Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. Agile Strategy.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. ” Or mine, “Explore and support effective ways of managing product development.”

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

important;}”] Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

McNulty, associate director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, and Leonard Marcus, founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard, wrote , “The coronavirus crisis, like every crisis, is unfolding over an arc of time with a beginning, middle, and end. Build Agility.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2021

You want business agility. The people and teams continue to experiment with agile behaviors. Every team's agile journey is unique. So is each manager's agile journey. If some people aren't sure, they might not be as far along in their agile journey. The teams have worked hard to change how they work. Educate them.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

Joanie received this data: Notice that the teams all have different start dates, durations, and predicted end dates. Let's walk through the data for Team 1. Their data is inconsistent with the other teams' data. See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.) Team 1 started this project on Jan 1, 2020.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

To better engage your team when faced with unrealistic targets requires a blend of leadership vulnerability, trust , and practicality. To mitigate the fallout while making sure that unreasonable targets don’t negatively impact the health or productivity of you or your team: Understand the Impact on Your Team It can be easy to overreact.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2018

As their organizations move to agile approaches, these managers have problems: their organization (managers above them) wants to measure them by the old rules which demand control. The people doing the work want less control and more servant leadership. Managers ask architects to help a team to control the design of the product.

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Brimstone Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

While there are many reasons for this high rate of failure, in our work, we have found that the bridge from strategy to execution tends to fail due to one or more of the following reasons: The leadership team is not aligned. Whereas many companies were forced to shift to agile methods, this was already the company’s mindset.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2020

Let me address a little about business agility and innovation. Business agility allows us to create a culture where we plan to change. Too many people think business agility is about the ability to do more of the same, faster. ” Or mine, “Explore and support effective ways of managing product development.”

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many agile teams and product leaders assume they can make many product decisions on their own. ” However, as the teams work together and explore the product, they assume they can decide on the designs and architecture. Product leaders assume they can plan and replan the product backlog, based on the team's learning.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. My leadership team? For example, you might say at your next leadership meeting, “We’ve talked a lot recently about how well we are doing in this or that area, and shared achievements in each of our departments. Our employees?”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. The first Possible Measurements post focuses on product throughput measurements. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. Again, do start with your why. Do join us.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 2, 2021

I explained in Leadership Tip #8 that measuring happiness was a lost cause because happiness is a function of more than just work. This is one day of satisfaction data. ” When Susan, the agile project manager, started the next day, she took a picture of the paper. This organization wanted what agile approaches offered.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Strategic planning ensures that the business remains agile and responsive to changing market conditions. This data-driven approach enables medium-sized companies to make informed decisions and tailor their products or services to meet market demand effectively. This leads to increased productivity and profitability.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In today’s data-centric digital landscape, intelligence is central to any business strategy, especially as we look towards 2024. According to PWC , talent, technology and data will set winning professional services firms apart from the competition. Bad data, in turn, leads to inaccurate timelines, estimates, budgets.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. My leadership team? For example, you might say at your next leadership meeting, “We’ve talked a lot recently about how well we are doing in this or that area, and shared achievements in each of our departments. Our employees?”

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 11, 2024

By tapping into consultants’ expertise, clients gain access to valuable insights, benchmarking data, and proven strategies that drive informed decision-making and operational excellence. A survey by PwC revealed that 61% of CEOs believe that industry-specific insights are critical for business growth. trillion by 2025.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

When it comes to creating a more data-and-analytics-driven workforce, many companies make the mistake of conflating analytics training with data adoption. For example: Why do we analyze data? Why is data quality important? What data is missing?), Create a leadership and development portal.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The increasing use of e-commerce, cloud computing, data analytics, and other digital tools allow businesses to engage in personalized interactions with customers at scale. Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

If the data in your business tells you that you are going strong, be glad but stay alert for any change. If your data suggests that things are slowing down, acknowledge the trend and carefully consider what action you may need to take. Are product or service choices shifting? Look at the facts and accept them as facts.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 28, 2020

I assume you use products of some sort to manage all that data. If you do not yet use products to manage all the HR data, now is an excellent time to transition to products that people can access on their own. Mark and I wrote about agile and remote buddies in From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams.

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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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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

.” In my experience, when organizations want to use agile approaches or transform in some way, the managers start with the teams. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. We didn't need any of that forecasting or estimation data to make good decisions.” I'm always off.

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Makarios Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2022

If the data in your business tells you that you are going strong, be glad but stay alert for any change. If your data suggests that things are slowing down, acknowledge the trend and carefully consider what action you may need to take. Are product or service choices shifting? Look at the facts and accept them as facts.

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B2B B2C Trends Agile 52

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 28, 2020

I assume you use products of some sort to manage all that data. If you do not yet use products to manage all the HR data, now is an excellent time to transition to products that people can access on their own. Mark and I wrote about agile and remote buddies in From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams.

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LSA Global

MAY 11, 2023

The Undisputed Value of Engaged Employees Our employee engagement survey data shows that engaged employees drive 8% greater productivity, 12% higher customer satisfaction, and 51% less voluntary turnover. How fair and balanced is your leadership succession process in calibrating leadership performance and potential?

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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.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

This category embraces employees, customers, and leadership and consists of the following components. . This component involves the uplift of an organization’s IT and mobile infrastructure, data lakes, and the cloud. Its aim is to create new business models, new products, or services. Let’s explore them in detail. .

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 1, 2022

Like most leadership development opportunities, you will get the most significant return when you do the work. And it might not always be focused on traditional leadership growth. Frequently leaders look for a coach to help adapt their leadership style, deal effectively with change, or build high-quality trust-based relationships.

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Emotional Intelligence Leadership Ethics Study 52

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2023

Organizational Agility — Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture? It’s up to leadership to actively involve those affected by change in creating a compelling vision for change with an implementable plan for their unique situation. Certainly, one can admire an organization with a strong sense of direction and company purpose.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Back in Part 1 of this series, I explained all the problems I saw with this interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I recommend the team end an iteration in the middle of a week. What should the Scrum Master do?”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2016

We expected people to point the finger at leadership (or lack thereof) to explain their organizations’ innovation struggles. While respondents did note some gaps in leadership effectiveness, they were more likely to highlight opportunities for their team members to improve. Fall in love with the problem, not your solution.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Based on these marketing insights, Intuit created a new feature within its app that combines location data, Google maps, and the user’s calendar to automatically track mileage and simplify year-end tax planning.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

A logically plausible proposition, combined with supporting data, is presented to produce a cognitive “sense of proof.” ” Hence the modern equation is: logic plus data provides proof, which generates emotional comfort, which leads directly to commitment. The absence of data undermines our modern commitment equation.

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