High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

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Engineering 50

Engineering Scaling Operations 50

Mike Griffiths

JUNE 9, 2019

As software becomes more critical to business operations and product offerings we are seeing that software projects do not end. October 2018. I loved the explanation on the diseconomies-of-scale for software and why it is actually cheaper in small batches – unlike physical goods. Allan Kelly, Software Strategy Ltd.;

Software 75

Software Metrics Digital Transformation Project Management 75

AIHR

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Improving overall operational efficiency of HR. Process: The process refers to the operational process of the HRIS, as described above. Small-scale implementations may be much more rapid. Identification and understanding capabilities of object development by operational HR will significantly impact project success.

Human Resources 105

Human Resources Implementation Workflows Recruitment 105

AIHR

MARCH 30, 2021

Leaders want to hold their recruiting and talent operations accountable for quality and efficiency. ISO/TS 30411:2018 defines six metrics: Quality of hire: the performance of an individual after hire compared to pre-hire expectations. Ask the new hire: On a scale of 0-10, how much of a fit is this new job for you?

Recruitment 137

Recruitment Benchmarking Metrics Onboarding 137

AIHR

MARCH 24, 2023

Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) The Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) method uses a predefined set of performance standards with specific behaviors describing each level of performance. Daniel Pink (2018) found that employees are most satisfied when bad news is addressed early on in the interview.

Performance Management 100

Performance Management Scaling Performance Review Implementation 100

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Let’s start by looking at where the service economy is right now and why it’s resisted a full scale transformation by software. In the last few years, we’ve seen a rise in the number of full-stack or managed marketplaces, or marketplaces that take on additional operational value-add in terms of intermediating the service delivery.

Real Estate 111

Real Estate Digital Transformation User Experience Software 111

AIHR

MAY 7, 2018

I have seen this several times in fast growing scale-ups. Let’s skip operational reporting, advanced reporting and strategic analytics. This article is based on a keynote I gave at the Workforce Analytics Forum in Frankfurt, Germany, on April 18, 2018. We see a slow change at the horizon. This has led to several problems.

Performance Management 111

Performance Management Benefits Implementation Manager 111

Chief Executive

APRIL 3, 2023

Kobza is the new CEO of Toronto-based RBI and one of the youngest chiefs of a Fortune 500-scale American brand. For his part, Kobza is the one with all the experience in the burger world per se, already having served at RBI for 11 years as CFO, CTO and development officer, and, most recently, chief operating officer.

Operations 52

Operations Advertising Assets Revenue 52

Chief Executive

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It brings drag-and-drop ease and efficiency to the customer-data revolution for companies from the enterprise scale of Ford down to midsize marketing agencies. billion in 2018, Tableau for $15.7 I’m an example, and my cofounder is an example, but not every person is going to be able to move in that kind of scale.

Software 98

Software Scaling Sales Sales 98

Chief Executive

MAY 15, 2023

As early as 2018, U.S. Large-scale layoffs have not been restricted to big tech employers—in the last six months, companies in automotive, consumer and industrial products; financial services; life sciences sectors and more have announced intentions to reduce headcount across corporate and technical job roles.

Software 52

Software Scaling Marketing Operations 52

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue. Examples : Tips : Takes very few people to operate, should pay for itself from day 1.

Retention 111

Retention User Experience Travel Marketing 111

AIHR

AUGUST 18, 2021

There are two main things to take away from that part of our conversation: For fast-growing scale-ups, your company values can be the thing that brings in top talent, especially since you won’t always be able to compete with the ‘big guys’ on things like comp & ben. An often-cited example here is Nike. But how does this look in practice?

Employee Engagement 98

Employee Engagement Diversity Recruitment Media 98

Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Rock Climbing Adventure Scale new heights with a rock climbing excursion, guided for safety and excitement. Operation Test precision, removing ailments without setting off the buzzer. Vantage Circle kicked off its blog journey back in 2018, and guess what? Size refers to the scale or magnitude of the company.

Real Estate 105

Real Estate Inclusion Scaling Marketing 105

15Five

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The following is a recap of a panel discussion moderated by Annick Miller , Director of HR Consulting at Namely and featuring David Hassell , Co-founder and CEO of 15Five; Kristy McCann Flynn , Founder and CEO of GoCoach; and Lauren Melton , VP of People Operations at Ellevation. For a full recap of Namely’s HR Redefined 2018, click here.

Performance Management 90

Performance Management Manager Compensation Performance Review 90

Ed Batista

JANUARY 31, 2024

To be clear, there's nothing prescriptive about this framework--it's not a required order of operations, and it's not uncommon for a CEO and their colleagues to work through these stages in a different order. In some ways the outgoing CEO has it easy--at the very least, they're usually relieved to be free from operational responsibilities.

Compensation 136

Compensation Transportation Operations Succession Planning 136

15Five

APRIL 1, 2020

15Five was actually selected by the University of Michigan’s Center for Positive Organizations as a Gold Awardee of the 2018 Positive Business Project , specifically for our Question Friday practice. We’re then assigned to a breakout room in Zoom with a random set of our peers and share our answers with one another.

Engineering 97

Engineering Revenue Manager Sales 97

High Scalability

AUGUST 16, 2023

Here’s the unvarnished truth on external approvals and CABs based on research by Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim in their 2018 book, Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations. This violation is therefore neither minor nor excusable.” Without monitoring it is really hard to know.

Banking 40

Banking Change Management Risk Management Software 40

Know Your Team

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Trust is foundational for a team to operate well. Looking for a way to scale build affective trust in a personal way? In a 2018 survey we conducted with 1,182 managers and 838 employees, we found that almost 90% of managers believed that one-on-one meetings positively affect team performance. 2: Honesty.

Manager 52

Manager Scaling Operations Benefits 52

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. Once you reach scale, fraud becomes a real issue. Examples : Tips : Takes very few people to operate, should pay for itself from day 1.

Retention 48

Retention User Experience Travel Marketing 48

Vantage Circle

AUGUST 17, 2017

Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than one-fourth of American employees left their jobs in 2018. They are used to a high growth curve and can quickly scale up and participate more easily. Job hoppers from the same industry have a valuable view of how other businesses operate. According to the U.S.

Employee Engagement 40

Employee Engagement Retention Recruitment Marketing 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Key Processes are the operational and managerial capabilities that allow a company to deliver value in a way that can be repeated and scaled. Any consumer or service company that doesn’t have a digital component certainly should; this is 2018, after all.

Digital Transformation 15

Digital Transformation Advertising Scaling Assets 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The chart below shows the resilience index (x-axis) paired with three-year average GDP growth (y-axis), while the size of the bubbles represent our projections for the size of these economies in 2018. In high-opportunity and resilient markets, companies should find ways to improve the efficiency of their local operations.

Marketing 14

Marketing Government Transportation Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

And it’s not just low skilled, manual labor that’s at risk — “knowledge” work like operational analytics and marketing is also being taken over by sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. Internet users had almost doubled between 2014 and 2018, reaching almost one third of the user base.

Insurance 15

Insurance Scaling Marketing Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Interestingly, all these intrusions into business operations typically do not come from the Kremlin but from local officials who seem eager to gain the Kremlin’s favor amid instances of elevated international tensions. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

Government 11

Government Operations Revenue Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Three months after the sale, in June 2018, Toyota decided to pour $1 billion into Grab, in a bid to expand other offerings in the region including food delivery and electronic payments.

Transportation 14

Transportation Recruitment Advertising Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

This expectation that consumers were welded to the Windows operating system meant that developers and computer manufacturers all felt they had incentives to focus on contributing to the Microsoft ecosystem. Having five different desktops with different operating systems, on the other hand, is clunky.

Travel 8

Travel Scaling Operations Benefits 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Relative to its Chinese counterparts, India’s authorities have been focused on the fundamentals — on low-cost access to digital tools and on creating an open and inter-operable infrastructure. Currently, China is ahead on the major economic metrics: to add as much to its GDP as China will in 2018, India would need to grow by 40%.

Government 14

Government Inclusion Banking Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Imagining the same ad for a healthcare provider in 2018, even an innovative provider, is a stretch. To this end, they will need to move from pilot programs to large-scale efforts routinely offered across the care spectrum. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier. Sponsored by Optum. The challenge is huge.

Staffing 8

Staffing A/B Testing Rollout Hospitality 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Scaling Up Will be Harder Without Common Platforms and a Single Market. Even if the UK’s digital industry adapts to the new reality, as it no doubt will, it will be precluded from many existing and emerging platforms critical to scaling-up and competitiveness.

Marketing 12

Marketing Software Scaling Hospitality 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Now, as we begin to scale our care-delivery model to multiple new geographies, we’d like to share what more we’ve learned from our experiences in the two initial markets — lessons we think are applicable to other populations as well. Our primary care clinicians operate in multidisciplinary teams. Our results.

Hospitality 8

Hospitality Staffing Scaling Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Finally, platform launches represent a new business that is ready to be scaled up. Note that the table implicitly projects limited investment and a slow start to the new growth initiatives, with no new revenues in 2017, modest new revenues in 2018, and significant new revenues really only beginning in 2020 and 2021.

Revenue 8

Revenue Operations Marketing Scaling 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time. Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images.

Operations 8

Operations Revenue Marketing Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. In the second quarter of 2018, its international streaming revenues exceeded domestic streaming revenues for the first time. Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015.

Operations 8

Operations Revenue Marketing Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

As a free-standing enterprise operating under its own brand, FirstBuild is decidedly not another attempt to transform a traditional company’s corporate culture. The small full-time FirstBuild staff includes a director, an operations lead, and a commercial lead — roles one would expect to find in any comparably sized enterprise.

eCommerce 8

eCommerce Marketing Sales Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Our current financial accounting model cannot capture the principle value creator for digital companies: increasing return to scale on intangible investments. Its value growth is powered by the network in place, not by increments of operating costs.

Balance Sheet 8

Balance Sheet Assets Revenue Accounts 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Our research into firms that have succeeded in Africa highlights two essential requirements: the imagination to see the continent’s unmet needs as opportunities for growth, and the long-term commitment to build businesses of meaningful scale. Further Reading. Strategy & Execution BOOK. Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, and Georges Desvaux.

Marketing 8

Marketing Transportation Sales Sales 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

In January of 2018, Annette Zimmermann, vice president of research at Gartner, proclaimed : “By 2022, your personal device will know more about your emotional state than your own family.” How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Wunderfool/Getty Images. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

Advertising 8

Advertising User Experience Software Media 8