Martinka Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2019

And, of course, Marc had his annual prop, a statue of Zeus with the lightning bolt of tax, which he brought out to signify the exciting tax law changes from the recent tax bill. Besides giving overviews of our respective business we discussed: Strategies and tactics the operating company representatives have used to grow their business.

Banking 40

Banking Sports Metrics Construction 40

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely.

Metrics 45

Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 45

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Inspired by John Kotter’s dual-operating structure model, we asked all of these employees to maintain their “day jobs” within the established hierarchy, while also using 5-10% of their time to work on fast-cycle, informal innovation projects across silos. More than 600 were selected. Three key insights.

Company 41

Company Agile Training Training 41

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

If your company offers internal finance training, take advantage of it. Of course, there are also myriad books and reference guides on the topic. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. .” Go it alone.

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Finance Balance Sheet How To Metrics 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

The engagement of its drivers, who deliver milk and bread to millions of customers each day, was dipping while management was becoming increasingly metric-driven in an effort to reduce costs and improve delivery times. Over the course of one year, Jungkiu visited over eighty branches in twenty-five cities. The new approach?

Leadership 59

Leadership PricewaterhouseCoopers Banking Training 59

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

Of course, this approach has its flaws: it can cause people to self-promote, burn out, focus on individual performance at the expense of unit performance, and even deliberately undermine their peers. Dan helped improve this design, sharing a concept that his operations center used to secure other types of equipment for easy movement.

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Operations Exercises Conference System 36

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The candidate unit should have low staff churn — the movement of staff in and out of job roles — which makes it easier to train teams. During the shift, charge nurses coach frontline staffers and ensure they follow standard processes, monitor care, change course when needed, and solve problems.

Healthcare 32

Healthcare System Operations Metrics 32

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Participation is not mandatory, but we find that about one-third of employees participate in at least one activity over the course of the month. We tried to simplify this by creating a security help form on our intranet as well as offering tours of our Global Security Operations Center.

Education 43

Education Culture Engineering Resources 43

Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

You also have to train employees to understand and respect them. Some leading-edge companies are already offering formal civility training. Some Chick-fil-A franchise operators evaluate team members weekly using red, yellow, and green lights. One of the metrics they follow is how long it takes to properly greet customers.

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Training Training Survey Report 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

To help them in their new roles, companies spend almost $14 billion a year on courses, books, videos, coaches, tests, and executive education programs — and such spending rose 10% last year. And fifth, while these companies do have leadership “programs,” they are embedded in the business, and HR does not operate alone.

Leadership 45

Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 45

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

So I just started really getting training for and looking for opportunities in project management in the media space, and after about a year-and-a-half of just building up the skill set necessary to get one of those roles, I landed a job for a small production company here in Atlanta. Is that why it’s not on there? It’s not great.

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Consulting Resumes Bain Recruiting 125

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In their medical training , physicians often are taught to maintain a clinical distance and an even temperament. The physician-sherpa should be a partner on the journey, not simply a medical operative, extracting formulaic rules and implements from a toolbox. We must continually reflect on the changes, and correct the course as needed.

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Guidelines Efficiency System Meeting 41

Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. These situations involved complex assignments focusing on strategy, product development, business operations, and financial management. This, of course, can be difficult or uncomfortable.

Management 47

Management Leadership Culture Development 47

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked. These kinds of statements speak to a leader’s choice of values, and a failure to understand the relationships between a safe work environment and operational performance. It doesn’t have to be this way. At Cummins, Inc.,

Operations 59

Operations Chemicals Metrics System 59

Management Consulted

APRIL 3, 2016

It may test an industry or practice area focus, like technology, operations, or finance. Keeping your mouth shut may even be the better course. Have 3-4 main points verbally placed in two levels, high level buckets and metrics you will use to identify key findings. 4 – The Grand Pause. This is where you devise your game plan.

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Case Interview Consulting Interviews Case Study 100

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. Nearly 65 million surgical operations were performed last year in the U.S., Older procedures required cutting large openings to operate on a patient (e.g.,

Operations 28

Operations Research System Culture 28

Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2017

One important technique in AI is reinforcement learning whereby a computer is trained to take actions that maximize a certain reward function. For instance, DeepMind’s AlphaGo was trained this way to maximize its chances of winning the game of Go. And it is not the same as putting a human in the loop to help train the AI.).

Engineering 28

Engineering Exercises Training Training 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Go and See.

Agile 28

Agile Software Case Interview Video 28

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. And they are finding the tools increasingly useful, of course, in dealing with online customers. Don’t make your AI too lite.

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Company Knowledge Base Insurance Insurance 28

Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Instead, change is part of their broader operational paradigm. Change often means that your workforce will need to act, behave, think, or operate differently, which won’t go over well with everyone. Determine what your employees need and plot a course that walks them through the change. Successful companies are rarely stagnant.

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Metrics Operations Leadership Efficiency 120

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” Defining and tracking success metrics. Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.”

Productivity 28

Productivity Management Engineering Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Over 50 had occurred in the course of the last five years. The lure of incentives are a problem in boardrooms too: Bonus payments and executive share schemes are often based on short-term business metrics, which can be counter to long-term success. Cross-cultural differences.

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Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Study 40

Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

” The memo’s bullet points ought to “provide concrete metrics of the impact you’ve had,” descriptions of “solutions you’ve delivered” and financial outcomes for which you’ve been responsible. “Be realistic,” she says. She then set up a meeting to talk to her boss.

How To 28

How To Handbook Resumes Metrics 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

“I don’t know what he said to them during the operation, but from then on, they wanted to talk only with him, and they acted like I was an enemy. ” It was true that the PCEs they’d hired didn’t have medical training. “One possibility is to do more training,” Amrita suggested.

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Case Study Case Studies Study Case Interview 28

Management Consulted

JULY 19, 2015

I don’t know too much about financial services, so could you tell me more about what it is like working on the case that you mentioned you did before, and the type of training that you got as a BCG employee before going on the case? And there’s still company operations. Yeah, of course. ” Does that make sense?

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Interviews Case Interview Bain Finance 100

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Fortune 500 and over 30 of the Global Fortune 100 among its clientele.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Instead, translators play a critical role in bridging the technical expertise of data engineers and data scientists with the operational expertise of marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, risk, and other frontline managers. As a result, training existing employees often proves to be the best option for filling the translator void.

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Data Engineering Agile McKinsey 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. If Pearson is looking at, say, a new online learning course, Mr. Jackson is part of early product design meetings, offering tips on what user interaction data should be collected, how, and how often a course might be tweaked.

Change Management 44

Change Management Management Software Productivity 44

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

alone spend more than $20 billion annually (by conservative estimates) to train salespeople on products, selling skills, and territory management, demonstrates the widespread belief that you can help “make” salespeople great. Sales force performance can veer off course quickly. Yet the fact that companies in the U.S.

Sales 39

Sales Talent Operations Efficiency 39

Harvard Business

JANUARY 13, 2017

Single-screen “snapshots” of operational processes, marketing metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) can be visually elegant and intuitive. prescribes a course of action. The burden is on the interpreter and user of the dashboard to ensure that the most relevant and useful metric is conveyed.

Data 28

Data Comparison Metrics Software 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

To be successful and cost-effective in holistically addressing children’s total wellness will require a large team of non-medical personnel with diverse training and skills to work with children and their parents. PFK is now working on expanding its strategy to address the health needs of children with disabilities.

Metrics 36

Metrics Efficiency System Development 36

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

Management 32

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 32

Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

You can download my free high-converting Consultant Homepage Template that comes with my free email course on how to build a system for getting more consulting clients online. Creating a video course. Launching a free email course. Creating a Video Course. Launching a Free Email Course. Table of Contents.

Consulting 68

Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

However, not all of its resources are pointed towards consulting, as it offers three lines of services, Audit, Tax and Advisory, with the Advisory arm of its operations (where consulting lives) generating $9.09 Within the US, KPMG LLP operates from 87 offices with more than 23,000 employees. Operating Effectiveness. Outsourcing.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Recently the Chief HR Officer for a healthcare firm asked us to identify the best new framework for leadership that she could use to train and develop a cadre of high potentials. Gary S Chapman/Getty Images. With such a flurry of developments, there must be some useful new ways to think about leadership.

Leadership 50

Leadership Handbook Healthcare Emotional Intelligence 50

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

. — and Tencent, through its popular messaging platform, WeChat, have become enormous repositories of user data, with which they can better design and target new services, discern key user attributes, such as credit-worthiness, and train algorithms. Of course, state-organized citizen databases raise plenty of concerns.

Government 36

Government Data System Airlines 36

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The nurse has real-time phone access to a geriatric care–trained nurse practitioner who, based on the nurse’s assessment, can order tests (including in-home imaging) and prescriptions and make treatment decisions. The innovation and operations teams must work together and negotiate the use of these resources.

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Case Interview Insurance Insurance System 28