Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Do you know your organization’s project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. . What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level?

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Progressus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

These metrics provide the foundation for more outcome-oriented engagements, leveraging real-time data to secure contracts, monitor progress, and demonstrate the value of client investments. Which Metrics Are Essential for Professional Services Firms? For project-centric firms, profit margins rank among the most crucial KPIs.

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Cash Flow Metrics Resources Sales 52

LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Do your sales leaders and sales managers inspire their sales teams to higher performance? Sales Accountability From a sales leadership and management perspective, sales accountability is all about ensuring that sales team members are accountable for key leading and lagging sales metrics and understand the “why” behind each one of them.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate.

Management 52

Management Agile Metrics Video 52

Business Consulting Agency

JUNE 17, 2023

Sales Strategy Development: One of the key ways business consultants assist companies in improving product sales is by developing effective sales strategies. Consultants streamline sales workflows, implement effective CRM systems, and develop standardized sales methodologies. Want product sales success?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? For nearly two decades, many companies have utilized the principles within the Agile Manifesto to deliver faster time-to-market than traditional, or linear development models. Focus on Outcomes, not Metrics.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. But these metrics can become tyrants.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

The goal trap for small businesses Small businesses realize as they grow that they need goals and goal setting to manage their company but often fail to adopt them. Goal setting refers to how these goals are defined, tracked and managed. These goals can be tracked through metrics that gives continuous feedback such as OKR, MBO, etc.

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Small Business Metrics Video Sales 52

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 10, 2019

I listened to The Ultimate Metric: Identifying the Right Problems to Solve. She went on to explain that when we talk about “debt” managers think they have dials to manage the debt. Do nothing to pay off or manage that debt.). Software isn't like houses or cars. I thought that was brilliant.

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Software Productivity Banking Metrics 67

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

When you’re managing managers, your responsibilities are two-fold: you need to make sure they’re producing good work (as with any employee) and that they’re effectively supporting their teams. Here’s how you can fill in the gap and help your direct reports be great managers. What the Experts Say.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the autonomous intelligent behaviour of software or machines that have a human-like ability to make decisions and to improve over time by learning from experience. Thus, managing people and their EQ will become increasingly important in setting the direction of organizations. What is AI?

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

More recently, online sites such as Glassdoor and Vault let HR managers view anonymized praises and complaints about their company from employees and former employees – comments the whole world can see. Many companies go to great lengths every year or two to determine just how motivated their work force really is. Why do they do this?

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Case interviews go beyond just spouting business knowledge – you are tested on how you build and communicate a clear framework, break down problems into small pieces, develop real world options, and recommend actionable solutions despite the presence of conflicting information. For now, however, let’s just get started.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

With LinkedIn and personal websites widely used to promote careers, the idea of independent management consultants having a printable résumé may seem old-fashioned. Developed implementation plan for 2-year program to align and simplify 65 HR policies and 3 systems across 21 domestic sites, impacting over 2,500 employees.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

” The modern landscape for newspapers and books resulted from centuries of evolution, but “new media” hasn’t yet developed such strong brands and categories. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

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Industry Company Metrics Real Estate 39

Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

For all the emphasis placed on customer relationships these days, very few large organizations really understand how to manage them. This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. By treating it as merely another piece of software to optimize, most organizations squander this opportunity.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

The company manages a large, disaggregated workforce of “driver-partners” that deliver a relatively standardized experience to passengers, while simultaneously promoting drivers as independent entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. million drivers are active on the platform globally.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. A Quick Introduction to Agile Management. The tactics are clear, well-documented, and offered up in a myriad of flavors.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

We used machine learning to augment the power of seasoned professionals—in this case, project managers—by allowing them to make data-driven business decisions well in advance. AI as project manager. Technology service providers like Accenture work on multiple software projects. Training the model.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

” In today’s tightening labor market, HR leaders must work relentlessly to develop and recruit people who advance digital transformation across their organizations. HR leaders can start by upskilling their teams in areas that impact two critical business outcomes: building bench strength and tying HR metrics to financial success.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. Step 4 – when you help your team implement a solution, always keep the hardware and software aspects of change in front of their minds. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Metrics emphasized speed. These stats were reviewed by managers every week. This is also true of executives.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. What to do.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Managers want to understand how their teams contribute to the organization, and they want to identify high performers and potential leaders along the way. The people the model identifies as those with the most promise are often the ones a company will invest in through additional training and talent development programs.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2017

In this case, let’s say your metric is the number of visitors who click on the button. To run the test, you show two sets of users (assigned at random when they visit the site) the different versions (where the only thing different is the size of the button) and determine which influenced your success metric the most.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Both strategies create valuable content from the consumer’s perspective and use similar social networks and social software tools. What’s more, sales and marketing can collaborate on information to ensure that their efforts are aligned and to identify common goals and metrics that both teams can support.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

Why isn’t more of that cash going into developing businesses for long-term gains — the big, outsized gains that come from big bets on the future? This is a classic story of unintended consequences — inadvertently short-circuiting long-term management — to the detriment of companies, investors, and the economy.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. Analysts increasingly rely on non-GAAP metrics.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

” We don’t want to disappoint our bosses, colleagues, families, or friends, so we say “yes” as often as we can manage. I worked with a software development company in which the CEO came up with a new product feature on a weekly basis. We live in a culture of “yes.”

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Even the HR executives managing the space were surprised by their bonhomie. A few miles away, at its Silicon Valley campus, is AppHaus , one of five such campsites worldwide, where SAP engineers work with local customers and startups to explore consumer software. More villas are now in the works. Who uses them?

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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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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

The engagement of its drivers, who deliver milk and bread to millions of customers each day, was dipping while management was becoming increasingly metric-driven in an effort to reduce costs and improve delivery times. Organizational Development Book. Drivers’ dislike of managers was high, and trust was low.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Selvesware invites workers and managers to digitally amplify their talents and attributes, while monitoring and minimizing weaknesses. Simply put, selvesware helps people identify, manage, and measurably improve their best, most productive selves. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work. “Should you take five minutes to de-stress?”

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