Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Meetings are notoriously one of organizational life’s most insufferable realities. In a meticulous inventory, we calculated the hours spent in meetings by directors and above across the enterprise (a population of about 500). They collectively spent more than 57,000 hours per year in recurring meetings.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

Monitoring performance and benefits delivery The CPO is responsible for monitoring project performance, tracking key metrics, and ensuring adherence to project timelines, budgets, and quality standards. In addition, they also make sure that every project meets the established goals and delivers expected benefits.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Along the way, she's learned about vanity metrics and metrics that work. I love the line about vanity metrics and metrics that work. If she did or if she blogged or wrote articles somewhere, she would mention that last. He's also coached his managers into using flow metrics, not resource metrics.

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Consulting Matters

MAY 16, 2018

In this article, you’ll find the 5 Stages to Design the Ideal (and Most Profitable) Consulting Business which shows you exactly how to set up your consulting business right…the first time. Set definite goals for your business with dates and metrics. A goal without a defined date is actually a dream.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Find answers to these questions in the article. . In particular, the high level of PMM means that: Projects are delivered on time and budget; Risks and changes don’t derail projects; Projects are aligned with a company’s business objectives; The delivered output meets stakeholder expectations; A company is competitive on the market. .

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

For some networking meetings, the agenda is obvious: Your companies are considering doing business together, or you’re looking for a job and this person might help you get one. But many professionals find themselves in networking meetings where the goals are murkier.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

I am frequently flummoxed by the complete misalignment between a team’s mandate and the agenda for their meetings. content, frequency, and duration) of their meetings with the job that needs to be accomplished in those meetings. A one-size-fits-all team meeting rarely works. From The New York Public Library.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Best Practices to Market Internal Corporate Training More Effectively The rest of this article assumes that you need to get the word out to fill and support open enrollment training programs for individuals at your company. A key ingredient to effective change management is meeting people where they are.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Intrigued by the possibility of a way out of the burnout cycle, a coworker (Colin) and I started meeting every other week to discuss productivity. We had little to show for six months of meeting. To give more rigor to our meetings, we decided to define a metric for our productivity: average weekly hours worked.

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CaseInterview.com

MARCH 16, 2020

I started writing this article a few days ago on March 5th, but I didn’t get to finish it until March 16th. It turns out that there is an actual metric that measures this. The closest proxy metric that’s easy to measure is # of NEW cases today vs. yesterday. It’s still useful to help make sense of the problem.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. Of these, the last indicator is perhaps the most likely to accurately capture a company’s short-termism.

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BCG

AUGUST 16, 2016

Article Tuesday, August 16, 2016. If you are not convinced of your organization’s internal focus, try this experiment: In your next internal meeting, divide a piece of paper in two. Despite their best intentions to focus on customers’ needs, many companies spend more time looking inward.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. And, because the internet access was iffy in New York (a big telco had trouble), and the New York people had all the licenses for the meeting tool, the Vietnam people couldn't restart the meeting from their end. The place to see the roadmaps for the longer term.

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LSA Global

APRIL 10, 2020

Successful digital sellers have a purposeful LinkedIn profile that uses customer-centric messaging, consistently leverage digital valuable assets such as videos, case studies, research reports, articles, testimonials, and podcasts, and establish a regular sales cadence to engage modern buyers and to initiate more meaningful sales conversations.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

To motivate, manage, and reward B2B salespeople, many companies use sales incentive plans that link large commissions or bonuses to individual results metrics, such as territory quota achievement. More and more selling situations today are failing to meet one or both necessary conditions for traditional sales incentives to work.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. They believe that they can always raise financial capital to meet their funding shortfall or use company stock or options to pay for acquisitions and employee wages.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Every aspect of your project, from project profitability to individual performance metrics is enabled by Microsoft’s Power BI. During the project kick-off meeting, the project plan and the project budget are reviewed. Integration with Outlook allows users to complete these tasks, helping to ensure comprehensive and accurate billing.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Start by basing your social strategy on business objectives, then follow that by thinking about target market, social media platforms, tools, and metrics. Don’t simply set goals for higher follower or engagement metrics in the brand’s current social media accounts.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2018

Key suppliers should have to meet performance and training standards and then should be regularly assessed to ensure that they are meeting them. If one cannot meet sufficient levels of performance, supply managers should be empowered to end the relationship. Limit suppliers’ access to IT systems. They should be.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. Meet regularly to review common customer issues and build fixes into your product roadmap.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

This article explains the role of culture in M&As, cross-cultural issues, and the proven practices of creating a shared culture intentionally. The proven actions and tools leaders can use to harmonize both cultures and avoid culture clashes outlined in this article do not guarantee success. REFERENCES Cameron, K. & Quinn, R.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

It also means changing the agenda of senior team meetings and board discussions. For Sales and Product Co, this meant putting “customers” literally at the top of the agenda for every senior team meeting. Talking about customers early in every meeting gave them the priority, and attention, they deserved.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. She went into the meeting prepared for the worst. The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports. “I needed to earn the right to be invited into key, firm-level strategic decisions.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

It failed to meet its revenue and subscriber growth targets. 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. What caused this slump?

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Rod Burkert

OCTOBER 17, 2018

And while the Likes, Comments, and Views are great (they are just vanity metrics , after all) , I get messages and emails from people who have been reminded about the coaching I do, that it has been on their minds, and now it is time to meet up or schedule a call. By way of reference, I have 1,632 connections. In real life.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

We had to think differently about our marketing because we had lots of new data and metrics that would allow us to be more effective and enable us to identify new approaches. Using Different Metrics. Marketers rely heavily on a variety of campaign metrics. In the past, this metric gave us something to react to.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

What kind of metric do you use to measure that in terms of compensation based on great client work? What kind of impact those articles had on your business? Articles are certainly depending where you put them and what you write or something that’s a source of access to a broad thing. It’s an ‘eat what you kill’ model.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

Changes in their behavior led to both lower carbon dioxide emissions (by 21,500 metric tons) and an estimated $5.4 Challenging captains to meet higher performance targets proved to be the most cost-effective intervention. million reduction in fuel costs for the firm over the eight-month study period.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Two metrics we use to provide a proxy of active working time per week are utilization and after-hours time. ”Utilization” essentially looks at the average amount of time between your first and last email or meeting of the day across several months of data and estimates total weekly working time for each employee. .

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Rod Burkert

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

And relative to 1:1 meetings, which can be incredibly effective , the case for social media is simple. 6 – Email metrics are better. Craig Mod wrote this in an article for WIRED magazine: We simply cannot trust the social networks, or any centralized commercial platform. You can get more details here. In real life.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But with the Express Pool service, which costs even less than UberPool, passengers are generally asked to walk short distances to meet their rides and to reach their destinations. Top-line metrics like revenue and sales don’t tell the whole story. 4) Make sure you understand why your product is succeeding or failing.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive. Algorithms are not agnostic, but tend to favor certain types of articles over others.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Metrics Are Not Your Friends. A growing body of evidence shows that ethical companies outperform financially over time , but trying to translate such a broad finding into the short-term planning metrics used by most businesses is perilous. There are (at least) three major flaws with it. Let’s be clear.

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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. Automating the dashboard can make it more transparent and objective.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Metrics emphasized speed. We asked the management team if we could eliminate the narrow metrics and bonuses, which rewarded only tactical performance, and focus more on the adaptive. We implemented weekly problem-solving meetings.

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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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