Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. To make tracking progress effective, it's important to set SMART goals with specific metrics and targets that can be accurately tracked in software.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Now, onto the top 5 personal power skills of an organizational consultant… Skill #1: Systems thinking. Systems thinking is your understanding of the organization and how all the pieces of the organization are connected to one another. It's completely free, so definitely sign up now: www.betsyjordyn.com/consulting-masterclass.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

E-commerce business consultants delve into market research, customer behavior analysis, and competitive intelligence to develop data-driven marketing strategies. Profitability Enhancement Ultimately, profitability is the key metric for any business.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

But every function has some work that needs to mandated, such as what financial reporting system will we use, what IT infrastructure will run our networks, what ethics and values will guide our behaviors. The decision-making process is clear, and a rhythm of conversations is set to ensure voices are heard from across the system.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

Therefore, it is essential to develop and manage specific goals that are clear and unambiguous, and that everyone understands. These goals can be tracked through metrics that gives continuous feedback such as OKR, MBO, etc. Though the metrics may not contain the same level of information. Think of the goal setting like a diet.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. Outside cybersecurity experts can help develop the plan.

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Makarios Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The GWC tool from the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®) has three parts: Does the person Get It? Be practical: did you discuss the metrics you would be looking at to assess progress and results? Step 5: Develop an action plan. If the answer is “No,” then let the person go. Does the person “GWC” their seat?

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation. They do this with methods proven useful in accelerating software development, such as “ Agile ,” and which are increasingly being used for hardware product development, too.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. In order to achieve these goals, new, non-traditional metrics were needed to track the project’s community impacts while making sure that investors and capital partners were still accomplishing their financial objectives.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Leaders in today’s complex health care systems need better processes and systems for aligning day-to-day, clinical-care activities with the strategic goals of their organizations. Accounting systems now uniformly capture administrative data across a huge, geographically dispersed system.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

If health systems are truly going to improve the value of the care they deliver, they need to enlist doctors in the effort. Now we need to give doctors a chance at engaging in the conversation by developing tools to make cost transparent to them. In a recent speech , Alex Azar, the U.S. ” What about an informed provider?

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2023

A good working definition of what it means to embrace data-driven decision-making is: Using facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. Using data enables organizations to optimize operations.

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Comatch

MAY 16, 2022

From an operational and supply chain perspective, many companies have focused on tracking their operations and assets (Scope 1) and their own purchased energy electricity, heating, cooling, etc. EU importers and non-EU producers of these inputs will be required to pay around 75 EUR per metric ton of CO2 emissions.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Although medical trainees spend years learning about physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry, there are few formal avenues through which trainees learn fundamental leadership skills, such as how to lead a team, how to confront problem employees, how to coach and develop others, and how to resolve conflict.

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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. Modeling scientist: Direct improvements in the product or business from the code developed and shipped. Decision scientist: Humans.

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QEmploy

AUGUST 19, 2019

The process can include strategic (developing a new IT strategy or cybersecurity approach) to tactical (such as the selection of an IT system) to highly operational (such as the development of an application). At the same time you are engaging with the target users and reporting before-and-after metrics.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

A working technical definition of corporate culture is an often hidden shared pattern or system of beliefs, values, and behavioral norms. An organization’s culture reflects the various lessons it has learned through its history and incorporates the many behaviors and processes that have developed over time.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

Establishing a Vision Establishing a vision for your business is the first step in developing a solid strategy. To establish an engaging vision for your company, we recommend using eight key questions delineated in the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®): What are your Core Values ? Check out more on accountability here.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

Establishing a vision for your business is the first step in developing a solid strategy. To establish an engaging vision for your company, we recommend using eight key questions delineated in the Entrepreneurial Operating System ® (EOS®): What are your Core Values ? Metrics are vital for effective execution.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. Metrics emphasized speed. Every spot on every line was visible to managers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems. We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. Let’s develop an up-front “technology ROI” that measures workflow impact, inefficiency, hassle and impact on physician and nurse well-being.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. HR leaders can start by upskilling their teams in areas that impact two critical business outcomes: building bench strength and tying HR metrics to financial success.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2018

firms in 2017 were launched through the IT systems of suppliers or other third parties such as contractors, up from less than one-quarter of attacks in 2010. After the attackers infiltrated Fazio’s firewall, they stole Fazio’s credentials to break into Target’s system. Limit suppliers’ access to IT systems.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. For support, add metrics like issue categorization and response/resolution time to your reporting. Establish models, not just metrics.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. for leaders and 3.2% for laggards.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

Establish a value assessment system. I worked with a software development company in which the CEO came up with a new product feature on a weekly basis. So they developed a value assessment with the CEO’s input and ran all new requests through the tool. Here’s how to cultivate that mindset in your organization: 1.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. Corporations are now taking a further step beyond objective metrics, which can be financial and nonfinancial, to include subjective measures — tagged as “soft.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

James Wilson debunks the widespread misconception that AI systems will replace humans in one industry after another. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Sustainers who ensure intelligent systems stay true to their original goals without crossing ethical lines or reinforcing bias.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2018

It’s why companies like Colorcon and Deloitte are giving their performance management systems an overhaul. The Command Maintenance Evaluation Team conducts these inspections semi-annually to assess administrative procedures and systems for maintenance, logistics, and communications. We were well served by all this collaboration.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 20, 2019

We define organizational complexity as a combination of excessive management tiers, inefficient systems, cumbersome procedures, misaligned performance metrics, confusing role definitions, and cloudy accountability. Ensure that your performance management systems reinforce the desired behaviors. The Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Like many patients, Jess felt her providers were delivering very little quality of care when defined by the one metric that mattered most to her: time. While Jess didn’t get her care at Kaiser Permanente, we are working to improve on this metric. But what about our patients? Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. It’s time to move energy into the C-suite so executives can manage this critical component of operational performance in a more strategic way.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). Prior to this pilot, the operating model of the stores was focused on creating emotional and economic pressure to drive performance. Focus on Learning, Not Pressure.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

No longer will all developers be assigned to project work. These products are typically not for sale, but they do go through a defined development process and provide clear business benefits. Typically they end up as an app or a custom feature in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. A product mindset helps change this.

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