Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 29, 2020

important;}”] A conversation on agile strategy and opportunity with Andy Frawley and Bob Weiler. The current environment requires agility and agility, Bob Weiler reminds us, starts with market realities. Andy shares that the organization is continually testing a set of strategies. Market Realities.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 10, 2023

Here’s a look at how to create an effective L&D strategy that aligns with your goals. Identify Core Goals and Priorities Before you focus on developing an L&D strategy, it’s critical to determine what the program needs to accomplish. Each position within an organization has unique needs. Contact us today.

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LSA Global

JUNE 16, 2022

Agile Organizations In general, agility is the ability to move quickly and easily. In a business setting, we define organizational agility as the ability of an entire organization (especially its leadership team) to adapt quickly to market changes. We need more agile mindsets at work. What are its trademarks?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. How do we reward someone based on individual work when we want teams to work together? These people tell me their career ladder doesn't work to enhance agility. What do we do?

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Tom Spencer

MAY 5, 2023

Military strategy has long been a source of wisdom for the field of business, inspiring countless comparisons. This article will consider three examples from military history that can examined to better understand competitive strategy in the business arena. What’s more, they know how to maintain that advantage.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

To turn those dreams into workplace realities, leaders set strategies. Evidence suggests only 5% of employees understand their company's strategy. This is alarming, given evidence a direct positive correlation exists between employee commitment to strategy and employee involvement in strategy development.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

I don't know how to offer the level of predictability they want for large and unchanging work. Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. Strategy Occurs At Several Levels. Product strategy, to define the value the products offer to the product's users/customers.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 29, 2020

A conversation on agile strategy and opportunity with Andy Frawley and Bob Weiler. The current environment requires agility and agility, Bob Weiler reminds us, starts with market realities. Andy shares that the organization is continually testing a set of strategies. Market Realities. Abandon Perfection.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. How do you budget your own money and time? How do you know how to bet? Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Use the data you need to have a more agile approach. I didn't tell you why. I always evaluate monthly.

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LSA Global

JULY 14, 2020

Agile Change Management – What Is It? Agile change management is an approach to managing the people side of change that works in concert with the agile project management methodology. Done right, the agile approach to project management enables teams to adapt to change quickly and deliver work faster.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JUNE 5, 2023

This article explores these challenges and, more importantly, five practical strategies you can take to solve them. link] Cross-Cultural Strategy #1: Culturally Agile Leadership Leaders increasingly face cross-cultural differences working with diverse customers and employees.

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Consulting Matters

MARCH 3, 2021

If you're ready to discover how to talk about what you do in a way that is compelling to your ideal clients, then read on. What I'm NOT going to do is show you how to put sizzle around how to explain your methodology to your client that makes them sign with you on the spot because that is not going to happen. You get me!".

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Christopher Meyer published Fast Cycle Time: How to Align Purpose, Strategy, and Structure for Speed in 1993. I wrote about Agility in Name Only.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 6, 2021

Why Do So Many Fail at Strategy Execution Strategy execution risks are not new. We know from experience and from a recent IBM survey that less than 10% of carefully crafted strategies are being successfully implemented. Why do so many companies struggle and then fail to execute on their carefully conceived strategies?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Strategy without Action Is Just Wishful Thinking Despite the time and effort leaders put into crafting a clear business strategy , one of the most distressing statistics, is that, according to a recent IBM survey, 90% of strategies fail to meet expectations. Where did things go wrong from strategy to action?

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. The team decides how to solve problems.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Experienced leaders know that organizational change is a constant and vital force that either propels strategies and people forward or stops them in their tracks. Enter the concept of how to leverage change friction to change behaviors at work — a notion rooted in behavioral economics and organizational psychology.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2021

You want business agility. The teams have worked hard to change how they work. 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.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 16, 2023

At a recent client, a senior leader, Tim, said, “We realize we can't do everything, but we don't know how to get a handle on what we need to do.” ” We talked about what they measured and how long it took them to make decisions. Their WIP told us they needed a strategy, not just tactics. You can, too. (If

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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. During that workshop, the participants all had the same question, “How do we engage our stakeholders? Or, experiment with the corporate strategy? And that's how you can partner with the rest of the organization.”

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. However, without a data strategy , the likelihood of achieving successful outcomes is greatly diminished.

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Halo Psych

MARCH 17, 2024

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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. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Marina Nasr / EyeEm/Getty Images. This story is not unique.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 21, 2021

When I think about agile approaches to work, I think about how fast we can change and the cost of those changes. That's why an agile approach with deliverables every day or week doesn't fit with some kinds of projects, such as events. Agile teams need to be able to experiment quickly, finishing stories relatively fast.

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Comatch

JANUARY 25, 2023

In the last years, some digital projects have gained popularity across industries, including: ERP implementation projects SCRUM projects IT migration projects IT strategy projects Operational excellence projects When it comes to Digital Transformation projects, there are some key success factors that come into play.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

That's why I wrote Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. ) Here's how I find that data to see the project's current progress and a little into the future. Review the cycle time series option in How to Predict When the Team Will Complete a Specific Backlog Item, Part 1.

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Henry DeVries

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

A service business needs to be agile with digital marketing if it wants to succeed today. Digital marketing growth expert Lisa Apolinski shares tips on how to grow a services business with digital services marketing.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals and action plans. Learn more about how we can help align your team with our strategic planning and implementation services.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 13, 2023

High-quality trust-based relationships create the opportunity for feedback to understand if a leader's understanding is accurate and, as needed, how to align their leadership style. How strong are the follower's demonstrated or transferable task knowledge and skills? How motivated is the follower toward the task? Zigarmi, D., &

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.) Also, see the Pairing, Swarming, Mobbing post so you can see how people might work together, keeping the team's WIP low. The reason the teams worked on so many projects was that senior leadership was not clear on the strategy.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. How to Create an Exponential Mindset. Mark Bonchek.

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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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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2022

But managers also need to see options so they can discuss the product strategy and refine the corporate strategy (two different conversations). Most teams use agile approaches because they want some feedback, internal and external, to guide the future product development. Predictability vs. Option Discussion for Roadmaps.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

As a former consultant, I have a deep and abiding love for the use of 2×2 matrices in business strategy. I’ve recently been thinking about this with regard to how leaders can be more strategic, able to effectively execute the core of their business while remaining open to trends in the market and adapting to meet them.

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LSA Global

APRIL 2, 2021

What Are the Attributes of an Effective Corporate Strategy? Is your company’s strategy clear enough, believable enough, and implementable enough to be successfully implemented across your organization? How can you expect employees to execute and commit to a plan they don’t fully understand?

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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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