Kates Kesler

JULY 17, 2016

. • Changes do not stick as processes, metrics, and reward mechanisms still reinforce old ways of work. • Sub-optimized results as employees struggle to deliver on new expectations. 7. . • New conflicts around allocations, chargebacks, and decision rights. 8. Unclear design terminology. 9.

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Metrics Enterprise Resources Efficiency 50

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Change managers can also look beyond the confines of the enterprise for insight about the impact of change programs. We are now starting to apply these techniques to understand the external impact of change efforts, and it’s a simple leap to extend these techniques within the enterprise.

Change Management 28

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

I feel certain our public commitment to sustainability is a big driver of this engagement—92% of our people believe energy efficiency and sustainability are critical to our future business success, and we are giving them the encouragement and capabilities to help us achieve this long-term vision.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Brutally put, the 21st-century enterprise challenge has morphed from “doing more for less” to “creating much more with much less.” ” The bigger the enterprise, the more jobs at risk. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Where the organization rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.) All roads lead to Flow Metrics.)

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

In this data-rich future, enterprise AI is less about “artificial intelligence” and more about “augmenting introspection.” The next step is obvious: Enable digital twins — or triplets, quadruplets, septuplets — to help GE’s human assets become more productive and efficient, too.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

We mapped this data against dozens of financial and leadership metrics, clustering companies into four groups (ranging from low- to high-performing). Leaders’ growth in these areas leads to enduring growth for the enterprise. Third, these companies believe in learning through exposure.

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Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 42

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

.” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. That metric is often expressed in the form of a ratio. “There are four ratios common in every company: profitability, leverage, liquidity, and operational efficiency,” he says.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Ideas and input come from all sides and segments and across all stakeholder groups.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Our research focused on 344 enterprises* listed on U.S. This difference in strategy means that business users are more likely to have access to a consistent set of up-to-date metrics for decision making, and the organization can generate predictions about their business from data they collect.

Company 28

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

At the same time, a focus on cost-cutting and efficiency aimed at staff functions in general—and at HR in particular—has pushed much HR transactional work into shared services or to outsourced vendors. Business leaders began to ask hard questions about outcomes, metrics, and the value of all these programs.

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QEmploy

AUGUST 19, 2019

At the same time you are engaging with the target users and reporting before-and-after metrics. The mass amount of information created by the IoT has the power to revolutionize everything, allowing companies to work more efficiently and profitably than ever before. Advanced analytics promise profound competitive advantages.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As delivery networks grow and deploy broad enterprise EHR platforms, the challenge of making them help rather than hinder clinicians is increasing.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

She and the CEO now agreed that she should play an upstream, strategic, enterprise-wide role. They have different strategic priorities; they are held accountable for new, shared metrics; they spend more time with cross-functional peers. That sounds great in theory, but actually changing the role would be the hard part.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

As a test case, we decided to use the ML model we built to predict the performance of software projects against a host of delivery metrics. Anticipating that other enterprises may benefit from these lessons, we have organized them into a new machine learning paradigm, which we call ML 2.0. Training the model.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. The effort must involve careful analysis and preparation, which takes into account each department but keeps the focus on the full enterprise.

Company 28

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously. Use New Metrics. Fast forward to the present, and the list looks strikingly different.

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Management Enterprise Metrics Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

It turns out that enterprise productivity is different than just the sum of personal productivity. One of the things that they wanted to understand was the cost of managing their partner ecosystem – they had a hypothesis that there might be ways to do so more efficiently. This difference matters.

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Productivity Enterprise Data Tools 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

Organizations are also using these tools to improve maintenance, infrastructure planning, water conservation, and customer service (including repair efficiencies and pricing). A water authority in Australia, which deployed a software solution for improving network efficiency, is a case in point. As one U.S.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). Interchangeable parts spurred ideas about structuring assembly lines and logistics. How organizations are changing.

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Change Management Management Software Productivity 41

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

And we call this a move from a business enterprise to a social enterprise—one where businesses need to understand what’s happening in the broader society, in their workplace, and with a rapidly changing workforce. Angelia Herrin, HBR. Jody Kohner, Salesforce.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

ADP, a leading provider of payroll capabilities, allows customers to use its DataCloud tool to compare themselves to other firms not only how much employees are paid, but also metrics like their average job tenure, attrition rates, how much they invest in retirement accounts, and at what age they retire.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

For years, Atrius Health had been focusing on standardizing processes, removing waste, and improving efficiency using improvement activities employing lean. They emphasized the aim to reduce ER and hospital admissions, which aligned with the clinic’s key performance metrics. Align innovation with the enterprise’s strategy.

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