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Evaluating ROI on Your Company’s Learning and Development Initiatives

Harvard Business

Leaders can use an approach called balanced benchmarking, borrowed from operations management, to conduct a needs assessment and apply training where it can be most effective. The author explains how this approach was applied at a firm in the legal services industry and offers five strategies for implementation.

ROI 70
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The cost of hiring a consultant for small business in 2023

Asamby Consulting

Strategy Consultants Strategy consultants for small business help your company to find it's strategic positioning in the market. Operations Consultants Operations consultants look into your company and help you make it run smoothly. Topics they deal with include strategy execution, leadership, people, processes and tools.

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation. To close the gap, we need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations. Here are four things leaders can do.

ROI 28
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How One Company Made Its Analytics Investment Pay Off

Harvard Business

True incorporation requires bold decisions about reorganizing the business to make analytics a key component of strategy. The ABU was set up as a centralized profit center with ambitious targets and with direct reporting to the chief operations officer; most often, similar units are organized as cost centers with no specific targets.

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