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PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: Are you doing enough to ensure success?

Effective Managers

These questions and associated measures, while important, ignore the internal disruption (in some cases dysfunction) that reduces productivity. Session 2: Metrics vs Strategy. Input metrics are essential as these metrics are leading indicators of your eventual output metrics and results achievement.

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Bridging Organization Design and Performance

Kates Kesler

Cost increases of about $400mm are expected to be offset by other synergies in the two separate companies at the end of 2017. The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. Global business units (products, brands, categories, or customer segments).

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

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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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business

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. The reality is that virtually all workplace injuries are preventable, and safety management and operational excellence are intimately linked.

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How to Set More-Realistic Growth Targets

Harvard Business

Let’s take the example of one large company we worked with, which posited that it needed $250 million in new revenue from innovative new products in five years. Scouting options have low technical but high market uncertainty, in which the major task is finding product/market fit to extend the reach of an existing capability.

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Why There’s No Such Thing as a Corporate Entrepreneur

Harvard Business

Real entrepreneurs constantly worry about things that could prove fatal to their company: cash crunches, technical problems with the product, the emergence of a well-funded rival. ” By June 2017, all three had been cut loose and their projects shelved. Fear of failure. Private vs. Public.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. The metrics also changed. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous. The results?