Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2018

Today, good marketing relies on having detailed and accurate customer data. The potential to conduct effective data-driven marketing with these augmented databases is enormous. Data-Driven Marketing. Consider the example shown in the exhibit below, where two retailers enter a second-party data sharing partnership.

Retail 8

Retail Metrics Brand Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Therefore his mental model was not how to gain market share from other airlines, but how to create a completely new market for air travel. ” Beyond the usual financial metrics, JetBlue also measures the strength of its culture and the quality of its experience. For example, most retailers are merchants using technology.

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Airlines Strategy Business Model Metrics 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. So for a compensation committee to justify a new metric, it needs to have a strong business case. .”

Execution 11

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Without a clear, measurable, value-creating goal, companies risk expending huge amounts of human and capital resources without delivering any real financial return. Measuring Marketing Insights. Their stated goal is typically to improve customer satisfaction at each step of the customer journey. Insight Center.

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Retail Apparel Motivation Attrition 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

From supply chain to marketing and even employees , if you can measure, you can improve. Recently, I sat in a meeting in the adidas offices in Shanghai, listening to our market research firm present some puzzling information. We'd commissioned a market share study, and the numbers sounded way off. What is measured.

Retail 11

Retail Supply Chain Merchandising Metrics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

But as Michael Lewis describes in Moneyball , the Oakland Athletics discovered that the metric the team's scouts used to choose players had nothing to do with whether those players would score runs. Leave aside, for the moment, which metrics you currently use or which ones Wall Street analysts or bankers say you should.

Banking 15

Banking Metrics Objective Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.” First, senior management should decide on the business goal for an analytics initiative and the key performance indicators to track that will put them on the right path toward success. Establish a center of gravity for analytics. Make collaborative decisions.

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Root Cause Analysis Metrics Analysis Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Identify the right metrics that “move the needle.” ” First, senior management should decide on the business goal for an analytics initiative and the key performance indicators to track that will put them on the right path toward success. Establish a center of gravity for analytics. Make collaborative decisions.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Metrics Analysis Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

A large body of research shows that decision-makers selectively use data for self-enhancement or to confirm their beliefs or simply to pursue personal goals not necessarily congruent with organizational ones. Big is old – retailers and financial institutions have had big data for decades. Take large retailers.

Credit Scoring 11

Credit Scoring Diversity Retail Media 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” The goal was to get feedback and strengthen the thinking to maximize the potential impact on growth.

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CFO CEO Agility Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

But what are the goals of these corporate coworking spaces? This is explicitly the goal at Orange’s VBN, which Ava Virgitti, an employee experience lead for Orange, describes as an “HR lab” to test and learn how teams behave in the presence of leaner and meaner startups. Who uses them? And what do they look like?

Company 10

Company ROI Metrics Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

If you spend much time around salespeople, it won't take long before you hear them griping about the issue that is the profession's biggest trouble spot: disagreement over the market potential of a group of accounts or a territory. In exit interviews, the people who leave imply they don't have enough market potential to succeed.".

Retail 9

Retail Incentives Tactics Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

In e-commerce, advances in tracking and analytics have made it possible for retailers to understand what individual customers are doing before they make a purchase, and to gather and analyze hundreds and thousands of data points to identify trends. Take Alex and Ani, which designs and retails jewelry, and Belk, a department store chain.

Retail 12

Retail Chief Technology Officer Technology Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

” Companies measure the market results of their sales investments. Consider: The most common metrics for evaluating social media are likes, tweets, reviews, and click-through-rates (CTRs) for online ads — not cause-and-effect links between the medium and market results. Let’s see who is behind the curtain.

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Media Advertising Public Relations Forrester 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2016

In today’s market, tech platforms enable IP and relationships to scale rapidly, and at near-zero cost. The goal is to identify a way that your and your network can create value together, using both your assets and theirs. This will require reporting on new metrics.

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Intangible Assets Business Model How To Intellectual Capital 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

A recent CMO Survey indicates that marketers plan to double their spending on social media in the next five years. This disparity highlights an important, and potentially costly, problem: Marketers continue to increase social media spending, yet many are still uncertain about management, strategies, and integration.

Media 8

Media Strategy Audience Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

In fact, the company has about 500 metrics that it tracks every day, the majority of them relating to the customer experience. One path to this third goal — call it Type 1 feedback — is closed-loop communication with customers. It tracks all those metrics. Did you know that an additional 0.1 Neither did I.

Merchandising 13

Merchandising Metrics Restructuring Library 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Stagnant growth in its core PC market recently led Intel to announce layoffs of roughly 12% of its workforce. The company will also eliminate a key chipset in the difficult tablet and smartphone market. That process was quickly fixed — and illuminated the pathology of valuing productivity metrics divorced from UX.

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

More and more companies are tying incentive pay to customer metrics. Phones4U, a UK mobile phone retailer, announced a big increase in the weight of Net Promoter scores in its frontline pay plan. Truly reliable feedback and metrics. And if your metrics aren't trustworthy, then your compensation system won't be either.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

With that goal, we thought carefully about each of our clinical service lines: Are we the best at this service line? Take Silver Cross’s joint operating committee with RIC, which convenes on a quarterly basis to review Balanced Scorecard metrics on quality of care, patient experience, volume, and efficiency.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Almost any enterprise you can think of, no matter the industry or sector, is trying (or being pressured by competitors) to use new technology to harness the vast new oceans of data being generated by smartphones, sensors, digital cameras, GPS devices, and myriad other sources of information originating from customers and markets.

Technology 8

Technology Metrics Budgeting CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The ultimate goal is to signal to the market that the digital acquisition is part of a series of moves that will help you adapt and win in the digitalization of your industry. The acquisition communicated to the market that Thales was shifting its financial profile to the high-growth business. Insight Center.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. Second, continue three-year plans, generally paid in stock and based on financial goals.

Long-term 8

Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Finding that first market — a few customers willing to pay for your early product — is hard enough. And that's finding the second market. You've built up the equivalent of a hand callus in response to the friction and pressure of what it has taken to get to that first-market success. And he was right.

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Learning-by-Doing Rogers Marketing Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

For example, a client recently quantified the millions of dollars it annually saves retailers by being better — through reducing product returns — and prospective customers responded with excitement. While this metric seals deals, it provides little incentive to fight for the highest prices.

Price 14

Price Strategy P&L Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

These deficiencies are as common in health care and education as they are in manufacturing and retail. And even small improvements in practices can have a huge impact: Among manufacturers, for example, we found that a one-point gain on our five-point scale correlates with 23% higher productivity, 14% higher market capitalization, and a 1.4-percentage-point-higher

Management 8

Management Benchmarking Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

To keep costs under control, you’d set goals for reducing it every year. Leaders kept a tight rein on costs, with goals for reducing average call time, improving customer satisfaction levels, and driving more service volume to the Web. The trouble was that the scripts, metrics, and rules were getting in the way.

Call Center 9

Call Center Attrition Cost Center Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Even today, with more than $200B in market capitalization largely derived from that same data, investors struggle to value the company’s information. But we’d speculate that Fitbit could do just as well at coaching you through your personal health goals by logging the reading on the minute and storing 1/60th of the data.

Business Model 8

Business Model System Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

Next, you need to think about what matters to you in both your professional and private life and then “assess the offer” against these metrics, says Weiss. “If you are a perfect match for the job and it’s a tight market, you have a lot of leverage,” says Lees. ” Be methodical. Other options.

Due Diligence 15

Due Diligence How To Travel Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

In addition to working with participating providers to target clinical populations for whom virtual care would be appropriate, we asked providers to offer virtual visits to align with BWH population health and access goals. We believe this program will become increasingly vital as the market offers more virtual urgent care options.

Health Care 8

Health Care Consultative Video Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

This has big implications for businesses, entrepreneurs, and innovators seeking growth beyond their home markets: there just isn’t a one-size-fits-all app or approach to building scale in the global digital economy. Improving access factors has a greater impact on digital evolution than improving transaction factors.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Policies Globalization Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Retailers know they have to find the right blend of digital convenience and in-person service. Like banks, airlines, and retailers, health care providers will need to offer an easy, digital front-end experience to their customers. First, what strategic goal would virtual care help achieve today? Fanatic Studio/Getty Images.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Strategy Licensing 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. What’s optimal for you – with your goals and values – could very well be suboptimal for the next person.

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Resources Process Constraint Objective 50