Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It requires having the right processes, metrics, documentation, and culture. It takes longer, a lot of the work has to be done or directly supervised by you, the seller. It’s not like hiring a landscaper, painter, or cleaning service. Where they differ is home sellers put a sign out front, open the doors, and welcome people in.

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Financial Banking Sales Case Interview 40

Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

It seems likely that the values driving us to be workaholics in the first place are also encouraging us to “optimize” ourselves by using metric-driven “hacks.” But it’s important to see how this ancient tradition is being commodified by our culture as a tool for improvement.

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Study Metrics Culture Methodologies 48

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

They are having to spend more time on documentation, see more patients in a day, and use unfamiliar processes and tools. Seek to understand why staff think innovations or changes do not align with the existing culture and mission. Engrained cultural norms and power relationships about speaking up needed to be shaken (e.g.,

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Data Culture Training Training 29

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. Data quality and data governance: tools, processes, guidelines to ensure data is correct, gated and monitored, documented, standardized.

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Data Engineering Software Metrics 34

Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

In fact, there is remarkable unanimity about the solutions as documented in countless reports , panels, and investigations of police brutality, stretching back nearly 100 years to the groundbreaking Wickersham Commission. Departments blame “rogue cops,” not organizational culture. Beginning with James Q.

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Culture System Training Training 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Within the country, there are large — and often underestimated — regional differences in language, culture, talent, infrastructure, and wealth, all of which lead to wide variations in business landscapes. Cultural variations are important. After all, what works in Gujarat will not necessarily work in West Bengal.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Operations 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2017

These capabilities might seem like nice things to have, the metrics useful to measure. Today this is often done on paper — payslips, bills of lading, safety certificates, professional credentials, with signatures and countersignatures to verify approval — but the near future will see the entire collection of documents digitized.

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System Accenture Data Transportation 28

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

As documented by Walter Isaacson , “After he righted the company, Jobs began taking his ‘top 100’ people on a retreat each year. Executive teams looking to adopt this practice need to focus on fewer things and move from a calendar-based planning process to continuous issue-based planning.

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Agile How To Enterprise Metrics 28

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Sexual harassment is prevalent among VCs because of the hard-driving bro culture that confuses the pursuit of money with the pursuit of masculinity. When masculinity is the metric of success, hitting on women is just another way to keep score. Turns out elites can be sexist, too. I’m not discouraging that.

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Training Training Survey Report 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

The tactics are clear, well-documented, and offered up in a myriad of flavors. Agile espouses collaboration, customer centricity, team-based culture, and continuous improvement. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization.

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Agile Software Case Interview Video 28

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2018

On the other hand, critics demand stringent requirements for transparency and vilify a “move fast and break things” culture. The business should document how frequently models are updated and have a process to communicate this and how it impacts predictions and any changes to consumers impacted by the system.

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Data System Intellectual Property Ethics 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture. If there are superconsumers in your midst, and if they’re encouraged to speak their minds, they will inject your culture with extra doses of energy, empathy, and creativity. Unlocking Energy. Adapted from.

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Energy Airlines Culture Retail 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

Hospitals began identifying key processes that needed to be conducted the same way every time (such as the preparation and insertion of a central venous catheter), and set up reward and punishment systems for compliance, including standard quality metrics to evaluate provider performance. Reluctance to simplify interpretations.

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Operations Research System Culture 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

A recent study documented how incivility diminishes collaboration and performance in medical settings. The teams exposed to rudeness displayed lower capabilities in all diagnostic and procedural performance metrics, markedly diminishing the infant’s chances of survival.

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Training Training Study Film 28

Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

In a famous example (at least, it’s famous if you’re into this kind of thing), in March 1951, the CIA’s Office of National Estimates published a document suggesting that a Soviet attack on Yugoslavia within the year was a “serious possibility.”

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Survey Productivity Examples Analysis 28

Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

Ron and his partners at Navalent help companies that are in pursuit of a substantial transformational change, whether it be strategic formulation, organizational design, cultural shifts, or executive leadership behaviors. What kind of metric do you use to measure that in terms of compensation based on great client work?

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Development Consulting How To Case Interview 189

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Defining and tracking success metrics. I have yet to see a standard job description for a Product Manager because each role is ultimately defined by the size, type of product, stage, industry, and even culture of the company. The art of resource allocation (it is not a science!). Performing market assessments.

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Productivity Management Engineering Case Interview 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

And yet our management culture and tools are set up to work in terms of outputs. This is the impulse that leads to detailed requirements and specification documents, but, as we’ve come to understand, this tactic rarely works in software. Using the Alternative to Output: Outcomes.

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