Nash Consulting

MAY 21, 2024

Whether it’s how you evaluate performance, reward effort, or promote talent, every system should reinforce the change. From Idea to Action: Rethink your performance metrics to reflect new priorities. Integrate Change into Every System True change is more than skin deep—it seeps into every system and process.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This neglect has hindered their ability to leverage data into talent strategies that can help transform their businesses. Only 11% of business leaders trust HR to use data to anticipate and help them fill their talent needs. Map talent analytics to business outcomes. Implement leadership planning models.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

Many large and successful manufacturing companies are feeling the threat from software and online competitors, both big companies like Google or Amazon as well as startups allying with longstanding manufacturing competitors. Deere managers call it a “motivation metric” or even a “happiness metric.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

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. Reprioritize your enterprise backlog when new initiatives are added. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The people the model identifies as those with the most promise are often the ones a company will invest in through additional training and talent development programs. New workplace metrics are needed to help leaders get a more complete picture of this. But are these measurement methods still valid?

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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

MARCH 10, 2017

When I interviewed business leaders at the top-scoring organizations, they told me their investments in the three employee experience environments had led not only to happier employees but also to larger talent pipelines and greater profitability and productivity. But that was just anecdotal evidence.

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LSA Global

MARCH 1, 2019

It is rarely enough to just look at the financial implications; you need to look at the big picture effects in terms of your marketplace, strategy, culture and talent. For example, one client recently made a big strategic choice to sell software and services instead of their legacy hardware products to combat a declining and shifting market.

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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

JUNE 6, 2017

This misuse of talent is rampant in large organizations today. I worked with a software development company in which the CEO came up with a new product feature on a weekly basis. PlayPump’s downfall lay in its failure to measure by those metrics, leading them to run headfirst toward catastrophe.

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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.” Drawing in new talent versus integrating a cohesive team. ” Failure to grasp such disruptions — and adapt quickly — can be fatal.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

retail), Shira Goodman (Staples, retail), Kevin Johnson (Starbucks, food services), Marc Benioff (Salesforce, software), Susan Wojcicki (YouTube, internet media), David Cohen (Techstars, startup accelerator), Bernard J. Staples requires its 35 senior vice presidents to sponsor high-potential female talent for leadership positions.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. And adding input and throughput metrics to the measurement of output means team leaders can see where they are in relation to the efforts of other parts of the company.

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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. Many are investing heavily in hiring talent with data skills and building out data proficiency across the organization. Today, the bar for computer proficiency is set much higher.

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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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Selvesware invites workers and managers to digitally amplify their talents and attributes, while monitoring and minimizing weaknesses. Workplace analytics should explicitly monitor multiple selves performance as well as the bots and other software agents they employ. “Should you take five minutes to de-stress?”

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Quality of talent matters far more than quantity of employees. Digitally-challenged media giants such as Bloomberg launch robo-journalism initiatives that empower software to custom-craft stories for subscribers with minimal human intervention. ” The bigger the enterprise, the more jobs at risk. Profitable customers matter most.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2018

But new data from PayScale, a compensation software and data company (disclosure: I work there), reveals that too often this is not the case. ” Instead of relying heavily on performance metrics, ensure that every raise request prompts a look at market data for the given position. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size. Learning from Big Companies. We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company.

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

JUNE 26, 2017

To set this in context, it’s important to first understand the fundamental challenge of building contemporary (and future) workspaces, especially for technology companies: Software and buildings operate on entirely different timescales. Buildings, on the other hand, are change averse, optimized to stand for decades.

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Real Estate System Software Efficiency 28

Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I learned several software applications, including Final Cut Pro, and After Effects, and other things of that nature. They kind of look at even SAT scores for metrics. Some of the firms like Deloitte is not going to be as focused on metrics like that, although basically you have to be prepared to answer that question.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2017

Rather than possessing some innate talent, so-called “superforecasters” demonstrate what Tetlock describes as a “growth mindset,” or a willingness to learn from past mistakes and continually update their theoretical priors. We first train employees not by predicting future, but by estimating past Twitch metrics.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

If, for instance, colleagues say you are a great people manager, seek out metrics to support that idea. “I think about building a relationship, not selling software,” he says. He then brainstormed a list of “creative and innovative ideas” for the company to grow and enhance its employer brand to attract talent.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

In some ways, managing managers is similar to managing anyone else — you need to align their goals with yours, provide feedback, and help them advance their careers, says Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and author of Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Manage the Flow of Talent.

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