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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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

However, higher accruals can reflect either innocuous aspects of certain business models, such as in the construction industry, where the time lag between earning income and realizing cash is long, or that growing firms retain higher working capital to meet greater current and future customer demand. Corporate culture.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 25, 2018

If you had a factory job, it wasn’t your job to worry about productivity. And yet, we hardly talk about productivity. Productivity is the amount of useful output created for every hour of work we do. What’s the most productive choice? He designed the Model T to be efficient to build.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

Instead of infrequent, subjective evaluations based largely on “time on task,” Ryan now has managers, employees, and teams develop a set of agreed-upon performance metrics that are consistently tracked. Turnover plummeted; satisfaction, engagement, and financial performance soared.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

Moreover, Google will most likely argue that its search engine has made e-commerce more efficient for consumers despite bundling it with AdSense and that its Android operating system has helped make smartphones and apps more ubiquitous and cheap despite bundling them with the Play Store. In fact, Google gives those services away for free.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

That means choosing the right dashboards, defining which metrics matter most and mapping out how long-range planning, resource allocation, and budgeting will work. Do they focus on “manufacturing” (creating products), “distribution” (managing channels and customer relationships), or some combination of the two?

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

In this article, we’re delving into the most essential aspects of efficient project management that can ensure successful and timely delivery, and also dwelling on the importance of project data for risk management in single-project and multi-project environments. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis?

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