Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition. Read more from CA Technologies: The Key to Agile Success? It’s All About the Data.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

As for certifications, as I write this in 2019, the agile community has too many framework battles. Here are some example bios, specifically for non-consultants who don't have a ton of experience: Jill Jones, currently a technical lead for BigCloudServiceProvider, experiments with agile approaches in teams and across the organization.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 3, 2018

I delivered a webinar called Agile Metrics for Team and Product Progress last week, thanks to the nice folks at Innovation Roots. One person gave me a new saying about metrics (at the end, during the Q&A): Are you data-driven or data-informed? If we use agile approaches, does that mean we never have a target?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Here are 3 proven strategies for executive teams to stay aligned: Hold Weekly Accountability and Adjustment Sessions While weekly meetings may seem like too much for an executive team, high performing leadership teams have meaningful mechanisms to frequently stay on top of things. formally summarize results, and agree upon next steps.

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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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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

By establishing a clear understanding of expectations and success metrics, your organization can ensure that everyone is working towards a common goal and contributing to the overall success of the organization. Are you having a strategy meeting soon? Get our free 2-Day strategic planning agenda.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With barley more than half of new CEOs meeting performance expectations in their first eighteen months and less than 10% of companies exceeding average performance, correctly assessing executive capabilities can, and should, provide a competitive leadership advantage.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. I wrote Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops about Geographically Distributed Agile Teams with Shane Hastie back in 2013.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Customers expect digital experiences to meet a certain standard — it doesn’t matter if you’re Amazon, Netflix, an IT provider, or a small accounting firm. Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. Businesses are increasingly embracing tools that allow them to adapt to changing conditions.

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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. This is when organizational change agility comes into play.

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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. Stay agile and proactive, regularly reassess your approach, and incorporate feedback to maintain a competitive edge.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics. High-performing teams spend 14% more time checking their progress against strategic goals by reviewing key metrics and shifting resources accordingly.

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LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Unfortunately, Leadership Succession Planning Often Fails to Meet Expectations While most leaders know that they should develop a leadership pipeline, leadership succession planning often fails to make a measurable impact. Then establish the necessary goals, roles, success metrics, and processes to set them up for success.

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APRIL 21, 2022

It’s up to businesses to figure out how to best meet those expectations. The key to an omnichannel approach is giving the support team access to customer data and metrics across any channel. Regardless of the support option, ensuring that it meets your customer experience goals and expectations will put you on the road to success.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Digitally sustainable organizations are agile: They think fast, decide fast, execute fast, fail fast, learn fast, and scale fast. Discipline and Focus.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

” The email contained a link to a 2017 article one of us wrote for HBR, and suggested the CMO read it before their meeting. She went into the meeting prepared for the worst. The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

But since Tom’s boss was under pressure to meet a number of website metrics, she didn’t have the flexibility to implement his ideas. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. .” At first, Tom wasn’t deterred.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Think of it as high concept meets whatever is lying around — an unconventional recombination. By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. Another good example is what’s happened with elevators. They are selling performance, not hardware.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean. D-BASE/Getty Images. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 20, 2018

The plan is to create 10-minute programs; think YouTube meets Netflix. Given the stock market was buying “the story and vision” of anything internet, inflated expectations were more important than traditional metrics like customers, growth, revenue, or, heaven forbid, profits.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

This message is reinforced in meetings, at events, and with various awards for contributing to the culture. Microsoft’s popular Precision Questioning class teaches participants to question their own ideas, develop approaches to healthy, constructive criticism, and act with emotional agility even in tense situations.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2023

In preparation for a recent consulting engagement, the client, Tim, said, “I want you to track meeting attendance. If people don't come to your meetings, I want to know why.” Meeting attendance is very easy to measure. When I create meeting agendas, I list the expected participants at the top of the agenda.

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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. Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. Product portfolio management can make this happen.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Defining and tracking success metrics. Contemporary organizations may do this process in a more agile and collaborative way, but the expectation is that PMs know best about what customers need and engineering is there to serve. The art of resource allocation (it is not a science!). Performing market assessments.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In an agile and experimental process, the team participated in reimagining this new role, critiqued it and iterated on it, helping them feel that they were leading change rather than being subject to it. Step 7: Measure progress. The test was administered both before and after the pilot, as was the family’s adherence to the model.

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