Enterprise Finance Metrics Productivity 
Harvard Business
MARCH 31, 2017
If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .”
Kates Kesler
NOVEMBER 29, 2015
There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. Global product teams and functions are overlaid onto the existing regional (commercial) organizations without adjustments in legacy P&L structures, creating unproductive friction. This is an often ignored element in activating the new organization.
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Kates Kesler
JULY 2, 2015
Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? It is the artful combination of organizational structure, process, governance forums, metrics and reward systems that tie together global business units and functions with far-flung geographic market units.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 16, 2018
In one global consumer products company that I work with, my firm’s organizational assessment revealed an unusually intense degree of aggravation over how much time was consumed by meetings, leaving “only evenings to do our day jobs,” according to one interviewee. And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 3, 2014
One of the reasons analytics is working for the companies in this select group is because they tend to deploy analytics technologies and expertise across the breadth of the enterprise. and Western Europe are aggressively adopting analytics across the entire enterprise. Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.”
Kates Kesler
JUNE 11, 2014
Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 29, 2018
Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. Shift 1: Automate with a product mindset. A product mindset helps change this. Instead, some will make the shift to think in products that tackle business goals.
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