PM Alliance

JULY 14, 2023

Timely data can give your team an edge on controlling costs by ensuring that resources are used efficiently. Data such as workforce metrics, vendor rates, and material pricing gives your team the necessary background to minimize costs by identifying the right resource mix for each market. What’s the latest insight into best practices?

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

By establishing a clear understanding of expectations and success metrics, your organization can ensure that everyone is working towards a common goal and contributing to the overall success of the organization. However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As an example, just look at legacy consulting. Customers expect digital experiences to meet a certain standard — it doesn’t matter if you’re Amazon, Netflix, an IT provider, or a small accounting firm. Digitalization is forcing professional services firms to fundamentally transform existing business models. Digital agility.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

I am frequently flummoxed by the complete misalignment between a team’s mandate and the agenda for their meetings. content, frequency, and duration) of their meetings with the job that needs to be accomplished in those meetings. A one-size-fits-all team meeting rarely works. From The New York Public Library.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

If a company has beat or missed its EPS targets by less than two cents , that means the company has nipped and tucked its quarterly results just enough to meet the target EPS number it committed to analysts. So this measure may mislabel efficient companies as myopic. Consider three examples.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. Changes in their behavior led to both lower carbon dioxide emissions (by 21,500 metric tons) and an estimated $5.4

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

For example, a hierarchical corporate culture type is proven to decrease an organization's ability to innovate (Cameron & Quinn, 2011). Examples include what is displayed, office layouts, uniforms, identification badges, and discussed and not discussed. Examples include a company's vision and values or mission statement.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

For example, research has found that 93% of Pinterest users plan purchases on the platform and 87% have made a purchase after seeing a product they liked. Start by basing your social strategy on business objectives, then follow that by thinking about target market, social media platforms, tools, and metrics.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Metrics emphasized speed. We rebuilt performance metrics to track impact, not to apply pressure.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. She went into the meeting prepared for the worst. The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

It failed to meet its revenue and subscriber growth targets. This example illustrates that investors consider information beyond just earnings as value-relevant. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. What caused this slump?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Our Thermo King manufacturing facility in Galway, Ireland, for example, is one of our first zero waste to landfill facilities. Team members want to understand that meeting sustainability goals doesn’t just help the company—it helps customers, communities and the world. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Meeting employee needs and equipping them with the right tools with be critical in 2022. We see that investing up front in talent is the most efficient way to simultaneously improve your customer experience and your bottom line. and elsewhere. Associate tenure increases, which leads to a range of other performance and customer KPIs.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 25, 2018

It seems, though, that time doesn’t have to meet the same bar. He designed the Model T to be efficient to build. Social media might offer metrics that tell you if you’re moving toward what you hope to produce, but don’t confuse the map with the territory. Somebody else was in charge.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Overlooking these realities is perilous, both for the patient’s well-being and for efficient delivery of care. Here are some steps such organizations might take: Share patient stories and related lessons at every meeting. This work cannot happen in a vacuum of forced efficiency.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2018

That means planning multiple supply chains that meet the needs of specific customer micro-segments as well as managing business relationships and exceptions. For example, these technologies can help reinforce correct procedures on the shop floor, monitoring how employees execute tasks and coaching them to do it the best way.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

” Good management practices should already be in place — for example, effective budget practices and a stable staff schedule. Efficiencies gained in human resources and housekeeping can free frontline unit managers and clinical staff to spend more time at the patient’s bedside. Management “hygiene.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. The National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare, of which I am a founding member, is piloting a system of metrics for well-being developed by J. Today, he rarely meets in person with doctors. In another example, Ronald A.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. What is the cause and effect of specific types of investment — for example, leadership development, large group events, and communications cascades?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

He asked his team to analyze how certain patient populations — for example, women in need of a mammogram — accessed the health care system. And the whole system, not just primary care, is responsible for quality metrics related to prevention and chronic care (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Selvesware will deliver actionable, data-driven insight and advice on what to say, when to speak up, and with whom to network, for example, suggesting bespoke options for better communication, collaboration, and facilitation. Consider, for example, the obsessive get-it-done-now! Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

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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. Today, businesses don’t just want to have answers to questions like: did we meet our sales target for this quarter? Did our advertisement spend meet its objectives? Training the model.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

Examples: Quality Progress. Examples: I Spent $400,000 on Facebook Fans. Examples: How to Use Your Website to Convert Consulting Leads into Clients. Examples: What CEOs are reading in 2017 . Examples: 3 Proven Innovation Strategy Examples. Examples: CGN Global Whitepapers. Guest Posting. Sponsorships.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We performed pulse surveys quarterly after every town hall meeting at Saint Anthony Hospital. For example, my chief strategist and one of our hospital CEOs were both passionate leaders who cared deeply about improving our system but they were always on opposite sides of key organizational and strategic issues.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Each publicly listed company reports both ARG and EFV measures of the stock-based pay of its CEO in the proxy statement that it files with the SEC in advance of its annual meeting of shareholders. And, for reasons explained below, ARG tends to be significantly higher than EFV, especially when the stock market is booming.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

Fewer than 5% of healthcare systems initially identified for participation in ECEN meet all of the quality requirements for consideration. Hospitals and individual participating physicians undergo a thorough and iterative evaluation process.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

For example, you can now subscribe to razor blades, underwear, groceries, clothes, toiletries, even dog toys. Identify the right metrics. In the digital membership economy, the metrics best apt to indicate success are more likely to be around member churn and engagement. Love their members more than their products.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. An obvious and costly example of a defective product is an avoidable hospital readmission following surgery.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2017

Create a list of the decisions likely to arise in coming months, without regard for their significance — everything from major capital investments to promotions to when to hold the next all-hands meeting. Dynamics between teams can come into play as well: For example, how does a senior regional team interact with the global team?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

And an example from my company, VoloMetrix (now part of Microsoft), can help illustrate exactly how. 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. This is a big number.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Fourth, they’re activating the digital organization—taking advantage of the new digital tools that are available in the market, to work in very different ways and to leverage those digital technologies to create efficiency. And let me just give you an example of how we do that. Angelia Herrin, HBR. Jody Kohner, Salesforce.

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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. An example is the question: “How would you go about washing all of the windows in the city of Boston? The original approach was dubbed “care-model improvement.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2017

These capabilities might seem like nice things to have, the metrics useful to measure. Consider the example of tracking food from the farm to a supermarket. (Disclosure: I’m a partner of Hexayurt.Capital , a fund that invests in creating the Internet of Agreements.). In Globalization 2.0,

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