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. When it comes to tracking your strategic goals, it's crucial to focus on the data that matters.

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Report Data Strategy Strategy 98

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Now, these same managers want business agility. The more we remove, the more agility or improvement we might see. As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. As the teams used agile approaches, they requested more and more frequent deployments.

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Policies Leadership Guidelines Agile 130

Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. User training and adoption. We’ll dwell on the team training and onboarding in a separate section. Epicflow comes with a variety of training options. Testing and validation.

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Software Resources Training Training 52

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. Do employees have the tools they need to create value for clients? Do you provide hands-on skills training? What kind of impact has that training had on client outcomes? The bottom line?

Agile 52

Agile Tools Data Talent 52

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

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. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

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Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 39

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.

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Agile Survey Company Data 29

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2021

I see too much micromanagement, even in supposedly agile organizations. As an example, when managers don't bother to learn agile measures and what they mean and instead want a Gantt chart, “because how long could it take?” ” Or, when a manager imposes a “standard” agile approach. Probably nothing.).

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Leadership Agile Management Training 74

Asamby Consulting

MARCH 17, 2023

OD is a continuous process that aims to align the organization's goals and objectives with its culture and values. OD interventions can take many forms, including training and development programs, process improvement initiatives, and cultural change initiatives. Why is Organizational Development Important for Small Businesses?

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Organizational Development Small Business Development Talent 52

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 12, 2018

As I work with people to use agile approaches, I see many organizational constraints. Organizational constraints: Culture, Product/Portfolio, Project. The organization’s culture drives decisions (or not!) And, the organization will define the approach, and too often, the tools the people can use.

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Agile Culture Productivity Strategy 51

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. 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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Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 53

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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Company Agile Training Training 40

1 to 1

MAY 19, 2020

They can now utilize an agile workforce that can be redistributed the globe with a hybrid of brick-and-mortar and virtual associates. The newfound agility of their workforce helps organizations minimize the previous risks from over concentrating in certain markets. Invest in readiness. Take the lead with digital.

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Real Estate Company Agile Strategy 26

Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported. Experts are often looking for ways to help junior people in their profession, and younger employees are hungry for training and development.

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Agile Talent Development Nonprofit 28

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Preston Smith and Don Reinertsen published Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools in 1998. I wrote about Agility in Name Only.

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Agile Software Productivity Culture 66

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

” Many of us now work in constantly connected, always-on, highly demanding work cultures where stress and the risk of burnout are widespread. Since the pace and intensity of contemporary work culture are not likely to change, it’s more important than ever to build resilience skills to effectively navigate your worklife.

Energy 49

Energy Agile Survey Training 49

Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

When the new system, Compass, was rolled out to all 44 offices, the fact that it was born of a problem identified by internal staff helped accelerate the tool’s adoption across the firm. Fast-iteration methodologies are a prerequisite, because talent tech has to be tailored to specific business needs and company context and culture.

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Talent Management Methodologies Agile 37

Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s about creating an agile organization that can detect what type of change is essential and respond quickly with the most competitive solution. Consider the challenge companies face in the rapidly changing market for power train compressors. But taking full advantage of it requires significant cultural changes.

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Agile Data Development Industry 44

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Can a large incumbent company rediscover how to act like an agile start-up? Behaving like an agile start-up implies speed, a sharply defined mission, and a deep understanding of customers. Micro-battle teams use agile ways of working to achieve narrowly focused missions, not sweeping divisional priorities. rosmaro/Getty Images.

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Agile Enterprise Exercises Energy 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

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. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development.

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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 48

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

An example is The North Face, which is experimenting with its Fluid Expert Personal Shopper tool, powered by IBM’s Watson, to provide customers with a more intuitive search experience through a natural language capability. Read more from Cognizant: What Consumers Want Online Now from Their Health Care Plans. Start small. Manage change.

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Insurance Insurance Industry Turnaround 28

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We hear about agile teams, in the form of product or feature teams. ” If we want business agility, managers need to work in teams—maybe even before we think about product or feature teams. Middle managers manage the project portfolio, identify new opportunities, and gather data for training across the organization.

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Management Agile Productivity Culture 113

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

And here’s an interview with Sam Lessin , former VP of Product Management at Facebook, who says he has “never successfully trained empathy.”). That said, having a basic technical understanding of what is “under the hood” and mastery of the tools that PMs use is definitely important for the role, anywhere.

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Productivity Management Engineering Case Interview 28

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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Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

Some companies also focus on behaviors — defining new practices, training new skills, or asking employees for new deliverables. More recently, we worked with the senior team of a large consumer product company which had been severely disrupted by smaller, more agile online competitors selling their services directly to consumers.

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Policies Exercises Strategy Strategy 53

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Training people with tools and models is very different from simply holding a space for leaders to be. However, the CEO did know that all he could do in such a dynamic context was build new capacities for agility and change in his organization. It’s difficult to teach how to be!

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Development Leadership Emotional Intelligence System 28

Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. Businesses are increasingly embracing tools that allow them to adapt to changing conditions. Firms are also able to source talent with some help from AI solutions, while cloud-based collaboration tools mean they’re not limited to hiring local candidates.

Data 52

Data Agile Tools Talent 52

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Project lifecycles and cultures manage all those risks. And, you can decide if you want to try to change the culture. Solving Deterministic Problems Does Not Require an Agile Approach. And, you might need both, which is why many projects use some sort of iterative and incremental (but not agile) lifecycles.

Agile 101

Agile Culture Productivity Management 101