Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. Despite conflicting messages about climate change from U.S.

Execution 11

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The top-performing emerging-market firms innovate more aggressively than their advanced economy rivals: 56% of their revenue comes from new products and services, compared with 48% for firms in advanced economies. Yes, some governments do give financial and other support to young companies, with the goal of helping them grow.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2017

It was cold morning in early December 2016; almost exactly sixty-one years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man boarding the Montgomery city bus near the exact same bus stop. It entails seeking metrics that effectively gauge collective toil not ones aimed at fueling the “gotcha” blame game.

Construction 290

Construction Follow-up Commitment Efficiency 290

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. The metrics also changed. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous. The results?

Creativity 14

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

In 2016 the leadership team of a national retail organization asked us to help boost their frontline performance. To build a genuine sense of purpose and meaning, the employees in the experiment stores were taught how to connect every product, process, and policy to the benefit and impact they had on customers.

Motivation 11

Motivation How To Learning-by-Doing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). Such organizations do so by prioritizing the things that drive the most value—customers and talent, data, and products—and then they are disciplined in their execution.

Organization 8

Organization SPM Content Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The ultimate goal is to signal to the market that the digital acquisition is part of a series of moves that will help you adapt and win in the digitalization of your industry. In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 Let’s start with financing the deal.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

The board chose earnings per share (among other financial metrics) to measure and reward executives for long-term performance. As earnings goals became harder to hit with internal growth, the company used most of its money for share buybacks to achieve its three-year earnings-per-share goals.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio. In Year One, we have avoided 1.5 By 2030, we expect to reduce our carbon-footprint equivalent to the energy used by 4.6 million homes.

Energy 8

Energy Commitment Globalization Operations 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2016

Transforming a sales organization to consistently deliver insights requires new value propositions, case studies and collateral from Marketing, new competencies, skill development, recruiting profiles from HR, and alignment with Operations to refine products and services. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Metrics 50

Metrics Marketing Strategy Case Study 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. It brought the idea of building a safer health system to the forefront of the public’s mind.

Innovation 8

Innovation Health Care Operations Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Founders bet years of their lives on finding product market fit, investors bet billions on the future value of ambitious startups, and executives bet that their strategies will increase a company’s prospects. Our engineer was at 75% confidence we’d hit our goal, and our lead from partnerships was at 70%.

Company 8

Company Participative Training Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

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. ” The blueprint included the company’s purpose, vision, values, and strategic goals, and fits on a single page.

CEO 9

CEO Short-term Long-term EPS 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.

Team 12

Team Conference Restructuring McKinsey 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2017

According to a 2016 report from the UNEP-hosted International Resource Panel , water demand will outstrip supply by 40% by 2030. ” But in order to achieve those outcomes, the Romanian utility had to change its organizational processes and metrics. And demand is increasing.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Incentives Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In 2016 the Scottish National Health Service (NHS Scotland) piloted an approach to value improvement that took both cost and quality into account and turned the management of value into the basic task of the point-of-care manager. The visual management board. decline in cost per patient seen (see the exhibit below).

Cost 8

Cost Management Health Care System 8