Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. Changes in their behavior led to both lower carbon dioxide emissions (by 21,500 metric tons) and an estimated $5.4

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. We reached these conclusions by comparing 490 CEO succession decisions with a control group of 1,150 firms in the health sector. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Enter the U.S.

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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? And customers can tell.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

But such a change would probably not change how resources are allocated or businesses operate. We then scored the quality of disclosure based on whether there is no disclosure, generic disclosure, backward-looking metrics, or forward-looking metrics for a category.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Customers (efficiency vs. make more calls) Yes, we can! Buying another company, assimilating it into your operation, and showing that the combined profits are greater than the two individual companies’ profits demonstrates to potential buyers that this can be done. The icing – the top three. The bigger you are…the better.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

As mid-level managers of separate companies (groups of 140 to 210 people) within the same Army Brigade over the past two years, we were evaluated against each other. Dan implemented these ideas in his group and, inspired by the openness of his competitor, described his plan to incorporate courtesy reviews by the inspection team.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This data can then feed into a predictive model, helping us know with precision the actions that are going to accelerate adoption of a new practice, process, or behavior by a given employee group. What approaches work with groups that share these characteristics? Developing these sorts of metrics will not be quick or easy.

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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. Ideas and input come from all sides and segments and across all stakeholder groups.

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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 feedback could be tough at times.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

We mapped this data against dozens of financial and leadership metrics, clustering companies into four groups (ranging from low- to high-performing). And fifth, while these companies do have leadership “programs,” they are embedded in the business, and HR does not operate alone.

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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. Read their job requisitions.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX. Unsurprisingly, the group’s targeted segmentation and disaggregation efforts ended up dramatically improving response and resolution times for typical customers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Beginning in the Spring of 2016, our workplace analytics group worked with commercial real estate company CBRE to calculate the cost savings associated with relocating a 1,200-person Microsoft engineering organization from five buildings into four other buildings. At Microsoft, we went about answering this question in a couple of ways.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Meanwhile, its transmission model reduces the costs of transactions, enables verification and efficient exchange of ownership, and opens the door to real-time micropayments. Marketers gain visibility and transparency to differentiate between dormant and loyal customers, thereby expanding their strategies to send targeted offers to each group.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

Other companies including Lowe’s, Walmart, McKesson and JetBlue Airways have recently partnered with the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and Health Design Plus (HDP) to launch the Employers Centers of Excellence Network (ECEN) which helps employers identify quality providers and negotiate bundled payments.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

A way to get started in applying supply-chain methods to health care is to identify a few targets of opportunity: discrete, non-urgent medical conditions of high frequency that have a high aggregate cost and a high variation in price and quality among provider groups. These are good places to begin applying supply chain methodology.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

The purpose includes creating value for customers, investing in employees, dealing fairly with suppliers, and supporting the communities where corporations operate. Leaders must be able to operate both within and upon the organization's culture. Leaders need to be able to operate within and upon an organization's culture.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

Organizations are also using these tools to improve maintenance, infrastructure planning, water conservation, and customer service (including repair efficiencies and pricing). In many parts of the world, the increased operational and infrastructure costs are simply passed on to consumers. As one U.S. As one U.S.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Performance means more than clearing a metric — it also means reliable, scalable, and easy-to-maintain models that perform well in production. A frequent lament among business leaders is, “Our data science group is useless.” Engineering excellence is a must. The result? Analytics for machine learning and AI.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

For magnitude, the metrics included size of capital investment or operational expenditure and time to expected benefits; the greater the investment or longer the time-to-benefit, the higher the point score. The appropriate delegation of decisions can free even more time.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

While there will still be high-stakes, time-sensitive issues like beating a competitor to market with a new product, acknowledge that endurance is the goal, and speed is not the best or only metric of long-term success. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

This is an efficient way to re-purpose your content and create more value out of what you’ve already produced. What were the KPI’s or metrics achieved to show that the project was a success? If you think that way, you’re operating with a scarcity mindset. Start discussions on your articles. You-focused profile.

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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. Progressus allows for efficient task tracking and completion to determine which team members are the most productive.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

For years, Atrius Health had been focusing on standardizing processes, removing waste, and improving efficiency using improvement activities employing lean. The innovation and operations teams must work together and negotiate the use of these resources. The original approach was dubbed “care-model improvement.”

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. That is some group of people.

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