Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Now, onto the top 5 personal power skills of an organizational consultant… Skill #1: Systems thinking. Systems thinking is your understanding of the organization and how all the pieces of the organization are connected to one another. It's completely free, so definitely sign up now: www.betsyjordyn.com/consulting-masterclass.

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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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Makarios Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The GWC tool from the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®) has three parts: Does the person Get It? Be practical: did you discuss the metrics you would be looking at to assess progress and results? Do they need additional skills training or mentoring? If the answer is “No,” then let the person go. Do you know?

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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. Providing interactive training, introducing them to internal staff, and including them in team meetings can make a difference. workforce by 2023. Other tips and best practices include: 1.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Top Six Reasons Leadership and Management Programs Fail Here are the most common mistakes made by companies as they plan and roll out leadership and management development initiatives: Treating All Levels and Roles of Leadership the Same Most companies create levels and titles to calibrate hiring, performance management, and compensation systems.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

If you’re an undergrad with a desire to break in to consulting, an economics degree will train your mind to tackle problems and make you an attractive prospect for internships and Masters’ programs. Political Science – Political Science is really about the study of systems. The knock on engineering?

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The metrics and reward systems in the company make it clear that this kind of collaboration is expected.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2023

A good working definition of what it means to embrace data-driven decision-making is: Using facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Using data enables organizations to optimize operations.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The other creates output for machines to consume like models, training data, and algorithms. These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. They are decision scientists. What is the output?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Business sales training studies of both buyers and sellers report a recurrent theme – the importance of value. That means agreement on target clients, value proposition, success metrics, sales processes and methodologies, barriers to success, and a realistic action plan to execute your sales strategy and overcome the key barriers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems. We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. The National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare, of which I am a founding member, is piloting a system of metrics for well-being developed by J.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

I think of these organizational systems in three buckets: the structural elements such as business models, strategy and organization design. 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.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

They build real-time information systems to support decision making, and they expect these teams to start small, iterate, experiment, and adapt. And they design the platform around systems that can be extended, that can adapt, and that can deliver real-time information to managers at all levels. It’s not a good position to be in.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

To establish an engaging vision for your company, we recommend using eight key questions delineated in the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®): What are your Core Values ? Metrics are vital for effective execution. Your Core Values define the culture you live every day. What is your Core Focus ? Keep a scorecard.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

To establish an engaging vision for your company, we recommend using eight key questions delineated in the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®): What are your Core Values ? Metrics are vital for effective execution. Your Core Values define the culture you live every day. What is your Core Focus ? Keep a scorecard.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. These high-performing health systems offered a key insight: To sustain change, you need a strong strategy for engaging and standardizing the work of frontline managers.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2018

firms in 2017 were launched through the IT systems of suppliers or other third parties such as contractors, up from less than one-quarter of attacks in 2010. After the attackers infiltrated Fazio’s firewall, they stole Fazio’s credentials to break into Target’s system. Limit suppliers’ access to IT systems.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

It’s why companies like Colorcon and Deloitte are giving their performance management systems an overhaul. The Command Maintenance Evaluation Team conducts these inspections semi-annually to assess administrative procedures and systems for maintenance, logistics, and communications. We were well served by all this collaboration.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. For support, add metrics like issue categorization and response/resolution time to your reporting. Establish models, not just metrics.

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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.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt. Like many patients, Jess felt her providers were delivering very little quality of care when defined by the one metric that mattered most to her: time. While Jess didn’t get her care at Kaiser Permanente, we are working to improve on this metric. But what about our patients?

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Management Consulted

APRIL 3, 2016

Often used by larger firms who are interviewing a lot of people across a number of different campuses and offices , interviewer-led interviews employ a scoring system, and cases are often created by a central group within the firm. It may test an industry or practice area focus, like technology, operations, or finance.

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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. Take for example a UK food delivery service that I’ve studied. The new approach?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

Typically they end up as an app or a custom feature in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. When General Electric went from more than 400 ERP systems to 125 in five years, it deployed more than 100 automation bots to fill the gaps among the systems. But the company doesn’t see the bots lasting long.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). Prior to this pilot, the operating model of the stores was focused on creating emotional and economic pressure to drive performance. Focus on Learning, Not Pressure.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

It brought the idea of building a safer health system to the forefront of the public’s mind. 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. Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

A working technical definition of corporate culture is an often hidden shared pattern or system of beliefs, values, and behavioral norms. UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. Culture lives in the stories that are passed on from employee to employee.

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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. It’s not just about data corruption — it’s also about how the bad data will reduce operational efficiency and bring production lines to a standstill.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2018

Many efforts to apply machine learning get stuck due to concerns about the “black box” — that is, the lack of transparency around why a system does what it does. Sometimes it’s because technical teams need to identify and resolve bugs without disrupting the entire system.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

A doctor’s medical toolbox and supply of best-practice guidelines, ample as they are, do not address a patient’s fears, grief over a diagnosis, practical issues of access to care, or reliability of their social support system. We disagree. We can create more space for active listening. Reimagining Roles.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

During my years at OSHA, where I served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor from 2009 through the beginning of 2017, I received several reports of safety system failures at DuPont facilities. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. In consulting, leaders invest in hiring and training people and then carefully track how they use their time.

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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? Hire to train. Perhaps they’ve spotted an edge skill that could transform how your unit operates. Here’s how.

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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.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

The only effective mechanism for addressing police brutality is top-down, systemic reform of the police organization itself. Repeated brutality that is not addressed by higher-ups is a systemic problem, not a problem of rogue individuals. To understand how this works, it’s important to understand how the legal rules operate.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

Using historic data from software projects, it trains a machine learning-based model to predict, weeks in advance, whether a problem is likely to occur. As a test case, we decided to use the ML model we built to predict the performance of software projects against a host of delivery metrics. Training the model.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The mission of enabling data analytics in today’s enterprise is hobbled by the lack of the requisite skills in the marketplace, including: advanced statistics/mathematics, new analytics methodologies, advanced systems analysis, business fundamentals, regulatory and legal understanding, and general IT technical and data architecture skills.

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