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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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Organization Design Lessons from the Supply Chain

Kates Kesler

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. Karen Duvall.

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Is Execution Where Good Strategies Go to Die?

Harvard Business

The lack of narrative is particularly a problem in the relationship between sales and marketing. This behavior is a result of the underlying mental models of sales and marketing. To a marketer, sales is a channel for reaching their audience. Inevitably, the sales leaders make vital contributions to the conversation.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

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. PepsiCo is a $65B food and beverage giant, with a dozen global brands, operating in 190 countries.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

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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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business

.” 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. It wasn’t.

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How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data

Harvard Business

But those that have managed to integrate their technological advances with two other key elements — people and processes — have created more than data; they’ve also created value for their enterprises and society. As one U.S. ” Regulatory incentives often exacerbate this behavior. In other regions, however, (e.g.