Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 11, 2024

Business consultants play a pivotal role in empowering clients and driving business success through their expertise, strategic guidance, and actionable insights. Whether navigating challenges, optimizing operations, or seizing growth opportunities, consulting services offer a myriad of benefits that contribute to client success.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 18, 2018

I've met a number of agile coaches recently. However, many of these coaches work in organizations just starting a cultural transformation. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs. Even though the client asked for agile coaching, that might not be what the client needs.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

No one cares about a team's agility—with the possible exception of the team itself. The managers care when the team can release those products—that's why managers use capitalization metrics. The more agile the approach, the faster the team can deliver value to the customers—without late learning.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 20, 2021

We talk a lot about empowered or self-organizing teams in the agile community. When Mark Kilby and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , we said the easiest way to create a system that worked for the team was for the team to create its own board. Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

And, they want metrics. I wrote a series about that, starting with Agile Approaches Offer Strategic Advantage; Agile Tools are Tactics, Part 1.). The post A Common Tool Trap: the Tool Will Help Your Delivery and Planning Problems appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. That's never worked. We will see.

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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. And, a much more agile organization. What do agile managers do? They create and refine the organizational culture to free the teams to solve those problems.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. To make tracking progress effective, it's important to set SMART goals with specific metrics and targets that can be accurately tracked in software.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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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. What about those cultural changes? This is not an agile approach. All roads lead to Flow Metrics.)

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The Source

APRIL 8, 2022

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but that didn’t seem to be the case for consultants in the depths of the COVID pandemic. On top of that, they were less positive about every aspect we asked about, with the greatest downturn in perceptions of firms’ culture, innovation, and breadth of services on offer.

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

People Team goals , roles, success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned. The People Team faced a few complications: The Executive Team that they needed to support was not on the same page with an agreed upon vision of of how to handle internal and external disruptions. To create executive team alignment, LSA Global: 1.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. As consultants we see this pendulum swing all too often. What is “center-led”. An Example.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 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 focus on watching the work, not the people. If you and your team have been practicing real agility, you might say these ideas barely show any agility at all.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Define Clear Sales Objectives and Success Metrics An effective sales strategy begins with clearly defined sales objectives that serve as guiding beacons throughout the journey. Foster a sales driven culture where every individual feels motivated and supported to help customers to succeed in a way that makes sense.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Define Clear Sales Objectives and Success Metrics An effective sales strategy begins with clearly defined sales objectives that serve as guiding beacons throughout the journey. Foster a sales driven culture where every individual feels motivated and supported to help customers to succeed in a way that makes sense.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Are you and your sales team agile enough? Is your sales team engaged, healthy, and equipped to sell solutions and add consultative value in new and different ways? Is your sales strategy, sales culture , and sales talent aligned enough to navigate a crisis? And now we have one – COVID 19.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly. Insight center.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Take Tom, a website developer whom I met on a consulting assignment at an accounting firm. 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. ” At first, Tom wasn’t deterred. But it’s not just that play “feels good.”

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2023

In preparation for a recent consulting engagement, the client, Tim, said, “I want you to track meeting attendance. ” Tim was worried about the cultural changes we needed to discuss for the client's ability to be more effective. Tim had good reasons to worry about those cultural changes. Tim can still measure.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As an example, just look at legacy consulting. Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience. The one-size-fits-all model doesn’t cut it anymore.

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