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

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Substitute video for MBWAL. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. The better the team learns together, the better the product is.

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Management Agile Metrics Video 92

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 30, 2020

In videos, podcasts, all kinds of “thought leader” work. This guy, from a famous agile consultancy, not only used my article. ” Remember, this was the premier agile consultancy at the time. Develop Your List of Topics. The big thing is to develop a list of topics so you can write at (almost) any 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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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

To take advantage of this opportunity place focus on building agility, aligning the organization, operating as a team of teams, and developing your people. Build Agility. While it is easy to say these pivots were a result of agility, it is important to differentiate between “brilliant improvisation” and a repeatable capability.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Substitute video for MBWAL. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. The better the team learns together, the better the product is.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Emotional intelligence helps you build better relationships, reduce workplace stress, create productive conflict and improve employee retention. Cultivate Your Cultural Agility. I experienced the importance of cultural agility early in my career. Culture is one of the most potent forces in business.

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Leadership Emotional Intelligence Agile Culture 52

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The online workshop videos are complete. I also know my cycle times to develop workshops and video them. All this collaboration and learning together means the team shares its product development. If you're a product leader, you need a product value team. I'm pleased with my progress. You can, too.

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Development Productivity Agile Video 88

Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. At the other is a product or service that solves the problem or addresses the market in a way nobody has thought of before. Your data isn’t even in the picture.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

Reform your team’s meeting habits to boost productivity and business impact as a CEO (a post-pandemic approach). Too many meetings will slowly weaken productivity by splintering everyone's work into small chunks and reducing their time for deep work. And with less productivity comes less impact and/or innovation.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

trillion per year; and (3) store-based retailers could profitably transition to a digital world by growing e-commerce sales cautiously enough to avoid diluting earnings and cannibalizing higher-margin store sales, while retreating to the most profitable stores and product categories that would be hardest for Amazon to attack.

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Retail Agile Sales Engineering 28

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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Harvard Business

AUGUST 20, 2018

NewTV, a new company focused on short-form video, just raised $1 billion dollars. NewTV is the creation of Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose track record includes head of production at Paramount, chair of Walt Disney Studios, and cofounder of DreamWorks. CSA Images/Colin McPherson/Getty Images. It’s the antithesis of the lean startup.

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Methodologies Agile Productivity Development 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. “I’m constantly using and testing new platforms — live video, posts on Facebook, Instagram stories, and more. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Customers today are not just consumers; they are also creators, developing content and ideas — and encountering challenges — right along with you. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 49

Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

A few years later they were caught napping when online upstarts disrupted industries such as music, travel, news, and video, while transforming scores of others. The ones that persisted are incredibly well-positioned today, having transformed their business processes and enabled a level of agility that competitors cannot easily mimic.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

In the face of this dynamic, it isn’t enough to create new products and services. Unless we also design new ways of talking about ideas and exploring the future, those product and service innovations will never be embraced by the organization and never make their way out into the world. Related Video.

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LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

This outsized, rugged, status-symbol of a GM product failed to see the writing on the wall. This company was doing great as the leader in video rentals. They were not agile enough. Their customers would have used them for books from small publishers, not CD or DVDs and not books from large presses to the exclusion of small.

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Change Management Management Film Pharmaceuticals 34

Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2017

In my work, coaching leaders at every level through a variety of management dilemmas, I’ve developed three strategies to practice reflective urgency: Diagnose your urgency trap. Related Video. This was true for Marcus, a senior leader who developed a habit of obsessing over administrative tasks. It depends on two factors.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

However it plays out, Amazon’s outreach exposed a digital divide in the consumer products world. The cosmetic company responded with a new product, and backed it up with a dedicated consumer marketing plan. On one side is the growing interest of brands in direct-to-consumer (D2C) models. Make room for new technologies.

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Retail Apparel Media Fashion 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. developed practices of rapid development cycles , user-centered design , and collaboration in an open office layout. Leaders from the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Culture Research Case Interview Development 39

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. We know from biology that DNA contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, function, and reproduce. But there may be more to the metaphor. Does biology inform business?

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

The results helped mobilize a significant part of the organization: people at all levels and functions teamed up to generate new revenues, cut costs, increase productivity, and enhance quality. The traditional, even predominant, way to form a team follows a well-rehearsed and perfectly logical flow: Develop a strategy.

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Leadership Case Interview Accenture Groups 33

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Since then, my productivity has at least doubled. I converted from my religiously observed to-do list (daily work plan) to this calendar system, also known as timeboxing (a term borrowed from agile project management). In a study we conducted of 100 productivity hacks , timeboxing was ranked as the most useful. Rebecca Knight.

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Productivity Agile Time Management Meeting 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2017

In this new commodity landscape, incumbents and attackers will race to develop viable business models, and not everyone will win. Related Video. See More Videos > See More Videos > Consider how the dynamics of demand are changing. Then there are mining-specific technologies that could enhance productivity.

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Resources Industry Energy Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Think of new product development, or the parts of the company’s value chain and business model that are undergoing significant reinvention because of digital transformations. In these activities, speed of innovation is critical, and the rallying cry should be autonomy, small teams, and organizational agility.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2018

We were working hard on getting product-market fit right, so anything we could do to get more customers and to find the right feature mix was a critical learning opportunity. A popular, core feature of our product was our website grader. I said “yes” to a highly fun and creative video series.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

Teams were told that an expert from the United States would be watching them remotely (with video) and would occasionally comment and advise them. A study of cross-functional product teams revealed that when leaders treated members of their team well and fairly, the team members were more productive individually and as a team.

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Training Training Study Film 28

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. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center.

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Cheryl Cran

JANUARY 18, 2016

They have made a consistent commitment to employee development, to connecting what the business does to the individual purpose of each employee. Change leadership that includes flexibility, agility and adaptability skills. Transformational leadership that focuses on a transformation approach to people and processes. We have the place!

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Culture Leadership Interviews Training 20

Chad Barr

JANUARY 30, 2013

Some may discover one of your YouTube videos and when clicking on one of the links you have provided, may end up on your blog. Others may enter your site through one of your articles or other product pages when forwarded a copy by a colleague, or stumble upon it through a web search. Let me explain. I nternational. C onstructive.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile. These companies have become agile in name only, as the process they’ve put in place often ends up hurting engineering motivation and productivity.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Early in the video, Kent discusses the all-too-frequent sexism and racism I also see in tech. and Create Your Successful Agile Project. The closer to the left your products are, the more your managers might be open to changing their behaviors and the culture. But the demand for software developers was high and I was good.

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