Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

Metrics 8

Metrics Business Model Retail Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. 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

MAY 20, 2013

Employees at semiconductor-chip-maker Intel recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. For instance, in 2008 Simon Colbeck, head of technology for clothing, was concerned about the huge volume of garments that end up in landfills every year.

Metrics 9

Metrics Chemicals Simon Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Just as they do for physical fitness, technologies tracking steps and heart rates already capture actionable inferences about individual energy levels and moods. For example, as part of its IoT digital transformation efforts, GE embraced “digital twins” as a key productivity technology.

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Scenario planning is as essential for strategy formulation as it is for the design of next generation technologies and industries. Credit given for the development of novel/innovative metrics for performance assessment (for example, attendance figures as a "team economics" variable). Cooking Science & Technology. Everybody eats.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Baseline financial skills are still essential, but international experience, industry knowledge, investor relations acumen, technology expertise, and strategic prowess are now just as much part of the package. Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role. That needs to change.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

The research shows that men are 16 percent more inquisitive than women, possibly due to their tendency to gravitate towards STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) careers that reinforce inquiry. Fact 3: Considerable personality gaps exist between the sexes in inquisitiveness, sensitivity and impulsiveness.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120