Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

Metrics 28

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28

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, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress.

Report 98

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

Metrics 28

Metrics Study Cash Flow McKinsey 28

LSA Global

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Without a true north, lots of time and effort can be wasted in organizational politics and “churn” where little gets efficiently accomplished and there’s minimal movement forward. Another critical aspect of a well-constructed corporate strategy is defining how resources will be allocated. Lack of Accountability.

Strategy 36

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Guidelines 36

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Company 28

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. Google has appealed and is now preparing its defense. What Is a Digital Replica?

Company 29

Company Engineering Operations Construction 29

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. Public cloud computing, offered by companies like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and my employer, Google Cloud, is still viewed by many as a cheaper and more efficient way for companies to store and process data.

Change Management 33

Change Management Management Software Productivity 33