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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Instead, we can invite them to change, by showing the value with the pirate metrics. That's because flow efficiency thinking is so contrary to general accounting practices. Yes, do start with the pirate metrics (from Dave McClure's 2007 talk ) so you can focus on the value you can provide. And, us agilists need to change.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Metrics emphasized speed. Every spot on every line was visible to managers.

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Putting the 'Customer' in 'Service Optimization' - Think customers.

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Though many companies approach service and support as just another metric to be maximized, those that emphasize quality over call times differentiate themselves from the competition and excel in customer satisfaction. Gartner & 1to1 Media CRM Excellence Awards. Mobile Marketing. Sales Effectiveness. Social Media. Voice of the Customer.

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If the SEC Measured CEO Pay Packages Properly, They Would Look Even More Outrageous

Harvard Business

In the case of stock options, the EFV formula is typically a Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model that, rooted in the “efficient markets hypothesis,” assumes that changes in a company’s stock-price exhibit a log-normal distribution and thus predicts that most stock-price changes will be very small.

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Help Employees Innovate By Giving Them the Right Challenge

Harvard Business

In a 2007 meta-analysis , Samuel Hunter, from the University of Oklahoma, and his colleagues Katrina Bedell and Michael Mumford set out to understand which variables had the biggest impact on innovation culture. But most of us who want to be more innovative would like to do so in our day-to-day work. What should we be focusing on?

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We Don’t Need Political Solutions for Global Trade — We Need Practical Ones

Harvard Business

These capabilities might seem like nice things to have, the metrics useful to measure. All of this was foreshadowed in 2007, by Harvard economist Dani Rodrik , whose “trilemma of the world economy” predicted that it would be impossible to pursue globalization while maintaining nation states and democratic government.

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