The Practical Leader

AUGUST 25, 2021

Write up collections of case studies illustrating tough decisions, trade-offs, outstanding performance, dealing effectively with changes, etc. Share key performance metrics (including “confidential” financial, and operating data) with everyone in your organization.

Information 59

Information Information Technology Storytelling Case Study 59

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The primary step involves an objective assessment to determine operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Compliance 235

Compliance Efficiency Ethics Metrics 235

HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

Is it increasing revenue, improving customer satisfaction, or enhancing operational efficiency? Use real-life examples, case studies, and anecdotes to illustrate key concepts and make the content relatable. Look at key performance indicators (KPIs) and other relevant metrics to gauge the program’s success.

Training 98

Training Succession Objective Learning-by-Doing 98

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Block provides operational executives and managers with the insight needed to relate ‘shop floor’ decisions and activities with the organization’s financial future. Business Metrics. Whole Business Thinking – A Guide To Exceptional Business Performance. by Robert S. About the Book. Strategy Management.

Resources 60

Resources Metrics Bottom-up Budgeting 60

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

We’re A/B testing different virtual onboarding approaches and measuring the impact on sales productivity ramp, and testing the impact of different work schedules on engineering productivity metrics. We know that the future of work is not one destination—it is a journey, one where we will be learning as we go. Gloria Chen, CHRO, Adobe.

Software 98

Software Engineering Learning-by-Doing Diversity 98

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the concept of what HR analytics is, the benefits of HR analytics, HR analytics metrics and how it can transform businesses. By analyzing employee feedback, performance data, and other relevant metrics, HR can implement targeted initiatives to create a positive and fulfilling employee experience.

Metrics 98

Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. “I don’t know what he said to them during the operation, but from then on, they wanted to talk only with him, and they acted like I was an enemy.

Case Study 8

Case Study Attrition Mission Statement CEO 8

Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

Bob provides an overview of inventory (they use Just in Time inventory methods to create efficient processes and systems) and typical financial metrics to examine how their business has done using Deming’s ideas (along with theory of constraints ). by Will Rogers, or somebody else.

Deming 53

Deming Company Management Conference 53

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

Toyota sometimes talks about the primary goal of improvement efforts to be learning and the development of people, with improved metrics being a secondary goal. I’ve blogged about some of the problems and chaos on my blog before. What a progressive view that was back in the 80s.

Kaizen 28

Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. Related Video. Go it alone.

Finance 8

Finance Skills EBITDA Net Present Value 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Fortunately, “all businesses run on a few key metrics,” Knight says. ” To figure out which ones are most relevant to your business, he suggests enlisting the help of your quants to, “look at the cause-and-effect of all your metrics, and then weed through the ones that don’t have very much impact.”

How To 8

How To Metrics Analysis Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. It's just that they're often busy doing what they've always done, maintaining operational systems while reacting to the demands of an increasingly tech-savvy user community.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

and saved $200-$300 million in ongoing operation and maintenance costs). Using standard cost-benefit analysis, the study compared some natural solutions to more traditional infrastructure investments. In all of the completed corporate projects, the green option won out toe-to-toe on capital expenditures and operational expenditures.

CAPEX 8

CAPEX Cost-Benefit Analysis Construction Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

” The memo’s bullet points ought to “provide concrete metrics of the impact you’ve had,” descriptions of “solutions you’ve delivered” and financial outcomes for which you’ve been responsible. Case Study #1: Create a “ resume of accomplishments” to bolster your argument.

How To 8

How To Handbook Metrics Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

A change in sales or other customer-acquisition processes, for example, will affect multiple aspects of their business models: the types of orders their firms get, capacity planning, operations, delivery, post-sales requirements, and daily interactions among these groups. Manage each minute. The buyer has privileges that the seller does not.

CEO 8

CEO Strategy Hotels COO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. What made their ascent possible?

Management 9

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

Case studies at MIT''s Center for Information Systems Research suggest that if people don''t know the percentage of projects that meet their business objectives, the percentage is probably very low. Since projects differ in scope and complexity, many IT leaders resist using this metric.

CIO 8

CIO Stage-Gate Project Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Together with Harvard Business Review and the Management Innovation eXchange, we have issued a challenge calling for the most instructive case studies and provocative ideas that will help us re-imagine capitalism for the long term. This is the way both to achieve higher returns and make the market more efficient.

Marketing 10

Marketing Power Short-term Long-term 10

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.

Metrics 50

Metrics Marketing Strategy Case Study 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It recognizes this new reality will spell decline for some commercial activities, but growth for others who find better ways of operating. We look forward to sharing their case studies in a third research study, to be published later this year. So in one sense, Polman is only being a good businessman.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

It’s almost universal practice that the benchmarker chooses one or two organizational goals, then picks a few key metrics (key performance indicators) relevant to those goals, and finally selects several peer groups from a limited set. This makes it a useful case study for our purposes here. Further Reading. Add to Cart.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Comparison Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? Case Study: Blue Apron. The majority of the disclosures they provided at the time were standard top-down metrics (e.g.,

IPO 8

IPO How To Metrics Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Case Study: Putting This into Practice. This was our success metric: X and Y participants; Z matches; percentage of completed projects. (We But launching early addressed an even more important goal: It allowed the team to learn what features it would actually need in order to operate the system at scale.

Project 8

Project Management Uncertainty Software 8

The Empowered Buisness

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Tatum discusses the 5 critical success factors for managing, driving and sustaining growth, along with case studies of companies that succeeded or failed during No Man’s Land. What often prevents us from ‘being present, ‘ is what Scharmer calls our blind spot, the inner place from which each of us operates.

Books 113

Books Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing 113

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate. They offer up a powerful reframing of the metrics from, as judge Dov Seidman put it, "how much" to "how."

Organization 13

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13