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Top Power Skills Every Organizational Consultant Needs

Consulting Matters

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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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies.

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The Kinds of Data Scientist

Harvard Business

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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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

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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6 Steps to Make Your Strategic Plan Really Strategic

Harvard Business

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. The reason? Stakeholders can be great strategists.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

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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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business

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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