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Developing a high-performing and agile leadership team to increase performance and profitability

Brimstone Consulting

Through a combination of add-on acquisitions, capital investment, and the integration of three portfolio companies, a leading private equity firm transformed a local artisanal food manufacturer into a national company with a range of products and a portfolio of brands. Two senior team members were onboarded. Let's talk CONTACT BRIMSTONE.

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Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take

Johanna Rothman

Team 1 started this project on Jan 1, 2020. See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.) The post Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. Let's walk through the data for Team 1.

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Lead to the future: leadership imperatives for success

Brimstone Consulting

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. 2020 has been replete with inspiring stories of organizations acting quickly to address immediate needs. Breweries pivoted to making hand sanitizers.

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Seeing What You Want to See Leads to Big Problems

Makarios Consulting

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. It happens time and again, such as … … when the head of business development is sure that a major customer is locked in despite a shift in order quantities. Too often, leaders fall down on the very first requirement. The end result?

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Automotive Industry 2022: Overcoming Project Challenges

Epicflow

Its current development is primarily driven by 4 major trends: connectivity, autonomous vehicles, shared mobility, and electrification. global chip shortage), and the need for reducing production costs add to the above-mentioned difficulties. . The need to shorten the time for product development. The need to cut costs.

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How to Stop Micro-Managing Your Team

Organizational Talent Consulting

Research suggests that mismatched management reduces morale, trust, and productivity and increases employee turnover. Partnering for performance is one way to develop self-reliant achievers and avoid micro-managing your team. European Journal of Training and Development, 41(3), 241-260. New York: Bibliomotion, Inc.

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Is Strategy still Relevant to Organization Design?

Kates Kesler

The companies that were able to quickly shift direction in 2020 have been least impacted by, or even profited from, the pandemic. For example, the lack of project prioritization and ineffective allocation of engineering and product development resources resulted in late and over-budget products, which were now in high demand.