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Could HR be the most data driven function?

HR Digest

If you analyze functions like finance, IT, and marketing you will find common drivers of success. For instance, by designing an effective recruitment and reward system, HR can directly decrease attrition and increase the revenue of the company by saving the cost of training new hires. Talent Management. Hiring Efficiency.

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The Disconnect that Keeps Your Company from Performing at its Peak

Strategy Driven

These executives tell me frankly that they don’t have the revenue stream, the market share, or the margins their products and services deserve. Typically, Finance, Marketing, and Operations all have input, direct or indirect, on the creation and revision of the strategic plan. I call this obstacle The Disconnect.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

What is the historic attrition and turnover rate and how do these map to the skills that keep you competitive? He has more than 30 years of experience in corporate sales and marketing, including years in book publishing business, working for IDG Books, publishers of the … For Dummies computer and general reference books.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Quantitative measures, such as attrition data, employee performance data, and program attendance rates give you the numbers you may need to defend your program to executives. He has a marketing communications degree from Bradley University. To keep your program humming along, look at it from many different angles at regular intervals.

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Why Companies Are Advertising Their Master Brand

Harvard Business Review

Promoting a single brand with a single campaign naturally makes for a more efficient marketing spend, but in today’s fragmented media landscape, the advantage is even more pronounced. But their effectiveness can be dampened when an existing market leader has pooled its resources and leverages the combined power of all of its brands.

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Before You Link Pay to Customer Feedback: Five Essentials

Harvard Business Review

Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. For instance, you can calculate the value of turning a detractor into a promoter, or use differences in attrition rates to assess the expected lifetime values of different customer groups. One direct marketer learned this the hard way. Organized learning.

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Law Firms’ Grueling Hours Are Turning Defectors into Competitors

Harvard Business Review

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. But that’s just not true.