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. However, not all management training programs are created equal. Are you having a strategy meeting soon?

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Now, onto the top 5 personal power skills of an organizational consultant… Skill #1: Systems thinking. Systems thinking is your understanding of the organization and how all the pieces of the organization are connected to one another. It's completely free, so definitely sign up now: www.betsyjordyn.com/consulting-masterclass.

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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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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Does Your Sales Team Need to Learn How to Better Sell Value? Sales experts the world over tout the benefits of learning how to better sell value. Business sales training studies of both buyers and sellers report a recurrent theme – the importance of value. Create a Healthy, High Performing, and Aligned Sales Culture.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2018

firms in 2017 were launched through the IT systems of suppliers or other third parties such as contractors, up from less than one-quarter of attacks in 2010. After the attackers infiltrated Fazio’s firewall, they stole Fazio’s credentials to break into Target’s system. Limit suppliers’ access to IT systems.

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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. They are modeling scientists. What is the output?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. What not to do. Don’t optimize for efficiency. Your goal is success.

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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. Metrics emphasized speed. We rebuilt performance metrics to track impact, not to apply pressure. Every spot on every line was visible to managers.

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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. In contrast, companies like JetBlue decided to emulate Southwest’s entire system: mental model, business model, and measurement model.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 3, 2016

Often used by larger firms who are interviewing a lot of people across a number of different campuses and offices , interviewer-led interviews employ a scoring system, and cases are often created by a central group within the firm. A typical creative question might be, “Why do you think this company’s sales are decreasing?”.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

They build real-time information systems to support decision making, and they expect these teams to start small, iterate, experiment, and adapt. And they design the platform around systems that can be extended, that can adapt, and that can deliver real-time information to managers at all levels.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Productivity (revenue divided by expense) increased by 20% year over year (far more than the 9% increase in revenue that the control group stores averaged); customer satisfaction increased by 11% (the control group saw it decrease by 4%); and sales increased by 8% (the control group saw only a 2% increase).

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

But marketing managers simply are not trained to deal with questions or complaints about service, product performance, or other nonmarketing requests. What systems, policies, and employees are responsible for monitoring social media? From this research, organize a new system. First, research and analyze existing social media.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2018

Many efforts to apply machine learning get stuck due to concerns about the “black box” — that is, the lack of transparency around why a system does what it does. Sometimes it’s because technical teams need to identify and resolve bugs without disrupting the entire system.

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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. Typically they end up as an app or a custom feature in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. We know some companies hope to wait on the benefits of automation until their next big systems upgrade.

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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. You’re not a data scientist. You’re not cut out for engineering.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

APRIL 11, 2010

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. I rely on my business acumen as a former executive, my emotional intelligence training/certification, and my overall leadership experience to suit my client’s needs.

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Brocade, a data and network solutions provider, created a “customer first” program by identifying their top 200 customers, who account for 80% of their sales. Like many retailers, Macy’s has traditionally spent 85% of its marketing budget on driving sales. The metrics also changed. These members are 2.6

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

These may be as simple as “reduce year-over-year health care spending” or as specific as “help employees with chronic disease improve medication adherence” Metrics. Sales venue. Solutions may be available directly through digital therapeutics companies, payers, or care-delivery systems. Ease of use.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 24, 2020

Instead building a marketing system that puts your client attraction on autopilot. The System that Helps you Get Consulting Clients with Predictably and Ease. Instead you need a system that ATTRACTS high-paying executive clients to you. The Business Case for a System that Helps You Consistently Get Consulting Clients.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The mission of enabling data analytics in today’s enterprise is hobbled by the lack of the requisite skills in the marketplace, including: advanced statistics/mathematics, new analytics methodologies, advanced systems analysis, business fundamentals, regulatory and legal understanding, and general IT technical and data architecture skills.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

At the high end of artificial intelligence are systems like cognitive computing that are allowing driverless cars and other machines to develop the capacity to learn from their experiences in the world — by incorporating nuances, remembering outcomes, and adapting to mistakes. First, let’s get our bearings.

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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

JULY 6, 2017

The EU’s case asserts, among other things, that Google unfairly exploits its dominance in search engines and smartphone operating systems to restrict competition in shopping services, ad placement services, and smartphone app store markets. Google has appealed and is now preparing its defense.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The lure of incentives are a problem in boardrooms too: Bonus payments and executive share schemes are often based on short-term business metrics, which can be counter to long-term success. As a result, apparently, many felt driven to open accounts that customers didn’t request or approve. Cross-cultural differences.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Nike embedded sustainability into its innovation process and created the $1 billion-plus Flyknit line, which uses a specialized yarn system, requiring minimal labor and generating large profit margins. The system also improves product quality by creating regulated growing conditions. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

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Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

In sales, where charisma and extroversion can be advantages, some people attribute success more to inborn personality traits than to skills that can be coached or taught. ”) But there’s a big difference between individual success in sales and success across an entire sales force. .”) Organization.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Defining and tracking success metrics. PMs must understand customers’ emotions and concerns about their product as much as they understand the concerns of the sales team on how to sell that product, or the support team on how to support it, or the engineering on how to build it. Performing market assessments. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2016

A number of the companies I advise are still in the beginning stages of developing support systems to nurture the entrepreneurs within their walls. He observed that rural-area store clerks were losing track of sales by relying on their memory to quote prices and create handwritten sales slips.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

During my years at OSHA, where I served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor from 2009 through the beginning of 2017, I received several reports of safety system failures at DuPont facilities. Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked. Because of this, errors are inevitable.

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CaseInterview.com

DECEMBER 11, 2019

At the time (and continuing to today), if you were going to build a website to handle up to $1 billion in sales online, you really only had two options. Here’s what I would say to prospective clients (and would train our sales team to do the same): "Mr. In school, you are assigned a single master “grading” system.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

This all starts with thinking carefully about how employees are motivated, and how you can have the right reward systems in place to achieve your desired goal. Has the company decided to pursue a new business vertical based on data collected by the sales team in the field? ” Highlighting wins like this does a few things.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2018

Innovation has to be a company-wide endeavor, supported from top to bottom by systems, structures, and a company culture that nurtures transformative ideas and products. Company incubators and innovation labs that are isolated from the rest of the organization tend to have limited success, because they are disconnected from a larger system.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 13, 2017

Single-screen “snapshots” of operational processes, marketing metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) can be visually elegant and intuitive. Not only does the metric itself require significantly more information to drive action, but it simply doesn’t align with his goals and business model. Probably not.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

Data collected by different systems is disjointed, lacking variables to match the data, and using different coding schemes. Merging data across a vast number of customers and interactions involves “translating” code, systems, and dictionaries. purchase funnel metrics). Insight Center. Data-Driven Marketing.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). Key to the new system are rapid data collection and analysis, followed by over the air changes to product software. How organizations are changing.

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