Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. Multiple conversations about cyber risks are happening across a multitude of divisions in isolation.

Metrics 30

Metrics Insurance Insurance Financial 30

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. After working closely with over twenty large US and European-based global companies during the past ten years, we have concluded the problem is not in the fundamental design of these operating models. The challenge is ineffective and incomplete activation.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Metrics Operations System 50

Kates Kesler

AUGUST 11, 2014

By the 1990s, emerging supply chain leaders were earnestly building the art and science of managing trade-offs and optimizing value for the enterprise. This ensures that the right decisions are made for the enterprise as a whole. In part, they may not have an accurate understanding of the problem to be solved.

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Enterprise Metrics Exercises Operations 62

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

More recently, online sites such as Glassdoor and Vault let HR managers view anonymized praises and complaints about their company from employees and former employees – comments the whole world can see. Operations in a Connected World. But it turns out these methods don’t just have to do with technology and operations.

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Metrics Survey Software Operations 44

Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Even P&G announced its intention to shed more than 50 percent of its brands “in order to simplify the way we organize and manage the company” (Byron 2014). Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? As organization designers this trend intrigues us.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Data science is becoming a reality for change management, and although it may not have arrived yet, it is time for organizations to get ready. Although predictive models for change management are still a ways off, organizations can get themselves on the right path by adopting the right tools and capturing the right data.

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Change Management Data Company Management 28

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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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Enterprise 49

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. Reprioritize your enterprise backlog when new initiatives are added. This takes time. Systematic Inc.,

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Agile How To Enterprise Metrics 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

But to me, the most fascinating thing about the whole initiative is the organizational mindset shift it’s creating: a realization about the value of getting smarter about how — and where — operations use energy. Operations in a Connected World. This black box approach can’t last. Insight Center.

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Energy Company Operations Metrics 28

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

VDO is a modular, extensible framework that draws from the health care system’s enterprise data warehouse and provides access to data on both individual patient encounters and populations of patients. The operating room is one of the most resource-intensive environments in our health care system.

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Operations Data Tools Metrics 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The fourth gap between strategy and execution is in measurement and metrics. The assumption is that financial measures like cost and revenue are sufficient metrics to measure progress. You need metrics that tell you how well your game plan is being executed — metrics that all of your players can organize around.

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Metrics 43

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

” It’s a relief to have finally moved on from the era in which corporate responsibility meant feel-good philanthropic efforts divorced from an enterprise’s main activities. Metrics Are Not Your Friends. They are less subject to short-term operational pressures, and accordingly less risk-averse.

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Ethics Metrics Energy Financial 49

Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Our research focused on 344 enterprises* listed on U.S. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. Of course, not all organizations have responded to it in the same way. for laggards.

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Company Operations Data Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

.” As data proliferates across the enterprise, this observation by Nielsen is rendered even more relevant, because data represents the unlit fuel that has the potential to light the darkness, but which often lacks the spark of analytics that enables us to see.

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Data Methodologies Enterprise Guidelines 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Of course, people do use existing comms and social software to manage quality information and close relationships — the beloved chat app Slack is widely used by couples and families, for example. But Slack is generally aimed at the enterprise market and doesn’t specialize in intimate relationships.

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Media Metrics eBook Software 36

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. Related Video.

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Finance Balance Sheet How To Metrics 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The challenge of running a sustainable enterprise has taken center stage among shareholders. And at many companies, sustainability efforts are measured with well over 10 internal metrics. Compensation committees often start by tying bonuses and long-term incentives to goals related to compliance and risk management.

How To 37

How To Metrics Survey Energy 37

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Organizations are continuously promoting people into management, and those new leaders struggle with the transition. 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). Insight Center.

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Leadership Deloitte Culture Pharmaceuticals 44

QEmploy

AUGUST 19, 2019

A consultant can also give organizational advice, offer guidelines for sourcing and managing the client’s IT resources. 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).

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. Brutally put, the 21st-century enterprise challenge has morphed from “doing more for less” to “creating much more with much less.” Profitable customers matter most.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Metrics Retail Productivity 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? I was buried in the enterprise.” For some managers, this seems initially like putting the cart before the horse. The reason?

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Case Interview Groups Small Business Examples 53

Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. An over-reliance on inflexible organizational models when establishing centralized brand, product, or category management teams can be downright destructive, exacerbating global/local conflicts. The team manages a shared agenda.

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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.

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Resources Efficiency Talent System 50

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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Agile Software Case Interview Video 28

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 53

Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

We used machine learning to augment the power of seasoned professionals—in this case, project managers—by allowing them to make data-driven business decisions well in advance. AI as project manager. We called our effort “AI project manager.” Training the model.

Software 28

Software Data Accenture Engineering 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Manage costs — or add value? Exploiting global opportunities versus managing risk. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value.

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Intellectual Property Talent Industry Culture 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

As Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com has noted , “When I look at [our] largest transactions…every transaction was done with the CEO [and] that’s why we’re selling more enterprise software than Oracle or SAP.” Manage each minute. How many have the required business acumen and enterprise knowledge?

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Strategy Strategy Strategy& Hotels 28

Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

The self-described “statheads” have the chance-of-a-lifetime opportunity to test out their own Moneyball -style theories when the management team and owners of the Stompers invited them to run operations as part of a learning experience and team promotion. We had no way to do that consistently for managers and coaches.

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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. Ideas and input come from all sides and segments and across all stakeholder groups.

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Agile Talent Data Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

“You’re not in control; you’re putting yourself in the hands of your manager to be judged — and you might be judged not worthy.” “The more senior you get, the more likely it is that your promotion is not the sole decision of your manager,” she notes. ” The past is precedent.

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How To Handbook Resumes Metrics 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The metrics also changed. This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways. Zscaler, a cloud-based security platform for businesses, created a Value Management Office. Today, creative marketers need to operate more like entrepreneurs, continuously adjusting to sustain “ product/market fit.”

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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 49

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. The effort must involve careful analysis and preparation, which takes into account each department but keeps the focus on the full enterprise.

Company 28

Company Knowledge Base Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Often, a new team needs to be brought in, one with more operational expertise than the startup team. The metrics need to change. Sometimes, it is because leaders just won’t take the time away from day-to-day operations. Manage your portfolio to keep today’s business fresh while placing bets on the future.

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How To Resources Operations Trends 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. The constant relationship between management theory and applied technology shouldn’t be too surprising.

Change Management 43

Change Management Management Software Productivity 43

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The organizational barriers to profitable growth are foreseeable and can be managed. A decade of centralizing global product and brand management in Amsterdam had largely denigrated the field-based commercial organizations around the world into order-takers, while the global business units migrated further away from customers and consumers.

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

And in 2011, Nathaniel Foote and Russ Eisenstat proposed a “better way to manage in the 21st century.” From digital platforms to customer experience to crisis management , these priorities have been a bellwether for what would soon dominate boardroom discussions and headline business publications.

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Marketing Metrics Healthcare Company 42