Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Moreover, some people prefer to review documents like résumés away from their desk, for example while eating lunch or in the evening. (I Much lower in the document they include an abbreviated section for work history with only company names and locations, job titles, and dates. This gives a sense of scale and degree of change.)

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. She works with individuals, teams, and leaders across the organization to resolve risks and see alternatives for their product development.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

The team’s project workspace so the team can put project documents in one specific place. This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. The developers were in New York, the testers in Vietnam. One week, the developers forgot to release their licenses when they left for the day. The place to gather team data.

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LSA Global

MAY 30, 2017

But that doesn’t mean employers can jut sit idly by and hope for the best on their quest for attracting, engaging, developing and retaining top talent. Also have them assist in developing communication pieces. Distribute an FAQ document to all employees. But what? Communicate the importance of confidentiality.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

An organization’s culture reflects the various lessons it has learned through its history and incorporates the many behaviors and processes that have developed over time. Even companies with strong organizational cultures may develop into dysfunctional organizational cultures after a merger without actions to harmonize the two cultures.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It's going beyond what is documented on the org chart and approaching your consultant similarly to a doctor's approach to a patient. It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. A good doctor knows human anatomy. Political savvy.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? I have one such document in front of me as I write this. Alicia Llop/Getty Images. But methods can be learned.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Doctors are working harder than ever and spending more of their time documenting clinical metrics and measuring patient satisfaction. The concept of self-perceived capability emerged from the service profit chain framework that one of us (Len) developed in the 1990s. Develop Strong Clinical Teams. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2018

It personally cost Zuckerberg more than $2 billion — hence the credible commitment to Facebook’s purpose to “develop the social infrastructure to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us.” Time-bound targets based on metrics and a clear strategic plan could do the trick, though.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

All investment practices will consider environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics because some of those metrics are financially material, meaning decision-useful pieces of information. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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LSA Global

APRIL 21, 2017

The statistics on the high dissatisfaction rate of new employees should capture the attention of every HR department and leader looking to engage, develop and retain high performing talent. Overseeing the new hire onboarding process should include specific success metrics. Train on systems. Monitor results. Are they staying on longer?

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. As they spread to all its software development teams, Michael Holm, the company’s CEO and cofounder, began to worry that his leadership team was hindering progress.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

These traditional approaches develop employees’ skills and enrich their work experience. Worker performance data broken down into three metrics: Productivity. Performance was measured daily or weekly, depending on the metric of interest, and then averaged by month.) What Drove These Spillover Effects?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2018

developed its own EHR system that is closely aligned with the care and patient relationship practices it employs. Although these bespoke systems do seem to fit clinician workflows better, they are themselves difficult and time-consuming to develop (One Medical required ten years to build its system) and they are relatively narrow in scope.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. Modeling scientist: Direct improvements in the product or business from the code developed and shipped. Decision scientist: Humans.

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QEmploy

AUGUST 19, 2019

The process can include strategic (developing a new IT strategy or cybersecurity approach) to tactical (such as the selection of an IT system) to highly operational (such as the development of an application). At the same time you are engaging with the target users and reporting before-and-after metrics.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements. However, how those metrics translate into revenues remains a mystery to external investors.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Other than the well-documented differences in language and development, demographic differences are also significant. Policies relating to infrastructure development, land and labor, healthcare, and transport fall under the purview of the states—as do most licensing and permitting. Cultural variations are important.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Try HR Retrospectives.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

“Sell higher and call on the C-Suite” is probably the most common refrain in business development, and you can see why. Magnuson recalled a success story of a salesperson who walked up to him after a presentation: He said if it wasn’t a good time, he could leave a document with me.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

They know the locations of important documents and how they are categorized and catalogued. To enable such a strategy in the face of a difficult shortfall of the requisite talent in the marketplace, one must fall back on developing existing employees through cross-training and cross-pollination of team members and experts.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2018

For example, if a law firm uses machine learning to find documents relevant for a case, what matters is that they don’t miss something important, not explaining why one document is relevant and another isn’t. Explainability is not always important. A business analyst should map out the end-to-end business process.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

” The more creatively, comprehensively, and innovatively these selves can be digitized, the greater the opportunity to help workers develop and deploy the optimal traits and qualities they desire. Provide metadata, APIs / SDKs , and documentation enabling multiple teams of multiple selves to productively collaborate.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This is when a business case document is required. According to the Project Management Body of Knowledge [1], a business case is a document that allows decision-makers to determine whether the project is worth the investment. The basic purpose of this document is to justify the initiation of a project. . Executive summary.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

That's because they knew the customers would find problems the development teams had not found. But the development teams? That's because the development teams worked by phase, not by feature. And I'm the only developer on this product! I suspect that my defects escape because I am the only developer. And they did.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 3, 2021

You should establish metrics that are specific to the scenario, aligned with your goals, and easy to understand or calculate. The filter can be a single metric that results in a yes/no decision, or a multistage process that results in an absolute yes/no or a conditional yes/no. Filters don’t always have to have well-defined metrics.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. Defining and tracking success metrics. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Core Competencies. Company Fit.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

Hospitals began identifying key processes that needed to be conducted the same way every time (such as the preparation and insertion of a central venous catheter), and set up reward and punishment systems for compliance, including standard quality metrics to evaluate provider performance.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I talked with Rita McGrath, a professor at Columbia Business School, who together with Ian MacMillan, of the University of Pennsylvania’s business school, developed this classic methodology for planning innovation. It’s a technique that any manager can use when developing and launching a new venture.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. They need to feel valuable and that they are being developed. Adapted from. Eddie Yoon.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

My speculation is that the cause vs. effect mini-games are being tested with candidates to develop a statistical track record to see how the scores in cause vs. effect mini-games correlate with the large database of scores from the first two types of mini-games. It is unclear why this is the case.

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

As a rule, a project manager creates this document at the planning stage and needs essential data about the project. Developing accurate probability distributions and running multiple simulations may require significant computational resources and expertise. Read more: A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics.

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QEmploy

JUNE 28, 2019

The protection of LGBT employees does not only serve as an act of acceptance, it also contributes to the development of the business. These include LGBT metrics, evaluation mechanisms, diversity training programs, as well as gender transition guidelines. Read also: Best IT Development Podcasts 2019 for Consultants ].

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Tsavo Neal

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Share a live video, interview other speakers, or document your own journey as a conference speaker with fun and engaging videos. Speaking is one of the most effective business development strategies for consultants. Here are some crucial YouTube video metrics to help you make the most of YouTube.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This is the impulse that leads to detailed requirements and specification documents, but, as we’ve come to understand, this tactic rarely works in software. This was our success metric: X and Y participants; Z matches; percentage of completed projects. (We

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

A recent study documented how incivility diminishes collaboration and performance in medical settings. The teams exposed to rudeness displayed lower capabilities in all diagnostic and procedural performance metrics, markedly diminishing the infant’s chances of survival. Some leading companies offer formal civility training.

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