Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

No one cares about a team's agility—with the possible exception of the team itself. But managers and customers do care about better products. The managers care when the team can release those products—that's why managers use capitalization metrics. That's why more agility in product development matters.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. (

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 17, 2017

Of these, it makes sense to change the compensation and rewards approach, recruitment and hiring if the organization wants to create an agile culture. It’s possible to create a more agile approach to education and training. If we think about agile approaches as a way to: Create small, safe-to-fail experiments.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

As part of their filtering process, potential clients/hiring managers want to see how you work. While managers think they will get useful results, too often, they don't. And because the hiring manager is only thinking of their time, they don't consider offering you any compensation for your time. That's fine.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 18, 2024

Enhanced scalability, agility, and adaptability to market changes. Digital Transformation and Innovation Technology consultants play a crucial role in driving digital transformation initiatives and fostering a culture of innovation within organizations. Effective change management and stakeholder engagement.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The managers want to know when the teams will finish certain features in the short term.). The managers promised certain customers/the market/investors certain deliverables.). (The The managers promised certain customers/the market/investors certain deliverables.). And, they want metrics. That's never worked.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 11, 2024

Supply Chain Management: Efficient supply chain management is crucial for e-commerce businesses to meet customer demands, reduce fulfillment costs, and ensure timely deliveries. They assess organizational structures, identify bottlenecks, recommend automation tools, and facilitate agile practices to improve efficiency and adaptability.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. (

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 11, 2024

Consultants analyze financial metrics, identify revenue opportunities, optimize pricing strategies, manage costs, and develop financial forecasts that drive sustainable financial success for clients. A survey by Deloitte found that 63% of executives view risk management as a strategic priority.

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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? Let's start with risks and how feedback loops manage those risks.

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Agile Culture Efficiency Metrics 81

LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Creating an aligned and high performance culture that sets the stage for peak performance is about a lot more than just designing a corporate strategy and deploying the resources to deliver on it. To assess potential, you must use assess specific personality traits, motivation , and learning agility.

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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. This takes time.

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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

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. HR leaders are often asked: Where should work be managed in the organization?

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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 4, 2022

Done right, mapping the current customer experience assesses your current organizational culture and allows for a comparison between the experiences people have and the underlying operational processes and systems that substantiate those experiences. This is where the leadership plays an absolutely fundamental role.

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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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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. This leads to improved win rates, higher customer satisfaction, and better time management.

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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. This leads to improved win rates, higher customer satisfaction, and better time management.

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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.

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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. How do they do it?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In particular, I’d like to focus on three things Avaya did that other companies can learn from: Treat Innovation as a Risk-Management Exercise. The most-innovative CEOs and the companies that perform at the highest levels are not merely risk tolerant — they manage their company’s diverse risks like an investment portfolio.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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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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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Companies do not become more global just because they have added worldwide product and brand teams, or global functions and councils, to manage centrally driven growth strategies and programs. Leaders do not know how and are not motivated to work in a matrix – metrics and reward systems continue to reinforce lack of enterprise thinking.

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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. Performing market assessments.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Digitally sustainable organizations are agile: They think fast, decide fast, execute fast, fail fast, learn fast, and scale fast. Discipline and Focus.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

The metrics also changed. This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs. This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways. The results? Think like a startup.

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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. Manage costs — or add value? Exploiting global opportunities versus managing risk. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

So what can a manager do to ensure that people on their team or in their department treat each other well? First, managers need to set expectations. ” Managers at Marriott know that small daily acts affect how employees interact with others and that civility spreads in networks. How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Meta-analytic studies reviewing 50 years of research suggest that personality traits such as curiosity, extraversion, and emotional stability are twice as important as IQ — the benchmark metric for reasoning capability — when it comes to predicting leadership effectiveness. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

Leadership 28

Leadership Agile Emotional Intelligence Benchmarking 28

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2023

” 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. Instead of meeting attendance, we started to measure a variety of management cycle times, such as decision-making cycle time. Tim can still measure.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. Project management skills. A mastery of project management skills is a must.

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Data Engineering Agile McKinsey 28

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The organizational barriers to profitable growth are foreseeable and can be managed. A decade of centralizing global product and brand management in Amsterdam had largely denigrated the field-based commercial organizations around the world into order-takers, while the global business units migrated further away from customers and consumers.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

more likely to refresh critical marketing metrics and dashboards at least weekly. We’re also seeing that the leaders are more likely to manage marketing technology within the marketing organization. Leaders are making strategic investments in data and technology , and they are 1.6x We also found that marketing leaders are 1.7x

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

The teams exposed to rudeness displayed lower capabilities in all diagnostic and procedural performance metrics, markedly diminishing the infant’s chances of survival. Researchers filmed these simulations and had objective judges evaluate them. Organizations of all kinds can benefit from talking about civility with employees.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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. Businesses are increasingly embracing tools that allow them to adapt to changing conditions. Digitalization” shouldn’t inspire dread.

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