Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

While the focus of many spaces is to create new digital products and services, evidence from broader coworking surveys suggests other roles could benefit from this practice. User satisfaction surveys consistently rank them as the favorite aspect of corporate coworking. Now, do these spaces work in promoting innovation?

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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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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. She’s dissected and painstakingly diagrammed each one. Tummy tucks, body wraps … Spanx, fasting.

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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.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Many companies are busy mapping their customer experience and tracking customer activity across physical stores, call centers, e-commerce sites, and social media, gathering mountains of data from their own surveys, customer tracking systems, loyalty programs, and third-party providers.

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Retail Apparel Financial ROI 132

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.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. The metrics also changed. For Equinix, surveys revealed that a third of employees were not confident explaining its company story. The company introduced an internal ambassador program for its more than 6,000 employees.

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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? We do things like employee surveys—we do those twice a year. Jody Kohner, Salesforce.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

But according to The CMO Survey , only 8% of firms rate the use of blockchain in marketing as moderately or very important. RyanJLane/Getty Images. Blockchain has important implications for marketing and advertising. Blockchain technology is not well understood and subject to a lot of hype.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

How exactly are they doing that, and thereby realizing further gains in ROI? Bain & Company recently surveyed nearly 1,700 marketers globally , in partnership with Google, and found three areas of importance.

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Marketing Bain Advertising Data 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.

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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.

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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. You can also ask the podcast host for listenership data or even conduct a short survey to zero in on their listeners' interests.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Meanwhile quantitative research methods—including surveys, website analytics and CRM data—can provide broader stroke insights that inform a deeper understanding of customer preferences and receive feedback on your current CX. 3 questions to ask during this step: What metrics will you use to benchmark and improve the customer experience?

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