Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. I evaluate the plan—my products, services, and clients—on a regular basis. That's because I manage my company in a similar way as your managers manage your organization. I can change that mix because I can produce some of my products in under a month.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 5, 2024

Technology and digital consulting services have emerged as catalysts for business transformation, enabling companies of all sizes and types to upgrade, innovate, and enhance their digital infrastructure and footprint. cloud computing, IoT, AI), innovation strategies, and digital product/service development. GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. The other opinion (based on my experience) was that of using ROI to predict which product, project, or feature a team should do first.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Especially if you want to use agile approaches. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) They want to know if the work is something they want to do, and if the company culture is a good fit for them. And they don't want to waste a lot of their time answering questions or building your product.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 11, 2024

Consultants conduct process assessments, identify bottlenecks, implement efficiency measures, and deploy technology solutions that enhance productivity, reduce waste, and increase profitability for clients. A report by Harvard Business Review found that companies working with consultants experienced a 28% increase in profitability.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. I see the most product and program success when the various teams create transparency between them, the middle of the continuum. That's the full-product transparency.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. This is especially true in developing markets where competitors can move very quickly with few of the obstacles that big companies face. The global/local tension. Harnessing complexity.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer, CA Technologies. But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition.

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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. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Covid-19 exposed which companies in an industry could change direction quickly and respond to new consumer, employee, regulatory, and supply demands, turning adversity into opportunity. Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. We worked with a large oil and gas company with operations spread across North America.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 24, 2020

Diversity in companies is an organization design issue and it needs to be addressed as such. They need to consider the strategic implications or opportunities of diversity relative to customers, products, brand, geographic footprint. Metrics and Rewards. Too Little. The STAR Model. Capabilities.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 22, 2020

Diversity in companies is an organization design issue and it needs to be addressed as such. They need to consider the strategic implications or opportunities of diversity relative to customers, products, brand, geographic footprint. Metrics and Rewards. Too Little. The STAR Model. Capabilities.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works? 1,2 and so on.

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LSA Global

APRIL 4, 2022

COVID-19 has brought about unprecedented challenges and opportunities for companies to innovate through customer experiences. The pandemic has forced companies to initiate profound changes to their customer experience and their employee experience to survive and thrive.

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

This technology and consumer packaged goods company client wanted to create senior HR Team alignment in the areas of attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining the top talent to required enable the company’s growth targets. New strategies, competitive pressures, leaders, products, and approaches.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

At a time when digital technology is transforming one industry after another, large companies tend to view innovation and disruption as the result of breakthrough discoveries or technological wonders. That’s our product, and that’s our passion. That’s our product, and that’s our passion.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Defining and tracking success metrics.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one multinational consumer goods company organized by category, while another organizes by region? Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

Many companies go to great lengths every year or two to determine just how motivated their work force really is. More recently, online sites such as Glassdoor and Vault let HR managers view anonymized praises and complaints about their company from employees and former employees – comments the whole world can see. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Reeling from the growing pains of a $475 million merger with Nortel, the business communications company faced lingering customer disillusionment and falling profits. Most big companies are happy to bump their score up by just a few points in that amount of time. It takes a major cultural shift in the company.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

The economic recovery of 2010-2015 has triggered a number of high-profile mergers, but even more break-ups and spin-offs among large global companies, particularly those based in the US. Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy?

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The gravitational pull to greater complexity, and all the challenges that come with it, is powered by the need for new sources of growth in diverse geographic markets across multi-product divisions with increasingly demanding customers and consumers with lots of technology at their fingertips. Galbraith, 2009). This is also a fallacy.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

Automation is helping a handful of companies accomplish what was once thought impossible: boosting financial performance while also aiding fast corporate transformation work. The company found that using robotic process automation alone could free up to 75 full-time equivalent staff. Shift 1: Automate with a product mindset.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Those companies, along with Amazon, Apple, and Google, seek to colonize every corner of the IME space. Companies in broadcast, music, and entertainment will merge to become entertainment experience providers, delivering through their own environments (such as HBO GO) as well as via third parties such as Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Creativity in marketing requires working with customers right from the start to weave their experiences with your efforts to expand your company’s reach. The metrics also changed. The results?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

It has put customers, not companies, in charge. This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Agile organizations are connected organizations. Image courtesy of Korn Ferry. Discipline and Focus.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But since Tom’s boss was under pressure to meet a number of website metrics, she didn’t have the flexibility to implement his ideas. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. .” At first, Tom wasn’t deterred. And it doesn’t take much.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas. When sales of the Frankenstein product missed their mark, everyone shared the blame. How do you prevent a drop-off?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 20, 2018

NewTV, a new company focused on short-form video, just raised $1 billion dollars. That’s on top of the $750 million that its parent company, WndrCo, has raised for the venture. Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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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 good way to increase profitability is to work on the products that will definitely bring revenue and make the right improvements that people are expecting.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Surya Panditi, GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. So organizations today are staying ahead of the curve by scaling agile and building agility into everything they do, and extending agile techniques and practices across teams, teams-of-teams, non-IT organizations and even across the business as a whole.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies.

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Comatch

MARCH 22, 2022

However, there are very few metrics to really measure this. And the available metrics, at least on a company level, are not very forward-looking for decision-makers or people who want to invest. We are a technology company focusing on the intersection of data and analytics. Arcturus was built to address these issues.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development. Embrace Productive Failure. TodUdom/iStock.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Learning from Big Companies. We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. He wanted to challenge his team, as part of the strategic talent review process, to think about whether or not the company’s organizational architecture was suited to its growth plan to double in size.

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