Consulting Success

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Productization is a hot topic today. What could be better than packaging your consulting services into products? Productizing your consulting services can be an incredibly profitable move. But productization doesn’t come without risk. No proposals. Minimal negotiations. A streamlined, predictable process.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2021

(Note: a modified version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. You can read that version, with more links to related articles, here.) ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Leaders in organizations are always seeking to improve employee productivity (including their own).

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2024

Product management has become an aspirational career. A group of popular social media influencers regularly offers advice on what it takes to attain a job and succeed in this field. But their content tends to glamorize the profession, gloss over the day-to-day-realities, and dispense wisdom that isn’t always on point.

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 6, 2020

You’re Super Productivity Person! Also, to be fair, probably neither you nor your consulting firm are achieving legendary productivity day in and day out. Productivity isn’t as sexy a superpower as … Continued. The post How to make Yourself and Your Consulting Firm SUPER Productive appeared first on David A.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2024

Platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have not only broadened access to funding to companies that might struggle in the capital markets but have also transformed the way companies connect with consumers during product development, replacing focus groups with real customers who have a stake in the final product.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2023

While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail. Why waste years scaling up a product that from the outset never performed the job that customers needed doing? In this article, I will share three tips for startup success.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2023

AI-powered tools offer individuals a range of ways to boost their individual productivity including assistance with task prioritization, time management, professional development, and a range of other activities. Research Assistance AI tools can assist in collecting, organizing, and analyzing information, and generating useful insights.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Selling original or quirky products is often an uphill battle. But research that involved an analysis of quirky products sold by some 7,000 craft entrepreneurs on Etsy suggests that effective storytelling that helps people relate to such offerings can turn them into successes.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The digital marketplace offers an abundance of opportunities for businesses to sell products online, catering to a global audience. This article aims to provide a detailed roadmap for initiating online product sales while highlighting the invaluable support and benefits that come from working with professional consulting services.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 5, 2022

Product managers have a dynamic role within companies, sitting at the intersection between business leaders, customers, engineers, and designers. They help to organize the development process so that products meet customer needs and business goals. What is a Product? Managing the Product Lifecycle.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 8, 2024

We don’t know much about how LLMs change productivity at the firm level — and a close reading of recent studies suggests they can hinder as much as help.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 25, 2022

It’s no secret that a healthy workplace is a more productive workplace. However, with remote work and working from home on the rise, many employees have faced challenges with transforming their spare bedroom or basement area into an organized and productive home office. Setup your Tech for Comfort and Productivity.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But if you’re going to require employees to be in the office full-time, you may need to mitigate lower engagement and lower productivity. So what can organizations do to promote both well-being and productivity wherever employees are working? This article offers three strategies.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

JULY 5, 2021

However, it can be more difficult to keep a virtual team engaged and motivated, and this often results in a drop in productivity. In this article, we take a look at some of the ways in which SMEs can improve the productivity of their virtual teams.

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Consulting Success

MARCH 22, 2018

Productivity Boost for Consultants is a post from: Consulting Success.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Countries around the world are enacting legislation, known as extended producer responsibility regulations, to make companies more accountable for the end-of-life phase of their products. While companies may fear that these take-back programs would lead to increased costs that drive away consumers, new research suggests differently.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2023

He posited that this segment was an untapped market opportunity and that companies, by developing products and services accessible to them, could create sustainable and profitable ventures, while also improving the lives of the poor. But in doing so, it also drew attention away from other inclusion gaps.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This article describes a project undertaken by Japanese electronics giant Hitachi and three of its suppliers in conjunction with the E-Liability Institute to understand where CO2 emissions were produced in the value chain for the copper used to manufacture its transformers and how different sourcing of the copper would affect the quantity of emissions (..)

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 2, 2018

We, as people who create products, often have big, audacious ideas. A minimum viable product. My most recent article on the Gurock blog might help you think about what it would take you to move from Big Idea to some form of minimum. The post Minimums Article Posted appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2023

Thanks to the increasing availability of AI, including machine learning algorithms, deliberately creating customer data feedback loops is now possible for most products and services. For some products, it is easy; for others, one needs to find more creative ways to engineer the data feedback loops.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2024

Many leaders want to be allies for underrepresented groups, but fear their attempts will be awkward or offensive. New research suggests these fears are often unfounded, with acts of allyship generally being appreciated more than anticipated.

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David A Fields

MARCH 10, 2020

Note: At the end of this article, you’ll be requested to join an experiment. In the comments section below the article. Have you ever finished a day or a week and thought to yourself, “Holy cow, I can’t believe how insanely productive that time was”? If you’re willing to join, simply post, “Yes.” You busted … Continued.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Companies like Slack and Dropbox have pioneered the use of Product-Led Growth (PLG). They start by building a product that’s indispensable for small teams, then count on low friction and customer advocates to expand throughout the organization. Don’t wait until product-led growth stalls to plan for a multi-pronged sales strategy.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 24, 2020

In a conversation about product quality, the product owner said, “If the testers found the problems faster, we would be done faster.” That's because product development is a system of work. If you pressure one piece of the system and don't accommodate that pressure elsewhere, you create bad products.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Many product owners and customers believe they know the problem they want to solve. John Le Drew and I pair-wrote an article describing this problem and how to solve it. We’ll see if they result in articles. Yes, that’s a little meta considering the article. I have several experiments ongoing.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But the production and inventory planning process that many companies, especially SMEs, use are not capable of handling the uncertainty. Disruptions have become a way of life for manufacturers. A new inexpensive method that was developed in research involving two companies can. It doesn’t have to be automated but can be.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2024

In this article, the author explains how to spot the classic signs of undiscussables — meetings marked by quick consensus, a lack of productive debate, or uneven participation — and offers strategies on how to uncover those unexpressed thoughts and feelings to help your team work more productively.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2023

As companies seek to cut costs in an uncertain economy, increasing this commercial productivity is a smart strategy. A study of B2B companies found that just one in 20 was able to consistently grow sales faster than sales and marketing expenses.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2023

A study, involving Edelman and nine major brands, finds that despite corporate hesitations, sustainable products are growing twice as fast as conventional ones, appealing across all demographics. Brands should ensure that product quality is not compromised while promoting sustainability.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Early user programs are critical to the success of products. This article provides a process that can make a big difference in helping companies do a better job of choosing early users and harvesting valuable information. They can have a significant impact on the success of a new product launch.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 27, 2023

Several people have contacted me recently about “missing” articles on this site. They say, “Here's a URL and why isn't the article there?” ” The article isn't there because I didn't write it. But the people contact me because the LLMs (Large Language Models) claim I have written these articles.

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Emerson Consulting Group

MARCH 23, 2016

Publishing business articles is a potentially rewarding business development technique. If it is naïve then to assume that lots and lots of readers of your published articles will quickly and directly become new clients, one might therefore question whether writing and publishing articles offers you any business benefit at all.

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Harvard Business

JULY 21, 2023

Studies show exposure to nature at work boosted productivity, helpfulness, and creativity, with no evidence of negative effects. Research on “micro-nature” — the incorporation of small, affordable natural elements into workplaces — demonstrates its positive impact on employee performance and well-being.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

If you’ve ever developed a product, you’ve almost certainly been derailed by scope creep. In this article, I’ll explain how you can keep your team’s efforts aligned with the genuine needs of your audience. Features multiply, priorities blur, and schedules and budgets suffer.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Challenging the status quo is the mechanism that leads to innovation and improvement. But doing so can feel risky, leading you to self-censor and shy away from speaking up. Challenging the status quo calls into play context, personalities, and self-interest, and could bruise egos, reveal poor performance, redistribute power, or upend hierarchy.

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David A Fields

JANUARY 14, 2020

They’re in an industry your consulting firm targets, and Bernie himself revealed in a recent trade magazine article that his company is struggling with the wheaty weighty challenges your consulting firm solves. There’s just one problem: Even though you’ve consumed their products a … Continued.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The more component teams they have, the more complexity they create in the teams, in the product, and in delivery. No one can tell anything about project or product progress. See this article on cohesion and this on coupling for more information. Effect of Component Teams in a Large Product.

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