Consulting Success

JANUARY 8, 2018

Video Transcript: Let’s talk about metrics. Specific metrics that you can use to get more clients, win more business , and actually grow your consulting business. There’s four metrics in one track. Metric number three that you want to track is proposals. These four metrics give you a lot of information.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The Impact of CEOs on Strategy: Driving Vision and Execution Stakes are high for CEOs; almost 25% of Fortune 500 CEOs are dismissed each year. We know from leadership simulation assessment data that the impact of CEOs on strategy matters. Can your CEO drive cohesion and a sense shared sense of purpose?

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This article explores the components of the ADDIE model and why it is an effective strategy for developing high-performing teams. Design: Create a blueprint for the training program, including learning objectives and instructional strategies. Develop: Produce the actual training materials and content.

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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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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 24, 2024

However, achieving this success requires a focused approach to strategies that promote virtual training engagement, effective instructional design, and technology-enabled interactivity. Key Strategies for Effective Online Training 1.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Project management solutions provide various tools for managing resources: timesheets, capacity planning tools, resource utilization metrics, etc. This capability allows businesses to identify potential project management risks and prepare the most effective mitigation strategies.

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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. Consider the infamous example of Wells Fargo. Makes sense right? Wells Fargo opened 3.5

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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

MAY 21, 2021

Four strategies to make sure you’re measuring what matters.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2024

In the past five years, stakeholderism has gained wider acceptance and helped many corporate leaders see the value of taking the interests of their stakeholders seriously when planning, developing strategy, making decisions, assessing risks, allocating resources, and so on. For that to happen, much more is required.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 25, 2025

Imagine spending months crafting a detailed, data-driven strategy , only to watch it gather dust on a shelf. In these cases, strategies become what I call ‘strategically useless’ brilliant in theory but ineffective in practice. Three Reasons Why Strategies Become Useless 1. For example, J.C.

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2022

Don’t just focus on tactical, operational goals. Ask what your customers are actually experiencing — and continuously push for improvement.

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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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The strategy-to-execution gap is an enduring problem with no easy solution. ” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. Translate strategy into everyday processes and capabilities. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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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. For example, most retailers are merchants using technology.

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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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Tom Spencer

APRIL 18, 2025

Rather than relying solely on intuition or assumptions, product teams gather and analyze data from various sources, such as market research surveys, customer behavior, market trends, and performance metrics. Insights gleaned from the data is used to guide the development, iteration, and optimization of products as well as marketing strategy.

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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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

To fix it, cascade rather than amalgamate your metrics. The second trap is when companies measure what they do rather than what they achieve. To fix this, focus on stakeholder outcomes. The third trap is a lack of focus.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Craft Your Strategy. Identify key metrics to measure success and have a plan to ensure broad buy-in. Before you start moving forward with any change, take some time to articulate your goals and end targets, both during and after the change. Knowing how your company will get from where it is to where you want to be is essential.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

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

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 18, 2025

The right instructional design consultant helps companies revitalize their L&D strategies. This section outlines essential qualities to look for in a consultant, ensuring they can deliver expertly crafted content and a training strategy that aligns with your organizational culture and goals. Enter instructional design consulting.

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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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1 to 1

APRIL 10, 2025

Read full version here: [link] Introduction A successful Customer Experience (CX) transformation program must be deeply integrated with the business strategy of an organization. So, how can a B2B company practically align its CX transformation with business strategy ? Below is a step-by-step approach. Below is a step-by-step approach.

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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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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Importance of Strategic Believability: Is Your Strategy Believable Enough? An effective business strategy should help to create a competitive advantage. We know from organizational alignment research that strategy accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing organizations.

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Effective Managers

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Many businesses today have a similar focus on outcomes for the performance measures used to assess how well they are implementing strategy. This focus can create problems in either diverging from strategy or by ignoring issues in the value chain. Session 2: Metrics vs Strategy. A Common Pitfall in Business.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Next, they learned how to design a team charter with their teams in order to aligned team goals, roles, and strategy success metrics with overall strategic priorities. The New Manager Training program results were: 98% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 181% Knowledge Gain 98.1% Learn more about getting aligned.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Three metrics to guide your company’s international expansion.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. However, without a data strategy , the likelihood of achieving successful outcomes is greatly diminished.

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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. By identifying risks, tracking KPIs, and forecasting project outcomes, businesses can adapt their strategies to achieve better results.

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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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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Identifying Training Gaps The starting point of a successful training strategy is understanding where skills gaps exist within the organization. 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 10, 2025

Successful shifts in strategies, structures, processes, technologies, or people lie in the ability to reinforce organizational change: embedding the change so it becomes part of the organizations ways of working and thinking. Are your training strategies stressing the competencies and tools required to support the new vision?

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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. Define a metric. Moment/Getty Images.

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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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