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How do you know if your marketing efforts are producing results? While ROI is important, marketing is a long-term investment. There can be measurable short terms results, such as “ We spent $100,000 in online advertising last month, and generated $450,000 in sales. MORE
Metrics such as average handle time (AHT), number of contacts handled, average wait time, and average speed of answer have all been heavily used and tracked. And while a couple of customer-centric metrics - customer satisfaction and Net Promoter Score - have become entrenched among contact center measurements, only recently have other customer-focused measurements such as Customer Effort Score and First Contact Resolution risen through the ranks. MORE
At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. This lack of communication and coordination across functions makes it very difficult to assess the impact of cyber risk on the business as a whole or create any common metrics for doing so. Harry Haysom/Getty Images. MORE
Frequently clients ask me to help them develop ROI models and marketing metrics that serve as a foundation for effective decision-making. Managing Marketing marketing metrics marketing ROI roi I’m glad they do, because understanding value returned from marketing investments is essential to a successful marketing effort, and it’s not as easy as it seems. A sound approach to measuring marketing ROI sits at heart of an agile marketing strategy. MORE
What metrics should be used to track the performance of a professional services organization? For those unfamiliar with Quora , it is one of the emerging “question and answer” sites on the Internet. Although its positioning is not quite clear to me yet, a point of difference relative to other sites (like Yahoo Answers) is that Quora integrates aspects of social networking technology. MORE
In markets that aren't natural monopolies or where there are clear, agreed-upon metrics, how do we decide? Seths Blog.Seth Godins riffs on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread. About. Archives. Subscribe. Recent Posts. "Oh, Oh, thats just a hack someone put together.". The sophisticates. Q&A: Purple Cows and commodities. Colors or numbers? Words are hooks, words are levers. Mumbo vs. Jumbo. Death and Taxes, 2014. The opposite of anxiety. Stoogecraft. MORE
Ineffective Metrics. Your plans aren’t really done until you figure out the right metrics to monitor so you can properly track progress. Many times I’ve seen random metrics come down as edicts that made no sense at all in the real world. . Planning for Success. MORE
New data and metrics that tap underlying performance dynamics offer better visibility. High-level benchmarks often obscure paths to operations improvements. Our Insights MORE
For years, agile teams and organizations have measured success using process metrics – time to market, team throughput and cycle times, improved quality, and better predictability of output. As companies scale from agile projects to agile organizations, we must evolve the way we measure success – from process-based metrics to measuring business outcomes. By Surya Panditi, GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. MORE
In this series of articles, we challenge the conventional wisdom that the powerful effects of technology aren’t visible in economic metrics. Article Monday, October 03, 2016. This is the first in a series of articles on technology economics. MORE
In this age of exponential growth, value creation remains the best metric of superior strategy, transformation, and execution. Report Thursday, October 27, 2016. This is an era of disruption. MORE
In The Tyranny of Metrics, history professor Jerry Muller reminds us that not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted MORE
Set definite goals for your business with dates and metrics. If you’re a high-achiever SURELY, you’ve considered starting your own consulting business by now (if you haven’t already.) MORE
Cost Per Hire (CPH) is one of the most common HR metrics used to measure recruiting effectiveness. Metrics HR Efficiency human resources Recruiting Costs MORE
Metrics Shift. As market environment evolves, the nature of your metrics will shift. Whatever you’re measuring, whether it’s social referrals, subscriber growth, customer lifetime value, or some other metric, the context is critical. MORE
But to reap the benefits of this model, executives will have to consider whether they are relying on the metrics that best predict the likelihood of customers' renewal, and whether their organization is set up to reveal and address the issues that may be driving customers away MORE
At the core of the confusion over a company like Tesla is that traditional business metrics are outdated and can create overconfidence or underestimation. Classic metrics like market penetration and market share, which many leaders are measured on, are the very things causing us to miss market opportunities and threats. We don’t need to throw out all classic business metrics. But we should recognize their fundamental flaws and complement them with a new set of metrics. MORE
Consultant Data gap analysis metricsGap analysis is exactly what is sounds like – figuring out how far you are from a particular goal or target. Consulting firms do this all differently. It takes many forms, but is super common. In fact, I can’t think of any project where we did not include at least one gap analysis somewhere. Nothing fancy. While… Read More » The post What is gap analysis? appeared first on Consultant's Mind. MORE
Despite the prevailing metrics, he says, we're not in recovery yet. Jim Clifton, chief executive of the Gallup Corporation, has a robust theory about economic growth. True recovery requires more entrepreneurs, and his organization has found that the most vigorous entrepreneurs are immigrants MORE
As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics. Wins are the most common metric used across sales roles and industries. Finding the right metrics isn’t the end of the story. MORE
What factors lead to a search result showing up on page 1 or page 5 of Google? What about the popularity bar in iTunes? How does it work? Who decides what your salary is compared to the person down the hall? On this road, in this town, what's the threshold before you'll get a speeding ticket? MORE
I know that there's a long history of a certain metric being a stand-in for what you really want, but perhaps that metric, even though it's tried, might not be true. When you measure the same metrics, you're likely to create the same outcomes. MORE
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. While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. Getting the measurement right is central to providing convincing evidence on the debate over short-termism. MORE
Tooga/Getty Images. Imagine that you are choosing between two similar mutual funds, one managed by Marcus and the other by Tanya. Without additional differentiating information, there is no obvious reason to have a strong preference for one over the other. Yet in various contexts, such as entrepreneurship and hiring , people often exhibit a preference for men over women when information about an individual’s quality (for example, their expected performance) is unavailable or unclear. MORE
Companies in the private sector continue to adopt customer experience metrics such as customer effort score and Net Promoter Score to get a better handle on how satisfied customers are and to help determine whether customer experience investments are paying off. MORE
Technology intensity is a proprietary metric that analyzes technology spending relative to a company’s and an industry’s revenues and to their operating expenses.). Article Wednesday, October 12, 2016. MORE
When evaluating the success of their year, consultants often review metrics like revenue, profit per partner, utilization and leverage. Prepare your consulting practice for the new year by identifying the specific, granular actions that will grow your firm. MORE
These metrics are useful but miss the big picture, in part because they mistake a program’s cost for its value. We developed a new metric — cost per employed day (CPED) over the first six months — that we believe better defines how well employment programs work. Debating the utility of specific metrics might seem like a minor thing. Data and metrics are part of the solution. MORE
Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? And so, there appears to be a disparity between what companies do and what the metrics are measuring. (Source: Flickr ). MORE
Video Transcript: Let’s talk about metrics. Specific metrics that you can use to get more clients, win more business , and actually grow your consulting business. There’s four metrics in one track. Metric number three that you want to track is proposals. MORE
Ignoring the signup/website experience, I''m curious about the customer satisfaction and actual value from the core product. Interestingly I''ve seen zero data (though plenty of anecdotes) to support either direction. I''d like to run a separate survey targeting just people who have signed up. I''d just ask 4 questions: 1) Did you have health insurance prior to getting insurance via healthcare.gov? Yes/No] 2) If so, how are your health insurance premiums compared to your prior plans? MORE
Metrics are everywhere. Metrics are a necessary evil of any project. The classic continuous improvement methodology DMAIC depends on M (measuring) and … Continue reading → Consultant Analysis Best Practices Consulting KPI Management consulting metricsAs a consultant, we are in the business of quickly understanding business problems, proposing solutions, and measuring results. MORE
While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation. But these metrics can become tyrants. When things change, outmoded metrics can threaten a firm’s survival. HBR STAFF. MORE
A question I was asked: What if you have a forty-five-minute minute meeting with a prospect and she spends the whole time talking about her situation and she never get to other parts of the Context Discussion like outcomes, metrics, and parameters? MORE
In The Tyranny of Metrics, history professor Jerry Muller reminds us that not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted MORE
Though many companies approach service and support as just another metric to be maximized, those that emphasize quality over call times differentiate themselves from the competition and excel in customer satisfaction. Though many companies approach service and support as just another metric to be maximized, those that emphasize quality over call times differentiate themselves from the competition and excel in customer satisfaction. MORE
Historian and author Jerry Muller of Catholic University talks about his latest book, The Tyranny of Metrics, with EconTalk podcast host Russ Roberts. Consultants Consultant: What is worth measuring? Is what we’re measuring worth measuring, or just easier to measure? MORE
Despite its starring role in business and everyday life, many economists openly question whether technology is visible in traditional economic metrics such as GDP, productivity, and corporate profits. Report Monday, October 31, 2016. MORE
Metrics Related Topics Consultants Mind
JULY 11, 2015
Metrics are everywhere. Metrics are a necessary evil of any project. The classic continuous improvement methodology DMAIC depends on M (measuring) and … Continue reading → Consultant Analysis Best Practices Consulting KPI Management consulting metricsAs a consultant, we are in the business of quickly understanding business problems, proposing solutions, and measuring results.
Consulting Success
JANUARY 8, 2018
Video Transcript: Let’s talk about metrics. Specific metrics that you can use to get more clients, win more business , and actually grow your consulting business. There’s four metrics in one track. Metric number three that you want to track is proposals.
The Clever Consultant
JULY 7, 2015
Metrics NPV PMO MetricsWhether you’re helping a client build a business case or, launching a strategic project, chances are you’ll need to get your hands dirty by calculating the Net Present Value (NPV) of their investment.
The Clever Consultant
JULY 3, 2015
Cost Per Hire (CPH) is one of the most common HR metrics used to measure recruiting effectiveness. Metrics HR Efficiency human resources Recruiting Costs
Strategy+Business
APRIL 22, 2018
In The Tyranny of Metrics, history professor Jerry Muller reminds us that not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
Strategy+Business
APRIL 22, 2018
In The Tyranny of Metrics, history professor Jerry Muller reminds us that not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
Tom Spencer
MAY 18, 2015
Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? And so, there appears to be a disparity between what companies do and what the metrics are measuring. (Source: Flickr ).
Consultant Ninja
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
Ignoring the signup/website experience, I''m curious about the customer satisfaction and actual value from the core product. Interestingly I''ve seen zero data (though plenty of anecdotes) to support either direction. I''d like to run a separate survey targeting just people who have signed up. I''d just ask 4 questions: 1) Did you have health insurance prior to getting insurance via healthcare.gov? Yes/No] 2) If so, how are your health insurance premiums compared to your prior plans?
Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 17, 2018
What factors lead to a search result showing up on page 1 or page 5 of Google? What about the popularity bar in iTunes? How does it work? Who decides what your salary is compared to the person down the hall? On this road, in this town, what's the threshold before you'll get a speeding ticket?
Consultants Mind
MAY 21, 2017
Consultant Data gap analysis metricsGap analysis is exactly what is sounds like – figuring out how far you are from a particular goal or target. Consulting firms do this all differently. It takes many forms, but is super common. In fact, I can’t think of any project where we did not include at least one gap analysis somewhere. Nothing fancy. While… Read More » The post What is gap analysis? appeared first on Consultant's Mind.
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation. But these metrics can become tyrants. When things change, outmoded metrics can threaten a firm’s survival. HBR STAFF.
1 to 1
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
Metrics such as average handle time (AHT), number of contacts handled, average wait time, and average speed of answer have all been heavily used and tracked. And while a couple of customer-centric metrics - customer satisfaction and Net Promoter Score - have become entrenched among contact center measurements, only recently have other customer-focused measurements such as Customer Effort Score and First Contact Resolution risen through the ranks.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 22, 2017
As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics. Wins are the most common metric used across sales roles and industries. Finding the right metrics isn’t the end of the story.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 8, 2017
At the core of the confusion over a company like Tesla is that traditional business metrics are outdated and can create overconfidence or underestimation. Classic metrics like market penetration and market share, which many leaders are measured on, are the very things causing us to miss market opportunities and threats. We don’t need to throw out all classic business metrics. But we should recognize their fundamental flaws and complement them with a new set of metrics.
Harvard Business
JUNE 13, 2018
For years, agile teams and organizations have measured success using process metrics – time to market, team throughput and cycle times, improved quality, and better predictability of output. As companies scale from agile projects to agile organizations, we must evolve the way we measure success – from process-based metrics to measuring business outcomes. By Surya Panditi, GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies.
Harvard Business
APRIL 5, 2017
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. While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. Getting the measurement right is central to providing convincing evidence on the debate over short-termism.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
These metrics are useful but miss the big picture, in part because they mistake a program’s cost for its value. We developed a new metric — cost per employed day (CPED) over the first six months — that we believe better defines how well employment programs work. Debating the utility of specific metrics might seem like a minor thing. Data and metrics are part of the solution.
1 to 1
JANUARY 5, 2016
Companies in the private sector continue to adopt customer experience metrics such as customer effort score and Net Promoter Score to get a better handle on how satisfied customers are and to help determine whether customer experience investments are paying off.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. This lack of communication and coordination across functions makes it very difficult to assess the impact of cyber risk on the business as a whole or create any common metrics for doing so. Harry Haysom/Getty Images.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Tooga/Getty Images. Imagine that you are choosing between two similar mutual funds, one managed by Marcus and the other by Tanya. Without additional differentiating information, there is no obvious reason to have a strong preference for one over the other. Yet in various contexts, such as entrepreneurship and hiring , people often exhibit a preference for men over women when information about an individual’s quality (for example, their expected performance) is unavailable or unclear.
Joellyn Sargent
NOVEMBER 13, 2014
Frequently clients ask me to help them develop ROI models and marketing metrics that serve as a foundation for effective decision-making. Managing Marketing marketing metrics marketing ROI roi I’m glad they do, because understanding value returned from marketing investments is essential to a successful marketing effort, and it’s not as easy as it seems. A sound approach to measuring marketing ROI sits at heart of an agile marketing strategy.
McKinsey
OCTOBER 9, 2018
By combining two simple metrics, companies can gain valuable insights into their innovation performance. Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights
David A Fields
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
When evaluating the success of their year, consultants often review metrics like revenue, profit per partner, utilization and leverage. Prepare your consulting practice for the new year by identifying the specific, granular actions that will grow your firm.
McKinsey
APRIL 18, 2018
Don’t overlook the insight that two simple metrics can yield about the effectiveness of your R&D spending. Strategy & Corporate Finance Insights
Seth Godin Blog
APRIL 14, 2013
In markets that aren't natural monopolies or where there are clear, agreed-upon metrics, how do we decide? Seths Blog.Seth Godins riffs on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread. About. Archives. Subscribe. Recent Posts. "Oh, Oh, thats just a hack someone put together.". The sophisticates. Q&A: Purple Cows and commodities. Colors or numbers? Words are hooks, words are levers. Mumbo vs. Jumbo. Death and Taxes, 2014. The opposite of anxiety. Stoogecraft.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
This excerpt from a new book published by Aspen Strategy Group offers a path to better and more meaningful metrics. Our Insights
McKinsey
APRIL 2, 2018
Is dry powder anything to worry about, and is it a useful metric for the industry? Two McKinsey experts weigh in. Insights on Private Equity & Principal Investors
McKinsey
AUGUST 18, 2017
New data and metrics that tap underlying performance dynamics offer better visibility. High-level benchmarks often obscure paths to operations improvements. Our Insights
David A Fields
OCTOBER 8, 2014
A question I was asked: What if you have a forty-five-minute minute meeting with a prospect and she spends the whole time talking about her situation and she never get to other parts of the Context Discussion like outcomes, metrics, and parameters?
1 to 1
MAY 3, 2013
Though many companies approach service and support as just another metric to be maximized, those that emphasize quality over call times differentiate themselves from the competition and excel in customer satisfaction. Though many companies approach service and support as just another metric to be maximized, those that emphasize quality over call times differentiate themselves from the competition and excel in customer satisfaction.
MishTalk
AUGUST 15, 2016
The Wall Street Journal reports that about 1,000 ships that have the combined capacity to haul 52 million metric tons … Continue reading → Economics
BCG
OCTOBER 3, 2016
In this series of articles, we challenge the conventional wisdom that the powerful effects of technology aren’t visible in economic metrics. Article Monday, October 03, 2016. This is the first in a series of articles on technology economics.
Consultants' Consultant
SEPTEMBER 12, 2018
Historian and author Jerry Muller of Catholic University talks about his latest book, The Tyranny of Metrics, with EconTalk podcast host Russ Roberts. Consultants Consultant: What is worth measuring? Is what we’re measuring worth measuring, or just easier to measure?
Strategy+Business
SEPTEMBER 3, 2018
Despite the prevailing metrics, he says, we're not in recovery yet. Jim Clifton, chief executive of the Gallup Corporation, has a robust theory about economic growth. True recovery requires more entrepreneurs, and his organization has found that the most vigorous entrepreneurs are immigrants
Seth Godin Blog
JULY 23, 2017
I know that there's a long history of a certain metric being a stand-in for what you really want, but perhaps that metric, even though it's tried, might not be true. When you measure the same metrics, you're likely to create the same outcomes.
BCG
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Technology intensity is a proprietary metric that analyzes technology spending relative to a company’s and an industry’s revenues and to their operating expenses.). Article Wednesday, October 12, 2016.
BCG
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Despite its starring role in business and everyday life, many economists openly question whether technology is visible in traditional economic metrics such as GDP, productivity, and corporate profits. Report Monday, October 31, 2016.
Joellyn Sargent
NOVEMBER 5, 2015
Metrics Shift. As market environment evolves, the nature of your metrics will shift. Whatever you’re measuring, whether it’s social referrals, subscriber growth, customer lifetime value, or some other metric, the context is critical.
Strategy+Business
JULY 8, 2018
But to reap the benefits of this model, executives will have to consider whether they are relying on the metrics that best predict the likelihood of customers' renewal, and whether their organization is set up to reveal and address the issues that may be driving customers away
BCG
OCTOBER 27, 2016
In this age of exponential growth, value creation remains the best metric of superior strategy, transformation, and execution. Report Thursday, October 27, 2016. This is an era of disruption.
Steve Shu Consulting
JANUARY 27, 2011
What metrics should be used to track the performance of a professional services organization? For those unfamiliar with Quora , it is one of the emerging “question and answer” sites on the Internet. Although its positioning is not quite clear to me yet, a point of difference relative to other sites (like Yahoo Answers) is that Quora integrates aspects of social networking technology.
Consulting Matters
MAY 16, 2018
Set definite goals for your business with dates and metrics. If you’re a high-achiever SURELY, you’ve considered starting your own consulting business by now (if you haven’t already.)
Joellyn Sargent
OCTOBER 22, 2015
Ineffective Metrics. Your plans aren’t really done until you figure out the right metrics to monitor so you can properly track progress. Many times I’ve seen random metrics come down as edicts that made no sense at all in the real world. . Planning for Success.
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