Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

Project managers can utilize the power of AI by leveraging project/resource management tools where the technology is incorporated. Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Especially if you want to use agile approaches. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) More Reading and Resources See these books: Hiring Geeks That Fit Manage Your Job Search I stopped writing under the HTP category on my site, but the archive is still there, and is evergreen.

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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

MARCH 26, 2024

That's why I wrote Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. ) Too often, that means people work in resource efficiency, not in flow efficiency. Yes, Little's Law and the flow metrics rule our work. If you can use a Gantt chart and you find it valuable, that's fine.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. So why is it so hard to create networked, agile teams in large, global product companies? The global/local tension.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Before hiring more sales reps, pushing specific sales activities, or investing in sales enablement technology, smart sales leaders invest the time and resources to deeply understand the market in which they operate in. Only invest time and resources with clients that appreciate and need what you have to offer.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. The center orchestrates, coordinates, provides resources, and facilitates alignment and connection.

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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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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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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Creating an aligned and high performance culture that sets the stage for peak performance is about a lot more than just designing a corporate strategy and deploying the resources to deliver on it. To assess potential, you must use assess specific personality traits, motivation , and learning agility.

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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? 1,2 and so on.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Done right, annual strategy sessions establish clear objectives that resonate with each executive team member so they can explicitly orient their teams toward a common destination while minimizing the risk of divergent strategies or resourcing. Trust and Accountability Trust forms the cornerstone of effective leadership teams.

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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. How to track your Goals and objectives: Tracking goals and objectives can be a daunting task for many senior leaders.

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

People Team goals , roles, success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned. Allocating resources to increase confidence and motivation that the next 90-days make sense. New strategies, competitive pressures, leaders, products, and approaches. To create executive team alignment, LSA Global: 1.

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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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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. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I recommend against velocity or using story points.

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LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Getting succession planning right takes a lot of dedicated time, effort, resources. Then establish the necessary goals, roles, success metrics, and processes to set them up for success. Does your talent management strategy make it clear who is ultimately responsible for leadership succession planning?

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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. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” It ensures alignment of goals, resources, and people.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The work of support and operating functions like finance, marketing, supply chain and human resources must change to leverage these technologies, and do so in a way that serves enterprise objectives, as well as the needs of individual businesses. Hence, regardless of the structure the common complaint of “silo thinking.”

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Is the strategy not clear enough, not perceived to be equal to the challenge, or not supported by adequate resources to truly succeed? The caveat is that there must be some agility as you execute the plan. What’s Causing the Disconnect between Strategic Planning and Strategy Implementation? Include a Caveat.

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1 to 1

APRIL 21, 2022

The key to an omnichannel approach is giving the support team access to customer data and metrics across any channel. The bottom line is that companies must assess their needs, resources, and goals when choosing between omnichannel or multichannel support. It also saves customers time from having to repeat their question or issue.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

Typically they end up as an app or a custom feature in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Yet it also gives you an agile way to work: you don’t waste time or dollars when there are no results, and you develop a fast-fail mentality to learn what works and what doesn’t. Shift 3: See people as multipliers of value.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

That takes time and resources – and it also requires bringing creative thinking to unfamiliar problems. The metrics also changed. The result is an ability to quickly adjust and re-allocate resources. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development.

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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

JUNE 13, 2018

By Surya Panditi, GM, Agile Management, CA Technologies. So organizations today are staying ahead of the curve by scaling agile and building agility into everything they do, and extending agile techniques and practices across teams, teams-of-teams, non-IT organizations and even across the business as a whole.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In follow-up meetings with her direct reports, they identified high-impact work — and killed off less-important tasks to free up resources. As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making. And they have significantly more impact.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

By tracking a metric, they can sell optimized wait times (elevators as a service) rather than banks of elevators based on price. WhatsApp founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton launched their company with a straightforward proposition: They would create a messaging app that people wanted to use without bombarding them with advertising.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

what this produces for the business and for shareholders — the critical outcome metrics by which the organization will be judged. They are questions about: why the organization exists and what its purpose is. what it offers (and does not offer) its customers, and how and why this offer delivers value to these customers.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The art of resource allocation (it is not a science!). Defining and tracking success metrics. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. They also have more influence and authority over company resources.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Good Product Portfolio Management Contributes to Better Resource Utilization. The analysis of current trends in the market, customers’ requirements, and the products the company suggests makes it possible to allocate key resources to the work on the products that are more valuable to the company.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies. Geographic Zones (consolidated P&L, plus infrastructure).

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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. In a world still dominated by fee for service, it is often a challenge to sustainably fund new business models. Step 7: Measure progress.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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. Businesses are increasingly embracing tools that allow them to adapt to changing conditions. Digitalization” shouldn’t inspire dread.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Yet most strategic initiatives fail to deliver, and they do so at great cost in time and resources. You invest substantial resources, creative time, and energy in designing the right strategy. 3: Dedicate and mobilize the right resources. Strategy delivery doesn’t just happen automatically once it is designed.

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