Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Later the next week, Finance returned my timesheet to me. A couple of finance people yelled at me. In Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation , I explained the desire for capitalization. Ticket Systems Try to Track State Changes. That's why ticketing systems don't reflect reality, either. I think 55.

Data 81

Data Agile Software Trends 81

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. Managers remove systemic impediments. That means we have to change the reward system for managers early enough in an agile transformation to make it easy for the managers to succeed.

Productivity 64

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

health care system. Explanations include their IT departments already have their hands full installing, maintaining, and upgrading electronic health record (EHR) systems. But much of the blame can be attributed to hospitals’ misaligned budgeting and incentive systems. Gillian Blease/Getty Images.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience. Businesses are increasingly embracing tools that allow them to adapt to changing conditions. Digitalization” shouldn’t inspire dread.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Albert is the co-founder of Epicflow, an AI-driven multi-project management system. Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more. The Essential Role of a Unified Priority System Navigating the complexities of multiple projects demands a unified priority system.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

Most companies want their businesses to keep pace with digital startups, but end up bogged down by the need to fix the daily challenges that their decades-old IT systems create. To customers, the company feels as nimble and innovative as its digital competition, even though its back-end systems remain problematic.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. Typically they end up as an app or a custom feature in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Now, companies invest in ways that support a smaller, more agile approach so they can adjust as they find out what works.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

As the talent ecosystem evolves to offer more options, talent systems have not kept pace. Typical systems are fragmented between disciplines like HR (which focuses on the internal, “permanent” workforce) and Procurement (which focuses on the external, “contingent” workforce), each with different and competing goals.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. It is the artful combination of organizational structure, process, governance forums, metrics and reward systems that tie together global business units and functions with far-flung geographic market units.

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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

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Many companies eager to implement a new organization structure simply do not have the wisdom, patience, and discipline to change the larger system. Leaders do not know how and are not motivated to work in a matrix – metrics and reward systems continue to reinforce lack of enterprise thinking.

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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. Consider how General Electric arrived at the decision to develop and launch its Predix cloud-based industrial operation system. All of this has to happen fluidly and rapidly.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There’s no question that legacy IT systems are too slow and rigid for the agility that digital business demands. “We’re building the right platform to integrate cloud and on-premises systems and handle a lot of transactions.”

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Some retailers maintain a separate in-house team to try out potentially superior new systems that don’t follow traditional rules, in parallel with existing processes. Once given permission to “think the unthinkable” via cross-functional teams, retailers can often realize material impacts on agility and costs.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

They aspire to teach abstract concepts to their employees, such as “agility,” “collaboration,” and “coaching.” Every organization has functions that wield a disproportionate amount of power — the typical suspects are finance, procurement, and audit.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

With a limited financial system, Cuba lacks the domestic savings to raise fixed capital investment above the current level of 10% of GDP (half the average of Latin America). Finally, Cuba confronts significant difficulties caused by its dual currency system.

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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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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Trudy Knoepke-Campbell, the director of workforce planning at HealthEast Care System, calculated the cost savings due just to improvements in turnover at over $2 million per year when using performance-based profiles. We need to be more digital and agile; those who do not change will not survive!” “How do we create a more agile organization?”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Another problem is that badly designed contracts can leave open the possibility of companies gaming the system. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too.

Education 28

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?

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