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. Unc ertainty is unnerving for most of us.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Metrics Operations System 50

Kates Kesler

JULY 17, 2016

We see 10 common pitfalls to avoid or manage for effective project outcomes: Pitfalls. 2. . • Changes do not stick as processes, metrics, and reward mechanisms still reinforce old ways of work. • Sub-optimized results as employees struggle to deliver on new expectations. Consequence. 9.

Metrics 50

Metrics Enterprise Resources Efficiency 50

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. Many companies go to great lengths every year or two to determine just how motivated their work force really is. Why do they do this?

Metrics 44

Metrics Survey Software Operations 44

Kates Kesler

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

We suggest three ways to build organization muscle: Design…the organization (structure, roles, processes, metrics, and talent profiles) against the capabilities. We find it useful to have executive committee members sponsor enterprise capabilities. This builds interdependence across the team. Sukhvinder (Win) Dhat.

Enterprise 62

Enterprise Organizational Development Metrics Development 62

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? Studying these companies up close is productive.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Salespeople see the world as prospects and products, offers and opportunities. 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. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience.

Strategy 43

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Metrics 43

Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

Enterprise 31

Enterprise Data Productivity Software 31

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

To successfully transform to a more agile enterprise, companies must make conscious choices about where and how to become agile. Based on our experience working with these teams, we recommend senior teams do the following if they want to become more agile: Treat your enterprise priorities as a managed backlog.

Agile 28

Agile How To Enterprise Metrics 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. Siegler at G.V.,

Media 36

Media Metrics eBook Software 36

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.”

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Metrics Analysis Survey 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

And 71% of senior managers view them as unproductive. 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.

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Meeting How To Government Finance 45

Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A good way to increase profitability is to work on the products that will definitely bring revenue and make the right improvements that people are expecting.

Productivity 98

Productivity Management Resources Software 98

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The challenge of running a sustainable enterprise has taken center stage among shareholders. The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more. Patrizia Savarese/Getty Images.

How To 37

How To Metrics Survey Energy 37

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. Help your employees be more data-savvy. Find the supporting players.

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Data Methodologies Enterprise Guidelines 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Using new software to analyze the digital exhaust of calendar and email metadata provides a practical way to build an accurate profile of how frontline sales representatives and managers spend their time, who they interact with externally and internally, and what effect this has on sales performance. But some behavior was surprising.

Sales 37

Sales Software Productivity Data 37

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. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Metrics Retail Productivity 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The cognitive and emotional demands on managers have rarely been more complicated or intense. Protecting their mental health has become a self-preservation priority for managers. Growing numbers of managers worldwide know they need help. Denys Argyriou/unsplash. Distracted? Overwhelmed? Arianna Huffington counsels more sleep.

Enterprise 31

Enterprise Data Ethics Emotional Intelligence 31

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Even the HR executives managing the space were surprised by their bonhomie. A case in point is WeWork, the provider of coworking spaces, which has grown its enterprise customer base in the last year by 370%. ” The role of community managers in fostering this culture can’t be overstated.

Company 37

Company Case Interview ROI Engineering 37

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.” It was a national distributor of milk and other dairy products and in it, farmers occupied two roles.

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Case Interview Groups Small Business Examples 53

Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 11, 2010

Many of them have extensive experience in management. Management consulting purist, might argue that improving performance and metrics should be the sole focus of my role. John Dupre is an organization development consultant who designs innovative ways to involve people in building more productive and satisfying workplaces.

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Consulting Emotional Intelligence Management Organizational Development 40

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

By Ashish Chawla, Global Head, Cognizant Contentworks; Shubham Choudhury, Senior Manager and Consulting Lead, Cognizant Contentworks. Is your content discoverable across product lines and business units? Is the legacy content in your organization easy to reuse across product and business lines? Reusability.

Media 29

Media Metrics Education Insurance 29

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent! Through digitization initiatives such as this, we now have a way to measure, monitor, and manage energy…this is huge since energy is typically a factory’s largest variable cost.”

Energy 28

Energy Company Operations Metrics 28

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. After all, there is also a business case for tax avoidance , deregulation, and even higher death rates.

Ethics 49

Ethics Metrics Energy Financial 49

Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Our research focused on 344 enterprises* listed on U.S. This difference in strategy means that business users are more likely to have access to a consistent set of up-to-date metrics for decision making, and the organization can generate predictions about their business from data they collect. Ecolab is a prime example of this.

Company 28

Company Operations Data Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

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. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. “They’re not hard to calculate.

Finance 28

Finance Balance Sheet How To Metrics 28

Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. An over-reliance on inflexible organizational models when establishing centralized brand, product, or category management teams can be downright destructive, exacerbating global/local conflicts.

Agile 50

Agile Analysis Apparel Resources 50

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. Let's start with risks and how feedback loops manage those risks. And product development has at least these risks: Project-based risks, so we can make effective tradeoffs. Every effort has risks.

Agile 80

Agile Culture Efficiency Metrics 80

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. The metrics also changed. This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways. The results?

Marketing 49

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 49

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. If there are multiple products, customers, geographies, or service lines, then HR needs to support them all.

Resources 50

Resources Efficiency Talent System 50

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.

Methodologies 53

Methodologies Culture Metrics Company 53

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.

Agile 28

Agile Software Case Interview Video 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. Companies don’t buy, people do.

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Hotels 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In the search for profitable organic growth, more and more companies are making major investments in optimizing the end-to-end customer experience – every aspect of how customers interact with the company’s brand, products, promotions, and service offerings, on and offline.

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Retail Apparel Financial ROI 50

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.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Talent Industry Culture 28

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

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). Such organizations do so by prioritizing the things that drive the most value—customers and talent, data, and products—and then they are disciplined in their execution.

Agile 28

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