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.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow. An Example.

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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. Corporate culture.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For example, finance teams must be able to draw on information from the entire business – projects, operations, sales, marketing, HR, along with external sources that put internal data in context – to make decisions quickly. Additionally, we’re starting to see more firms accept the fact that they can’t go it alone.

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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

When roles and success metrics are unclear, it is difficult for teams to perform beyond the sum of their parts. It is also critical when internal operations must change to become more efficient or more satisfactory to external or internal customers.

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1 to 1

MARCH 28, 2022

It behooves companies from across a wide range of industries to consider making gigCX a part of their regular operations. In addition to greater flexibility, gig workers are less restricted by geographic limits, reducing the need for physical infrastructures reduces costs and increases efficiency. workforce by 2023.

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LSA Global

MARCH 20, 2020

While many pundits believe that people can’t perform both roles well, corporations continue to believe that high performing and high potential employees can, at the same time, operate as an effective individual producer and people leader simultaneously. Culture – Get Aligned. What Organizations Expect from Managers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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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. Only then can you create an accountable culture and push for higher levels of performance. Lack of Accountability. Lack of Smart Resource Allocation.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t optimize for efficiency. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Set up post-interaction NPS so you can tell if someone is still upset even after an issue is “solved,” start tracking the volume and quality of requests coming in along with metrics relating to revenue (i.e.,

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Building Balanced Cultures. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Practitioners and pundits alike have long debated which metric is best for assessing the performance of a service organization. It’s not surprising that the metric figures prominently on a service rep’s scorecard. Why is average handle time such a bad metric for service? AHT is a culture killer.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Customers (efficiency vs. make more calls) Yes, we can! While I can’t comment on the culture in all companies, I do know that many small family-owned businesses have owners who are coasting. It proves you have the team that can integrate one operation into another. The icing – the top three. The bigger you are…the better.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

We surveyed and interviewed executives from more than 2,000 companies, asking extensive questions about how they develop leaders, how their companies are managed, how they coordinate their work, and what their organizational culture looks like. The culture at GE, for example, centers on execution, simplicity, and innovation.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. for leaders and 3.2% for laggards.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

the outcome measures, which are culture, performance metrics and ultimately profit, the people measures – how well we use our people to execute our strategy and achieve our outcomes. There are huge efficiencies that can be had. These are foundational to what a company does and what it wants to achieve.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We need to build an intentional, human-centered culture and approach burnout and well-being comprehensively — aligning them with other organizational priorities. We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. Bryan Sexton of Duke University Medical Center.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

link] Most economists hold a belief that a more efficient workforce leads to competitive advantage and lowers the costs of goods and services. Selfless love cultivates an organizational culture where healthy and caring leader-follower relationships break down the adverse effects of our differences.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. Companies with a strong sustainability program and culture attract and retain better talent who desire a sense of purpose and contribution to a greater good.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

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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.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. This age is ripe with opportunity. That’s how to be truly digitally sustainable.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Overlooking these realities is perilous, both for the patient’s well-being and for efficient delivery of care. The physician-sherpa should be a partner on the journey, not simply a medical operative, extracting formulaic rules and implements from a toolbox. This work cannot happen in a vacuum of forced efficiency.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

Nearly 65 million surgical operations were performed last year in the U.S., resulting in an estimated 200,000 deaths from complications or other post-operative issues. Older procedures required cutting large openings to operate on a patient (e.g., Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Commercially available tools, such as culture IQ polls, sample groups of employees through a smartphone app on a daily or weekly basis to generate real-time insights. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. Since 1994, Dow has invested nearly $2 billion in improving resource efficiency and has saved $9.8

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

This painful decision cost tens of thousands of jobs but proved strategically, organizationally, and culturally essential to the company’s future success. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX. But the past is merely a prologue.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Administrative leaders experienced with their hospital’s operational network are needed when the necessary new care pathways and processes are disruptive.

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

The second constituent in making a great sales force is providing clarity about sales force roles and responsibilities in an effective and efficient organizational structure. programs for energizing people and reinforcing a sales culture that breeds success). calling on friends and family) over hard work (e.g. Organization.

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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. Additionally, knowledge of common use cases (e.g., in their domain is important.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

But in the culture of firefighting that had developed at the company, decisions were treated in isolation or in response to day-to-day developments in the business. Such decisions require addressing complex organizational challenges such as multiple, often-conflicting stakeholders with differing values, experiences, or cultural needs.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

As a large team cares for patients, clear and efficient pathways for communication and workflows are necessary to ensure the patient experience is as seamless and organized as possible. Still, these metrics have yet to include broader measures of wellness such as academic achievement, involvement in crime, or job outcomes (i.e.,

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

In that same Wired piece: …what began with aesthetic judgments of the digital renderings—the Los Angeles Times’ architecture critic called the Ring a “retrograde cocoon”—has lately turned to social and cultural critiques. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

I responded that even if it is the norm for this company’s culture — and potentially many others — it is not acceptable universally, nor should it be. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it. “Is this normal?”

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