Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

By establishing a clear understanding of expectations and success metrics, your organization can ensure that everyone is working towards a common goal and contributing to the overall success of the organization. For example, let's say your organization's goal is to increase revenue. Are you having a strategy meeting soon?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

To motivate, manage, and reward B2B salespeople, many companies use sales incentive plans that link large commissions or bonuses to individual results metrics, such as territory quota achievement. The right sales incentive plan creates a double win. This made it easy to measure individual sales results.

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Rick Conlow

AUGUST 21, 2023

For example, one of our clients wanted to increase sales results with existing customers. Through planning meetings, training, and coaching we ramped up the initiative. Learn from these ten examples. Performance-Based Bonuses: Companies can implement performance-based bonus programs tied to specific targets or metrics.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 11, 2019

What Is a Sales Playbook? Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Sales Strategy. Sales Culture.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Outbound B2B sales are becoming less and less effective. In fact, a recent survey found that connecting with a prospect now takes 18 or more phone calls, callback rates are below 1%, and only 24% of outbound sales emails are ever opened. Marketing can train salespeople in social media systems, processes, and best practices.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2017

When it comes to training and workforce development, lots of them. In a 2014 survey , 55% of executives said a major constraint to investing in training was that they did not know how to measure success. The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. For example, I did a customer assessment for one of my clients, which revealed some horrible feedback about the sales process. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Executive selling training professionals have lots of advice on how to sell to an executive when you have a half-hour on stage or in person. Before you even begin, however, you need to do your pre-call sales planning and research – as much research as if you had several hours scheduled to make your pitch. Metrics matter.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

For example, one of our clients is facing the need to rapidly adopt new technology. For our client, that translated to setting personal goals for everyone in the company – regardless of whether people held an administrative position in the back office or were on the front line of sales. Change is always a challenge.

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Makarios Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2021

For example, one of our clients is facing the need to rapidly adopt new technology. For our client, that translated to setting personal goals for everyone in the company – regardless of whether people held an administrative position in the back office or were on the front line of sales. Change is always a challenge.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Workers were carefully trained to follow processes exactly as they were laid out. For example, there are organizations that provide so much autonomy and freedom in how a process is executed that customers don’t receive consistent experiences.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

These specialists usually have some valuable experience, sometimes through formal training (MBA etc.) They're typically engaged by clients who have solid sales or have seen tremendous growth and struggle to keep up with delivery. What makes sense: ROI The other financial metric you have to look at is your return on investment (ROI).

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The other creates output for machines to consume like models, training data, and algorithms. These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. What are some examples? Who to hire.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2018

Key suppliers should have to meet performance and training standards and then should be regularly assessed to ensure that they are meeting them. They should then segment suppliers based on which ones need access to which parts of the purchasing firm’s back-office systems (for example, warehouse management, inventory, or point of sale).

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

From the start, Southwest cofounder Herb Kelleher saw his competition not as other airlines but as alternative forms of transportation, whether cars, buses, or trains. ” Beyond the usual financial metrics, JetBlue also measures the strength of its culture and the quality of its experience.

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Harvard Business

JULY 28, 2017

Jump ahead to 2017, and that same metric is just 18%. In fact, a recent report from the Pew Research Center revealed that employment is going up faster in roles that require higher levels of education and training. Jobs requiring greater analytical skills, for example, grew at a 77% clip from 1980 to 2015. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

To show how it works, we’ll walk you through an example. Our work has shown that if a person’s motive is play (for example, excitement from novelty, curiosity, experimentation), purpose (the work matters), and potential (they are improved by the work), then their total motivation and performance increase.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

For example, if category expansion is critical to value creation in a particular strategy, plans should focus disproportionally on how to achieve this. ” Metric obsession. ” Metric obsession. Few would deny the importance of corporate culture, for example, even though it is not easily quantifiable.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

Meanwhile, the laggards continue to spend their time and money on assets that do not scale so easily — physical goods (such as manufacturing plants or inventory) and human capital (such as highly trained employees that deliver services). This will require reporting on new metrics.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Here’s an example to put this into context. To promote innovation and local service, the company hires people with entrepreneurial backgrounds and gives them freedom to design promotions, sales programs, and marketing events however they like. The senior leadership team meets often to look at metrics and trends.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

We asked them for examples of creativity in marketing that go beyond ad campaigns and deliver tangible value to the business. For example, Intuit’s marketing team spends time with self-employed people in their homes and offices to immerse themselves in the customer’s world. The metrics also changed. The results?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Sales isn’t what you do. Get top-level guidance and metrics. What metrics will be used to determine how well your unit is doing at embracing learning and development, and how will that in turn affect your review? Hire to train. Or perhaps they want to jump from engineering to sales. Here’s how.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Here are just a few examples of the scale of the problem and the possibilities offered by digital therapeutics: Diabetes prevention. One example is Omada Health , which modeled its product after the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program study. Sales venue. The best cost structure may vary with your firm’s goals and metrics.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

Companies less frequently offer formal training – a trend that has been on the decline for years. What are job goals and key success metrics? Drawn Ideas/Getty Images. We are now in the era of “do-it-yourself” career development. Here are six things you can do to take control of your own career. Liane Davey.

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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

JULY 6, 2018

Working with a vendor complicates transparency because many software companies choose not to disclose what algorithms they use or the data they use to train them. For example, bias can creep into an algorithm at many points in the system. For example: “You didn’t qualify because you did not pay your last three rent checks.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

These products are typically not for sale, but they do go through a defined development process and provide clear business benefits. And they’re defined by simple names—the invoice processor or the tax validator, for example—making it clear to everyone what they’re for.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

Using historic data from software projects, it trains a machine learning-based model to predict, weeks in advance, whether a problem is likely to occur. As a test case, we decided to use the ML model we built to predict the performance of software projects against a host of delivery metrics. Training the model.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 11, 2010

In my experience, they often conclude their clients have problems primarily with, for example, interpersonal conflicts, emotional intelligence and authenticity. Maybe because of the many consultant trainings that focus almost exclusively on the “human” side of things, with very little, if any, attention to the “business” topics.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

For example, highly complex product and service environments will require domain experts or subject matter experts. For example, I spoke with one data analyst at a payments processor who claimed to predict riots with a high level of accuracy in the wake of the Ferguson unrest. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills. Sponsored by Splunk.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Astrid, a sales VP, described a staffing experience from very early on in her career that taught her the importance of understanding a team’s culture before making changes that affected her employees: I was the manager of a call center and I inherited all of my team.

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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. For example, it took nearly a year to design, build, and implement ABIe. And they are finding the tools increasingly useful, of course, in dealing with online customers.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Some of these activities included inherent conflicts of interest; others simply caused leaders to have to act counter to their values (loyalty, for example). Take Wells Fargo as an example: Managers were rewarded for the number of accounts they opened and managed. You can, for example, pay more attention to: How people are paid.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

” The memo’s bullet points ought to “provide concrete metrics of the impact you’ve had,” descriptions of “solutions you’ve delivered” and financial outcomes for which you’ve been responsible. The timing was right: He had just finished a stellar year of sales.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

Performance pay isn’t just for your sales team — you can bump your marketing person’s bonus if he doubles his qualified leads, or an engineer’s salary if the product she builds goes live for customers on time. A caveat here: Make sure incentives align with metrics over which the employee has control.

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Consulting Success

JANUARY 29, 2018

I studied arts and it was my initial formal training. During some of the conversation afterwards, one of the young American military personnel, probably not much older than me, stood up in the conversation and he very emotionally, in a very heartrending way said, “I’m just so tired of being trained to hate.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. ” Improving risk management. Fostering innovation.

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