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Thoughts on Data Analysis

CaseInterview.com

Initially, I spent all my time trying to memorize what the normal ranges were for each of those metrics (which varies based on whether the patient is an adult, child, or infant). Certain patterns of metrics prompt suspicion of certain kinds of injury. In business, key performance and financial metrics provide the same role.

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If You Think Downsizing Might Save Your Company, Think Again

Harvard Business

Many of these effects may have long-term consequences, like reduced innovation, that are not captured in short-term financial metrics. We speculated that examining firms’ remaining resources could shed light on this question. Intangible resources can be redeployed in unique and perhaps innovative ways following downsizing.

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What is a Healthy Company?

Markovitz Consulting

We can argue over specific metrics, but we’d all agree that we have to account for physical as well as mental/emotional health. As with individuals, there will be disagreement over metrics, but clearly we have to consider financial performance, internal stakeholders (employees), and external stakeholders (community).

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. In contrast, today’s scarcest resource is your human capital, as measured by the time, talent and energy of your workforce. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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How Deloitte Consulting LLP and Salesforce Are Using Technology to Transform the Employee Experience - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELOITTE’S CONNECTME AND SALESFORCE

Harvard Business

We’re focusing today on how new challenges and new technologies are changing human capital management, and how to ensure that this key resource becomes a sustained competitive advantage for your company. Measurement and metrics challenge every company, so how do you measure efforts to build a great experience for employees?