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Jenny Dearborn Data Driven Strategies

LSA Global

This book tells the story of a successful sales executive who, after leading an analytics-driven turnaround (in Data Driven, this book’s predecessor), faces a new turnaround challenge as chief human resources officer. Boost HR and company productivity and performance with metrics that matter. Realistic and Actionable.

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How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business

Disclosure: Although Avaya currently has no ties with Innovators International, my interest in Avaya’s remarkable turnaround was initially kindled by the dozens of conversations I had with many people at Avaya when the company was a partner with our organization.). Any large company should be able to do what Avaya did.

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Avoiding Costly Business Mistakes With Consultants

Business Consulting Agency

A single misstep, whether in product quality, customer service, or ethical considerations, can tarnish a brand’s image irreparably. These inefficiencies hinder productivity and hamper the ability to adapt to market dynamics. The tangible impact of consulting services is reflected in case studies and quantifiable metrics.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. However, in phase three traditional data gathering and traditional metrics are not sufficient to ensure significantly differentiated value creation.

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How to Pass the McKinsey Problem Solving Game

CaseInterview.com

In ecosystem-type games, there are often local minimums and maximums, or rules regarding how certain metrics used in the game must be greater than or less than some specific threshold. Your objective is to design a factory production line that includes three areas: raw material receiving, processing, and finishing.

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4 Ways CEOs Can Conquer Short-Termism

Harvard Business

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. ” Many CEOs in our interviews emphasized the importance of choosing the right metrics to support both/and decision making.

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To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments

Harvard Business

against the average scores for those metrics from all the executives in our worldwide database. The sad part is that all of them had started off strong: they were engineers with an average tenure of more than 20 years in R&D and product strategy and marketing. What we found was an incredible paradox. You and Your Team Series.