Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. When it comes to tracking your strategic goals, it's crucial to focus on the data that matters.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

Why do managers persist in demanding teams use a “standard” board, or use “standard” metrics, such as velocity? And managers don't realize inspect-and-adapt is a necessary part of an agile culture.). Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change. Because the teams are not empowered.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 15, 2024

Consultants track key performance indicators (KPIs), analyze campaign metrics, measure ROI, and provide actionable insights to optimize marketing strategies continuously. Data Analytics and Performance Measurement One of the key benefits of marketing consulting services is their emphasis on data analytics and performance measurement.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2020

In some “win-at-all cost” cultures like Oracle or those climbing Mt. Does your workplace culture emphasize the “what” over the “how”? The Right Cultural Balance. You will know that you have struck the right balance when your culture helps and does not hinder your people and business strategies. It’s certainly tempting.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2023

While most companies are investing significantly in building analytics capability, the benefits can't be fully realized until the company culture supports data-driven decision-making. Here are the seven characteristics of a data-driven culture and practical steps any leader can take to architect culture. Upadhyay & Kumar.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 24, 2017

A strong corporate culture may indeed be difficult to change but, if you want to boost business and people performance, it may be just what you need to do. Corporate culture has been misconstrued recently to mean everything from being a “happy” or “fun” work environment to a great place to work. A Strong Corporate Culture Defined.

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1 to 1

JUNE 29, 2022

Virtual employees go the distance to cultivate culture. In her session, Forrester Principal Analyst Katy Tynan busted the myth that on-site employees create a better culture than virtual employees. Culture is what we actually do. This leads to conflicting cultures and disparate interpretations of an organization’s values.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 24, 2017

A strong corporate culture may indeed be difficult to change but, if you want to boost business and people performance, it may be just what you need to do. Corporate culture has been misconstrued recently to mean everything from being a “happy” or “fun” work environment to a great place to work. A Strong Corporate Culture Defined.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Creating an aligned and high performance culture that sets the stage for peak performance is about a lot more than just designing a corporate strategy and deploying the resources to deliver on it. Accurately assessing executive capabilities should alleviate bad executive hiring and promotion decisions.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 26, 2023

Measurable Impact Partnering with a non-profit that has measurable metrics for success is crucial to ensuring that the partnership has a meaningful impact. Through detailed reports and metrics, Charity: Water is able to show the impact of their work.

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LSA Global

MARCH 11, 2024

Level 3 Training Measurement is typically determined through performance metrics, supervisor evaluations, and peer feedback. Identify the Metrics to Move Once you and your key stakeholders agree upon what you are trying to achieve, your next step is to agree upon how success will be measured.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The most significant culture shift today for marketing teams is adopting an analytical marketing approach. At SAS, where I work, we’ve built an analytical culture by focusing on three approaches. The stories that you tell inform customers and employees alike about your culture. Using Different Metrics.

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Prudent Pedal

JULY 27, 2021

How firms use ESG to position their businesses is of strategic importance to a firm’s brand, demand generation, client relationships, recruiting, and culture. According to Forbes, “The Davos Manifesto highlighted a set of 22 quantitative core ESG metrics and then added a more advanced phase two aspirational set of 34 metrics.

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Metrics Deloitte Government Trends 76

LSA Global

APRIL 20, 2022

Reviewed sales strategies, structures, processes, and tools. High growth goals and success metrics. Key cultural and process misalignments/barriers. Conducted 360-degree interviews with key stakeholders. Designed and Facilitated Sales Leadership Team Alignment Session. The highly customized executive strategy session focused on.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( Any of these individual metrics: number of lines of code, number of tests, hours spent in coding, testing, or reviewing. You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress. What the card represents is progress.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Evaluate the performance metrics, analyze the conversion rates, and review the customer engagement data to gain a comprehensive understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the existing marketing strategies and initiatives.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Embrace social selling tools and techniques. The main advantage of separating a sales function into sales hunters and sales farmers is that you can focus on and cater to different sales strengths, metrics, personalities, and motivations. What makes sense for your unique sales strategy and culture?

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Sales Culture. Sales Talent. Elements of a Great Sales Playbook.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

Survey findings indicate that corporate leaders mostly view AI as a transformative tool to improve processes and offerings. In other words, can CEOs leverage AI as a tool for setting the strategic course of an organization? Strategic Planning. There are many different frameworks and approaches to strategy planning. How do we get there?

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1 to 1

MARCH 28, 2022

Adjust your perspective on strategies for gig workers to build programs that successfully engage your workforce and promote loyalty in a short-term work culture. Double down on onboarding and setting expectations It’s a mistake to assume that gigCX workers don’t need to understand a company’s culture or the brand that they’re representing.

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How To Metrics Talent Policies 52

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( Any of these individual metrics: number of lines of code, number of tests, hours spent in coding, testing, or reviewing. You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress. What the card represents is progress.

Management 52

Management Agile Metrics Video 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

To motivate, manage, and reward B2B salespeople, many companies use sales incentive plans that link large commissions or bonuses to individual results metrics, such as territory quota achievement. New Sales Management and Culture. Changes include: Changing the metrics for determining incentive pay.

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LSA Global

JUNE 12, 2017

There are countless performance management communication tools and techniques available to help make performance management discussions better. These effective performance management communication tools help managers avoid the following common mistakes of: oversimplifying the issue. not showing enough respect. getting too personal.

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LSA Global

JUNE 6, 2020

Serious strategic, cultural, and operational disconnects can occur when there are even the slightest of strategic gaps between leaders and middle management. Give Middle Managers the Tools and Resources to Know Where Things Stand. Avoid short-term firefighting tactics when conditions change rapidly. The Bottom Line.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

The network is connected through lateral integrators such as communities of practice, shared metrics, or formal integrator roles. The most important part of the constructor, however, are the processes, forums, and metrics that drive alignment and clear guardrails. High-control, low integration: This is a “red-flag” area. An Example.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In today's increasingly complex and culturally-diverse workplace , leaders that are able to perceive, assess, and regulate their own and others' emotions accurately are able to better leverage diversity and create team cohesion⁠. When feedback lacks reliability, it creates confusion and can slow your development.

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LSA Global

JUNE 18, 2020

Design a Healthy, High Performing, and Aligned Sales Culture. Think of your sales culture as how sales-related things really get done – the way salespeople think, behave, and act. Our organizational alignment research found cultural factors account for up to 40% of the difference between high- and low-growth companies.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Barbara Kellerman from Harvard, Jeffrey Pfeffer from Stanford, and numerous other experts have pointed out that the development market is filled with fads — slick behavioral models and fun, engaging tools — that don’t really move the needle. The culture at GE, for example, centers on execution, simplicity, and innovation.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Also, our answers to this question are influenced by our culture and upbringing. financial and business metrics. Journaling is often an underutilized tool. Images such as vacationing at a luxurious resort, buying a dream house, or driving a new car are images likely floating around your mind when you think about success.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Before you invest the time and effort to upskill your sales team, ensure that leadership agrees upon your ideal target clients, unique value proposition, success metrics, and key strategies for success. Confirm Your Sales Culture is Aligned with Your Sales Strategy. Is your sales culture aligned enough with your sales strategy?

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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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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

100% adoption of the new tool and process by 3,000 salespeople in the U.S. 6 new global process owners clearly identified and now accountable for monitoring process metrics to support the shift to a continuous improvement culture. (This gives a sense of scale and degree of change.)

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

We live in a culture of “yes.” But here’s the trouble with having a corporate culture built around likability: When people are afraid to turn down noncritical projects, good ideas get smothered. So they developed a value assessment with the CEO’s input and ran all new requests through the tool.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

For most organizations, it’s calibrated to drive sales, which means sales conversions are the primary metric it follows. Relationships aren’t numbers, though, and CRM isn’t an efficiency tool. CRM is a crucial tool for making this happen, but only if there’s a clear goal for it to pursue.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Although predictive models for change management are still a ways off, organizations can get themselves on the right path by adopting the right tools and capturing the right data. We see five no-regrets steps that organizations can take: Start Using Digital Engagement Tools.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

respond to those incentives will have limited generalizability, and may not be at all relevant in most work contexts or in other cultures. Metrics that capture the extent to which research achieves these goals could be additional ways to assess scholarly impact. What would these things look like in practice?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

There are findings that point to positive gains in both cost savings and productivity measures, while other studies, including the recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, find that programs can make for good recruitment tools but won’t do much to lower costs or improve health.

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