N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” To be clear, being balanced doesn't mean that you're not committed, not sold-out, not passionate – it just means you apply filters to your efforts to insure that passions are productive and healthy; not imbalanced.

Politics 375

Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. It doesn’t need to be complicated; in one company, a marketing department saved 20 percent after simply benchmarking the money they were spending on external agencies. They’re going to make ads and do whatever it is they do.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The good news is that an increasing number of cities have made commitments to aggressive climate and sustainability goals , a trend we anticipate accelerating following the recent UN agreement in Paris. With the sustained national focus on codes, standards, and green-building certifications, such as the U.S.

NPV 8

NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Creating effective pay structures is a serious responsibility however many businesses still hold back from fully committing to the endeavor. Equitable workplace strategies for fair compensation not only reflect a healthy work culture , they also allow employees to commit better to their roles.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Commitment to efficient value creation invariably inspires more thoughtful investment in the quality — not quantity — of staff.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Because the new data analytics horizons typically span a range of functions, including marketing, risk, and operations, the C-suite evolution may take a variety of paths. Like any new business opportunity, data analytics will underdeliver on its potential without a clear strategy and well-articulated initiatives and benchmarks for success.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10