Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. The other opinion (based on my experience) was that of using ROI to predict which product, project, or feature a team should do first.

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Agile ROI Productivity Sales 55

Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 11, 2024

Understanding E-commerce Success Factors Market Analysis and Positioning: Consultants conduct comprehensive market analysis to identify market trends, competitive landscapes, and consumer behavior patterns. Customer Experience Enhancement: Exceptional customer experiences are key to e-commerce success.

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Consulting Trends Efficiency Agile 52

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. That includes product ownership. How Many Managers Do You Need?

Productivity 65

Productivity Agile Efficiency Management 65

Jerry Fletcher

APRIL 17, 2021

Innovation, agility and the ability to think laterally can overcome the economy, the pandemic and the general funk in the populace at the moment. If a celebrity is enthusiastic about your product and endorses it, you could have a winner. If a fan becomes a social media star and brags on your product, you just might have a winner.

Marketing 52

Marketing Consulting Automotive Ethics 52

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. This leads to increased productivity and profitability.

Company 52

Company Efficiency Financial Operations 52

Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The retail industry in the United States is undergoing a transformative phase shaped by changing consumer behaviors, technological advancements, and market dynamics. Online Retail Revolution E-commerce Growth : Online retail has witnessed exponential growth, accounting for a substantial portion of total retail sales.

Retail 52

Retail Sales Operations Analysis 52

LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy? Are you and your sales team agile enough? You will find out just how quickly you can pivot your sales strategy and your sales team when a crisis occurs. Do you need to pivot your sales strategy or sales approach? And now we have one – COVID 19.

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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. Intuitively, we know that the collaborative intensity of work has skyrocketed, and that collaborations are central to agility. This story is not unique.

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Comatch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Aside from Scrum, it’s the most important agile approach. Kanban can be used in marketing, sales, HR, legal services, accounting, procurement, auditing, and more, and it’s a great way of giving individuals a cross-organization look at work. . The bank implemented the agile approach across all departments, not just IT.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc. Market trends? How often do you release new products/services? directly integrated with core financials?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

In Today’s Digital Economy, Agile Practices Can’t Be Limited to Just the IT and Development Realms. By Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. Agile practices have a vital part to play in the rapid delivery and continuous maintenance of software-driven products and services.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 19, 2024

In the digital era, retail brands rely heavily on robust online infrastructure and e-commerce solutions to drive sales, engage customers, and stay competitive. This scalability enables retail brands to stay agile and competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape.

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Retail Consulting Data Agile 52

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 41

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Perhaps my journey to agile will help you figure out how to begin your own.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. We’ll focus here on what the sales organization should be doing now to prepare for the next recession, with an eye toward using new digital tools.

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Sales B2B Tools Software 33

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How do we move from a project-based organization towards a product organization? I’ve noticed these challenges in companies who want to move to a more product-oriented approach: The reward system rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. Work Toward the Product Organization with Team Behaviors. We like to learn.).

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Productivity Efficiency System Management 60

Business Consulting Agency

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Here we will explore the extensive and professional world of consulting services, highlighting how consultants contribute to the enhancement of digital marketing results, website development, advertising, operations, startups, international business, and much more. The impact of consulting services cannot be ignored.

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Consulting Advertising ROI Operations 52

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2019

Especially when we use agile approaches, we want to be close to our customer. Most of their customer information comes via a product owner, who learns from a product manager. Most of their customer information comes via a product owner, who learns from a product manager. That's an awful lot of the telephone game.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 9, 2021

Yet, in many businesses, there is often some overlap and confusion over what defines the roles of a front office and back office, making it difficult to prioritize an area for greater efficiency and productivity. Other front-office departments may include public relations, marketing, and the contact center. What is the front office?

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Below, we’ll dig into these market forces and what they mean for professional services firms moving forward. 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.

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BCG

MARCH 9, 2017

They recognize that digital technologies are increasingly critical to driving sales and efficient operations. They see the need to become much more agile—to shorten the time to market and to accelerate product and service delivery, employing a more iterative manner. Companies “get it.”

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Telecommunications Agile Survey Efficiency 61

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Killing products isn’t easy. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. They are focused on a narrow set of products under their purview. Know the big picture.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It doesn’t just offer data connectivity within your ERP system, but also within your productivity tools, e-commerce, and even customer engagement solutions. Ensure business agility. Progressus allows for efficient task tracking and completion to determine which team members are the most productive.

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Software ROI Efficiency Operations 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Performing market assessments. Core Competencies.

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Productivity Management Engineering Case Interview 28

Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities. They provide customized, knowledge-based services to their clients.

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Industry SMB Software Talent 52

LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2023

Organizational Agility — Do You Have an Adaptable Enough Corporate Culture? Think of the groupthink that occurred at Kodak — successful for so many years until the market changed. The ideal is an adaptable enough corporate culture that can anticipate and flex to the changing demands of the market.

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Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

When employees have less distractions at work, it increases their productivity and performance, resulting in a better profitability for the organization. With the lack of an office environment, employees working alone could have a sense of isolation, which might lead to low productivity.

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Efficiency Travel Automotive Productivity 52

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. retail sales, or $391 billion of $4.9 Agile innovation teams are small. of sales on IT.

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Retail Agile Sales Engineering 28

Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Initial coin offerings (ICOs), the blockchain-based fundraising model involving the sale of cryptocurrency tokens in a new venture, have also grown exponentially with more than $5 billion raised through ICOs in 2017. They created a product or service which solved a problem that no body cared enough about. Conducting a field trial.

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Intellectual Property Data Deloitte Energy 60

Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The pressure on large companies in today’s equity markets is enormous, with expectations they will continue to produce outsized returns as PE ratios climb daily. Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. Country and Market Units (P&L, and some infrastructure).

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Unilever has acquired Dollar Shave Club , a young startup, for $1 billion in a move to introduce a new model of subscription sales. And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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Media Fashion Agile Sales 37

1 to 1

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Outsourcing business processes and tasks can free up employees to focus on more complex or valuable work; it can extend resources, such as sales support, for targeting new or underserved markets; support new product and service rollouts; and provide expertise within a specific industry focus. It needs a strategic solution.

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QEmploy

MAY 9, 2019

The global consulting market is one of the most mature, as it is valued at an astounding $250 billion. The traditional consulting agent market is also evolving into a new phase. First of all, consultants are unaware of their current market price in the industry. Indeed, consulting firms and agents need to as well.

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Industry Consulting Case Interview Recruiting 69

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity. Without that clarity, returns from digital initiatives suffer.

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LSA Global

APRIL 18, 2017

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. For one, instead of establishing their own online sales site, they partnered with Amazon, a formidable rival. They were not agile enough. Autopsy #2 – Hummer.

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Change Management Management Film Pharmaceuticals 34

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.

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Company Intellectual Property Enterprise Productivity 28

Emerson Consulting Group

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Being regularly published in professional business journals and trade and industry magazines can not only boost sales and publicity for your firm, but also offer you an invaluable level of credibility. I always load my briefcase with all my published articles before going out on a sales call. So how can you go about doing it?

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