Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) Eliminate the Backlog in At Least Two Ways Large backlogs create aging and a too-high cognitive load for managing that backlog. (I That's why aging is a part of the flow metrics feedback loop on the top of this post. Don't worry.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Ever since I was on the Troubleshooting Agile podcast , I've followed Squirrel and Jeffrey. (I Any time you want to track information before you can fully verify that data. Instead, they create hypotheses, review all their flow metrics, and change several things at the same time. I highly recommend their podcast.)

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 11, 2024

Supply Chain Management: Efficient supply chain management is crucial for e-commerce businesses to meet customer demands, reduce fulfillment costs, and ensure timely deliveries. They assess organizational structures, identify bottlenecks, recommend automation tools, and facilitate agile practices to improve efficiency and adaptability.

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LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

The data on successful organizational change management is pretty bleak – by most accounts 70% of all organizational change efforts fail to deliver expected results. We know from change management simulation data that most leaders do not have the skills needed to successfully lead change. That is a shame.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate. As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. (

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

As part of their filtering process, potential clients/hiring managers want to see how you work. While managers think they will get useful results, too often, they don't. And because the hiring manager is only thinking of their time, they don't consider offering you any compensation for your time. That's fine.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 5, 2024

Digital Infrastructure Optimization Consultants assist companies in optimizing their digital infrastructure, including IT systems, networks, cloud services, cybersecurity protocols, and data management strategies. Data Analytics and Insights Harnessing the power of data is critical for informed decision-making and competitive advantage.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 11, 2024

By tapping into consultants’ expertise, clients gain access to valuable insights, benchmarking data, and proven strategies that drive informed decision-making and operational excellence. A survey by Deloitte found that 63% of executives view risk management as a strategic priority.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 19, 2024

Technology consulting services have emerged as essential partners for retail brands seeking guidance and expertise in managing their online platforms effectively. Security and Data Protection Ensuring the security of online transactions, customer data, and sensitive information is paramount for retail brands.

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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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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Measurable Results and Analytics: Consultants employ advanced analytics tools to track and measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, providing clients with real-time insights and performance metrics.

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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. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 24, 2020

Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. A lot of good work is being done in companies around of metrics and rewards, but more can be done in this area. Capabilities.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 22, 2020

Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. A lot of good work is being done in companies around of metrics and rewards, but more can be done in this area. Capabilities.

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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?

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 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 focus on watching the work, not the people. If you and your team have been practicing real agility, you might say these ideas barely show any agility at all.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Define Clear Sales Objectives and Success Metrics An effective sales strategy begins with clearly defined sales objectives that serve as guiding beacons throughout the journey. This leads to improved win rates, higher customer satisfaction, and better time management.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Define Clear Sales Objectives and Success Metrics An effective sales strategy begins with clearly defined sales objectives that serve as guiding beacons throughout the journey. This leads to improved win rates, higher customer satisfaction, and better time management.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We want more collaboration and smaller stories in any agile approach. That's often the case that the managers ask team members to do work that's not the team's work, or if the managers believe in resource efficiency. One story doesn't offer enough information. They have handoffs and wait states.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. The information that escalates up falls into two categories: Issues that cannot be resolved at a given tier.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2024

Your managers don't want story points—they want durations and dates. In the absence of sufficient information, everyone makes up fiction (human stories) about what they want to happen. That's why I recommend all teams (including management teams) measure cycle time, not velocity. Story points require magical thinking.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

By Ashish Chawla, Global Head, Cognizant Contentworks; Shubham Choudhury, Senior Manager and Consulting Lead, Cognizant Contentworks. Information, media, and entertainment (IME) providers now face a new wave of challenges brought about by digital technologies and business models. Tomorrow’s IME Landscape.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

” This group looks across the business to gather behind-the-scenes information on the runway, newest clothing lines, and aspirational fashion content. The metrics also changed. This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways. Bring creativity to measurement. Think like a startup.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Indeed, it is very likely that AI will supplant many aspects of the “hard” elements of leadership — that is, the parts responsible for the raw cognitive processing of facts and information. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI. Sponsored by SAS. Assessing the opportunities and the potential pitfalls.

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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? An “operating model” — how a company organizes and manages its resources to achieve its strategic ambitions — is the bridge between strategy and execution.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making. The firm had outdated segmentation frameworks and loyalty programs, weak customer contact management, and suboptimized client identity management, so she championed and launched a customer relationship management initiative to revamp them.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

So what can a manager do to ensure that people on their team or in their department treat each other well? First, managers need to set expectations. ” Managers at Marriott know that small daily acts affect how employees interact with others and that civility spreads in networks. How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Although there are different definitions of this term floating around, when I talk with executives, I use it to mean managing the big issues rather than the small ones. what this produces for the business and for shareholders — the critical outcome metrics by which the organization will be judged.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Product portfolio management can make this happen. The Essence of Product Portfolio Management and Its Main Functions. Product portfolio management helps find the most appropriate strategy to gain the desired business objectives as well as evaluate the success of each product or service and make corresponding improvements if necessary.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The internet, email, smartphones, and social media have all significantly accelerated information sharing and communication. Digital Agility: Technology enables greater adaptability in response to changing conditions, helping firms accelerate digital transformation and optimize various aspects of their operations.

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Comatch

MARCH 22, 2022

Today, there’s a need for making better-informed decisions to rebuild the economy and achieve a sustained reduction in carbon emissions. However, there are very few metrics to really measure this. And the available metrics, at least on a company level, are not very forward-looking for decision-makers or people who want to invest.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

General Electric, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Walmart, and CitiGroup — all were businesses led by managers who were experts in efficiency and optimization and who grew their businesses by making them work better than they had previously. Use New Metrics. As such, it is deadly to hold them to standard big-to-bigger growth metrics.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Because the emergency department was often seen as a family’s most convenient source of care, making alternatives more convenient was another opportunity space, involving solutions built on leveraging trusted information sources within the community and on improvements in the attractiveness of nonemergency care.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

With so much information and technology at their fingertips, today’s consumers expect to get things done quickly and have their questions answered in an instant. more important than other priorities, as marketers continue to invest in providing their customers with relevant, timely and helpful information when and how they want it.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

The teams exposed to rudeness displayed lower capabilities in all diagnostic and procedural performance metrics, markedly diminishing the infant’s chances of survival. This was mainly because teams exposed to rudeness didn’t share information as readily and stopped seeking help from their teammates.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Over the past few decades, we’ve watched the impact of digitalization play out in real-time — just think of the countless ways that the internet, email, smartphones, and socials have made it faster and easier to share information, communicate, and complete basic tasks. Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility.

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