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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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. A healthy culture promotes productive conflict, team member participation, and team engagement. It is comparable to breathing.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. They are decision scientists. They are modeling scientists. What is the output?

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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

Across the health care industry, there’s a growing sense that pushing doctors ever harder to achieve productivity, quality, and service goals is backfiring. Doctors are working harder than ever and spending more of their time documenting clinical metrics and measuring patient satisfaction. Develop Strong Clinical Teams.

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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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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 provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings. A good doctor knows human anatomy. A good org consultant knows organizational anatomy.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2018

They can reap benefits because of higher employee productivity and customer loyalty and satisfaction. 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.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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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. The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers. Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements.

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 30, 2018

For example, highly complex product and service environments will require domain experts or subject matter experts. Simpler product environments will require experts in operations, logistics, and supply chain. They know the locations of important documents and how they are categorized and catalogued.

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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. During their evaluations, they’ll typically ask themselves two questions: Is your product or service better than alternatives, and, equally important, can their people work with you and your organization?

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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

JULY 6, 2018

Once in production, models often encounter edge cases — situations, data, or individuals that aren’t enough like the data they’ve been trained on. It’s important to monitor for bias both before and after a system goes into production, and to take action to address unintended treatment.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

In addition, a product leader might approve the feature. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) But if you are similar to one of my long-ago clients, they could plan on too many defect escapes every time they released another version of the product. But the development teams? might demo the feature.

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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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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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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

The logic was rooted in the idea that if hospitals could only do to patient care what Henry Ford did to automobile production – standardization – then patients would see drastic improvements in safety.

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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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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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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For most of us, it seems pretty simple: when we ship the product or launch the service. And as the world continues to digitize and almost every product and service becomes more driven by (or at least integrated with) software, this need grows even stronger. Our goal might be to sell more of our products online.

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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. Leaders set the tone. It all starts at the top.

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