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

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. The faster the team (the shortest blue feedback loops) releases a feature, the more often we can change the roadmap (in red) and the strategy (in green). Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 2, 2022

Do You Need to Upgrade Your Strategy? To succeed, we believe that it’s time to rethink and upgrade your strategy to meet the current and future challenges. Upgrade Your Strategy by Consistently Updating the Strategic Context When it comes to successful strategy execution, context matters.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This knowledge is invaluable for making informed decisions and tailoring strategies to the US market’s unique nuances. Market entry consultants are well-versed in these regulations, ensuring that companies meet all legal and compliance obligations. Cost Efficiency Mistakes made during market entry can be expensive.

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Business Consulting Agency

JANUARY 11, 2024

Regulatory Compliance and Quality Assurance Benefit: Ensuring that the skin care line meets regulatory standards is a priority. Fact: The FDA emphasizes the importance of meeting regulatory requirements to ensure the safety and efficacy of cosmetic products.

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Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

They help identify growth opportunities, assess market dynamics, and craft strategies that align with the company’s objectives. Strategic planning ensures that the business remains agile and responsive to changing market conditions. Operational Efficiency Streamlining operations is key to reducing costs and improving efficiency.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

More Efficient Operations AI enables businesses to automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks, freeing up human resources to focus on more complex and strategic activities. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is becoming widely adopted to automate manual processes, reduce errors, and increase efficiency.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Marina Nasr / EyeEm/Getty Images. This story is not unique. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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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. They adjourned the meeting to get forecasts from the teams. We had the top three projects at that first meeting.

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Comatch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Work management methods ensure a workplace runs as efficiently as possible. Aside from Scrum, it’s the most important agile approach. The more people began to see the benefits of Kanban, the more invitations to meetings I received. . The bank implemented the agile approach across all departments, not just IT.

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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. Critical success factors (CSFs) represent the key areas or conditions you need to master for your business strategy to be successful. Are processes/technologies implemented as part of a holistic strategy?

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Today, companies are desperately seeking strategies to retain customers, rebuild inventories, and restructure operations to fit the new business environment. The majority of meetings are now conducted virtually and remote working has become the “new normal”. The past two years have certainly been challenging. Workplace Flexibility.

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Asamby Consulting

MARCH 17, 2023

Organizational development (OD) is a process aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization. It involves developing and implementing strategies to improve the overall performance of the organization, including its people, processes, and systems. What is Organizational Development?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. That's why I wrote Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. ) Too often, that means people work in resource efficiency, not in flow efficiency. Yes, even with padding.

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1 to 1

JULY 16, 2020

But meeting customer demands in crisis mode is one thing and delivering an exceptional CX in a world transformed by the pandemic is another. In a recent TTEC poll, 45% of respondents indicated that they had accelerated their digital transformation strategy; 31% said their transformation was stuck, and 24% were planning to accelerate.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

Meeting these challenges while reducing cost to serve will require a digital-first, customer-centric approach. More often we are seeing digitally transforming legacy support systems as a key to meeting modern expectations. The post 5 retail strategies that are here to stay appeared first on 1to1 Media. Hit me up on text.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The strategy-to-execution gap is an enduring problem with no easy solution. ” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. Translate strategy into everyday processes and capabilities. Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

35 (in the anniversary edition): “The team just defined meets the desiderata in several ways. Yes, the premise of my Agile and Lean Program Management book.) I have never seen those three conditions in any non-agile project, but that could be my experience and not universal. The quote I found most useful was on p.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

In this environment, change agility needs to be part of the new organization’s and leaders’ DNA. Successful change-agile leaders at all levels in the organization respond to changes in the business environment by seizing opportunities, including throwing out old models and developing new ways of doing business.

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Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation. The success of IT uplift is determined by the access to up-to-date tools, reduced maintenance costs, increased employee efficiency and satisfaction as well as better business performance. . Developing talent and skills . ?ompanies

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 10, 2018

Notice how my MBOs optimized for my deliverables, a form of resource efficiency. OKRs are supposed to encourage flow efficiency , so everyone works to the same objective. OKRs provide us a way to create feedback loops on corporate objectives and how well we meet those objectives. That helps with flow efficiency.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

The book provides six principles that the author’s believe can make organisations more agile, competitive, and responsive by helping employees become more autonomous, cooperative and empowered. Reward those who cooperate and punish those who don’t. Don’t blame people who fail, but people who fail to help or ask for help.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Today, digital competitors are using new business models to win, attracting and retaining consumers by reimagining products and services to meet consumers’ changing needs. Read more from Accenture Strategy: How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S. An empowered consumer has changed the growth game.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Digital transformation requires a new approach to strategy. A key tenet of digital transformation is the understanding that digital strategy no longer plays a supporting role for business strategy. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Implementing a digital-first strategy.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

We call this subset of freelancers who do strategic work in companies or nonprofit organizations agile talent. By providing temporary support, they make it possible for organizations to resource their critical activities more cost efficiently. Many of the benefits of agile talent have been widely reported.

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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.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2018

Many companies invest in or buy them, unsure what they’ll yield other than the halo effect they may overpay for, made worse by the fact that most don’t align with the company strategy or meet a market insight. The key is fast experimentation through lean, agile approaches. New experiences.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Organizations can now engage with customers and employees like never before, and the virtual environment holds the potential to drive operational efficiencies, save time and money, and open the exploration of new commercial avenues. Agile organizations are connected organizations. This age is ripe with opportunity. Connectivity.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. She went into the meeting prepared for the worst. The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I'm not talking about changing the strategy more often than the teams can deliver. Then, make the fewest possible decisions that will allow us to meet that goal. Focus on Change to Create Resilience. The more frequently we can change our business ideas, the more resilient we can make our businesses.

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Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Backed by award-winning services and support teams, Blackbaud’s comprehensive set of Internet solutions, featuring Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Sphere eMarketing along with our industry leading peer-to-peer and event fundraising solution, Friends Asking Friends , is designed to meet the evolving needs of nonprofits.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Especially without strategic clarity, employees are unsure if they should focus on speed or quality, efficiency or innovation, for example. Leading supply chain organizations, for example, are embedding agility and responsiveness into their DNA to catalyze the digital supply chain into action.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. Companies therefore need to adapt their various processes—strategy, budgeting, talent—to this reality. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

Every day, we sit in meetings in which someone presents a problem or opportunity. In the beginning of the project, Explorers and Planners are helpful to set the strategy and structure the work effort. As strategy and planning give way to execution and operations, those with a more micro orientation take the lead.

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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. Before each conversation or meeting, she quietly considered two questions: What impact do I want to have on my team right now?

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

It consists of the author’s essays that cover the philosophy and strategies for managing projects. The book will also tell you how not to annoy your people during meetings, how to generate and manage creative ideas, and how office politics can be a kind of problem-solving.

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