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4 golden tickets to capture CX ROI

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This article was written as part of a partnership between 1to1 Media and the European Customer Experience Organization. The “Four Gold CX ROI Metrics” webinar was the final episode in the three-part series hosted by ECXO. A 9700% CX ROI? She’s dissected and painstakingly diagrammed each one. Hunsaker gets it. No more layoffs.

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Evaluating ROI on Your Company’s Learning and Development Initiatives

Harvard Business

Leaders can use an approach called balanced benchmarking, borrowed from operations management, to conduct a needs assessment and apply training where it can be most effective. Historically, the challenge with implementing learning and development programs has been the difficulty in quantifying the impacts on organizational performance.

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B2B Salespeople Need to Act More Like Travel Agents

Harvard Business

By 2012, our research shows, nearly 60% of a typical B2B purchasing decision — researching solutions, ranking options, benchmarking pricing, and so on — was happening before the buyer even had a conversation with a supplier.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

We believe that investing in our local community is the moral thing to do, but what’s the cost and ROI of program like this? That’s a saving of $1.323M or an ROI of 894%, and you’ll create a diverse team, which is proven to generate more profit.

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business

While the execution of a conventional strategy lends itself to linear progress and clear benchmarks, innovation often proceeds by S-curves , moving at a slow crawl until it explodes at an exponential rate. That’s why good managers put so much focus on measuring and managing return on investment (ROI) as a basic operational practice.

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Being Engaged at Work Is Not the Same as Being Productive

Harvard Business

The company saw these findings as further evidence that continuing to invest in improving employee engagement would have a positive ROI for the business above and beyond simply having happier employees. Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive.

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How One Company Made Its Analytics Investment Pay Off

Harvard Business

Second, the ABU team is paid using variable compensation, based on projects that have been fully implemented and based on their ROI. From an organizational standpoint, the most innovative aspect of the strategy is in treating the analytics unit as a profit center with the corresponding rigorous benchmarking and performance incentives.

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