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.

Metrics 28

Metrics Retail Sales Automotive 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

In this data-rich future, enterprise AI is less about “artificial intelligence” and more about “augmenting introspection.” This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process. But why stop with industrial assets?

Enterprise 31

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 31

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies. Geographic Zones (consolidated P&L, plus infrastructure). How will we choose to compete?

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82