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The ROI of eLearning: Measuring the Impact of Online Training on Organizational Success

Clarity Consultants

Instead, employees participate at times that are convenient to them, ensuring organizational productivity. They can focus the coursework on critical skill areas, allowing them to close knowledge gaps quickly and efficiently. During this stage, eLearning consultants identify critical success metrics related to workforce performance.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

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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CEOs Should Think Like Founders, Not Just Managers

Harvard Business

General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously. A TAP view, by comparison — asking “Who has problems that a mobile phone could address?”

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Toys ‘R’ Us Is Dead, but Physical Retail Isn’t

Harvard Business

As families moved out to the suburbs, and interstate highways improved distribution and logistics, a single location focused on a particular product area made a lot of sense. The local toy store seemed positively drab in comparison. Then, as now, economics were shifting abruptly. Yet now a transaction can happen anyplace, at any time.

Retail 32
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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business

ADP, a leading provider of payroll capabilities, allows customers to use its DataCloud tool to compare themselves to other firms not only how much employees are paid, but also metrics like their average job tenure, attrition rates, how much they invest in retirement accounts, and at what age they retire.