HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. According to a recent survey in USA Today, Americans are far more worried about their finances than their health amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

Short-term 59

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. According to a recent survey in USA Today, Americans are far more worried about their finances than their health amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

You deserve input – but that done not mean that 100% agreement is the goal. Consensus isn’t the goal. I particularly liked: "Consensus isn't the goal. ” Great post Mike – it is obvious you have spent a lot of time thing about and work with top teams! Good input is. Good input is."

Consensus 333

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

We know you have impressive, measurable achievements, but don’t let the scientific metrics outweigh your business results and human capital accomplishments. They can recruit top scientific and operational talent to achieve the desired corporate goals. You must appeal to all of these audiences. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

Tactics 51

Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 51

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

But while performance goals are always top of mind for managers , many overlook the role of employee work-life balance in driving that performance. 92% feel they’re now better able to prioritize all their responsibilities and goals. Everything looks delicious, but we can’t eat it all (though we might try).

Project 8

Project Participative Goal ROI 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., Another piece of advice is to set measurable goals. If you fail to set goals and measure whether or not your content marketing helps you achieve them, you'll never know if it's working or not. and the best agencies know how to tailor their solution to your needs.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. The same happens when an engineer is tightly managed on their code velocity — in making sure to reach their goal, the engineer becomes far less likely to be creative or raise problems. Metrics emphasized speed.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

The idea that corporations need a single purpose is based not in law, but in economists' arguments that unless we have a single, objective, easily-observed metric to judge how well directors and executives are running firms, corporate "agents" will run amok. There are few human activities whose success is measured by a single metric.

Short-term 14

Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions. This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. Focus on the metrics that matter. Help CFOs focus on the long term.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. select a project team with the right skill sets. Gain senior leadership support.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Indeed, achieving their goals required significant behavior change from multiple players who didn’t necessarily see themselves as part of the same systems even though they served largely the same families and neighborhoods. The funding and oversight of these projects was a role typically played by philanthropy and nonprofits.

Metrics 9

Metrics Banking Learning-by-Doing Education 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Even in these times of feverish attention to performance metrics, it’s not always clear what the boss wants or expects. I am fortunate enough to work with these people all the time across a span of industries and professions: finance, health care, education, energy, technology. How do their jobs help the company meet its goals?

Health Care 13

Health Care Short-term Report Fashion 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

To begin, our research enterprise the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project releases an annual ranking of accelerator programs. Certainly, there are some programs out there that call themselves accelerators who do not meet these criteria, and therefore did not qualify for this rankings project. billion, though only 3.5%

Finance 8

Finance Entrepreneur Survey Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last week, at an internal Cisco meeting, the company’s VP of Supply Chain, John Kern, proudly reported that the project had identified ways to cut energy use by approximately 30%, which will likely save $1 million per year. Set ambitious, science-based goals for energy and carbon.

Energy 8

Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The goal was to get feedback and strengthen the thinking to maximize the potential impact on growth. As another example, the CMO directly challenged her team to identify disruptions that would deliver on the department’s and firm’s goals — to bring a more demand-centric perspective to key business challenges.

CFO 8

CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

I repeatedly hear from young entrepreneurs that, as fund managers come in, they introduce too many controls for cash flows, income projections, budgeting, risk analysis, financial modeling – the list is endless. Start-ups can’t be assessed using conventional business metrics. Yes, they require diligent oversight.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Core Competence COO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

To really make a difference, private entrepreneurs and civic entrepreneurs need to match projects to specific circumstances. Implications for city leaders: Leaders should loosen restrictions so that private finance can invest in improvements to physical infrastructure, to better use what already exists.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Entrepreneur Finance Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. According to Prasad Setty, Director of People Analytics at Google, their goal is to have all people decisions driven by data. Finance Human resources'

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. No longer will all developers be assigned to project work. Instead, some will make the shift to think in products that tackle business goals. For most companies, however, benefits at this scale are elusive.

Strategy 8

Strategy Content Enterprise Architecture Agility 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Through a combination of efficiency projects and the use of renewable energy, we are on pace to reach our carbon emissions goal ahead of schedule. In fact, we are more than 90% of the way to our 2025 emissions reduction goal. The HR Digest: C.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. And many diversity programs fail. Hold yourself and others accountable on diversity initiatives.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives. And if these social intrapreneurs are really good, they have a shot at changing the success metrics not only for their company but for their industry as a whole.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

They are projected to make up the majority of all women by 2060, which means they’ll also likely become the majority of the U.S. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

As such, organizations spend enormous amounts of time and energy defining jobs, roles, and goals — and then figure out who to reward or punish when things go well or poorly. Most companies have some version of a matrix, with a combination of enabling "functions" (such as IT, HR, and Finance) and line business units.

How To 8

How To Metrics Budgeting Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

A collaborative project with a health care provider to tackle patients with complex illness has had an uneven course, with some early wins offset by relationship challenges. Establish Common Goals. Goals should include a mutually agreed distribution of the risks and benefits of cost reduction among all actors.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. See here for an excellent list of 500 auto-analytic tools.) Physiological systems" experiments.

Organization 12

Organization Self-aware Taylorism Taylor 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

revising projections for the coming month) need to happen frequently. In a manufacturing operation, that operations meeting might even be a daily huddle, whereas the big projects could be discussed bi-weekly or monthly. After the roundtable, review ongoing projects, stopping only on issues where the team needs to weigh in.

Operations 8

Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

You either achieve your goals or you don't. By the same token, when these same companies talk about the "quality of their current research pipeline," they have no way of knowing what will actually make it to market since over 95% of drug projects fail. In other words, metrics are starting points for dialogue rather than conclusions.

Short-term 14

Short-term Pharmaceuticals Long-term Maturity 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share. We moved faster and made more significant progress because we combined the power of purpose with project work that was designed to improve organizational performance.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. Or you could try to take advantage of limitations in conventional financial metrics to get higher long-run returns by focusing on sustainability and social good.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The goal should be to keep children on a trajectory to becoming productive, successful, healthy adults rather than just treating them when they are sick. Its primary goal is to help children graduate college. Reforming primary care pediatrics therefore has great potential for improving overall U.S. health care outcomes.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Value ceased to be a side initiative or something driven solely by top-level finance and executive leaders. The clinical team works together with finance and quality-measurement staff to update this box score every week. This links the box score to a small set of targeted improvement projects (see the example below).

Cost 8

Cost Management Health Care System 8