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PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: Are you doing enough to ensure success?

Effective Managers

Session 2: Metrics vs Strategy. Input metrics are essential as these metrics are leading indicators of your eventual output metrics and results achievement. They have a significant tendency to focus on outcome metrics instead of their company strategy. Learn more about Session 1 and register here: [link].

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Purchasing Managers Have a Lead Role to Play in Cyber Defense

Harvard Business

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. Other firms, including Starwood and Hilton Hotels, lost customer data when their common point-of-sale system (Oracle’s Micros platform) was compromised. They should be.

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What Creativity in Marketing Looks Like Today

Harvard Business

Brocade, a data and network solutions provider, created a “customer first” program by identifying their top 200 customers, who account for 80% of their sales. Like many retailers, Macy’s has traditionally spent 85% of its marketing budget on driving sales. The metrics also changed. These members are 2.6

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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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64 Proven Ways Consultants Can Generate Leads Online (Consulting Lead Generation)

Tsavo Neal

McKinsey’s most popular article in 2017 was a list post. Examples: What CEOs are reading in 2017 . As a consultant, there is no better position to be in for sales conversations than that of the trusted advisor — a position that publishing your white paper helps you take. And it had less than 1000 words.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017. Blue Apron formally stated their intention to become a public company in early June of 2017.