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. However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress. However, not all management training programs are created equal.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow. An Example.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

These goals can be tracked through metrics that gives continuous feedback such as OKR, MBO, etc. These metrics are like receiving a score in a video game, which allows everybody to know if they are going in the right direction. In this case, Goals are the perfect way to efficiently coordinate a growing and often delocalized team.

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1 to 1

MARCH 28, 2022

It behooves companies from across a wide range of industries to consider making gigCX a part of their regular operations. In addition to greater flexibility, gig workers are less restricted by geographic limits, reducing the need for physical infrastructures reduces costs and increases efficiency. workforce by 2023.

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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. In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. Your business model is still in flux, and flexibility is more valuable than efficiency and cost savings.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. Metrics emphasized speed. Every spot on every line was visible to managers.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. These high-performing health systems offered a key insight: To sustain change, you need a strong strategy for engaging and standardizing the work of frontline managers.

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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. Blockchain.

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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

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. 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.

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Customers (efficiency vs. make more calls) Yes, we can! They are doing very well, they aren’t working too hard, and they don’t want to disrupt the nice moneymaking system they have. It proves you have the team that can integrate one operation into another. The icing – the top three. The bigger you are…the better.

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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

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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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

So unlike your average patient, she described one 12-hour wait in the ER as having a “7% process cycle efficiency.” 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. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

I think of these organizational systems in three buckets: the structural elements such as business models, strategy and organization design. 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.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2017

However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. Capitalizing on the area’s abundant rainfall, the team installed a rainwater harvesting system. What lessons can we share?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

A doctor’s medical toolbox and supply of best-practice guidelines, ample as they are, do not address a patient’s fears, grief over a diagnosis, practical issues of access to care, or reliability of their social support system. This work cannot happen in a vacuum of forced efficiency. Patients need and deserve much more.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. Google has appealed and is now preparing its defense.

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Kates Kesler

AUGUST 29, 2012

This article highlights the operational challenges created by the most common organization design used by HR departments—the business partner model—and presents an emerging model— the solutions center—that is intended to address these flaws. The shift in the work of the HR function has been brought about by a number of factors.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

They may also fail to consider the counterfactual thinking — We didn’t have a breach this year, so we don’t need to ramp up investment — when in reality they probably either got lucky this year or are unaware that a bad actor is lurking in their system, waiting to strike.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

Purchasers of healthcare services encounter widely disparate charges across different healthcare delivery systems for equivalent surgical procedures, varying by up to 40%. Fewer than 5% of healthcare systems initially identified for participation in ECEN meet all of the quality requirements for consideration.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. In a manufacturing operation, that operations meeting might even be a daily huddle, whereas the big projects could be discussed bi-weekly or monthly.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. The system also improves product quality by creating regulated growing conditions.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 18, 2022

link] Most economists hold a belief that a more efficient workforce leads to competitive advantage and lowers the costs of goods and services. It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We are working with a large travel and tourism firm to introduce a system for real-time employee feedback. Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

It brought the idea of building a safer health system to the forefront of the public’s mind. Nearly 65 million surgical operations were performed last year in the U.S., resulting in an estimated 200,000 deaths from complications or other post-operative issues. Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety.

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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. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

Digital transformation halts, or fails, for many reasons—but most often it’s because minor changes at the surface level do nothing to affect the fundamental operations of a company. Consider your guiding principles, time and capital allocation patterns, and the key metrics that you track.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

At the high end of artificial intelligence are systems like cognitive computing that are allowing driverless cars and other machines to develop the capacity to learn from their experiences in the world — by incorporating nuances, remembering outcomes, and adapting to mistakes. First, let’s get our bearings.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX. Commitment to efficient value creation invariably inspires more thoughtful investment in the quality — not quantity — of staff. Who “owns” the enterprise use-case portfolio?

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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. Basically, the AI project manager functioned as an early warning system that enabled human project managers to take on more valuable business tasks. Training the model.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Meanwhile, its transmission model reduces the costs of transactions, enables verification and efficient exchange of ownership, and opens the door to real-time micropayments. medical) information, and, even, electrical grid management. Of course, the $73 is just an average over nearly one billion active users. Remonetizing Media Consumption.

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Epicflow

JUNE 28, 2023

More and more business organizations are becoming data-driven – they are leveraging technology and data to gain actionable insights, improve operations and decision-making, and as a result achieve better outcomes. availability, performance, competences), etc. Otherwise, the insights you’ll gain won’t reflect the real state of things.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. 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). How organizations are changing.

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