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Consulting Tip #6: Use Your Intellectual Property to Build Political Capital

Johanna Rothman

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants. That's fine.

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How to Measure the Effectiveness of Corporate Training

LSA Global

The inconsistencies related to training measurement leave most L&D professionals scrambling to reactively prove the impact of training to justify their training investments before budget and executive team meetings. This is where theory meets practice and KNOWING meets DOING. There is a better way. Last year, U.S.

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The 3 Pillars of an Effective Data Management Strategy: Monitoring, Tracking, and Reporting

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. Are you having a strategy meeting soon? Get our free 2-Day strategic planning agenda.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia. R&D spending.

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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Talent Strategy Step #1: Identify the right analytical skill sets After establishing your data-analytics strategy that is tightly aligned with the mission and culture of the ogranization you need to determine the roles and the knowledge, skills and abilities of the talent most critical to meeting the needs. McKinsey Global Institute.

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Strategies for Executive Teams to Stay Aligned

LSA Global

74% of executives told McKinsey that they don’t have faith that their company’s strategies will succeed? You will know that these weekly meetings are working when there is full participation, progress is being made, everyone knows where things stand, and healthy conflict results in meaningful commitment.

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Why Leadership Transitions Are Important

LSA Global

The Size of the Impact McKinsey reports that when it’s done right, successful leadership transitions correlate to 90% of the new leader’s teams meeting performance goals over three years. Take Action This stage is where the rubber meets the road, and it requires persistence and careful tracking.