The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

For many years, the prevailing narrative was that cities were the engines of our economies, with the agglomeration effect bringing together talent and consumers to make cities extremely compelling environments for work, rest, and play. Engines of creation. Cities have long been viewed as the engines of the economy.

GDP 143

GDP Technology Policies Engineering 143

ReImagine Work

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Kevin Kruse, author of the bestselling book Employee Engagement 2.0 , defines employee engagement as the emotional commitment an employee has to the organization and its goals. ” Employee engagement is not just a metric. It’s not just a metric, a program or something HR does. What does engaging employees look like?

CIO 100

CIO Incentives Metrics Commitment 100

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

In developing others, you must engage in two kinds of critical conversations to create alignment and eliminate assumptions--both yours and theirs: Baseline conversations set mutual expectations; define ground rules; provide metrics to evaluate performance; calcify boundaries; and establish alignment around strategies , objectives and tactics.

Open-book 178

Open-book Objective Metrics Tactics 178

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2021

In order for your company’s Saas product or service to be successful, it should have a sales strategy that is appropriate for your target customer and fits in with your business goals. The only catch is, high sales volume will be required to reach your revenue goals. There are two main factors in the Saas business model.

Strategy 103

Strategy Price Self-aware Software 103

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

One innovation I’m particularly excited about is the experimental approach we are taking to evaluate different hybrid work approaches, working with several volunteer engineering and sales leaders. And as a company filled with analytical engineers, empirical evidence is a fantastic way to promote the best ideas! Photo: Adobe . .

Software 98

Software Engineering Learning-by-Doing Diversity 98

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The main goal of writing a piece of content is to create awareness and value for a chosen topic. Check on the metrics: use ahrefs to see your top pages and pick up the right topic. Last but not least, identify which your overall goals are: are you looking to engage users and offer them new pieces every day? Easy to share.

Content 131

Content Tips Quality Blog 131

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Many companies use the wrong metrics to measure their performance, especially when it comes to social media. I run a social-media company, and until recently even we were confused about what metrics mattered. Those metrics are the most common false idols of analytics. Vanity metrics look good but fail the "So what?"

Metrics 18

Metrics Media Ries Reference 18

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

We may be very proud of our plans , which include detailed daily goals for diet, alcohol consumption, and exercise. If leadership development is not enough of a priority for the company to establish goals and track progress against those goals, it will be difficult to make any succession planning process work. Stay realistic.

Planning 118

Planning Efficiency Succession Tips 118

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

On February 19 former Uber employee Susan Fowler wrote an explosive blog post describing her time as an engineer at Uber. And it’s important to note that it isn’t only Uber that (allegedly) has a problem retaining and supporting female engineers. Her essay has received nationwide attention — and alarm.

Engineering 8

Engineering Company Report Career 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

You’re not cut out for engineering. You have annual quotas, quarterly goals, and increasing competition. Get top-level guidance and metrics. How will your unit’s monthly, quarterly, and annual goals change as a result? Or perhaps they want to jump from engineering to sales. Here’s how.

CTO 8

CTO Goal How To Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Consider that improving Netflix's recommendation-engine accuracy by about 10% proved so challenging that only two teams — of tens of thousands from over 180 countries competing for the $1 million prize — were able to hit the goal. Even with great data and tools, insights can be exceptionally tough to come by.

Metrics 15

Metrics Media PR Benchmarking 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. People weren’t working together toward personal and organizational goals… and that environment was, I’d say, management’s fault. Guest post by Mark Graban. What a progressive view that was back in the 80s.

Kaizen 28

Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

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.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your goal is success. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. What not to do. What to do. What to do.

Metrics 14

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

Strategy Driven

MAY 22, 2023

A marketing campaign entails a series of coordinated activities and actions designed to help a business reach a specific goal, typically getting more customers and increasing sales and revenues. Define Your Goals It is impossible to get to where you are going without knowing what the destination is.

Marketing 99

Marketing Audience How To Metrics 99

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. But what are the goals of these corporate coworking spaces? This is unsurprising given their goal of smuggling the benefits of coworking inside.

Company 10

Company ROI Metrics Engineering 10

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Many corporate visions also don’t provide a clear way to know if you’ve reached your goal because they lack tangible metrics. 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine? If vision is the destination you’re trying to reach on your hike, your mission is what got you out of bed that morning, excited to scale the mountain.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Many corporate visions also don’t provide a clear way to know if you’ve reached your goal because they lack tangible metrics. Ambitious and include a daunting goal. 3) What is it that can drive our economic engine? Tangible and measurable. Meaningful and inspire commitment . 2) What is it that the world really needs?

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” It ensures alignment of goals, resources, and people.

Health Care 11

Health Care System Metrics Report 11

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

On the contrary, when a leader is known for being a straight shooter – someone who can be believed when he or she says “ we are going to to this ” – it builds a huge reserve of respect that puts a lot of gas into the Awesome Team engine. Having such metrics is a critical element to employee satisfaction.

Team Building 363

Team Building Team Metrics Construction 363

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

For Avaya, its lackluster NPS score reflected a simple truth: Innovation was the key to survival because it is the growth engine. In an agile methodology, engineers create multiple versions and iterations of prototypes in a concentrated timeframe to put potential solutions in the hands of users as quickly as possible.

Agility 8

Agility Innovation Metrics Middle Management 8

Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 15, 2015

Get hands-on serious about achieving your goals. ~ Author of The Culture Engine & six other books. Metrics : They must have a large following. Be Irresistible. Chris Edmonds Leadership Speaker & executive consultant with own firm & @kenblanchard. JonesAndRaine band member. iStock photog.

Leadership 100

Leadership Executive Coaching Goleman Emotional Intelligence 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Unless people understand why innovation is necessary, it always loses to core business or the performance engine in the battle for resources. The performance engine is bigger, is the center of power, and can justify resources based on short term financial results. It's not about metrics; it's about "the educated gut."

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

They did one thing right: they set a clear, compelling common goal — cut the deficit by $1.2 That's a pretty good goal. And as I discuss in my book, Collaboration , setting a compelling, unifying goal can be a potent lever for managers to get people to work together across silos in a company. Re-engineer incentives.

Committee 14

Committee Insurance Incentives Banking 14

Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Why do so many talented, well-led teams, enterprises, and organizations – many of them with clear, reasonable goals – fail to win victories that should have been easily within their grasps? Setting impossible goals. The right metrics will serve you in enormously useful ways. Failing to measure what matters.

Team 50

Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2017

The key point from the CoastRunners example is that in most applications, the goal given to the AI differs from the true and difficult-to-measure objective of the organization. Enter Reward Function Engineering. Reward Function Engineering is the job of determining the rewards to various actions, given the predictions made by the AI.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning-by-Doing Cost Training 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Your goal, after all, is to be the kind of manager who not only understands formulas and analytic methods, but also knows how to “interpret [results] to make better decisions and improve efficiency.” Your goal, according to Knight, is to become data literate. ” Here are some strategies to help you. Respect the data.

How To 8

How To Metrics Analysis Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies. Performing market assessments.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

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. In fact, they would not have helped us achieve our key goals. Training the model.

Software 8

Software Project Engineering Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Sustainers who ensure intelligent systems stay true to their original goals without crossing ethical lines or reinforcing bias. The importance of strong analytical skills will grow with the demand for human workers with a digital engineer’s skill set. Remove the robot from the human.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In the worst case, busyness can become an implicit goal or cultural norm, and the original strategic intent can be lost in a frenzy of detail and activity. ” Metric obsession. But the worst way to achieve a goal can sometimes be to pursue it directly. Tyranny of intermediate goals.

Execution 10

Execution Strategy Gantt Chart Film 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Getting people to work together isn’t easy, and unfortunately many leaders skip over the basics of team building in a rush to start achieving goals. How do you form group norms, establish clear goals, and create an environment where everyone feels comfortable and motivated to contribute? Set or clarify goals.

Team 13

Team Case Study Goal Project 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Before joining Facebook as a security engineer in 2015, I worked in industries from consulting to manufacturing to retail. Instead, it was forged by individual engineers and managers who recognized the opportunity to collaborate across the organization for improved performance, lower costs, and faster development cycles.

Team 8

Team P&L Engineering Cost 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Evolutionary psychology also rightly points out that leaders and followers can often have quite different goals and agendas. It is very important for leaders wanting to create Self-Starters to articulate a clear vision, values and set of goals for their teams, as this type operates by seeking forgiveness rather than permission.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

The team of engineers at NASA worked in metric units (the standard they had adopted in 1990.) The engineers at Lockheed Martin who helped build the Orbiter and its navigation systems, on the other hand, worked in English units of measurement (pounds, inches, etc.). They excel when it comes to keeping things running smoothly.

Engineering 8

Engineering Metrics Goal System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The CTFs were hosted on our open-sourced platform, and the challenges were designed by a cross-functional team of security engineers each with a specialized skill set (mobile application security, Windows security, and so on) to ensure a well-rounded CTF experience. Hacktober is also a great learning opportunity for the security team.

Workshop 12

Workshop Education Brand Participative 12