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Want Business Agility? Rethink Your Easy Career Ladders, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

You want business agility. The people and teams continue to experiment with agile behaviors. Every team's agile journey is unique. So is each manager's agile journey. If some people aren't sure, they might not be as far along in their agile journey. These folks have to manage the organization's cash flow.

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New Business Help Through Consulting Services

Business Consulting Agency

Financial Management Assistance: Consultants provide insights into financial planning, budgeting, and cash flow management. Operations Optimization Assistance: Consultants assess and optimize operational processes, enhancing efficiency and reducing costs.

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. It prevents you from generating reliable cash-flow forecasts and makes it incredibly difficult to manage resources. How often do you release new products/services?

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S. oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011.

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business

These barriers, however, can be overcome by changing how hospitals acquire new technology and by providing incentives to units to use digital innovations to provide more effective and efficient care. Barrier 1: Unaligned budgeting units. Hospitals are typically organized by clinical departments (e.g., pharmacy, radiology, pathology).

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