Women in Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2016

. :: Thinking of writing a book? Writing a book can transform a career, opening up new possibilities and expanding your reach. By the time you’ve accumulated the wisdom to share in a book, you’re often busy doing whatever you’re good at. Unless you plan to pen a post-career memoir, you may not feel you have time to write a book.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

And she wants the teams to create products the customers want to buy. Jenny has experienced what many of you have, too: Collaborative teams with diverse experiences can develop products customers want to buy. Over her career, Jenny has learned that it's easier to sell more product than to manage costs.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. We addressed the issues with new communication channels, customer service and quality initiatives, on-going quality leadership training for all leaders (executives, too), and team development applications.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 13, 2023

As a strategy consultant at a boutique management consulting firm, I am always on the lookout for new tools that can help organizations become more efficient, effective, and innovative. One of the key benefits of ChatGPT is its ability to generate high-quality, relevant responses to user input.

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Tsavo Neal

APRIL 29, 2021

One way he does this is through his book, Back Mechanic. In Back Mechanic , he distills the essentials of how to fix your back into a book format. The process he takes his patients through in his $1000 assessment can be found in the book. With Back Mechanic, Dr. McGill has taken his expertise and created a product out of it.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Flow efficiency at all levels. You do need to remove barriers to fast delivery: Fast product decisions at the start and to not change them until the teams deliver. ” Or mine, “Explore and support effective ways of managing product development.”

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I took an opportunity to write a new book this year, Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer. That book satisfied one of my business goals: to write more useful books. That book was on my options list, but I had not planned to write that book this year. I'm now able to finish the consulting book.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

Becoming a competent and sought-after project manager is impossible without constant professional development. At the same time, the amount of information in any domain is unprecedentedly huge – courses, books, education websites, blogs, etc. What else will you find in this book? Enjoy the reading!

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 7, 2023

Successful product development requires the team learn together—the faster, the better.) I updated this in the book.) Focus on collaboration, as a team works in flow efficiency. That's because the team didn't learn together. Collaboration decreases learning debt. You'll finish faster and avoid learning debt.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

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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Chad Barr

JUNE 22, 2022

Collaborate with others by developing a piece of content where others contribute to the same piece. Engage a ghost writer who will develop the content on your behalf. You may be surprised how productive and efficient you may be when you take some time off to reenergize yourself.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. They acted as if they were indispensable or 10x developers. Most teams had several female developers. See Book 2 for what you can do about that myth.).

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. In a multi-project environment, ensuring productive work of team members gains even more importance: resources are shared by concurrent projects, and their fruitful work on them will be impossible without wise resource management. .

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

However, they now had a production support problem that they needed to fix. Production support issues are validated feedback. The team called the product people “product owners.” These product people executed manual tests. These product people executed manual tests. Neither did the developers.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

They do that with: Assessing and managing project or program risks for the team's effort and the overall product. Each person works in resource efficiency, focused on their deliverables. Too often, people outside the team, such as managers or product managers, create the team's multitasking. Not for the product.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Project management maturity (or PMM) reflects a company’s ability to manage projects efficiently. They usually describe levels indicating the current state of an organization in terms of project management efficiency and propose recommendations on how to proceed to more sophisticated levels. . Let’s examine some of them. .

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But it can be ineffective and considerably extend the timeline of product development projects. In the aerospace and defense industry, a lack of resources is one of the industry-specific challenges, so maximum efficient utilization of the existing employees gains even more importance. Utilize resources with maximum efficiency.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Research studies have linked effective performance management with positive individual and organizational outcomes such as increased productivity, decreased employee turnover intentions , reduced absenteeism, improved operational efficiency, reduced costs, and improved customer satisfaction. Doesn't develop followers.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The first is that Brooks strongly suggested the idea of a “surgical team” That hierarchical team was a feature- or product-based team. Ten people, seven of them professionals, are at work on the problem, but the system is the product of one mind–or at most two, acting uno animo.”

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

I'm rewriting/reorganizing the Lead an Innovative Organization book. Flow efficiency at all levels. You do need to remove barriers to fast delivery: Fast product decisions at the start and to not change them until the teams deliver. ” Or mine, “Explore and support effective ways of managing product development.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

In much the same way, nobody calls a travel agency to book a simple flight anymore. So a lot of people were surprised when it launched a brick and mortar book store , but as Apple has shown with its highly successful retail operation, there’s a big advantage to having stores staffed with well trained people.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

When there are multiple projects in the environment, tracking resource performance becomes even more essential – due to resource dependency, one resource bottleneck will become an obstacle for efficient work of the whole environment. . Obviously, stressed and overloaded employees cannot be productive. Don’t overload the team .

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 10, 2018

Sometimes, I state them as objectives: complete this book, learn that thing. Some of my goals are corporate objectives: release that book, build that workshop in service of a greater goal. Notice how my MBOs optimized for my deliverables, a form of resource efficiency. That helps with flow efficiency.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2013

THE Ansoff Matrix (referred to by some commentators as the Product/Market Expansion Grid) was developed by a Russian-American mathematician named Igor Ansoff , and first explained in his 1957 Harvard Business Review article entitled Strategies for Diversification. What is a Product-Market Growth Strategy? Background.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In this episode, we are talking about ways that you can effectively position yourself as an expert in your field, how to get your expertise recognized, and the danger of productizing your work, as well as what you should be doing instead. I fumbled my way through that too. It’s not so much a divide but it was more of a divide back then.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

Amelia, the “cognitive agent” developed by IPsoft, can parse natural language to understand customers’ questions, handling up to 27,000 conversations simultaneously and in multiple languages. And because “she” is connected to all the relevant systems, Amelia delivers results faster than a human operator.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The good news is that a project manager doesn’t have to write all of them – the idea is to compile only those that will be essential for workflow efficiency and required by stakeholders. It consolidates three baselines (time, scope, and schedule) as well as previously developed auxiliary plans shown in the picture below. . References

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Because your context is unique to you, your team, project, product, and culture. And, with any luck, nudges the culture in a good direction for your team, project, and product. Why Do You Want an Agile Culture for Your Product? Notice I said the culture is for this particular product. What do you need?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

A total of about 1500 words on the book plus one image. The book distributor work is complete. However, if people collaborate with pairing, swarming, or mobbing, they work in flow efficiency. I also know my cycle times to develop workshops and video them. If you're a product leader, you need a product value team.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 21, 2019

And, that your products and services need short feedback loops that an agile approach will use. Business resilience means everyone works in flow efficiency , not resource efficiency. Even if you don't need an agile approach, feature teams will help your product development efforts. Start with management first.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). Too many meetings will slowly weaken productivity by splintering everyone's work into small chunks and reducing their time for deep work. And with less productivity comes less impact and/or innovation.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 6, 2022

In contrast, great change leadership maximizes business speed, efficiency, and innovation. Personal story: Years ago, I was making a succession planning and leadership development presentation to a senior leadership team. Strengthening organizational commitment maximizes employee productivity, job performance, and emotional well-being.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 19, 2022

In this article, we’ll provide an overview of this process, and let you know how project managers can make it more simple and efficient by utilizing a resource management solution. . Develop a project charter. What is Project Integration Management? . Let’s examine them in detail in the section below. .

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 9, 2021

That's because agile teams learn together as they create the product. I think, in terms of the Modern Management Made Easy books, these behaviors support how a team can work for an overarching goal. Influence for the betterment of the team, product, and organization (not coercion). The team works by learning together.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 20, 2014

The Experience Curve captures the relationship between increasing production experience and declining costs. Wright described the effect of learning on production costs in the aircraft industry showing that required labour time dropped by 10 to 15 percent with every doubling of production experience. Source: Flickr ).

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2013

Social enterprise has the potential to change the status quo in three important ways: Firstly, social enterprises are allowed to make a profit, which means they have an incentive to innovate and operate efficiently. Our friends at The Post Growth Institute are currently writing a book called How on Earth? Rise of Social Enterprise.

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