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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Prepare Your Facility Relocation Project Team for a Productive Site Assessment

PM Alliance

Among the milestones on the path to a successful move is site selection—where will people and/or operations go? Below are some steps project teams can take to understand what goes into a site assessment and prepare for a productive location visit. Facility relocation projects can be long and complex efforts.

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Minimum Requirements Documentation: A Matter of Context

Johanna Rothman

A colleague asked me about the kinds of documentation the team might need for their stories. How little could they do for requirements documentation? I start with the pattern of Card, Conversation, Confirmation when I think about requirements and how much documentation. How available is the product owner? See Manage It!

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Determine the ROI of hiring a small business operations consultant

Asamby Consulting

Small Business Operations Consulting An investment makes sense only when you get more in return than you invested. If you hire an operations consultant, this Return on Investment might be not easy to calculate. This blog posts outlines what the ROI for hiring a small business operations consultant is.

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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

Why you need a COO or Operations Manager. Either their operations have grown quite a bit or they are in the midst of growing. Many founders and CEOs ask us this question: Do I need an operations manager? But there are a few questions: Why is it necessary to hire an operations person? We answer with a resounding yes.

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The connective tissue around productized services

Kai Davis

When we talk about productized services, we often touch on how they help you increase your effective hourly rate. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) let you write down and capture your process so you can remember it later and improve it over time. Pick one or two processes to document. The secret weapon?

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The Lockdown Unlocks Real Work

Markovitz Consulting

According to BCG’s analysis , productivity at companies that have shifted to remote work has increased between 15% and 40%. Elaborately defined, documented, and monitored processes and procedures? As they put it, “the lockdown has unlocked real work” by reducing or eliminating the complicatedness of the traditional work environment.