Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers. However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress. Are you having a strategy meeting soon? Get our free 2-Day strategic planning agenda.

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PM Alliance

JULY 14, 2023

Timely data can give your team an edge on controlling costs by ensuring that resources are used efficiently. With data on how thought leadership is evolving, your team can partner with providers that have already developed processes to avoid wasteful or redundant activities. What’s the latest insight into best practices?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Investments in traditional leadership development are often misguided and a waste of money. In a Deloitte study of 7,000 organizations this year, 89% of executives rated “ strengthening the leadership pipeline ” an urgent issue. Paul Garbett for HBR. It’s not that development itself isn’t important.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

In a nutshell, AI automates repetitive tasks and makes predictions thereby increasing efficiency, streamlining the workflow, and improving decision-making. Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change.

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LSA Global

JULY 2, 2019

In addition to communicating the strategy often and in open discussions, add a metrics component so everyone knows you will be measuring and sharing progress toward your goals. The post 3 Proven Leadership Tips to Operationalize Your Strategy appeared first on LSA Global. Allow Some Autonomy. Do not let their perspectives go to waste.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

And a huge knowledge and skill shift that is looming will serve as a leadership validation test. Here are three future smart leadership qualities, two steps for rethinking the future of leadership, and one good leadership habit for keeping you moving in the best direction. Effective leaders are good learners.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Adapting to changes in leadership. Unlocking potential in terms of efficiency or effectiveness. Aligning confusing or contradictory goals, roles, scope and success metrics. Ambiguous or misaligned goals, roles, or success metrics. Misaligned leadership. Reducing costs. Refocusing priorities. You need to: 1.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 17, 2016

. • Key contact may not be the real client; spin and churn due to working at the wrong level or in the wrong place. • Project becomes HR or consultant work versus a leadership initiative. • Implementation undermined. 7. . • New conflicts around allocations, chargebacks, and decision rights. 9.

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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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LSA Global

JUNE 15, 2017

When roles and success metrics are unclear, it is difficult for teams to perform beyond the sum of their parts. It is also critical when internal operations must change to become more efficient or more satisfactory to external or internal customers.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

the outcome measures, which are culture, performance metrics and ultimately profit, the people measures – how well we use our people to execute our strategy and achieve our outcomes. Managerial Leadership. As a result, managers do not focus on their managerial leadership work. Hence the term – managerial leadership.

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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

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. The result?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Our organizational alignment research found that strategic clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performance in terms of revenue growth, profitability, customer loyalty, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement. Lack of Accountability. Lack of Smart Resource Allocation.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2023

That's a classic example of resource-efficiency thinking. Since I now know about flow efficiency, I might do this differently if I was still a manager inside an organization. Managers can check on that needing help business with flow metrics. But you can use flow metrics to know when people have too much WIP.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. The result of frontier analysis is an index for each firm describing its efficiency at transforming inputs into outputs relative to the best performers operating at comparable scale.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

CEOs have shown leadership in presenting these long-term plans; however, to date, we have not had evidence on the capital market consequences that the presentation of a long-term plan may have. By contrast, forward-looking metrics were rarely provided for issues underlying the corporate governance theme.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t optimize for efficiency. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Set up post-interaction NPS so you can tell if someone is still upset even after an issue is “solved,” start tracking the volume and quality of requests coming in along with metrics relating to revenue (i.e.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

For most organizations, it’s calibrated to drive sales, which means sales conversions are the primary metric it follows. Relationships aren’t numbers, though, and CRM isn’t an efficiency tool. In my experience, relationship leadership boils down to three essential components.

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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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LSA Global

MARCH 20, 2020

While the practice of assigning players as coaches can create great efficiencies, it also poses unique challenges. Whenever possible, measure and invest in employees’ potential for leadership roles to better predict and confirm readiness for key roles in a way that minimizes personal preferences and unconscious bias. The Bottom Line.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

They are often the first to recognize and raise up areas of improvement, and it’s important that leadership is ready to listen. Leadership must ensure these team members feel empowered and understand their role in helping the company achieve its long-term sustainability goals.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 19, 2018

When coworkers know clearly what each of their teammates is doing, they can be far more efficient and productive within their own realm of responsibility. Dashboards show company metrics and the company opportunities and challenges are open to discussion. Company leadership has communicated a vision of the future that motivates them.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. When multiple players compete for the same space, revenues indicate the progress towards achieving market leadership that creates the dominant protocol for industry partners, suppliers, and customers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow. Two years later, the follow-up IOM report, “Crossing the Quality Chasm,” reviewed other types of disappointing quality, including gaps in efficiency, effectiveness, timeliness, and patient-centeredness.

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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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LSA Global

MARCH 8, 2022

This fast growing financial services firm wanted to double revenue and increase efficiency by 50% while maintaining high levels of client satisfaction and employee engagement. Job Relevance. 98% Satisfaction. 124% Knowledge Gain. Net Promoter Score.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Customers (efficiency vs. make more calls) Yes, we can! Leadership, or the lack thereof, is the top reason management people switch jobs (not money). A management team that can successfully integrate other firms without major disruption and with immediate efficiencies is a valued team. The icing – the top three.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

I’ll use the example of a leadership team of a manufacturing plant to demonstrate the process. The manufacturing leadership team would emphasize issues that cut across the plant and parse out topics that can be addressed by individuals or subgroups of the team. First, define the work of the team. Fifth, plan for overflow.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

An Examination of the Importance of Leadership Behaviors and Attributes on Shaping Culture Executive Summary Organizational culture is a critical factor in financially successful companies. Leaders with dynamic transformational leadership attributes and behaviors are effective culture change agents.

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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. Develop metrics around technology deployments that are noted above.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

We also had open questions in our surveys to give people an opportunity to express their concerns related to leadership, operations, compensation, and staffing. Each of these teams went through the same team development program as my senior leadership team. The feedback could be tough at times.

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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. This age is ripe with opportunity. Discipline and Focus.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Preemptive self-disruption is becoming a new normal for the serious leadership. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

A new operating model also requires a governance structure and leadership model so leaders know how they will exercise operational control and inspire employees—and hold themselves accountable for doing both. As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. Consider your guiding principles, time and capital allocation patterns, and the key metrics that you track. Changes at the surface create small, local differences.

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