Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

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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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. That is, what the organization wanted from employees.

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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

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.

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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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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Is it expertise, the products, services, process, or IP? It requires having the right processes, metrics, documentation, and culture. It’s not based on your best year or wishful thinking; it’s usually based on the last three years of financial performance plus an analysis of the non-financial factors. Know these things.

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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

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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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

A healthy culture promotes productive conflict, team member participation, and team engagement. A frequently asked question (FAQ) document to communicate answers to questions employees might have in advance of them being asked can help reduce fears and rumors. Enhance individual commitment to the company within the workplace.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2018

They can reap benefits because of higher employee productivity and customer loyalty and satisfaction. Many business leaders have talked about the phenomenon of short-termism, and research has documented that short-termism holds back good corporate intentions. There is a lot of talk about purpose in business. Why is that?

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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

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

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 documented by Walter Isaacson , “After he righted the company, Jobs began taking his ‘top 100’ people on a retreat each year.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

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? Because of this, it will take more than great analysis, a superior product, or a performance improvement to clinch a deal.

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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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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.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Flatiron Health’s human “abstractors” review provider notes and pull out structured data, using AI to help them recognize key terms and uncover insights, increasing their productivity. Amazon Web Services recently announced a cloud-based service that uses AI to extract and index data from clinical notes.

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Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

In a famous example (at least, it’s famous if you’re into this kind of thing), in March 1951, the CIA’s Office of National Estimates published a document suggesting that a Soviet attack on Yugoslavia within the year was a “serious possibility.” Lesson 3: Seek feedback to improve your forecasting.

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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. This is easier if you work as a mob/ensemble, pair, or swarm.)

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Discovery-driven planning offers a lower-risk way to move a product forward in the face of “what is unknown, uncertain, and not yet obvious to the competition” so that firms can “learn as much as possible as cheaply as possible” while pursuing new ventures. Step 4: Document assumptions.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Other than the well-documented differences in language and development, demographic differences are also significant. Industry cluster metrics measure the size of the pool of potential customers for B2B or B2C companies, and market stability metrics measure institutional, business, and social stability.)

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain technology can also verify ad delivery and consumer engagement; avoid ad or email overserving, which angers consumers and demotivates them from buying; and prevent follow-me ads that are no longer relevant (such as when consumers have already made a purchase of the company’s or competitor’s products).

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Why are customers willing to pay so much more for the client's product, but not anyone else's? A business metric is only unusual if you don't understand the business. In other words, I shift from seeking to analyze , to seeking to understand. (In In my opinion, that last sentence is probably the key to my success in cases.

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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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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2018

With online technologies and targeted lists, this should be a cost-effective tool for separating the suspects from the prospects, accelerating customer conversion through the sales funnel, and, equally important, optimizing “data-driven marketing” by tying each piece of content to metrics like opens, reads, downloads, and so on.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 24, 2020

Offers & Pricing : What products and services your clients will love and be more than willing to pay for (that will deliver on the promised transformation). A proposal is not a legal document – it’s an invitation for a strategic partnership.

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CaseInterview.com

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In ecosystem-type games, there are often local minimums and maximums, or rules regarding how certain metrics used in the game must be greater than or less than some specific threshold. If a client drops off 1,000 documents grouped into ten different categories, it’s a lot of work to read all 1,000 documents.

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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. EVA encompasses three key indicators: Planned Value: This metric outlines the expected amount of work scheduled to be completed by a specific stage of the project timeline.

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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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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

When masculinity is the metric of success, hitting on women is just another way to keep score. Work is — hard work, with a focus on productivity rather than masculine signaling. Some Silicon Valley firms are turning to sexual harassment training as a solution. I’m not discouraging that. The business benefits are real.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

No single metric has more drama surrounding it than quarterly revenue. For public companies, the issues surrounding the “beat or miss” quarterly updates are well documented. The sales team was amazing, but it was too hard to sell because the product had no more differentiation or vision. The result?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2017

What if we could track every component in a supply chain, automatically verifying their compliance with regulations and laws as they cross borders and are processed and combined with others to create a final product for sale? These capabilities might seem like nice things to have, the metrics useful to measure.

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