Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. We then analyzed hospital performance data for a five-year window around the succession event.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

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1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

At TTEC, those people are strategic marketing managers (SMMs), or data scientists. They gather associate metrics, coach on best practices, and use historical data to create targets. They listen to calls and comb through data to glean what’s working and what’s not. Use data along the way to inform all these decisions.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

As the newly released 2016 Empathy Index demonstrates, empathy, which is about understanding our emotional impact on others and making change as a result, is more important to a successful business than it has ever been, correlating to growth, productivity, and earnings per employee. Methodology. This year we added a carbon metric.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings. It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2017

It’s all about data these days. To better understand what A/B testing is, where it originated, and how to use it, I spoke with Kaiser Fung, who founded the applied analytics program at Columbia University and is author of Junk Charts , a blog devoted to the critical examination of data and graphics in the mass media.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The observation that many “unicorn” companies with no profits — and sometimes no revenues or even fully developed products — get valued so highly makes me skeptical of the idea that the capital market is systematically myopic. It has a reasonable methodology.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Industry cluster metrics measure the size of the pool of potential customers for B2B or B2C companies, and market stability metrics measure institutional, business, and social stability.) This data is publicly available on each state’s website. We always urge you to read the methodology carefully.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

First, emissions from food and agriculture stem from a diverse and complicated mixed bag of sources, including clearing land for grazing or crops (often burning trees and releasing the CO2), direct energy use on farms, fertilizer production, and methane from rice fields and from animals (mostly burps). Be transparent and open about progress.

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Energy Industry Methodologies Transportation 28

1 to 1

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Customer Effort Score (CES), and Net Promoter Score (NPS) metrics have long been invaluable tools in the industry, but it’s critical to recognize that these metrics on their own cannot improve customer experience. What is a CSAT rating? How to improve CSAT. What is a CES rating?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Today, marketers often try to get access to customer data by paying third-parties (like Facebook) to share information. Fraud verification via blockchain will also help verify the origin and methodology of marketers. There are implications for marketers and advertisers as well. Ending Marketing Fraud and Spam.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So you look at past projects, gather and analyze relevant market data, make predictions about how much revenue you’ll be able to generate, decide what resources you’ll need, and set milestones to reach your targets. You’re working on a new venture and you know you’ve got to create a plan to execute it. Not so fast.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

That advice is easier preached than executed, of course, so Clark suggests, “using the methodology of power posing [before the meeting] to tamp down your cortisol levels.” If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. ” Take long strides. Sit up straight.

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NeoAcademic

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the way, I’m defining “trustworthy” as based upon empirical data, reporting a transparent ranking methodology, and where a reasonable argument could be made for construct validity of “program quality.” Most of these are based on nonsensical metrics (e.g.,

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Statistics – the interpretation of data according to scientific method – is a robust discipline of its own, but more importantly, contributes heavily to almost all quantitative enquiry in any field. The most simple type of statistics are descriptors about a set of data: means, medians, ranges. In theory, this includes consulting.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Most customer experience (CX programs) are positioned as strategic, but quickly veer away from business objectives and become simply about tracking CX metrics. Time passes slowly, data continues to mount, and paralysis sets in. They have “soft” metrics rather than real business goals. So where does it all go wrong?

Metrics 35

Metrics Data ROI Benchmarking 35

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Whether improving omni-channel commerce or developing digital extensions to product lines, businesses are working out how to drive profitability through digital. But traditional metrics might underestimate the impact of digital, leaving companies vulnerable to aggressive competitors or pure-play disruptors. Digital momentum.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

Product innovations (such as sensors in athletic shoes to detect incipient injury) could add additional layers of complexity. For instance, the list included a decision about embarking on a process-innovation strategy and one about bringing the production process closer to the customer. It consists of these four steps: 1.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Second, employers “in-source” accountability for health care services to Human Resources as a “benefit” rather than a service to be procured to maintain the health, well-being, satisfaction, and productivity of their workforce. These are good places to begin applying supply chain methodology.

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