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Project Management Best Practice 11 – Project Performance Executive Dashboards

Strategy Driven

An experienced Operations Manager, he has managed critical Department of Defense programs, projects, and business lines; spanning multiple engineering maintenance disciplines including mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and instrumentation and controls systems. To read Greg’s complete biography, click here.

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Get More Innovative by Rethinking the Way You Think

Harvard Business Review

Here’s an example: At a professional services firm rolling out KPI dashboards, a breakthrough came when a cross-functional design group and IT considered creating a KPI dashboard to manage KPI dashboards. ” How could disparate KPIs be effectively aggregated and synthesized across the enterprise? .”

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AI Is Going to Change the 80/20 Rule

Harvard Business Review

Many high-performance organizations remain passionate about Vilfredo Pareto, the incisive Italian engineer and economist. The company’s engineering and account teams explored data-driven redesigns around desired features and function sets rather than the products themselves. come from 20% of causes (products, employees, etc).

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business Review

Think of them as “selvesware,” analogous to recommendation engines for books to read or movies to watch. The designer could run their designs through “visual recommendation engine” selvesware that offers bolder, more energetic styles based on their sketches and use cases.

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4 Models for Using AI to Make Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Ambiguity is the enemy; crisply defined service level agreements and explicit KPI accountability are essential. “The machine learning model is not a static piece of code  —  you’re constantly feeding it data,” says one Google engineer. It’s a different kind of engineering.”

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4 Ways to Build a Productive Sales Culture

Harvard Business Review

If we use an automobile analogy, sales efficiency (SE) initiatives — like CRM, training, and KPI dashboards — improve the engine’s horsepower. A confusion between efficiency and optimization plagues many sales efforts.

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The Right Way for an Established Firm to Do an Innovation Pilot with a Startup

Harvard Business Review

Its young engineers had come up with a technical solution that dramatically reduced downloading delays for users accessing data for their apps. The technology held appeal for network engineering departments at both telecom providers and digital service providers. Explicitly align any insights gained to KPI improvements.

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