LSA Global

MAY 13, 2024

Our organizational alignment research found that having the right talent to execute your business strategy accounts for 29% of the difference between high and low performing companies in terms of: Revenue growth Profitability Leadership effectiveness Customer loyalty Employee engagement The symbiotic relationship between talent and strategy matters.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve—and the team—needed to see their system. Visualize the Team's System. One of the most important ways is to see the team's system. Measurements Helped Everyone See the System. However, he only created happy-path functional tests to see how his code worked with the rest of the system.

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Development Management Efficiency Agile 98

LSA Global

MAY 2, 2024

While a low process variation approach fosters efficiency and reliability, it may inadvertently stifle innovation and adaptability. Rigidity in processes can hinder organizational agility , making it challenging to respond swiftly to evolving market dynamics or capitalize on emergent opportunities. What is the Right Balance?

Culture 36

Culture Efficiency Strategy Strategy 36

Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

After that, they are given access to a simple demo environment with a standard set of configurations, where they can test how our system works. At this stage, we upload the client’s existing data from your current systems or spreadsheets into the Epicflow system and adjust it depending on the company’s needs and requirements.

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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. Agile approaches can help teams improve, and many teams do release value faster. The teams focus on their work.

Management 101

Management Agile Meeting ROI 101

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. Except, in an agile approach, product management (often via product owners) is an integral part of a high-performing agile team. And, great agile teams often have HR support near the team, if not part of the team. See Part 2.

Productivity 74

Productivity Agile Culture Efficiency 74

LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Redwood Shores, CA – LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a leadership action learning program called Action Learning for Leading Leaders.

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Emotional Intelligence Agile Talent Exercises 36

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. But Weber also warned that, unfettered, bureaucracy could create a soulless “iron cage,” trapping people inside dehumanizing systems and limiting their potential. Learn and experience how agile works. He was right.

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Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 39

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

This requires effective communication and collaboration across all levels of the organization, from your senior leadership team to front-line workers. However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress. Are you having a strategy meeting soon? Get our free 2-Day strategic planning agenda.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. All those measures are about a manager’s span of control, a sign of resource efficiency. Product organizations optimize for throughput, for flow efficiency. Managers remove systemic impediments.

Productivity 64

Productivity Agile Efficiency System 64

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

We reinforce a culture of resource efficiency. We reinforce a culture of flow efficiency. Flow efficiency can help create and reinforce a product culture.). If you want to move to an agile culture, start thinking in terms of teams. That’s why it’s so difficult to understand many managers’ roles.

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Efficiency Culture Agile Productivity 84

Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects. Determining if your system is truly “unified” starts with looking at your core processes to determine if they’re working. This leads to poor visibility, inefficient processes, and, worst of all, inaccurate data.

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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. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. Related Video.

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Agile Software Case Interview Video 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The model has been used in other industries and has parallels to the “teams of teams” approach in the agile method of operating that has become so popular. Interestingly, despite the number of huddles, the number of action items has never overwhelmed the system. At Intermountain, the 15-minute huddle is the key.

System 38

System Healthcare Metrics Operations 38

Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Component teams are a system problem. If you think in resource efficiency , then it looks like component teams make sense. This image (from Agile and Lean Program Management ) shows how a program manager might think of the architecture for an integrated system product. Often, lower finished feature flow.).

Productivity 54

Productivity Agile System Management 54

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 2, 2022

Because I can pretty much guarantee that nothing is getting through their system. See Agile and Lean Program Management for more details.) That's why we need managers to think in flow efficiency. The managers work in resource efficiency. The rest will not make a difference this month to quarter. That's fine.

Management 92

Management Productivity Efficiency Groups 92

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I’ve been thinking about my clients who’ve had success moving from a project-based/resource-efficiency organization to a product-based/flow efficiency organization. The managers, as a team (up, down, sideways) changed the compensation system and what they measured. (Do Their experiment was too big.

Productivity 63

Productivity Agile Efficiency Management 63

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

There are at least two systems of work we need to change: The management system and the culture of management. There might be more systems I don’t see yet. I wonder if the first thing is to understand the essential complexity of our current system. This is where looking at the system of work can help.

Productivity 60

Productivity Efficiency System Management 60

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Companies that follow the Toyota Production System use Kaizen events to improve productivity on the manufacturing line. Similarly, many organizations are experimenting with using Agile sprints beyond the traditional areas of product development and innovation. Yet, only one in eight employees are inspired.

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Agile Energy Productivity Talent 52

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Increasing value in health care is a top priority for health systems, payers, and policy makers across the globe, as health care costs continue to escalate and consume an ever-greater proportion of national expenditures. To reorient themselves around value, health systems must rethink how they deliver care.

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Healthcare Efficiency Methodologies System 28

LSA Global

JANUARY 3, 2023

To meet its long-term objectives, this fast growing Biotech client needed senior executives to better align overall strategies with individual and team priorities as measured by their ability to progress the R&D pipeline efficiently and consistently towards regulatory approvals and reimbursement for key therapies.

Emotional Intelligence 7

Emotional Intelligence Efficiency Agile Talent 7

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

Strategy 28

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Company 28

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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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Type 3: Then there are products where input-output efficiency and reliability of the physical components are still critical but digital is becoming an integral part of the product itself (in effect, computers are being put inside products). ” But it won’t be easy for them, either. Will industrial companies take the lead?

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Industry Software Engineering Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures. In China, however, workers equated speed with efficiency. For example, the efficiency lens in China led to an adoption of the practice that was out of line with the goals of the innovation center to be more agile and iterative. leadership. You and Your Team Series.

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Culture Research Case Interview Development 39

Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

It’s important for aerospace engineering, as it can introduce agile engineering to a company. Reducing production costs, Improving the quality of the final product, Shortening the product development time, Efficient collaboration of various specialists involved into the engineering process. Challenge 3: Resistance to change .

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Engineering Talent Data Productivity 19

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.

Industry 52

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Urgent decisions often mean the manager has several interdependent decisions to make: What and when to discuss the career ladder and salary bands with HR or senior leadership. The idea of resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency pervades management, too. Don't try to change the system first. It's urgent today.

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Management Efficiency Productivity Leadership 91

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. We understand how to refactor legacy code. Thinking about Refactoring. Well, I did.)

Productivity 58

Productivity Agile Efficiency Management 58

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers the prospect of a frictionless existence, making us more efficient, helping us prevent mistakes, spotting the onset of potential problems before they become problems, and enabling us to spend more time on the things that really matter to us. Microprocessor (CPU) with human brain.

Retail 5

Retail Engineering Education Software 5

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

They know their strategies, organizational capabilities, resources, and management systems should all be arranged to support the enterprise’s purpose. It is a reckless leadership team that commits to a business strategy without knowing whether they can achieve it. Management systems: What delivers the winning performance we need?

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Enterprise System Resources Agile 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

It has to put the strategy into practice with measurable objectives, consistent measurement of progress toward those goals, feedback systems to monitor activities along the way, and appropriate consequences for reaching or failing to reach the goals. The focus here should be on repeatability and efficiency.

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Agile Culture Operations Leadership 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. And here’s to an even better 2017!”

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Case Study Case Studies Study Construction 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. Adapting to change.

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Operations Government Development Engineering 28