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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business

In a 2014 survey , 55% of executives said a major constraint to investing in training was that they did not know how to measure success. Almost half (49%) said that it was difficult to ensure a return on investment (ROI). These metrics can be converted into an estimate of ROI for the employer. and sixfold in India.

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Social Media Platforms Can Be Built Around Quality, Not Scale

Harvard Business

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.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. At Grid70, one tenant reported a 30%–40% reduction in product development time after a redesign of their workspace.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

The Helix (Healthcare Innovation Exchange) Centre opened in 2014 to respond to increasing pressures on the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). This can result in favoring projects promising a quick ROI over riskier projects offering bigger impact in the long-term. Innovation Centers.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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