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How much Face Time are you getting?

CO2

Face Time as a KPI. It turns out that the number one Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for a sales organization is Revenue to Face Time. Gardner shows, for example, how Gandhi, Einstein, Freud, Picasso, Elliot, and Stravinsky all took 10 years to make their first major breakthrough.

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AI Is Going to Change the 80/20 Rule

Harvard Business Review

As machine learning and AI algorithmic innovation transform analytics, I’m betting that next-generation algorithms will supercharge Pareto’s empirically provocative paradigm. Fewer than 10% of drinkers, for example, account for over half the hard liquor sold. ” Extreme distributions transcend and dominate industry.

KPI 8
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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business Review

Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves. Consider, for example, the obsessive get-it-done-now! executive whose 360-degree performance reviews point to a brusque and alienating communication style. Insight Center.

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8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value

Harvard Business Review

Their innovation efforts tend to be focused wholly on the creation of new value; meanwhile, the question of how exactly they will be compensated for it usually goes unexamined. One typical reason is that top executives haven’t managed to clarify something even more fundamental: how much priority they place on increasing profit margins.

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Why Companies Should Measure “Share of Growth,” Not Just Market Share

Harvard Business Review

We personally know of three executives who were pivotal in launching $100 million-plus innovations. Again, it comes down to metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) that don’t properly capture the subtleties of how a business is growing. Adding share of growth as a KPI solves for three drawbacks to market share.

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The Most Common Reasons Customer Experience Programs Fail

Harvard Business Review

Most CX programs are broken in similar ways: They are not designed with change or innovation in mind. Mistake #1: Forgoing change and innovation. While executing driver analyses enables change, it’s not actual change. When this is the case, though, be certain to study KPI success or failure with caution.