Business Consulting Agency

JUNE 17, 2023

In today’s competitive business landscape, driving product sales is a top priority for companies aiming to achieve sustainable growth. Explore how business consultants can drastically assist companies in increasing product sales and the methodologies they employ to drive success. Want product sales success?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. First, the product-based expertise. That's often product people, testers, and some UI/UX people.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

In product development, line jobs contribute to the products themselves, which means they contribute to revenue. In Hiring Geeks That Fit , I categorized technical skills into these four areas: Functional skills, such as how you build or test the product. At what level do you understand the products you’ve worked on?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2015

Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? One of the ideas that I’ve been thinking about recently is that financial metrics are basically designed to evaluate how much you are getting out of a company, your cash flow take from the company.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 14, 2024

This involves optimizing product pages, streamlining the purchase process, implementing product recommendations, and leveraging data analytics to enhance the shopping experience and drive revenue growth. E-commerce Optimization: For retail brands with e-commerce platforms, consultants specialize in e-commerce optimization strategies.

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Consultant Ninja

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Ignoring the signup/website experience, I''m curious about the customer satisfaction and actual value from the core product. none / $0-1K / $1K-2K/ $2-5K / >$5K] 4) How likely are you to recommend our company/product/service to your friends and colleagues? [0-10]

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Intrigued by the possibility of a way out of the burnout cycle, a coworker (Colin) and I started meeting every other week to discuss productivity. To give more rigor to our meetings, we decided to define a metric for our productivity: average weekly hours worked. The same is true for productivity. Define a metric.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 9, 2024

Market Validation and Product Development Consulting services play a crucial role in validating market demand and refining product/service offerings for startups. Consultants conduct market validation exercises, customer surveys, prototype testing, and feedback analysis to validate product-market fit and identify areas for improvement.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2017

As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics. Wins are the most common metric used across sales roles and industries.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

Associate Product Manager (APM) positions are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. These alumni have gone on to become VCs, founders, and product leaders, in addition to starting APM programs at companies like Salesforce.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

These metrics provide the foundation for more outcome-oriented engagements, leveraging real-time data to secure contracts, monitor progress, and demonstrate the value of client investments. Which Metrics Are Essential for Professional Services Firms?

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

But managers and customers do care about better products. The managers care when the team can release those products—that's why managers use capitalization metrics. And the customers care about the value those products offer. That's why more agility in product development matters.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

In innovative products, the interdependencies can change any day. If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. Those are the kinds of products that do not require much, if any, innovation. See Three Tips to Focus to Deliver Better Products Faster.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2017

At the core of the confusion over a company like Tesla is that traditional business metrics are outdated and can create overconfidence or underestimation. Classic metrics like market penetration and market share, which many leaders are measured on, are the very things causing us to miss market opportunities and threats.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 4, 2024

We included topics from my programming experience, why multitasking is a disaster, and how to use flow metrics to understand reality. We remain the fabulous, messy, and unique individuals who need to learn how to work together to create useful and innovative products. I hope you listen.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 11, 2024

They assist businesses in defining their unique value proposition, optimizing product positioning, and identifying target markets for strategic growth. This data-driven approach provides actionable insights for optimizing marketing campaigns, product offerings, and customer engagement initiatives.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 20, 2024

For skin care companies aiming to establish a successful brand, launch innovative product lines, and navigate the competitive beauty industry, partnering with business experts can be a strategic advantage. Skin care brands benefit from experts through consulting services.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2021

How to measure progress in a product that’s still getting off the ground.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

One simple and often overlooked way for larger companies to experiment is to randomize the introduction of new products across a set of markets. To answer those questions, Duncan and his team conducted an experiment, launching Express Pool in six large markets and then comparing metrics in the launch cities with those in others.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 1, 2022

Research that compared companies with a high level of trust and certainty to companies with low-trust and low-certainty, found that people at high-trust companies report : 74% less stress, 106% more energy at work, 50% higher productivity, 13% fewer sick days, 76% more engagement, 29% more satisfaction with their lives, 40% less burnout.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory. Measuring inventory momentum can help leaders address the problem.

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Managers capture all kinds of metrics, from the number of patient falls in a hospital ward, to the first pass yield in a production line, to the number of hits on a website, to the time it takes to repair a bicycle. Some changes in metrics are just noise in an otherwise stable system. However, not every change is meaningful.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

But we discovered a surprisingly simple way to increase productivity, one that was low-cost and had immediate impact: better office seating arrangements. Worker performance data broken down into three metrics: Productivity. and Europe. Monthly reports on each employee’s location and assigned cubicle over time.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 1, 2022

Research that compared companies with a high level of trust and certainty to companies with low-trust and low-certainty, found that people at high-trust companies report : 74% less stress, 106% more energy at work, 50% higher productivity, 13% fewer sick days, 76% more engagement, 29% more satisfaction with their lives, 40% less burnout.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Operational Efficiency and Process Optimization Identifying operational inefficiencies and implementing process optimization strategies are key to streamlining business operations and maximizing productivity.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Products fueled by data and machine learning can be a powerful way to solve users’ needs. Classic examples include Google search and Amazon product recommendations, both of which improve as more users engage. Data products are a team sport. Develop the data-savvy of product and business groups.

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Kai Davis

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Here is a selection of services and products from friends and colleagues that help meet your needs and help you grow. Specials on Kai's Products 34% off Quick Start Roadmapping Get the complete Quick Start Roadmapping for $99 (instead of $150). You'll get the book, resources, SOPs, guides, templates, and videos.

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Business Consulting Agency

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

By providing comprehensive consumer behavior insights, market segmentation analysis, and customer persona development, marketing consultants empower companies to drive consumer engagement, foster brand loyalty, and position their products and services as the epitome of consumer-centric excellence within the competitive global marketplace.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Many companies are investing heavily to identify what leads to high engagement in order to motivate employees, thereby increasing their happiness and productivity. Working with two Fortune 100 companies, we looked to test the assumption that highly engaged employees are more productive. We think this is important.

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Kai Davis

JANUARY 3, 2023

9/15 of my paid products/books/courses are retiring. Along the way, I realized it would be helpful to trim my product line. This was both metric and sanity driven!). And for that, I used a metrics-based approach. I took some time and: Aggregated all product purchase information since 2015 (!). What then?!

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Effective Managers

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

These questions and associated measures, while important, ignore the internal disruption (in some cases dysfunction) that reduces productivity. Session 2: Metrics vs Strategy. Input metrics are essential as these metrics are leading indicators of your eventual output metrics and results achievement.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Being a High Performing Sales Manager Ensure sales team members are accountable to the defined processes and critical productivity metrics by identifying the sales KPIs necessary to achieve results and ensuring sales team members embrace the plan.

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BCG

OCTOBER 3, 2016

In this series of articles, we challenge the conventional wisdom that the powerful effects of technology aren’t visible in economic metrics. The use of proprietary metrics such as “technology intensity” to make the most of technology lies at the heart of creating what we call technology advantage.

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