Tom Spencer

MAY 26, 2023

Measurable Impact Partnering with a non-profit that has measurable metrics for success is crucial to ensuring that the partnership has a meaningful impact. Through detailed reports and metrics, Charity: Water is able to show the impact of their work.

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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.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 17, 2016

. • 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. 8. Unclear design terminology. 9.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

But Slack is generally aimed at the enterprise market and doesn’t specialize in intimate relationships. It’s proven hard to solve these problems partly because of metrics: It’s hard to identify and measure the factors that lead to high-quality information or connection. Siegler at G.V., million posts during that time.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

Exchange perspectives, listen to questions and concerns, and be receptive to new ideas from people across your enterprise. Metrics are vital for effective execution. To keep on track, you need to pay attention to relevant daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual metrics. Check out more on accountability here.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 5, 2021

Exchange perspectives, listen to questions and concerns, and be receptive to new ideas from people across your enterprise. Metrics are vital for effective execution. To keep on track, you need to pay attention to relevant daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual metrics. Check out more on accountability here.

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Metrics Energy Enterprise Company 52

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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Brutally put, the 21st-century enterprise challenge has morphed from “doing more for less” to “creating much more with much less.”

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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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step. Shift 1: Automate with a product mindset.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

By seeing exactly where and how people spend their time — rather than relying on recollections, anecdotes, or assumptions — executives have a solid basis for taking actions that will raise productivity. The company had experienced lackluster sales growth, especially outside of its core product category.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In order to assess the current state of their business and their readiness for transformation in the future, content enterprises must address some fundamental questions concerning the maturity of their content ecosystem and their capabilities in both quality and delivery. Is your content discoverable across product lines and business units?

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Media Metrics Education Insurance 29

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Several words always come up in practically every discussion, no matter if the company is a large enterprise or a small business, B2B or a B2C, product or service, new or established. Things like organization design, training, improved processes, and new shared metrics and performance standards are.).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A case in point is WeWork, the provider of coworking spaces, which has grown its enterprise customer base in the last year by 370%. Orange’s VBN is one example; another belongs to a large telco in Silicon Valley, where its teams huddle alongside those from customers to prototype products and services.

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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. ” and “How can I persuade the organization that embracing integrity is a win-win?”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Just as data science and machine learning algorithms now colonize traditional business analytics and workplace attention, data-driven psychiatric research and mental health metrics will similarly reshape executive coaching, cognition, and emotional intelligence.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

I was buried in the enterprise.” It was a national distributor of milk and other dairy products and in it, farmers occupied two roles. Once it adopted the six-step method, these outcomes were identified as “reducing employee turnover and increasing productivity and innovation.” It was seat-of-the-pants stuff.

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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.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In partnership with thinkstep , we created a series of proprietary product greenhouse gas calculators to track our product-related emissions, including emissions generated from electricity.

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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.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

We believe energy could be viewed in many organizations as a “ keystone metric ” — i.e., a primary indicator that aligns the whole organization around the pursuit of operational excellence. For example, Saint Gobain’s Ohio factory produces 30,000 different products, each with its own energy demands.

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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.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

They are: Understand the various risks: project, product, and organization, and how to manage those risks with feedback loops. And product development has at least these risks: Project-based risks, so we can make effective tradeoffs. See How Product Risks Differ from Project Risks for a brief discussion of those two kinds of risks.)

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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.

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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. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous. The results?

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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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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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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.” How many have the required business acumen and enterprise knowledge?

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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.

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