Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One thing I have learned over my almost 30-plus years of consulting – while there are executive unicorns who will share your idealistic visions of a balanced approach to leadership, like Mark Johnson (in episode 42) or former Disney COO Jim MacPhee (in episode 40), the majority won't. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

Whether you’re a corporation, a nonprofit or a government agency, chances are that your approach to customer relationships at a system-wide level begins and ends with CRM (customer relationship management) software — yet its implementation rarely does much to foster real relationships. Insight Center. Measuring Marketing Insights.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We base this claim about HR’s digital skills gap on the results of our latest global leadership survey. Co-produced by our three organizations, the survey gauged nearly 28,000 business leaders across industries about the state and trajectory of leadership. Implement leadership planning models.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently. 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. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. Data science for machines: here the consumers of the output are computers which consume data in the form of training data, models, and algorithms.

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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. New workplace metrics are needed to help leaders get a more complete picture of this. and How can managers benefit from that information, particularly as it pertains to identifying potential leaders?

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1 to 1

JUNE 29, 2022

IBM uses authentic leadership and abides by a work-from-home pledge. And at productivity software firm Buffer, each new hire is paired with peers who serve as a role buddy and a culture buddy to help them navigate how to do their job and get oriented with how the job gets done. Send-off in style.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social? This will require reporting on new metrics. Finally, begin to track the progress of your network initiative.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Absolutely no DIY software fixes. Establish models, not just metrics.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Agile espouses short cycles, regular reflection, and course correction based on evidence collected during the software production process.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Similarly, when Starbucks baristas make your latte the same way across cafés, or when a software engineer delivers the expected features each sprint, you are witnessing tactical performance. Metrics emphasized speed.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Uber. If you are applying to be a Senior Software Engineer, you can expect the in-person interview round to consist of two coding questions, an architecture question, a business case question, as well as a fit interview.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Outdated beliefs about the world can linger for decades in a leadership team. And even though some managers do track intangible assets, they’re usually one-off metrics or unique to a particular division; they’re not systematic or incorporated into the entire business’s capital allocation decisions.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I learned several software applications, including Final Cut Pro, and After Effects, and other things of that nature. Were you involved in leadership at all when you were there? Not at the school, just at the church level, just doing different leadership level stuff for our college ministry. But that was about it. Awesome, okay.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

There’s even text-analysis software that will alert users to angry-sounding emails. Sooner, not later, your smartphone will not only be capable of serving as your shrink — it may also serve as your leadership coach, acting both as Sigmund Freud and Peter Drucker. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Topics they deal with include strategy execution, leadership, people, processes and tools. What makes sense: ROI The other financial metric you have to look at is your return on investment (ROI). They help you analyze and optimize your marketing efforts. It's an easy decision to invest 25,000 to achieve that.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. Digitally-challenged media giants such as Bloomberg launch robo-journalism initiatives that empower software to custom-craft stories for subscribers with minimal human intervention.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

She suggests “immersing yourself in your topic area” by regularly attending industry conferences, enrolling in a class or specialized certification program, or taking on a leadership role in a relevant professional organization. With Jeff Wald, the president and COO, an analytic thinker, she started with the metrics.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

. “If you went to bed last night as an industrial company,” Immelt observed, “you are going to wake up this morning as a software and data analytics company.” Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Every business is, willingly or unwillingly, a competitor on a software playing field, no matter which sector it’s in. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king. You may be thinking: but my company isn’t a software company.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Today, the data to answer those questions exists — it’s captured by the software-as-a-service firms whose services companies use to run their businesses. Mainstream software companies are beginning to hold “ data mirrors ” up to their customers, allowing scoring and benchmarking of their customers’ strategies.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

But there is one important difference —managing managers also requires leadership coaching: you have to coach “managers to develop the culture and capabilities that their team members need,” says Linda Hill, professor at Harvard Business School and coauthor of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Every product in the portfolio should be evaluated with the help of one of the product success metrics. The list of challenges is not exhaustive, but the ones mentioned above can be successfully addressed with the help of a software solution. Product Portfolio Management Software: Addressing the Challenges.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Leadership Development. Hardware & Software. BTS GROUP KEY STATS.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

They try to address more objectives than are reasonable for any software system. The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. Broadcast this message loud and clear from the CEO and sales leadership. And the sales team — well, they mostly hated it.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

There’s an ever-increasing demand for people who can leverage software to analyze, understand, and make day-to-day business decisions based on data. Since this is first and foremost the responsibility of leadership, early executive buy-in on becoming a more data-driven company is paramount.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

And as the world continues to digitize and almost every product and service becomes more driven by (or at least integrated with) software, this need grows even stronger. With software, however, the relationship between we’ve finished building it and it has the effect we intended is much less clear.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

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. As senior leadership peeled back the organizational onion, a clear case for change emerged in 2013.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

But, to the C-suite’s great credit, leadership insisted that everyone cooperate. Similarly, there’s no shortage of software — much of it open source — to build it with. What metric matters more: engagement or inquiry? There’s no shortage of real-world recommenders to emulate and innovate on.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

You’re sharing your thought-leadership (content marketing) with your exact audience (senior people and decision makers) in a publication that already has the social proof and brand to establish trust. –Cal Friesen, Thought Leadership Resources. That said, writing for a trade publication is not easy.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In 2008, as the CEO of a software company that had just missed its target for the second quarter in a row, I was so intent on hitting our fourth-quarter revenue number of $8 million — and so scared for my job — that I promised the company I would get a tattoo of the number somewhere on my body if we hit it. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Spillovers.

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