Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

Having a well-implemented data strategy can provide your organization with the tools to effectively monitor and measure progress toward its goals , identify areas that require improvement, and optimize its decision-making. The good news is that there's a tool that can help predict the future and make better choices: scenario planning.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Instead, they should use a portfolio tool that classifies all existing, planned, and potential digital investments into four categories based on an assessment of their current and future contribution to business success. The portfolio tool can be used as a common frame of reference in management discussions about a number of areas.

Tools 28

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Some companies can be tempted to apply Agile methodology because of its flexibility; but without proper planning, it won’t become a silver bullet ensuring the successful completion of an R&D project. Applying a phase-gate process can help you address this issue.

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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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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2018

When the new system, Compass, was rolled out to all 44 offices, the fact that it was born of a problem identified by internal staff helped accelerate the tool’s adoption across the firm. Fast-iteration methodologies are a prerequisite, because talent tech has to be tailored to specific business needs and company context and culture.

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Epicflow

JUNE 8, 2022

Agile has become the most popular methodology in recent years and has proven its efficiency for millions of companies already so nobody has any doubts about it today. Sprint-based work has become a common way of organizing business activities as an optimal tool that helps reach short-term objectives. Sprint duration.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 20, 2018

With risk capital at a premium and the public markets closed, startups needed a methodology to preserve capital and survive long enough to generate revenue and profits. Yet while we had plenty of tools for execution, we had none for search. It was a nuclear winter for startup capital. So we built them. The result? Seize the Cash.

Methodologies 28

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

In addition to the “technical side” of project management, the author shares his ideas regarding effective stakeholder management, trust-based leadership, and effective decision-making as well as gives a variety of tools and techniques that can add value to your daily project management activities.

Management 11

Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 11

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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Sustaining Results Achieved Through the Lean Methodology. “HROs are agile, adaptable learning systems that respond well to the unexpected,” says Kathleen Sutcliffe, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, whose work studying wildland fire fighting is foundational to the field. .

Healthcare 28

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, lean manufacturing was the Big New Idea and it seemed like everyone was learning new tools with Japanese names. But too many companies’ efforts to “become lean” stopped at the tools, when it was the ideas underlying the tools that gave lean its power by helping people become more effective.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. For these reasons, modern crisis teams are turning from command-and-control systems to more adaptive, agile approaches. Patrick Smith/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 3, 2017

Analysis has become the primary tool in this regard. Fortunately, the tools of design thinking , which have for many years been used to create great new ideas, can also be brought to bear on the methods of gaining support for those ideas – or what we in design thinking call “the intervention.”

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Banking Data Productivity Video 47

Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

So that is not a methodology to build buildings. In fact, we’re not even sure you can legally do Agile! If you were going to come [from the tech sector] into government, it was likely you were going to be working with old tools. So, we said, we’re going to be using the latest technologies and the latest tools.

Government 41

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more.

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Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Epicflow

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This chapter digs deeper into a powerful tool for mitigating their impact: buffers. Buffers Mean Planning Spare of What We Might Need Buffers are vital tools in project management, used to mitigate various uncertainties. This visual tool, when intersected with the buffer consumption rate, offers a clear picture of project performance.

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1 to 1

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Customer Satisfaction (CSAT), Customer Effort Score (CES), and Net Promoter Score (NPS) metrics have long been invaluable tools in the industry, but it’s critical to recognize that these metrics on their own cannot improve customer experience. Be agile when uncovering reasons for customer churn. What is a CSAT rating?

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Metrics How To Survey Software 26

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But the most powerful drivers of change are not necessarily technological; radical improvements increasingly also come from applying new innovation methodologies like design thinking that focus on developing a deep understanding of patient experiences and invite patients and partners into co-creation processes. Insight Center.

System 28

System Healthcare Methodologies Metrics 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Training people with tools and models is very different from simply holding a space for leaders to be. However, the CEO did know that all he could do in such a dynamic context was build new capacities for agility and change in his organization. It’s difficult to teach how to be!

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