Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans. However, without a data strategy , the likelihood of achieving successful outcomes is greatly diminished.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. During that workshop, the participants all had the same question, “How do we engage our stakeholders? Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops.

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Brimstone Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Our process enables new leaders to accelerate results by balancing strategy and execution , building trust, and aligning the leadership team and organization. The outcome is an actionable three-year strategy. We partnered with him to develop a strategy, align the senior leadership team, and drive the team to higher performance.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2022

I finished all the video editing for the writing workshop. Because there's more work to finishing the workshop, I'm sure I will not finish the workshop today. Those purchase orders are much larger sums of money than an online workshop or revenue from a book. As part of that strategy, I have interim deliverables.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 17, 2020

We have been working with leaders to achieve accelerated results and (re)build a stronger, more agile organization, by taking their team through the Senior Team Alignment Process (STAP). The process is agile, fast, flexible, and time competitive. The process is agile, fast, flexible, and time competitive.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 18, 2018

The great Joanna Penn interviewed me and the podcast is now live: Strategy And Business Plans For Authors With Johanna Rothman. We were both at a business-of-writing workshop with Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Joanna and I have similar names—which often makes for humor in the workshop. We had a blast.

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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. A common strategy is created by representatives of the network and is broadly communicated.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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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

MARCH 12, 2019

Especially when we use agile approaches, we want to be close to our customer. Here are some ideas: Your customer is “down the hall” If your customers are part of your organization, you might have more opportunities to engage them and invite them into your team, specifically to create a user story map and workshop stories.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Here to help you do just that are the top team leader mistakes to avoid at all costs from a recent new manager training workshop: Limiting Input and Dissent Have you noticed how some leaders live in an echo chamber surrounded by people who have their same mindset and opinions? Insular leaders lack humility, inclusiveness, openness, agility.

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Brimstone Consulting

JULY 6, 2021

Senior leaders from across the organization join the workshops as guest speakers to share their teachable point of view and engage in Q&A. The program is led by the leader, while Brimstone supports the Vice President by coaching, facilitating workshops, developing agendas, and other activities as needed.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

That leaves most organizations lacking a clear total workforce perspective and no integrated strategy to engage workers at the right time, cost, and contractual arrangement. Organizations can realize untapped value, and reduce risk, when HR and Procurement share knowledge and work together to create an integrated talent strategy.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 10, 2018

Some of my goals are corporate objectives: release that book, build that workshop in service of a greater goal. Here’s a check on your OKRs, to see if they really are OKRs: Does the objective tie to the corporate strategy? In part 2, I’ll discuss accountability and what that might mean in an agile environment.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

While others have written about how to design exponential strategies and organizations, I want to focus here on how to create an exponential mindset. Unless you are conscious and diligent, you can end up with a strategy that looks digital (i.e. No strategy is static. achieves accelerating returns). Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

More than 20% of employees took the training online or in workshops in the first few months of the program, and employee submissions to its sales lead and job candidate referral programs were up 43% and 19% respectively. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

“A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says. Help Employees Embrace Agility. Agility is key to success when undertaking digital transformations. One of us works for and the other advises General Assembly.)

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Kates Kesler

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Advanced Practitioner Workshop. During this two-day, highly interactive, case-based workshop we will share insights from our forthcoming book bringing to life three and four dimensional organizational structures in some of the world’s largest and most complex global companies. Dec 9-10, 2015. New York University. Kimmel Center.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 16, 2023

When I teach the project portfolio management workshop, we spend a good chunk of time getting all the projects down on cards and then organizing them. But because everyone felt pulled in too many directions, they needed to make some decisions now , even before a portfolio workshop. We decided to gather some data about their WIP.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Originating from agile software development, the sprint has entered the business mainstream as an increasingly popular means to accelerate business model, product, or service innovation. They allow a company to be more agile and to more effectively adapt to digital disruption. 5 Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

According to Bart Womack, Veteran Strategy Officer ​at Randstad and CSM, USA (Ret.) “Veteran hiring is a mindset and a culture shift. We’ve found that the skills and competencies veterans develop in the military are ones often not as well developed in corporate leaders, such as decision-making agility and collaboration.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

To avoid this roadblock, successful companies use a more agile strategy that relies on local solutions to capture value quickly, while gradually building the long-term IT and automation architecture. Instead of large crews disassembling the packs at centralized workshops, small teams would replace the batteries in the field as needed.

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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. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

(Often, a combination of strategy and tactics.) Move between strategy and tactics and back again.) For lack of a better word, I'll call this the product strategy team. They feel the push and pull of strategy and tactics—and they can't do it all. Does the team understand all the organization's tactics and strategies?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

Nonetheless, most organizations pay far more attention to strategy and execution than they do to what their people are feeling and thinking when they’re asked to embrace a transformation. Resistance, especially when it is passive, invisible, and unconscious, can derail even the best strategy. “What else is true?”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Nurtured correctly, it can help a company achieve scale insurgency — a company with the benefits of both size and agility. This is what founder Nick Woodman described as becoming a sort of “mini Apple,” a much harder strategy to successfully execute. We believe the founder’s mentality is a strategic asset.

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