for enabling this development is enormous. Here’s how. Hire to train.

How To 73

How To Development Metrics Talent 73

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

By using blockchain technology to track their ads, marketing teams can retain control over all their automation practices, ensure that marketing spend is focused on ROI-generating activities, and directly measure the impact of marketing down to a per-user, per-mail metric.

Marketing 130

Marketing Advertising Media Video 130

Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

How exactly are they doing that, and thereby realizing further gains in ROI? The leaders have built a test-for-results culture, refreshing metrics and dashboards at least weekly and using data to directly inform decisions.

Marketing 71

Marketing Bain Advertising Data 71

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. Let’s develop an up-front “technology ROI” that measures workflow impact, inefficiency, hassle and impact on physician and nurse well-being. Develop metrics around technology deployments that are noted above.

Metrics 70

Metrics System Healthcare Culture 70

Asamby Consulting

MAY 12, 2022

Consider the two financial core metrics when thinking about the COO, cashflow and ROI. ROI Think through the actual return on investment of bringing in a COO. (FYI: There's a positive ROI to bringing on this role. Does it make sense financially? Cashflow The equation is pretty simple. Check out our COO-as-a-service.

ROI 52

ROI Operations Financial Company 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

You may be used to big budgets up front, in the tens of millions of dollars for large IT-led transformation efforts and ROI three years later, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. Today’s automation changes the way IT budgets work too. Shift 3: See people as multipliers of value.

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Strategy Strategy& Strategy Agile 70

Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

What makes sense: ROI The other financial metric you have to look at is your return on investment (ROI). Your ROI would be 100%. If the same outcome makes 2,000 customers happier, the ROI is 10x. As this would be a recurring improvement, your budget from an ROI perspective could be as high as 12,000.

Small Business 52

Small Business Cash Flow Consulting ROI 52

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

That investing in employee engagement is an actual business imperative, and it has real, measurable ROI. Measurement and metrics challenge every company, so how do you measure efforts to build a great experience for employees? Jody Kohner, Salesforce. I think that you really have to focus on investing in your employees.

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Deloitte Consulting Data Talent 127

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

We’re working on a model for the ROI of a technology dollar, versus a marketing dollar, versus a sales dollar, so we can make trade-off decisions. They have different strategic priorities; they are held accountable for new, shared metrics; they spend more time with cross-functional peers. And they have significantly more impact.

Agile 70

Agile Advertising Marketing Meeting 70

Buzzsprout

MARCH 28, 2024

If you plan on buying ads via a CPM model, running your campaign cost (or "ad spend") through a CPM calculator can help determine whether your ROI will be worth your investment. When a person clicks the code, they go to a landing page which you can then use to measure the ad's traffic and track ROI.

Advertising 74

Advertising Tools ROI Productivity 74