Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Create a Benchmark Traditional direct marketing always uses a control piece as the benchmark, generally with an A/B split test. This, of course, varies according to the product/service offered. Are they using email blasts, social networking, relationships with key bloggers? The same idea works for e-marketing.

Marketing 162

Marketing Press Release Direct Marketing Discount 162

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. This is great way to stifle innovation without exploring extensions to existing product lines. Every task should be assigned and managed according to a plan and in the light of day. Timing : It must be detailed and deliverable on a schedule.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

A goal is a specific target and the objectives are the attainment components/benchmarks/hurdles which will lead you toward achieving said goal. An organization's purpose often changes over time as advances in technology, changes in customer demands/preferences, etc. impact the competitive arena.

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Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 395

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Whether your objectives involve increasing business revenue, maximizing your profits, providing better customer service or improving the productivity within your workplace, if you use the right tools you’ll be able to accomplish it. For example: In the Finance Department, an objective could be to cut spending and improve profit margins.

Objective 13

Objective SWOT Benchmarking Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. trillion by 2026.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Most industry observers take the position that companies get distracted if they try to bootstrap a product with a service. But from where I sit, bootstrapping products with services is a tried and true method. Today, AgilOne’s product is a software-as-a-service platform. Andy’s research was financed by DARPA at the university.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Charles D''Agostino, executive director of the Louisiana Business & Technology Center at Louisiana State University, offers some analysis: "Incubators do work, but they must be more than a real estate entity offering executive suite services. For them the goal is to achieve customer validation, not financing.

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Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 14

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” In my opinion politically correct thinking is a large contributor to a decrease in workplace productivity, and of greater concern, to the moral and ethical decay of our society. How sad is this? Are these extreme statements?

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

The most digital companies see outsized growth in productivity and profit margins. And how can companies benchmark themselves against competitors? The results show uneven progress: The technology sector comes out on top — no surprise there. But what are the key attributes of a digital leader? First, digital assets.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The mass customization model leverages technology to integrate a customized consumer experience with the efficiency of mass production processes —it has been applied successfully to numerous industries and specific applications, from jackets and running shoes , to automobiles and housing.

NPV 8

NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Benchmark data isn''t sexy stuff, but occasionally the numbers reveal surprising findings. Who, for instance, would have guessed that global NGOs spend nearly 80% more to track their finances and employ nearly twice as many finance staff as comparable for-profit multinationals?

Globalization 8

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Technologies will change, distribution channels for content will change, usage environments will change. This is often the reason why thoughtful quantitative analysis that incorporates macro-economic trends, market share, competitive strategies, retail analysis and technological assessments so often misses the mark. Think about it.

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Benchmarking Maslow Analysis Trends 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

For those of us not in operations, supply chain, or logistics, it's a vaguely familiar line item we learned about in finance class. If we could permanently reduce the amount of product sitting idle, we'd save money, energy, and material. Full disclosure: Terra Technology was my client for this event.). I was wrong.

Energy 10

Energy Supply Chain Operations Benchmarking 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy. Another example includes and biomimicry—using lessons Nature learned over 3.8

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

For example, one such project focuses on the interaction between a building’s functionality and the well-being and productiveness of its occupants. Generating new knowledge by conducting research, benchmarking, or bringing in “resident” artists or scientists whose interactions with employees can spark creativity.

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Organization Development Mentor Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Capturing data-related opportunities to improve revenues, boost productivity, and create entirely new businesses puts new demands on companies — requiring not only new talent and investments in information infrastructure, but also significant changes in mind-sets and frontline training. Information & technology Leadership'

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

I have used the social network for eight years and continue to be impressed with Mark Zuckerberg's focus on product and his vision for the internet. But equity investing and product use are very different things. Over the past couple of years, I've become close with a handful of web product managers.

IPO 11

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

One winning finance group promoted an Excel macro that helped business units more easily calculate a key performance metric; an HR group from one division "stole" and repurposed the online 360 degree job review process from another. The competition thus incented both "supply" and "demand" of knowledge worth sharing. It worked well.

Incentives 8

Incentives Tools Benchmarking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

That shift has created an increasingly commoditized product and service environment. Digital has removed barriers across sectors, even in old-line businesses known for “sticky” products, such as telecom and insurance. That’s a major missed opportunity according to Ian Ewart, Head of Products, Services & Marketing at Coutts. “I

P&L 8

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models? How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Core r epositioning.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 12