Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

Benchmark data isn''t sexy stuff, but occasionally the numbers reveal surprising findings. Who, for instance, would have guessed that global NGOs spend nearly 80% more to track their finances and employ nearly twice as many finance staff as comparable for-profit multinationals?

Globalization 8

Globalization NGO Benchmarking Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

A traditional energy overhaul of a building (retrofits that include replacing mechanical systems, windows, insulation, and other features during a remodel) requires significant investment, and is therefore typically timed with major renovations or capital-intensive building system replacement.

NPV 8

NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Throughout the research, Korn Ferry used our best-in-class CEO benchmark, which comprises typical scores for CEOs (virtually all male) who are in the 99th percentile of work engagement, as a touchstone to highlight similarities and underscore differences for the women in the study. Some women expressed frustration about the delay.

CEO 8

CEO Benchmarking Mentor Career 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

When business leaders talk about going digital, many are uncertain about what that means beyond buying the latest IT system. And how can companies benchmark themselves against competitors? Companies do need assets like computers, servers, networks, and software, but those purchases are just the start. First, digital assets.

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” As you point out though we are now faced with a culture of political correctness> It no longer comes just from the "top" but is deeply ingrained in our belief system, especially when it comes to work environments.

Politics 375

Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

How did Sal Khan finance his venture? First, Sal Khan could have continued in finance and made far more money than he does in a nonprofit. When prisoners are released without an effective support system they are highly likely to end up back in jail, which is devastating to them and their families and costly to government.

Bond 11

Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Outside the Valley, the startup eco-systems are mostly immature, and the probability gets even lower. Andy’s research was financed by DARPA at the university. As a result, we got a good deal from Benchmark Capital. In some cases, it can take you to the enviable position of having VCs like Sequoia or Benchmark knock on your door.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Benchmarking 8

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. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

It might also include political capital that arises from membership of or strong ties to a high status group such as the finance committee, a special task force, or the senior management team. process that uses structures of control systems, incentives, and sanctions that keep the organization in compliance. The High Ground.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

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. Are our user experience designs and delivery systems appropriately aligned with use cases?

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

In case you skimmed too fast to get the point, here it is: that favored benchmark of national performance, GDP growth or GDP per capita, is a distortion of reality that guides us to decisions contrary to what people really want. despite hiring some noted academics to mortarboard-wash our conclusions with statistics and citations.

GDP 15

GDP Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Policies 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. Integrated : Ideas need to be incorporated into strategic initiatives and not constitute disparate systems. Measurable : Any new ideas being adopted must lead to measurable objectives. Timing : It must be detailed and deliverable on a schedule.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

Something done or said due to substance abuse, succumbing to a bribe or fraud when finances are tight, or erupting under pressure and tearing down another human being can all lead to a complete loss of trust credits. However, I have also seen someone lose all their trust credits at once. Have you ever made an ethically questionable decision?

Ethics 95

Ethics Servant Leader Execution Survey 95

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? How effectively has the company adapted its legacy business to change and disruption, giving it new life? Financial performance.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Designing a consistently positive, rewarding experience across all those touchpoints takes system-wide thinking and an integrated service-delivery approach. The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. Mayo staffs it value-improvement projects with a project leader to coordinate the team’s work, a systems engineering analyst to conduct process mapping, and a financial analyst to provide relevant data. Select a project team.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals. Changing the System. Worse, we have conspicuously failed to benchmark progress across these options, on the basis of their real-world impact and performance. It was never supposed to be just an accounting system.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But this single-minded focus can be a major problem when it comes to tackling slow-building, systemic challenges, like global warming, that could take down not just supply chains but, over time, entire economies. Today, we see growing interest in new business benchmarks and in potential breakthrough materials and forms of energy.

Morale 8

Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The European Index of Digital Entrepreneurship Systems (EIDES) aims to rank each of the 28 EU Member States across a range of metrics to gauge their ability to support entpreneurialism. The Index, which is built from the 39 million or so learners that are enrolled on several thousand courses, provides a talent benchmark for countries.

Entrepreneur 52

Entrepreneur Incubator Human Capital Education 52

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