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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

Now it’s trying to move from a software platform to a robotics lab to build self-driving cars. The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Do process improvements support strategic objectives? How often do you release new products/services?

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Before you hire a data scientist or implement expensive machine learning software, have a face-to-face conversation with 15 customers. Don’t do it.

Metrics 50
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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business

Perhaps “you are being suffocated by a culture that wants to keep you in a state of being perpetually obsessed with your career,” Petriglieri says. This made me more people-focused than process-focused, but it allowed for process improvements in the best way possible, by enabling people to excel.”

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