Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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Finance Skills EBITDA Net Present Value 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

This is not a superficial exercise; it entails a deep dive into the company ethos, operational nuances, and strategic goals. Instead, the focus has increasingly leaned toward a blend of hard skills, strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and the ability to inspire and lead teams toward shared goals.

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Long-term Due Diligence Quality Leadership Styles 235

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Our goal is to work shoulder to shoulder with each other to drive missionary change. . Companies can work intentionally towards developing more allies and enabling existing allies with tools and resources to be the best version of themselves. At Audible, we continue to focus on S&B education. Can you give a specific example?

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Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Our goal is to work shoulder to shoulder with each other to drive missionary change. . Companies can work intentionally towards developing more allies and enabling existing allies with tools and resources to be the best version of themselves. At Audible, we continue to focus on S&B education. Can you give a specific example?

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Diversity Katz Learning-by-Doing Globalization 52

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

In today’s post I’ll address a key metric that all companies should be focused on – Customer Experience Management (CEM)… Before I go any further let’s get the semantical arguments out of the way…Some will claim that a well conceived CRM initiative includes CEM as a subset. You definitely nailed it.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2019

A way of identifying future goals, along with the timeline, they will help you to achieve growth. 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.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Michael Hammer and Lisa Hershman provide the tools for focusing on work that creates real value for customers, including: How to get people to move from ‘worm’s-eye view’ of thier jobs to a ‘bird’s-eye view’ – to understand what the company really does and the role they have in achieving results.

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Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

His goal is to foster change, opening up often-denied paths to young girls by providing them education. Make sure the metrics reinforce the goals. When you're trying to push for an intangible goal (e.g. education), it makes sense to help show progress by focusing on concrete metrics (e.g.

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Metrics Education Software Tools 12

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. Related Video.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Stay focused on using customer support as a learning tool to make your product better, and listen carefully–especially to your most vocal, demanding customers. Your goal is success. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Establish models, not just metrics. What not to do.

Metrics 13

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

More and more companies are tying incentive pay to customer metrics. Pep Boys, a US auto parts store chain, reports in its proxy statement that customer metrics are now an important part of its executive compensation system. Truly reliable feedback and metrics. Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

We believe energy could be viewed in many organizations as a “ keystone metric ” — i.e., a primary indicator that aligns the whole organization around the pursuit of operational excellence. Set ambitious, science-based goals for energy and carbon. Use advanced financing mechanisms to expand energy project options.

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Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

Yet much of the data from sources such as CRM reporting tools and time studies is self-reported, and thus inherently flawed. Besides wrestling with structure and alignment issues, sales leaders have always sought to understand why some of their reps consistently attain or exceed their goals and others do not.

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Software Metrics CRM B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources' That needs to change.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Its goal was to promote greater sharing of ideas, information, best practice and innovative processes. 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.

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Incentives Tools Benchmarking Innovation 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. We have done this based on international standards, and we use those tools and benchmarking to help shippers identify ways to reduce their emissions. A critical component of the DEI strategy is our commitment to measurement and metrics. The HR Digest: C.

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Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Finance puts the systems in place to track the money coming in. Creating tools and programs that add value throughout the sales process: For example, a web site makes the purchasing process efficient, or tools provide salespeople insights about a customer's business. Your R&D group develops a unique new product.

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Company Market Penetration Long-term Short-term 14

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.

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CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Some women wanted to advance to senior leadership roles so they could influence business strategy, lead change, and advance the goals and values of the company.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

They're a metric, not a goal. That's because there's little legal or historical justification for making shareholder wealth maximization the goal of the corporation (Stout's 2002 Southern California Law Review article, " Bad and Not-So-Bad Arguments for Shareholder Primacy ," is the best summary of the evidence on this).

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Short-term Collins Bottom-up Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

It requires a new set of tools: a more open and flexible mind-set, significant process changes, as well as new technology and infrastructure. Big financial services companies are challenged when it comes to connecting with younger consumers, particularly about personal finance. The New Tools of Marketing. Insight Center.

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Company Hotels Travel Class 8

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).

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Project Participative Goal ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. SCF’s focus on relationships is mirrored in its approach to finance.

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Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2016

Vision : Define a picture of the desired future tailored to the unique needs and specific goals of the organization. Support : Enlist support from other functional areas within the organization, such as marketing, HR, finance and operations, as well as the external support from partners and customers.

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Metrics Marketing Strategy Case Study 50

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Pay Equity Analysis: How to Create Fair Salary Structures With the number of tools and data collection resources available to us, it’s impossible for companies to claim ignorance of the pay disparity and the struggles personally encountered by their employees.

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

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. We’re excited about impact investing because we’re close to it.

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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. These tools must be customized to the population and integrated across the system. health care outcomes.

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Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

While there have been significant strides in providing frontline clinicians with quality information, these clinicians still lack the tools they need to play an active role in controlling the costs of the care they provide. Value ceased to be a side initiative or something driven solely by top-level finance and executive leaders.

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Cost Management Health Care System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

tools inside the organization, but the list is short for companies that are using them for increased business results. Here's how they did it, and how they're using social media tools to become more agile, to share knowledge, and to increase the speed of innovation. Technology: Determine the right mix of tools and technologies.

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Media Productivity Products Company 15

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The answer to that depends on your goals, budget, etc., They also offer a good mix of helpful and educational tools that integrate well with other leading tools for free. Epic Presence Epic Presence uses influencer outreach as a tool to reach audiences through content marketing. 1) That more is better.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “bigger” leaders.

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Leadership Insurance Learning-by-Doing Emotional Intelligence 14

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.)

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Organization Self-aware Taylorism Taylor 12