Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

That conversation prevented a bad product decision. (Or, You might be an enterprise architect, a middle or senior manager, a C-level executive. Overall faster decision-making, which allows for business agility. I'm the only one who can and does keep up with product context (or whatever context you have).

Leadership 74

Leadership Meeting Guidelines System 74

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.

Leadership 62

Leadership Agile Operations Survey 62

Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And even within individual categories, you’ll find a diverse cross-section of SMBs, multinational enterprises, boutique firms, and even solo freelancers – plus a wide range of business models and organizational structures. The point is there’s a ton of variation in this space.

Industry 52

Industry SMB Software Talent 52

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works?

Agile 80

Agile Culture Efficiency Metrics 80

1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Outsourcing and managed services are appealing options for many companies at a time when workforces are stretched thin. Although managed services and outsourcing both involve hiring a partner organization, they encompass different levels of work. What are managed services? But don’t be fooled—these terms aren’t interchangeable.

Management 26

Management Operations Comparison Case Study 26

Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 1, 2018

The cloud – which refers to storing, managing, and processing data via a network of remote servers instead of locally on a server or personal computer – is quickly becoming a critical source for innovation. Without a robust cloud strategy, an organization’s pace and breadth of innovation is likely to be hampered.

Insurance 68

Insurance Insurance Data Enterprise 68

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

Agile 52

Agile Energy Productivity Talent 52

Harvard Business

AUGUST 25, 2016

On the one hand, they desperately seek greater agility; on the other, they genuinely want to include all the right stakeholders in their processes. Customers and clients demand greater agility, and employees and partners expect greater empowerment. But effective agility frequently demands inclusive stakeholder involvement.

Data 28

Data Agile Enterprise Government 28

Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

There are only so many ways to design enterprise structure. Global product teams and functions are overlaid onto the existing regional (commercial) organizations without adjustments in legacy P&L structures, creating unproductive friction. Unc ertainty is unnerving for most of us.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Metrics Operations System 50

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Employee burnout is a common phenomenon, but it is one that companies tend to treat as a talent management or personal issue rather than a broader organizational challenge. The true cost to business can be far greater, thanks to low productivity across organizations, high turnover, and the loss of the most capable talent.

Company 53

Company Energy Tools Talent 53

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Leaders in the M&A environment are managing an organization that hasn’t existed before. CEB reports that the average organization has undergone five enterprise-wide changes in the past three years and 73% expect change to accelerate (URL: [link] ). Change agility requires an answer to the question “Why?”,

Agile 53

Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 53

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already in use throughout the web and increasingly within the enterprise, handling everything from initial call screening for sales prospects to scheduling. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Artificial intelligence.

Trends 30

Trends Enterprise Intellectual Property Agile 30

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Insurance Insurance Data 28

Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

Even P&G announced its intention to shed more than 50 percent of its brands “in order to simplify the way we organize and manage the company” (Byron 2014). Have conglomerates and diversified companies under-performed because of failures in enterprise strategy? Studying these companies up close is productive.

Enterprise 50

Enterprise Operations Agile Metrics 50

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In our surveys, more than 66% of CEOs said they expect their companies to change their business model in the next three years, with 62% reporting they have management initiatives or transformation programs underway to make their business more digital. Without that clarity, returns from digital initiatives suffer.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Agile Sales Operations 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But should enterprise leadership teams also pursue cohesion? Most teams (55 teams comprised of 700+ senior executives) also responded to items focused on organization performance —comparing themselves to industry peers — and included dimensions such as Sales and Revenue Growth, New Product Development, and Market Share.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Culture Agile Leadership 28

Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2018

All too often, individual leaders seek — indeed are incentivized — to protect and optimize their own domains, and find themselves locked in energy-sapping internal turf wars, rather than working with peers to align and improve across the entire enterprise. What Do Enterprise Leaders Do?

Company 28

Company Enterprise System Leadership 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

Enterprise 44

Enterprise Education Methodologies Financial 44

Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A good way to increase profitability is to work on the products that will definitely bring revenue and make the right improvements that people are expecting.

Productivity 98

Productivity Management Resources Software 98

Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

In fact, it has set up a specific unit – Experian DataLabs — to actively seek out unresolved problems its customers are having and use them as a launchpad to seek out new opportunities and create new products. This is what is known in the lean startup world as a minimum viable product.

Company 28

Company Intellectual Property Enterprise Productivity 28

QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

On the client side, Kristian Skjellerup, Director of IT, Head of Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Compliance & Controlling at Falck. From Keylane, Chief Development Manager, Martin Thuesen. Martin Thuesen, Chief Development Manager at Keylane has experienced this lack of transparency first hand. Consider this.

Industry 69

Industry Consulting Case Interview Recruiting 69

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How can productivity be increased with real-time information in context? Can the infrastructure be transformed to a more agile IT-as-a-service model? Is data managed everywhere? How is access control managed when there is no external edge of the network (access might be from anywhere)?

Agile 28

Agile Data Enterprise Software 28

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.

Agile 28

Agile Exercises Enterprise Energy 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Accurately measuring enterprise value (EV) has never been more important or challenging. Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. Today most organizations are data-driven to one degree or another.

Data 28

Data Balance Sheet Enterprise Insurance 28

Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

More recently, online sites such as Glassdoor and Vault let HR managers view anonymized praises and complaints about their company from employees and former employees – comments the whole world can see. Many companies go to great lengths every year or two to determine just how motivated their work force really is. Why do they do this?

Metrics 43

Metrics Survey Software Operations 43

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways. Bring creativity to measurement.

Marketing 48

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 48

Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

Gartner predicts 41 percent of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020—almost double what the percentage was in 2015 (Gartner, 2016). This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment.

Agile 28

Agile Talent Data Efficiency 28

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. Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise.

Agile 43

Agile Data Development Industry 43

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

These companies are facing wholesale change—from defining how technology reinvents entire functions to how the organization manages new workforce models to how to unlock value with cross-industry ecosystems. Fluid: Companies source and manage their workforces by accessing the best talent at the right time.

Accenture 28

Accenture Strategy Strategy Strategy& 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

At IDEO, we believe that the most significant change often comes through social movements, and that despite the differences between private enterprises and society, leaders can learn from how these initiators engage and mobilize the masses to institutionalize new societal norms. Dr. Reddy’s: A Movement-Minded Case Study. .”

Culture 53

Culture Company Enterprise Leadership 53

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Improving access to care, increasing workforce productivity, optimizing clinical operations, and managing population health are important—and interrelated steps. Increase workforce productivity by optimizing the skill set of your workforce while shifting routine work away. Deference to expertise.

Healthcare 28

Healthcare Efficiency Methodologies System 28

Women in Consulting

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Peer-to-peer Fundraising Email Marketing Website Management Website Design Payment Processing Sphere Know How Blog Sphere Knowledgebase Sphere Forum Case Central Sphere Connect Sphere Connect Partners Blackbaud Connect Partner Network Overview Partner Login. Nonprofit Management. Prospect & Donor Management.

Nonprofit 91

Nonprofit Software Consulting System 91

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

For example, the consumer durable goods manufacturer (example two) chose to push its data and analytics across a broad swath of the enterprise, even though the business momentum was in the areas of product connectivity and consumer engagement. Each of these four models has pros and cons — and not all of them work equally well.

Operations 28

Operations Chemicals Data Agile 28

1 to 1

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

They want to choose how to customize their products, services, and even the channels in which they interact with brands. Based on that data, build an agile and insight-driven service delivery model. Extend the CX journey across the enterprise Looking at the big picture is key. Customers like options.

Tools 26

Tools Strategy Strategy Strategy& 26

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

Industry 52

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. ” Scholarly publications like the Journal of Management Studies put out calls for new research that could inspire enterprise-level change.

Apparel 31

Apparel Chemicals Journal Agile 31

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. This poses a deep challenge to companies organized by product and function rather than a customer-centric model like experience and value. ” 4.

Enterprise 28

Enterprise Sports Marketing Software 28