Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

These goals can be tracked through metrics that gives continuous feedback such as OKR, MBO, etc. These metrics are like receiving a score in a video game, which allows everybody to know if they are going in the right direction. In this case, Goals are the perfect way to efficiently coordinate a growing and often delocalized team.

Small Business 52

Small Business Metrics Video Sales 52

CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

In the book The Checklist Manifesto by surgeon Atul Gawande (one of my favorite books on building scalable operations), the author discusses the errors that occur in surgery. The two errors that stick out most in my mind are: Operating on the wrong part of the patient (e.g., I was shocked at the types of errors that occur in surgery.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 20, 2020

In the book The Checklist Manifesto by surgeon Atul Gawande (one of my favorite books on building scalable operations), the author discusses the errors that occur in surgery. The two errors that stick out most in my mind are: Operating on the wrong part of the patient (e.g., I was shocked at the types of errors that occur in surgery.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

A recent New York Times article on how Uber is using various insights from behavioral economics to push, or nudge, its drivers to pick up more fares — sometimes with little benefit to them — has generated quite a bit of criticism of Uber. It’s just one of several stories of late that have cast the company in a poor light.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For those companies, project accounting is one component of several operational mechanisms used in controlling projects, maximizing project profitability, and ensuring customer satisfaction. Every aspect of your project, from project profitability to individual performance metrics is enabled by Microsoft’s Power BI.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

For example, finance teams must be able to draw on information from the entire business – projects, operations, sales, marketing, HR, along with external sources that put internal data in context – to make decisions quickly. Progressus allows for efficient task tracking and completion to determine which team members are the most productive.

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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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t optimize for efficiency. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Set up post-interaction NPS so you can tell if someone is still upset even after an issue is “solved,” start tracking the volume and quality of requests coming in along with metrics relating to revenue (i.e.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. Changes in their behavior led to both lower carbon dioxide emissions (by 21,500 metric tons) and an estimated $5.4

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Metrics emphasized speed. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. The result of frontier analysis is an index for each firm describing its efficiency at transforming inputs into outputs relative to the best performers operating at comparable scale.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

An interesting title of an article about how the author helps his company’s clients, isn’t it? Customers (efficiency vs. make more calls) Yes, we can! It proves you have the team that can integrate one operation into another. This was originally written for the blog on www.ibainc.com. The icing – the top three.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. for leaders and 3.2% for laggards.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Practitioners and pundits alike have long debated which metric is best for assessing the performance of a service organization. It’s not surprising that the metric figures prominently on a service rep’s scorecard. Why is average handle time such a bad metric for service?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

But such a change would probably not change how resources are allocated or businesses operate. We then scored the quality of disclosure based on whether there is no disclosure, generic disclosure, backward-looking metrics, or forward-looking metrics for a category.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

This article highlights the operational challenges created by the most common organization design used by HR departments—the business partner model—and presents an emerging model— the solutions center—that is intended to address these flaws.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. Related Video. Go it alone.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

So unlike your average patient, she described one 12-hour wait in the ER as having a “7% process cycle efficiency.” 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. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The tradeoff, however, is that we’ve become so focused on using the technology (as this HBR article points out) that we spend far less time listening to individual human stories. We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Overlooking these realities is perilous, both for the patient’s well-being and for efficient delivery of care. The physician-sherpa should be a partner on the journey, not simply a medical operative, extracting formulaic rules and implements from a toolbox. This work cannot happen in a vacuum of forced efficiency.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

link] Most economists hold a belief that a more efficient workforce leads to competitive advantage and lowers the costs of goods and services. It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone.

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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. In fact, Google gives those services away for free.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Efficiencies gained in human resources and housekeeping can free frontline unit managers and clinical staff to spend more time at the patient’s bedside. Without such clearly defined standardized work for the day-to-day operations manager, two things happen. First, systems revert to previous behaviors and processes.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. These planners will lead the charge in moving away from a traditional supply chain operating model, which is inflexible and slow, to a new dynamic model with true end-to-end segmentation. Their role: improve process efficiencies. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. In a manufacturing operation, that operations meeting might even be a daily huddle, whereas the big projects could be discussed bi-weekly or monthly.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management. Water-related risks threaten to strand billions of dollars for mining, oil, and gas companies.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Advances in linguistic analysis of text mean we can now capture clues about behavior from people’s word choice; even the use of articles and pronouns can help reveal how someone feels. Developing these sorts of metrics will not be quick or easy. Capture Reference Data About Current Change Projects.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. He also shared supply discipline systems that reduced common inefficiencies.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. While tracking metrics to show local and global improvement is an important element, don’t forget to recognize the employees who make success possible.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow. Insight Center.

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