Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Ron Jeffries, Matt Barcomb, and several other people wrote an interesting thread about prescriptive and non-prescriptive approaches to team-based agile. If you don’t want to read the entire thread, here is a summary: People often need help with their agile approach. That’s why we have the agile values and principles.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

By analyzing the sentiment expressed in customer feedback a company can identify common pain points or areas of praise. For example, Alibaba, a leading Chinese e-commerce company, could conduct sentiment analysis of customer reviews of individual products and services, and use these insights to modify existing products and develop new ones.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In a few words, the industry is going to evolve in three major areas: implementing recent technological advancements (Industry 4.0), finding ways to address post-pandemic challenges, and meeting sustainability requirements. Let’s take a closer look at these and other manufacturing trends that are going to impact the industry in 2024.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Explain that value from two perspectives: what the customer can do with this feature and how the company can make revenue from this value. Then, explain that they don't have to meet with you for a long time, but they do need to meet with you frequently. Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 4, 2020

Company A is working on its umpteenth “agile transformation.” One of the big problems is that the managers think agile approaches will give them faster delivery. Company A managers don't believe in flow efficiency. No one could meet their objectives with these delays. They understood.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Many project-driven organizations are finding that they can operate much more efficiently with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. It’s capable of linking a company’s financials, supply chain, operations, commerce, reporting, manufacturing, and human resources activities on one platform. Ensure business agility.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 11, 2024

Regulatory Compliance and Quality Assurance Benefit: Ensuring that the skin care line meets regulatory standards is a priority. Fact: The FDA emphasizes the importance of meeting regulatory requirements to ensure the safety and efficacy of cosmetic products.

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Comatch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Work management methods ensure a workplace runs as efficiently as possible. Aside from Scrum, it’s the most important agile approach. I’m a consultant that helps companies implement Kanban, and have personally experienced its benefits many times with my clients. . 4) Get better results through effective meetings.

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Comatch

JANUARY 30, 2023

In doing so, you will be able to solve issues more quickly and efficiently, allowing you to build an appetite for decoding complex problems and keep your stakeholders happy. Next time you’re meeting for a project for the first time, remember to communicate your attention through nonverbal cues.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Specifics of Project Management for Manufacturing Companies The manufacturing environment deals with creating physical products, which in turn embraces a variety of processes that should be properly managed. Meeting the increasing demand under conditions of ongoing resource shortage is a challenge for manufacturing project management.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Today, companies are desperately seeking strategies to retain customers, rebuild inventories, and restructure operations to fit the new business environment. Companies are also starting to adopt digital tools to streamline daily operations. The world is evolving at a rapid speed, which prompts companies to adapt. Technology.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. We also conducted hundreds of interviews with both workers and leaders in these companies.

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LSA Global

MAY 13, 2024

Companies that have a tight match between their strategy and the capabilities of their people outperform their peers. Strategically it makes sense to companies because it provides a more predictable business model and makes it easier to plan for growth and raise capital. People in my company make the extra effort in their jobs.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A product portfolio is a set of all products and services that a company creates and offers to customers. In other words, it’s indicative of the company’s growth.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Customers expect digital experiences to meet a certain standard — it doesn’t matter if you’re Amazon, Netflix, an IT provider, or a small accounting firm. Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. Businesses are increasingly embracing tools that allow them to adapt to changing conditions. Intelligent automation.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

First of all, the company should define the objectives of the POC, including the specific functionalities or features they want to evaluate; gather requirements, and establish criteria for evaluating the software. Flexibility : Epicflow is applicable to any project management methodology you stick to, including Agile. Preparation.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. Related Video.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

You can’t put new wine into old bottles, so whatever sophisticated technologies companies implement, without transforming people, culture, and processes in your company, even the most advanced of them will become a waste of money. . The same can be said about companies that ramp up their workforce planning and talent development.

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Some companies can be tempted to apply Agile methodology because of its flexibility; but without proper planning, it won’t become a silver bullet ensuring the successful completion of an R&D project. This documentation will help manage current projects and become the source of valuable insights for future ones.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2018

Meanwhile, every company aspires to be as innovative as these startups. Many companies invest in or buy them, unsure what they’ll yield other than the halo effect they may overpay for, made worse by the fact that most don’t align with the company strategy or meet a market insight. New experiences.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? What do you need to know to manage project resources with maximum efficiency? The results of efficient resource management are as follows: .

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

In response, they may choose to hold on to the past and what’s comfortable or feel a bit disoriented as they search for their place in the new company. In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

Companies are now thinking about what it takes to work from home. This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. I wrote Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops about Geographically Distributed Agile Teams with Shane Hastie back in 2013.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

The book provides six principles that the author’s believe can make organisations more agile, competitive, and responsive by helping employees become more autonomous, cooperative and empowered. That is, create mechanisms whereby employees are exposed to the consequences of their actions.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 10, 2018

These personal objectives contribute to my company, but they are not a corporate objective. Notice how my MBOs optimized for my deliverables, a form of resource efficiency. OKRs are supposed to encourage flow efficiency , so everyone works to the same objective. That helps with flow efficiency. Confusing OKRs with MBOs.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Innovation demands new behaviors from leaders and employees that are often antithetical to corporate cultures, which are historically focused on operational excellence and efficiency. Prasad, CEO of Dr. Reddy’s, a 33-year-old global pharmaceutical company headquartered in India that produces affordable generic medication.

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1 to 1

JULY 16, 2020

But meeting customer demands in crisis mode is one thing and delivering an exceptional CX in a world transformed by the pandemic is another. Underscoring both of these trends, Jacobs noted, was a shift in how companies think about customer service strategies and the overall CX. This includes rethinking labor and how employees work.

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1 to 1

APRIL 21, 2022

It’s up to businesses to figure out how to best meet those expectations. In addition to making customers happy, an omnichannel contact center adds value by centralizing data and tools under one system, which reduces resolution time while increasing efficiency and savings. What is multichannel support?

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

I’ve noticed these challenges in companies who want to move to a more product-oriented approach: The reward system rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. The company has a lot of managers: people managers, project managers, technical leads, architects. All of these people tell the teams what to do.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

At a time when many established companies are struggling to remain competitive, it’s clear that fundamental change is in order. Some established companies have found a path that works — they are surviving, thriving, and going head-to-head with an onslaught of fast-moving startups that seem to multiply overnight.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. She went into the meeting prepared for the worst. The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making.

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The world is changing rapidly, and the way that companies operate within it needs to shift as well. Although many companies use independent consultants and freelance experts to help them solve critical challenges, the practice is still relatively new. Companies become Flash Organizations. Here are the key insights. .

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

It has put customers, not companies, in charge. Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Agile organizations are connected organizations.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. By providing temporary support, they make it possible for organizations to resource their critical activities more cost efficiently. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported.

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