Alan Weiss

MARCH 5, 2024

What about your products and services? And what about your clients’ products and services? They may still be effective and efficient, but do they include the most modern technology? At a basic level, workshops need to be accessed remotely or by tape to accommodate time zones, not just in person.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking. Ignorance of the flow metrics.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

See Decide When You Need To Meet, Workshop, Or Write To Save Energy And Time for more information.) Work product: Collaborate to create a work product. They have outcomes, either a decision, action items, or a work product. Concurrent projects often elevate resource efficiency thinking, not flow efficiency thinking.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

And she wants the teams to create products the customers want to buy. Jenny has experienced what many of you have, too: Collaborative teams with diverse experiences can develop products customers want to buy. Over her career, Jenny has learned that it's easier to sell more product than to manage costs. Learn with Johanna.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 5, 2022

These technology leaders and their teams are facing major change as their company looks to become more efficient through a strategic shift , significant restructuring , and increased accountability. Context for the Leading through Transitions Workshops Successful change is one of the biggest challenges that organizations face.

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Clarity Consultants

AUGUST 24, 2023

From offering an enhanced learning experience to your clients to increasing your firm’s productivity and efficiency, these are a few reasons why you should keep up with the advancing technology within instructional design. With the help of our instructional design services , you can stand out amongst your competition.

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Rick Conlow

JUNE 19, 2023

Now however, controversy about the productivity challenges of leading remote work teams confront organizational assumptions about its effectiveness. The Council on Foreign Relations shares global research on how productivity increases in remote work settings. Owl Labs date says they are 47% more productive. hours a week.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

They do that with: Assessing and managing project or program risks for the team's effort and the overall product. Each person works in resource efficiency, focused on their deliverables. Too often, people outside the team, such as managers or product managers, create the team's multitasking. Not for the product.

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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. Notice how my MBOs optimized for my deliverables, a form of resource efficiency. OKRs are supposed to encourage flow efficiency , so everyone works to the same objective. That helps with flow efficiency.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 16, 2018

Taking Uber as an example, the company first identified expensive taxi/limo fares (problem) and aimed to use a GPS enabled smart phone app to connect drivers with riders more efficiently (solution). While many banks have introduced new technologies, they have done so partly to increase efficiencies, reduce headcount, and save costs.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Organizational Development can support the implementation workshops with change models and activities for the workshops. Organizational change resilience is responding productively to significant disruptive change and transforming challenges into opportunities. This video provides some practical insights into scenario planning.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Production performance. Impact on cycle-time.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 20, 2022

“What are examples of some of the best consultant websites?” ” “Why does an independent consultant need a website?” ” As a specialist in design, copywriting, and marketing for consultants, I’m biased. I believe every consultant should have a website. It even instills confidence in you.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 25, 2018

” That’s great for resource efficiency. However, software, especially with an agile approach, is about flow efficiency , where people work as a team to finish one story at a time. Make sure people (especially leaders and managers) understand about flow efficiency. Yes, a little sarcasm there.) See the image below.).

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2019

At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think about it. I didn't have the words for the ideas of Cost of Delay , nor of flow efficiency. Or, often, the product results the management wants. appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The online workshop videos are complete. However, if people collaborate with pairing, swarming, or mobbing, they work in flow efficiency. I also know my cycle times to develop workshops and video them. All this collaboration and learning together means the team shares its product development. Have a workshop to decide.

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Women in Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Deb Siegle, WIC’s president, was recently interviewed (by email) regarding women consultants and business owners for possible inclusion in an article for one of the Boston College blogs. In February of 2015, the Cass Business School At City University London hosted an event called Women In Consulting – Challenges And Opportunities.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2018

It leaves us dissatisfied, undermines collaboration, and renders our teams less creative and efficient. In our work as teachers, consultants, and coaches, we have met hundreds of Raymonds and Sandras over the past two decades. If there is one enemy of authenticity and innovation, insecurity is it.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2023

Many of these spied-upon people have installed mouse (and keyboard) simulator products. Yes, these products randomly move the mouse to pretend the person is “working.” I'll start with measuring productivity. That's a classic example of resource-efficiency thinking. We can't measure a person's productivity.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Agile Software Development track will be interesting for Scrum masters, Agile coaches, team leaders, project and product managers, and everyone involved in product delivery. The other track, Product Design and Management, will attract product managers, UI/UX designers, and researchers.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Traditional measurements focus on resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency.) Resource efficiency measures don’t measure what the organization delivers or what prevents the organization from delivering. See Velocity is Not Acceleration for the discussion and examples of feature chart and product backlog burnup charts.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. So does ScanDisk and Shire.

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