Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See the Flow Efficiency series.) Don't decide for anyone.

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PM Alliance

JULY 14, 2023

Timely data can give your team an edge on controlling costs by ensuring that resources are used efficiently. Data such as workforce metrics, vendor rates, and material pricing gives your team the necessary background to minimize costs by identifying the right resource mix for each market. What’s the latest insight into best practices?

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Project management maturity (or PMM) reflects a company’s ability to manage projects efficiently. They usually describe levels indicating the current state of an organization in terms of project management efficiency and propose recommendations on how to proceed to more sophisticated levels. . Let’s examine some of them. .

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. An Example. Production performance.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. The better the team learns together, the better the product is. See the Flow Efficiency series.) Don't decide for anyone.

Management 52

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. So this measure may mislabel efficient companies as myopic. Consider three examples. Corporate culture.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

Products should be tested and optimized. These questions cannot be answered by copy testing, product testing, or other micro-testing methods. Often, some combination of the two methods is the most efficient. Every ad and commercial should be tested for effectiveness. Promotions should be tested. Package designs should be tested.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 17, 2016

5. Structure solution only. • Changes do not stick as processes, metrics, and reward mechanisms still reinforce old ways of work. • Sub-optimized results as employees struggle to deliver on new expectations. 8. Unclear design terminology.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

However, in business, decisions can be effectively and efficiently made based on near-perfect data/calculations. Profitability is the ultimate business metric , and profitability cases can address a business in any industry. An example of this might be comparing the use of the U.S. Profitability. and the other is 8 oz.

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BCG

MAY 9, 2016

At the heart of the benchmarking are core operational metrics. These include full-time employee (FTE) productivity by activity mix, cycle time, and degree of automation as well as an assessment of the bank’s digital maturity—for example, the functionalities available through various digital channels.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It should embody your brand values and provide a shining example of what exceptional customer experiences should look like in your organization. In this step, you’ll want to build out the logistics, timeline, objectives, and metrics that will help your organization achieve CX success.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Done right, a successful strategic plan sets a company up to perform beyond just the sum of its parts by answering questions about vision , mission , values , target markets , value proposition , success metrics, big bets, and action plans. To take the example one step farther, Coca-Cola has five strategic imperatives and PepsiCo has six.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

For example, research has found that 93% of Pinterest users plan purchases on the platform and 87% have made a purchase after seeing a product they liked. Start by basing your social strategy on business objectives, then follow that by thinking about target market, social media platforms, tools, and metrics.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

On the “push” side, HR leaders can do a better job of presenting human capital metrics to the rest of the organization using the LAMP framework: Logic. Articulate the connections between talent and strategic success, as well as the principles and conditions that predict individual and organizational behaviors.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 25, 2018

If you had a factory job, it wasn’t your job to worry about productivity. And yet, we hardly talk about productivity. Productivity is the amount of useful output created for every hour of work we do. What’s the most productive choice? He designed the Model T to be efficient to build.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” Accountability is vital to the efficiency of the process.

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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

JUNE 28, 2017

Fung gives a simple example: the size of the subscribe button on your website. In this case, let’s say your metric is the number of visitors who click on the button. For example, it may be that those on a mobile device are more likely to click on a certain size button, while those on desktop are drawn to a different size. .”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

This example illustrates that investors consider information beyond just earnings as value-relevant. 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.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the face of the Great Resignation, industries across every sector are faced with a harsh reality: give your employees a healthy and productive work environment or they will leave you. We see that investing up front in talent is the most efficient way to simultaneously improve your customer experience and your bottom line.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Agree upon the decision making criteria and the metrics for both success and failure. An example is the launch of a new product. For a successful new product launch, multiple departments need to be involved and there needs to be a detailed, coordinated plan for success. Low Risk Leadership Decision Making.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

This difference in strategy means that business users are more likely to have access to a consistent set of up-to-date metrics for decision making, and the organization can generate predictions about their business from data they collect. Ecolab is a prime example of this. billion gigabytes of data the company captures each day.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Our Thermo King manufacturing facility in Galway, Ireland, for example, is one of our first zero waste to landfill facilities. In partnership with thinkstep , we created a series of proprietary product greenhouse gas calculators to track our product-related emissions, including emissions generated from electricity.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. The goal to release the product. When the team can focus on the product, as a cross-functional team, they can create some agility.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Hoping to alleviate their concerns, this article also provides concrete examples of how sustainability benefits the bottom line. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

They undermine productivity and account for more than 85% of health care costs — a big reason premiums for employer-sponsored health care have increased by 123% since 2000 while wages have increased by only 43%. One example is Omada Health , which modeled its product after the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program study.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Where the organization rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.) All roads lead to Flow Metrics.)

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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

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

MAY 24, 2017

So unlike your average patient, she described one 12-hour wait in the ER as having a “7% process cycle efficiency.” Like many patients, Jess felt her providers were delivering very little quality of care when defined by the one metric that mattered most to her: time. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2023

Many of these spied-upon people have installed mouse (and keyboard) simulator products. Yes, these products randomly move the mouse to pretend the person is “working.” But second, this is an example of management micromanagement. I'll start with measuring productivity. We can't measure a person's productivity.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

For example, Ryan, LLC has been lauded far and wide (and rightly so) for how they transformed its successful but overly time-intensive workplace into an even more successful firm that now couples its high-performance culture with respect for time flexibility. Surprise, surprise: When you focus on measuring face time, you get…face time.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Ironically, analysis revealed that several processes intended to boost employee productivity led to dissatisfied customers making multiple calls.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Too often, when Avaya delivered tailor-designed products and services for customers, the customer was not satisfied. The design teams can then use the feedback from their customers to quickly and efficiently improve the products. Not all corporations need an agile methodology or this approach to metrics.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

For example, they may think about cyber defense as a fortification process — if you build strong firewalls, with well-manned turrets, you’ll be able to see the attacker from a mile away. Replace your CEO’s mental model with new success metrics.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2016

In manufacturing, leaders invest in plant, property, and equipment and carefully manage production and inventory. Consider your guiding principles, time and capital allocation patterns, and the key metrics that you track. Extrapolate what implications these new core beliefs would have on strategy, capital allocation and key metrics.

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