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. However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Enter marketing consulting services, which play a pivotal role in helping businesses optimize their marketing efforts. Here we’ll explore the remarkable benefits and concrete results that companies can achieve by partnering with marketing consultants. increase in annual revenue, as reported by Aberdeen Group.

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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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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 11, 2024

Business consulting services, particularly those specializing in the beauty and skincare sector, play a crucial role in navigating the complexities of bringing a new brand and product line to life. Here is a guide to launching a skin care product line with expert assistance through consulting services.

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Productivity Retail McKinsey Trends 52

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking. See the Wikipedia article.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Talk to an expert through consulting services to get additional assistance and help. Digital Dominance : The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift towards online shopping, with the US Census Bureau reporting that online sales constituted 16.1% Retail in the United States can be a lucrative business.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. Here’s the interesting part: Every architectural layer has a middle manager who reports to the senior manager. That’s a relic of how we centralize “support” functions and report profit and loss to the outside world.

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Comatch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Work management methods ensure a workplace runs as efficiently as possible. As independent management consultants, it’s our job to know different work management methods inside and out, to not only help clients successfully implement them but to be more effective at managing our workloads. My Kanban Experience. Improved Productivity.

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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Learn and experience how agile works. What can I do?”

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Instead of treating people as individuals (resource efficiency thinking), what if you looked at the team as a harmonic whole? If your team and organization are willing to go beyond resource efficiency to flow efficiency, you can probably develop your own alternatived/. He also includes problem reports.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

When the pressure increases, many change leaders report feeling over their heads. But a lucky few react with a degree of strategic clarity and mental agility that allows them to adapt with relative ease. And a study by Korn Ferry found companies with highly agile workforces have 25% higher profit margins than their less agile peers.

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Comatch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

More than ever, organizations are using independent experts and freelance management consultants to address critical challenges. In a recent webinar, I addressed some of the typical issues that arise when working with a freelance management consultant. Independent Consultants: Risks and Reality Checks.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Data Maturity When it comes to data, professional services firms need to move beyond basic analytics tools and generic client reports. Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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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. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow. What is “center-led”.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Product lines use flow efficiency thinking. I have found agile managers can succeed when they ask questions such as these: How can I make it easier for the people to do the right thing?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

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. The place to report project status. In every case (yes, through about 20+ workshops), the people in my workshops reported that not everyone had licenses for all the necessary tools.

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Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Poor(er) problem solving Businesses are facing and making tough decisions, to identify a problem, break it down into its components, and solve the problem effectively and efficiently is vital. A good rule of thumb here can be 4-8 direct reports for you and each manager. More for simple positions, less for complex positions.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Fundraising Products The Raisers Edge: Fundraising & Donor Management Online Fundraising Accept Donations Online CRM Charity Software Modules Direct Mail Fundraising Custom Reporting Constituent Relationship. Management System (Nonprofit CRM) CRM Charity Software (UK). Non Profit Business Software.

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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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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Tracing it back Through conversations with fellow consultants, colleagues, clients, and friends one trend has become protruding in many work agendas and is dominating calendars worldwide. In early 2022, we conducted retrospectives for past client work (as you do in an agile team), and we've also found this pattern.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. Traditional measurements focus on resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency.) Resource efficiency measures don’t measure what the organization delivers or what prevents the organization from delivering.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The author, Peter Taylor, is an experienced business and project management consultant and coach, author of books on project management and productivity, and an international keynote speaker. In addition, the book provides you with: Practical advice (e.g.,

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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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Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Key themes include: Business Model Transformation: Legacy consulting models are evolving to accommodate the digital world’s diverse needs. Digital Agility: Technology enables greater adaptability in response to changing conditions, helping firms accelerate digital transformation and optimize various aspects of their operations.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

My company didn't want to pay me overtime so I had to only report 40 hours. I was working in resource efficiency. In Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation , I explained the desire for capitalization. People have to accurately report the state every single time the state changes. Work in flow efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How could we organize if we want flow efficiency? Even before I knew about agile approaches, I spent a bunch of time creating unit tests and system tests so I could know that as I fixed/added/replaced code, I hadn’t introduced any problems. My transforming idea for this question was to think about the organization as legacy code.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The World Economic Forum published a report before “seismic disruption” shook up the industry (their words). As an example, just look at legacy consulting. Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. According to a recent Workday report, it seems that firms are taking this concept of unity seriously.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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