Thread regarding IBM layoffs

The Dubious Management Fad [NPS] Sweeping Corporate America

International Business Machines Corp. said it switched from a three-question survey to NPS in 2015.

Employees in different departments can see the NPS feedback on their phones. “What it’s become here

is a shared truth,” said Kathy McGettrick, vice president of market development and insights at IBM.

NPS is trumpeted during all-hands meetings, as well as on management and executive blogs and in other communiqué. Knew it was a crock but after reading this article didn't know how much of a crock it really was: wow.

Some NPS users in the Journal analysis said the score correlates with revenue growth, though no

company would disclose data to prove that point. Several companies said NPS is just one of many

metrics they use to make decisions and that it helps them improve products or services.

So using the above logic: since our NPS is supposedly positive, then our revenue should be positive too, right? Someone help me with the math, please!

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dubious-management-fad-sweeping-corporate-america-11557932084

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"Fad" is the right word. Too bad IBM goes so all in on fads. How many people are RA'd for things that don't matter in 6 months?

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NPS is a ridiculous attempt to simplify and quantify customer satisfaction. It's the lazy executive's way out of actually talking to customers. IBM makes it worse by making a huge investment in gathering and analyzing data followed by complete paralysis and panic if the number is not high enough.

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Net Promoter Scores (NPS) is another b---s--- psych-ops tactic cooked up by high tech agency-marketers to dazzle the C-Suite.

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Post ID: @5yvs+Z5i39ek

Honestly they should tap into thelayoff.com comments and to a 'sentiment analysis' - it'd be easy to see how negative/positive the sentiment is on a daily basis as we have quite a bit of comments here.

It'd be so much more indicative of how the worker feels and I am sure this translates into engagement and flows into overall productivity and work outcomes.

My two cents only...

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