Peter Winick

JANUARY 27, 2023

Back in about it was 2014 or 2015. Peter Winick Well, and stay there for a minute, because this is one of the pressures that I have around publishing, is that, listen, a publisher’s success metric is really, really simple. The better metric would probably be, Wow. Kind of know what you think and how you operate.

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AIHR

JULY 14, 2021

Achieving operational efficiency. per year recorded between 1987 and 2014. In short, they improved their operational efficiency through evidence-based people practices. Spotting opportunities for value-adding data analysis – Stakeholders think and operate in terms of numbers.

Banking 59

Banking Digital Transformation Metrics Operations 59

Walk Me

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

These metrics are essential for evaluating progress and will be crucial in the subsequent stage of the process, where their performance and impact are analyzed. Such an approach aims to enhance processes gradually while causing minimal disruption to the overall operation.

Change Management 52

Change Management Manager Implementation Workflows 52

Walk Me

JULY 18, 2022

Supply managers with metrics of change progress. Consistency and metrics are two of the most potent tools in change management. An unpredictable operating environment. Look at how things operate to see the resources needed for the desired results. Contribute to a positive culture of change and a pro-change mindset.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. I did a Q&A on Quora about investing, growth channels, metrics, and life as a startup CEO — it was fun, and some of the answers ended up getting a million views! Started as a tweetstorm.

Marketing 52

Marketing Retention B2B Scaling 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. Changes in their behavior led to both lower carbon dioxide emissions (by 21,500 metric tons) and an estimated $5.4

Metrics 13

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

It’s proven hard to solve these problems partly because of metrics: It’s hard to identify and measure the factors that lead to high-quality information or connection. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

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Media Scaling Metrics ROI 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. rate for other companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

Decades of operating losses and rampant turnover in both the employee base and ownership group had cemented a fearful culture. The nascent e-commerce effort, viewed suspiciously by most in the company, operated independently on an antiquated platform. I did not want the company to liquidate. I still do not have an office.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2014

As usual, we try to broaden the focus from the current buzz around corporate boards to the more relevant metric of the gender balance of executive committees. Only 35% are in line or operational roles – and there has been no significant change in these percentages over the last three years. They are run by an exclusively male team.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

For example, in the sessions we use a "picture the future" exercise: it's 2014 and the Harvard Business Review is writing an article about how successful we've been, and we brainstorm about what we need to do now to achieve that picture. It has introduced playfulness, willingness to take risks, and a collaborative style.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Take the example of Harvey Norman , an Australia-based household-goods retailer that operates under various brands and has stores in several countries. The report neatly summarized all this in a “Financial Highlights” table with 14 measures and covered “operating and financial review” in a page and a half.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

” Anyone in the world who wants to operate out of Estonia can become a “resident” of the country — without living there. In this way, Estonia is suddenly making it possible for a whole new cadre of startup founders to operate in Europe at a fraction of the cost of living there. in 2011 to 2.9%

Government 15

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. Related Video. Go it alone.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

In early 2014, they established a “catalyst fund” – a pool of money that internal innovation teams could use for doing rapid proof of concept on new ideas. product vs. operational) and referenced the same stages (e.g. To reverse this, senior leadership took a number of steps. ideation” and “rapid prototyping”).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

It makes much more economic and operational sense to create and leverage a central cadre of professionals than to ask each clinical unit, on its own, to acquire such expertise. In addition, institution-wide outcome dashboards that previously just showed metrics required by external agencies will display the patient-reported outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

It’s almost universal practice that the benchmarker chooses one or two organizational goals, then picks a few key metrics (key performance indicators) relevant to those goals, and finally selects several peer groups from a limited set. Also, each peer group appears in many insights by combining them with the available metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2015

So then we explain the metrics away rather than using them to learn what’s working and improve the things that aren’t. The operation was the epitome of transparency — via Salesforce CRM integration, leaderboards displayed the top reps’ progress. How do we fix that?

Sales 14

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

The study results reveal there are 15 significant differences between how high-performing, average, and underperforming sales organizations perceive themselves, measure performance, staff their organizations, and operate. High-performing sales organizations are not afraid to aggressively raise year-over-year annual quotas.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. It is estimated that in 2014 the world produced some 42 million metric tonnes of e-waste (discarded electrical and electronic equipment and its parts)—with North America and Europe accounting for 8 and 12 million metric tonnes respectively. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. The parts of the business where the approach is used most intensively grew revenue by double digits in 2014. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

For example, notably absent in this year’s list are Y Combinator and RockHealth – both organizations now classify themselves and operate as seed funds rather than accelerators, shifts we confirmed by speaking with entrepreneurs currently in their portfolios.

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Benchmarking Operations Metrics Revenue 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

According to a 2014 survey from Deloitte , 86% of business leaders know that their organizations’ future depends on the effectiveness of their leadership pipelines — but a survey of 2,200 global HR leaders found that only 13% are confident in their succession plans, with 54% reporting damage to their businesses due to talent shortages.

Leadership Development 15

Leadership Development Strategic Planning Succession Planning Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. In our own conversations with CFOs we consistently hear that their attempts to work strategically with HR are the most trying.

Human Resources 15

Human Resources Administration Assets Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. By the end of 2014, they had improved fuel efficiency approximately 87% compared to the 2005 baseline.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The origins of our agile network can be traced back to an online idea forum called WeSolve that we launched in 2014 as a way of challenging Bayer employees to contribute solutions to specific technical or commercial problems. The innovation agenda. More than 600 were selected. This isn’t a challenge we have completely resolved.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2015

Apple has a similar split , with 60% of its 2014 fourth-quarter revenue accounted for by international markets. A study published by the National Venture Capital Association reveals that 40% of publicly traded venture-backed companies operating in high-tech manufacturing were founded by immigrants. They know their metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2017

However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. While tracking metrics to show local and global improvement is an important element, don’t forget to recognize the employees who make success possible.

Energy 15

Energy Employee Engagement Metrics Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Lending Club went public in 2014 and its enterprise value is nearly $9 billion. We recommend a five-step process called PIVOT: Pinpoint, Identify, Visualize, Operate, and Track. Operate your new co-creative digital business. Lending Club: This peer-to-peer lending platform connects would-be borrowers and lenders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

Revenue 15

Revenue Metrics Accounts Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

In medicine we’ve long operated under the mantra “doctor knows best.” Since the launch of “five-star” care, UUHC has celebrated steady gains in quality metrics and a reduction in costs. What is excellent health care? As has been widely reported , such fears were unfounded.

Hospitality 13

Hospitality Revenue Operations Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

” Even the most conservative reading of measurable outcomes of EU policy on every imaginable metric, however, says otherwise. Since 1996, and even during the most recent recession, private network operators in the U.S. network operators invested $600 per household compared to $389 in the EU. The result is that the U.S.

Advertising 13

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

in 2014, reports cloud-security firm Skyhigh Networks, which tracks 17 million users and 10,000 cloud services worldwide. It had been necessary for me to install a new operating system after they had picked up viruses while accessing sites that gave them clues on how to progress in their online games. Use of these services grew 21.6%

Compliance 13

Compliance Hospitality Assets Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The database focus also allowed the Obama camp to think expansively in its approach to metrics. "We Messina was also given good resources to work with: according to the article, he hired an analytics department five times bigger than the 2008 operation. Quite the contrast to the rushed approach taken by the Romney campaign.

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