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. To make tracking progress effective, it's important to set SMART goals with specific metrics and targets that can be accurately tracked in software.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For those companies, project accounting is one component of several operational mechanisms used in controlling projects, maximizing project profitability, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Every aspect of your project, from project profitability to individual performance metrics is enabled by Microsoft’s Power BI.

Resources 52

Resources Report ROI Data 52

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

It’s proven hard to solve these problems partly because of metrics: It’s hard to identify and measure the factors that lead to high-quality information or connection. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

Media 37

Media Metrics eBook Software 37

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The fourth gap between strategy and execution is in measurement and metrics. The assumption is that financial measures like cost and revenue are sufficient metrics to measure progress. You need metrics that tell you how well your game plan is being executed — metrics that all of your players can organize around.

Strategy 44

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Metrics 44

Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

While the three centers have quite different structures and operations, in our research and experience we found that they share six primary challenges: Establishing strategies for new project selection: Centers struggle to identify and rank problems, ideas or projects that will likely translate to positive health and system outcomes.

Healthcare 37

Healthcare Metrics Engineering Financial 37

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

Determining the ROI for any cybersecurity investment, from staff training to AI-enabled authentication managers, can best be described as an enigma shrouded in mystery. Even the known costs, such as penalties for data breaches in highly regulated industries like health care, are a small piece of the ROI calculation.

ROI 29

ROI Metrics System Data 29

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. Let’s develop an up-front “technology ROI” that measures workflow impact, inefficiency, hassle and impact on physician and nurse well-being. We also need to give patients a voice in how health care is delivered.

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Metrics System Healthcare Culture 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

You may be used to big budgets up front, in the tens of millions of dollars for large IT-led transformation efforts and ROI three years later, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. Today’s automation changes the way IT budgets work too. Shift 3: See people as multipliers of value.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Agile 28

Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 23, 2024

Operational Inefficiencies: Mistakes in operational processes can lead to inefficiencies, wasted resources, and increased overhead costs. Their expertise spans strategic planning, financial management, operations, and beyond. The tangible impact of consulting services is reflected in case studies and quantifiable metrics.

Consulting 52

Consulting Turnaround ROI Case Study 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Get top-level guidance and metrics. What metrics will be used to determine how well your unit is doing at embracing learning and development, and how will that in turn affect your review? But those same managers have come to recognize that the ROI for enabling this development is enormous. Here’s how. Hire to train.

How To 28

How To Development Metrics Talent 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. The metrics also changed. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.”

Marketing 50

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 50

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

By using blockchain technology to track their ads, marketing teams can retain control over all their automation practices, ensure that marketing spend is focused on ROI-generating activities, and directly measure the impact of marketing down to a per-user, per-mail metric.

Marketing 39

Marketing Advertising Media Video 39

Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2018

Only when the service was successfully operating did Ford begin to expand it, adding dozens of new routes and growing its local fleet to more than 200 vehicles. Establish new rules, norms, and metrics. If Ford applied those same ROI expectations to its new logistics business, it would likely kill it before it has a chance to thrive.

Transportation 28

Transportation ROI Metrics Productivity 28

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

ROI calculator. What were the KPI’s or metrics achieved to show that the project was a success? ROI Calculator. An ROI calculator is a widget on your website that your prospects can interact with and learn how about the improvements they can make or costs they can cut if they were to work with you. Facebook ads.

Consulting 68

Consulting Advertising Case Interview Conference 68