Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Translating content into local languages or adhering to local regulations are some classic examples.

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 21, 2023

In the battle for talent in an increasingly complex, disruptive, and competitive world, organizations cannot afford to miss this point. For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers. This results in higher productivity, lower turnover rates, and 21% more profit.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Some people also call consulting a ‘talk-job’ – you go to the clients, you talk about what the ideal world scenario would be for a particular project, product or market, and your billable hours are sorted. Sales, Marketing, Production) and secondary functions (e.g. Finance, HR, Supply Chain, ICT, Legal). Conclusion.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

Recently, my colleague Wayne Cascio and I took up the question of why HR analytics progress has been so slow despite many decades of research and practical tool building, an exponential increase in available HR data, and consistent evidence that improved HR and talent management leads to stronger organizational performance.

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Metrics Analysis Data Talent 41

Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. And talented Millennial employees are voting with their feet by leaving laggard companies behind. Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. Despite conflicting messages about climate change from U.S.

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Metrics Government Energy Company 40

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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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

It does not come as a surprise that AI is mainly a focus of CIOs and CTOs who are concerned with developing AI strategies, which often entail building advanced IT infrastructures and investing in relevant talent. For example, insights derived from the initial data analysis steps can be used to understand the organization’s core competencies.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the face of the Great Resignation, industries across every sector are faced with a harsh reality: give your employees a healthy and productive work environment or they will leave you. In order to foster and retain talent, here are 4 strategies that can used to create a healthier and more cost-effective contact center environment.

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LSA Global

MAY 22, 2017

One of the major components of an effective talent management strategy is promoting the kind of learning that makes good business sense. Follow these three talent management tips to be sure that the learning can make a true and positive difference at your company. What business metric are you trying to impact?

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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. companies spend more than $37 billion dollars a year on them.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

First, pull a cross-functional team together from sales, marketing, pricing, finance, legal, product development, and service to identify how to best stabilize, forecast, and optimize strategic accounts and the sales pipeline in the next 30 days. Is your sales strategy, sales culture , and sales talent aligned enough to navigate a crisis?

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Next, High Performance Success Metrics Set the Bar. We recommend selecting two or three leading or lagging metrics that carry fifty percent or more of the weight regarding what matters most. While they had many things on their plate, they knew that these two metrics mattered most to achieve their vision.

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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. Create accountability…make capability development part of the accountabilities of the leadership team.

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LSA Global

MARCH 1, 2019

It is rarely enough to just look at the financial implications; you need to look at the big picture effects in terms of your marketplace, strategy, culture and talent. For example, one client recently launched its first product as a big strategic move into the consumer packaged goods marketplace.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. They will represent the products more consistently. Metrics emphasized speed.

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1 to 1

MARCH 21, 2023

The event, held live after a three-year hiatus, is so named because it focuses on the four pillars of experience management: customer, employee, brand, and product experience. airline in 2022 by the Wall Street Journal , which scores airlines on seven operations and customer metrics. “We Transportation is what we do,” he added.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

This misuse of talent is rampant in large organizations today. I worked with a software development company in which the CEO came up with a new product feature on a weekly basis. PlayPump’s downfall lay in its failure to measure by those metrics, leading them to run headfirst toward catastrophe.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Cross-functional analytics can be a challenge to implement for a variety of reasons including functional silos and a shortage in analytics talent. Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.” to better understand the effectiveness of a new product launch). Establish a center of gravity for analytics.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

— for example the study of the ethnic composition of boards in corporate America by Richie Zweigenhaft — studies of immigrant leadership talent are still scarce. We focused on foreign-trained talent of Chinese, Indian, and Middle Eastern descent. As of 2009, U.S. university does not. Where do they work?

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Data Healthcare Talent Training 31

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Many know and use the nine-box model , for example, to map past performance against future leadership potential. The people the model identifies as those with the most promise are often the ones a company will invest in through additional training and talent development programs. But are these measurement methods still valid?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

This is a particularly acute issue at the entry level, where employers have come to accept that high levels of attrition and low levels of productivity and quality are normal. The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion. For example, in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

By definition, disruptive innovation challenges a firm’s core capabilities; direct channels, for example, provide low cost and ubiquitous distribution, but cannibalize traditional salesforces and threaten partners. Drawing in new talent versus integrating a cohesive team. Today, this tension is perilous for CEOs.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

To cope with the shortfall in market supply, companies need to better leverage their existing talent. For example, highly complex product and service environments will require domain experts or subject matter experts. Simpler product environments will require experts in operations, logistics, and supply chain.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Do not make the mistake of investing heavily in sales enablement tools until you have alignment around and commitment to your target clients , value proposition , success metrics, and go-to-market sales strategies. Sales Talent. Sales Culture. Do not underestimate the need for the right sales culture to meet your targets.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

And this is precisely the problem that many companies are having in their efforts to collaborate with partners, share resources and knowledge, and create new products and services. This group worked to anticipate and resolve problems before any product codevelopment even began. They used the right metrics to measure success.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. Create small, talent-rich teams working outside the hierarchy to address your most important priorities. Reprioritize your enterprise backlog when new initiatives are added.

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Agile How To Enterprise Metrics 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Within the country, there are large — and often underestimated — regional differences in language, culture, talent, infrastructure, and wealth, all of which lead to wide variations in business landscapes. These cultural differences have a significant impact on multinationals’ talent and organizational decisions.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

As a startup founder, I’m constantly struggling to recruit top talent without breaking the bank. We can’t always match market salaries, but we need exceptional (read: expensive) talent in order to build from scratch. A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Our Thermo King manufacturing facility in Galway, Ireland, for example, is one of our first zero waste to landfill facilities. Companies with a strong sustainability program and culture attract and retain better talent who desire a sense of purpose and contribution to a greater good. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

For example, rice is a substitute on the menu for fries in Indonesia and roasted pork for hamburgers in Korea. A healthy culture promotes productive conflict, team member participation, and team engagement. Enhance individual commitment to the company within the workplace. Influence the leaders’ leadership style.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Get top-level guidance and metrics. This new reality, in which developing talent is a key business imperative, requires real buy-in from top brass in your company, all the way up to the CEO. Nearly every manager who has reported to me has questioned the wisdom of spending time building talent when there are immediate business goals.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The world is replete with SWOT mechanisms for evaluating a prospective new product offering, as well as opportunity assessment templates for evaluating a project against overall business goals, customer impact, strategic potential, and competitive urgency. Will this opportunity utilize your unique talents and abilities?

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Real Estate Case Interview Metrics Productivity 28

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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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. Quality of talent matters far more than quantity of employees. Products and services frequently offer myriad features and functionality.

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