Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Customers (efficiency vs. make more calls) Yes, we can! Acquire great talent. Great employees with industry knowledge and experience are in the job market even less. A management team that can successfully integrate other firms without major disruption and with immediate efficiencies is a valued team.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 13, 2017

Another example I often give concerns the use of fuel- and carbon-efficient flight practices in the airline industry. All four groups increased their implementation of fuel-efficient behaviors. The intervention, it appears, encourages a new habit, as fuel efficiency measures remained in use after the study ended.

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Efficiency Airlines Study Operations 58

Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The professional services industry is undergoing a transformation driven by familiar yet powerful forces. In this comprehensive guide, we delve into the conditions and technologies driving the transformation of the professional services industry. Technology Partnership: Striking a balance between talent and technology becomes crucial.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

One of the most important and challenging decisions faced by corporate directors is whether to promote a new CEO from within or to hire new talent when a CEO leaves the company. Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly.

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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. The industrial services giant equips its elevator technicians to consult subject-matter experts through Microsoft HoloLens, an augmented reality headset. Their role: improve process efficiencies.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

In the warehouse and distribution industries staffing challenges, and increasing competitive pressures have accelerated the use of technology. link] Most economists hold a belief that a more efficient workforce leads to competitive advantage and lowers the costs of goods and services. A recent MIT study revealed that wages in the U.S

Leadership 52

Leadership Trends Journal McKinsey 52

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. Preparing for the Future of Talent Acquisition. In the industrial age, value came from machines.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

As a company, we understood that our legacy extends beyond just the next few years—as we lead long-term value creation and positive societal impact within our industries, we build a legacy for the next century and beyond.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. industries, and a review of hundreds of academic studies on the psychology of human performance, shows that most leaders and organizations tend to focus on just one type of performance. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 44

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

How talent management is changing. We mapped this data against dozens of financial and leadership metrics, clustering companies into four groups (ranging from low- to high-performing). The leadership training industry often sells us “stuff” that we don’t need to buy. Insight Center. Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

Leadership 44

Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 44

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

As a startup founder, I’m constantly struggling to recruit top talent without breaking the bank. We can’t always match market salaries, but we need exceptional (read: expensive) talent in order to build from scratch. A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. The design teams can then use the feedback from their customers to quickly and efficiently improve the products. Not all corporations need an agile methodology or this approach to metrics.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

This redefinition of the work of HR is intended to allow a more strategic focus on talent management and organizational capability while systematizing and controlling the cost of transactional work. Business leaders began to ask hard questions about outcomes, metrics, and the value of all these programs. Human Resource Planning, 2006.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

That means choosing the right dashboards, defining which metrics matter most and mapping out how long-range planning, resource allocation, and budgeting will work. And since people ultimately make all the difference, your operating model should define how you manage the assignments and career paths for your difference-making talent.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Company 28

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

MAY 5, 2016

Quality of talent matters far more than quantity of employees. Top managers in disrupted industries increasingly find this question less rhetorical than newly fundamental. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX. Profitable customers matter most.

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Enterprise Metrics Retail Productivity 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Selvesware invites workers and managers to digitally amplify their talents and attributes, while monitoring and minimizing weaknesses. But why stop with industrial assets? These metrics should inform ongoing feedback as well as training for individuals, teams, and their algorithms.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In healthcare, change is even harder than in most industries. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees. The Clinical Operations team focused on “throughput” bottlenecks in order to improve how efficiently patients could be moved through the system from intake to discharge.

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How To Healthcare Operations Leadership 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These fears aren’t unfounded: managers across industries have cost targets and technology enables lower-value tasks to move from people to machines. The promise of today’s breakthroughs is not just efficiency – it’s unleashing value creation and capture in a time of mounting performance pressure.

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Balance Sheet Efficiency Agile Financial 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

They help ensure that organizations achieve real impact from their analytics initiatives (which has the added benefit of keeping data scientists fulfilled and more likely to stay on, easing executives’ stress over sourcing that talent). What exactly is an analytics translator? Translators are neither data architects nor data engineers.

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Data Engineering Agile McKinsey 28

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 you can aggregate this, and you can analyze this, and you can help make smarter talent decisions.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

Mostly, the focus is on efficiency: cost and profitability per square foot, vacancy rates, maintenance overhead. When it comes to Apple Park, however, the metrics used to measure the reported $5 billion investment appear more complex and nuanced. Enduring Value Beyond Efficiency.

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Real Estate System Software Efficiency 28

Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

And it’s that “rapid pace of change” that’s currently redefining the professional services industry as we know it. The World Economic Forum published a report before “seismic disruption” shook up the industry (their words). Empowering talent. It should be a symbiotic relationship.

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