Clarity Consultants

APRIL 18, 2025

Tech Literacy Gaps Create Friction: Not everyone is equally comfortable navigating digital learning tools. Social learning tools, discussion boards, and group activities help reinforce lessons and promote continuous learning. What ties all of these strategies together? Intentional design. Contact us today to get started.

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Training Training Emotional Intelligence Strategy 130

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. Incorporate tools like live polls, breakout rooms, and gamified elements into your sessions.

Training 130

Training Training Development How To 130

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.

Strategy& 67

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Case Interview 67

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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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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Case Study Case Studies Consulting Training 130

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. Operations Management In Manufacturing Industry with Epicflow Epicflow is a powerful multi-project resource management tool specifically designed for work in complex environments.

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Operations Management Efficiency Resources 204

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.

Media 138

Media Company ROI Metrics 138

Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2020

Find the tools to create interactions and communicate without relying solely on video. Q: White boards were an effective meeting tool for drawing ideas from participants. Donald) I worked with a client during a feedback session and used PowerPoint since our collaboration tool didn’t have a whiteboard feature.

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Consulting How To Meeting Tools 355

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. AI, cloud computing, etc.).

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Resources Methodologies Efficiency Metrics 157

Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

.” — Peter Drucker In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just another tool; it’s a transformative force reshaping how we think, work, and innovate. Instead, it’s a tool to augment your expertise. Let’s create a future-proof strategy together.

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Tools Data Ethics Metrics 52

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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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. If you want your CRM implementation to increase revenue (which it only will if it enables your sales organization to increase sales), I recommend doing the following: Re-think your CRM as a tool to increase revenue.

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Sales How To Metrics Tools 132

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?

Research 54

Research Change Management System Strategy 54

Chad Barr

JANUARY 29, 2025

In this, prompts become both a tool for your growth and a window into your clients’ world. ” The responses revealed not just a list of powerful tools, but a roadmap for accelerating growth and thought leadership in any industry. ” Impact: Fuels innovative marketing strategies that attract and engage audiences.

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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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B2B Sales Media Survey 195

Chad Barr

APRIL 23, 2025

Whether for blog posts, podcast episodes, lead magnets, or thought leadership assets, this tool supercharged my IP creation in record time. It’s strategy in action — and it will transform how your business shows up and scales up. Try this prompt yourself. This isn’t theory.

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ROI Tools Marketing Industry 52

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.

Productivity 245

Productivity Management Resources Software 245

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. software, tools, and location)? Design elements and tools. Dashboard defined.

Tools 109

Tools Data Metrics Operations 109

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 132

Media Metrics eBook Software 132

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

Recently, my colleague Wayne Cascio and I took up the question of why HR analytics progress has been so slow despite many decades of research and practical tool building, an exponential increase in available HR data, and consistent evidence that improved HR and talent management leads to stronger organizational performance.

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Metrics Analysis Data Talent 135

LSA Global

APRIL 21, 2025

Do you equip new sales hires with customer-centric communication tools (e.g., Foundational business sales training should include a primer on business acumen : key business drivers, financial metrics, and industry-specific trends.

Sales 62

Sales Balance Sheet B2B Training 62

Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

Does Your Company Have a Data Science Strategy? The problem is that many of our measurement tools and metrics were created for a desktop world at a time when marketing focused on channel performance. We need to break down measurement and strategy silos and create an integrated view of the consumer’s journey.

Marketing 106

Marketing Metrics Enterprise Data 106

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

As such, the long-term plan can be a valuable addition to the investor relations’ tool kit to enable CEOs to effectively communicate with structurally long-term investors. A good long-term plan provides the investor with forward-looking metrics on several issues — not a generic narrative based on backward-looking information.

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Metrics Financial Marketing Trends 128

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 135

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.

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How To Metrics Groups Energy 130

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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Data Engineering Software Operations 132

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

Metrics that capture the extent to which research achieves these goals could be additional ways to assess scholarly impact. Each of these metrics is a reflection that a management scholar’s research has helped or enlightened communities beyond academia. What would these things look like in practice?

Research 132

Research Journal Ethics Metrics 132

Tom Spencer

JUNE 27, 2021

This becomes a tougher question the further you progress in your career as there are fewer established metrics to base your assessment on. Once you have watched a few talks and have a list, categorize your list into key areas which you can call your performance metrics. In college, a good student will have a high GPA.

Metrics 88

Metrics Benchmarking Comparison Development 88

Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2016

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. Some articles indicate that stories are an effective marketing and advertising tool. But what story will you tell?

Media 70

Media Strategy Strategy Strategy& 70

Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 18, 2021

Find the tools to create interactions and communicate without relying solely on video. Q: White boards were an effective meeting tool for drawing ideas from participants. Donald) I worked with a client during a feedback session and used PowerPoint since our collaboration tool didn’t have a whiteboard feature.

Consulting 195

Consulting How To Meeting Tools 195

Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2018

This isn’t just about building fancy new websites, but undertaking true care redesign: becoming adept at delivering high-quality, cost-effective virtual care through telehealth and digital tools. These are all very different strategic needs requiring different implementation approaches and performance metrics.

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Retail Strategy Strategy Strategy& 72

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

Even the best natural sellers need a strategy around target products and markets and a defined role, along with systems and processes to enable their success and align their efforts around common goals of customer and company success. Great sales forces are made by bringing excellence to all of the following: Strategy. Organization.

Sales 131

Sales Talent Operations Efficiency 131

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Barbara Kellerman from Harvard, Jeffrey Pfeffer from Stanford, and numerous other experts have pointed out that the development market is filled with fads — slick behavioral models and fun, engaging tools — that don’t really move the needle.

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Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 135

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. Sales executives with even moderately large, distributed sales forces rely on data to help them understand which activities and behaviors lead to the best outcomes.

Sales 133

Sales Software Productivity Data 133

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Stay focused on using customer support as a learning tool to make your product better, and listen carefully–especially to your most vocal, demanding customers. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Establish models, not just metrics. What not to do. Your goal is success. What to do.

Metrics 132

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Operations 132

Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Without a commitment to continuous training and lifelong learning, ensuring your employees have the information and tools necessary to outperform the competition is challenging. During this stage, eLearning consultants identify critical success metrics related to workforce performance.

ROI 173

ROI Training Training Survey 173

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

Understanding the brand strategy. Employees have appropriate access to tools and data about how the brand is perceived by customers and they actively nurture and reinforce the brand on a daily basis, at every touchpoint. Day-to-day involvement with the brand.

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