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Project Management: Dealing with Scarcity

PM Alliance

Our project management consultants often need to help clients navigate resource challenges, whether during the initial planning phase or after the project has moved into the execution stage. One common obstacle enterprises experience is resource scarcity. These factors often leave your team little time to react and adjust.

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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business

.” As data proliferates across the enterprise, this observation by Nielsen is rendered even more relevant, because data represents the unlit fuel that has the potential to light the darkness, but which often lacks the spark of analytics that enables us to see. Seek creativity and curiosity.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

To successfully transform to a more agile enterprise, companies must make conscious choices about where and how to become agile. Based on our experience working with these teams, we recommend senior teams do the following if they want to become more agile: Treat your enterprise priorities as a managed backlog. Systematic Inc.,

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To Innovate Like a Startup, Make Decisions Like VCs Do

Harvard Business

A lean startup approach, we are told, can empower big companies to innovate rapidly and effectively in the face of continual disruption, potentially even transforming enterprises into centers of continual new growth. paul garbett for hbr. Applying a lean approach in your organization is getting half of the model right, but it is not enough.

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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business

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. Deere managers call it a “motivation metric” or even a “happiness metric.”

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Are You Accurately Measuring Your Company’s Digital Strength?

Harvard Business

But traditional metrics might underestimate the impact of digital, leaving companies vulnerable to aggressive competitors or pure-play disruptors. Many managers are missing digital signals that could help them better compete. Managing against this measure is essential for all businesses that want to survive and grow.

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

It becomes more about revenues and profits, leading and managing all aspects of the growing business. Rather than modeling overly bureaucratic or individualistic behaviors, Navalent has a compensation metric that rewards an intense focus on the client. As companies grow larger and larger, the work is no longer about effecting change.