Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

When you’re managing managers, your responsibilities are two-fold: you need to make sure they’re producing good work (as with any employee) and that they’re effectively supporting their teams. Here’s how you can fill in the gap and help your direct reports be great managers. What the Experts Say.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One thing I have learned over my almost 30-plus years of consulting – while there are executive unicorns who will share your idealistic visions of a balanced approach to leadership, like Mark Johnson (in episode 42) or former Disney COO Jim MacPhee (in episode 40), the majority won't. The people strategy is about the WHO.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

For all the emphasis placed on customer relationships these days, very few large organizations really understand how to manage them. This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. By treating it as merely another piece of software to optimize, most organizations squander this opportunity.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. Senior leadership teams that embrace agile do a few things differently.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We base this claim about HR’s digital skills gap on the results of our latest global leadership survey. Co-produced by our three organizations, the survey gauged nearly 28,000 business leaders across industries about the state and trajectory of leadership. Implement leadership planning models.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement.

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Management Consulted

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Today we highlight tremendous business analyst and post-consulting leadership jobs at Uber. It is not uncommon to go to two managers about a problem and receive two completely different answers, or to find that the support that you need to do your job well doesn’t yet exist within the company due to everyone being stretched so thin.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Managers want to understand how their teams contribute to the organization, and they want to identify high performers and potential leaders along the way. Many know and use the nine-box model , for example, to map past performance against future leadership potential.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. What to do.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I was using that time to transition into a project management role in media. I got a part-time job in a retail store, and in my downtime I just started a learning a lot of the tools necessary in order to be a producer/project manager in media. Were you involved in leadership at all when you were there? Yeah, sure. Awesome, okay.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. A Quick Introduction to Agile Management. The tactics are clear, well-documented, and offered up in a myriad of flavors. Related Video.

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1 to 1

JUNE 29, 2022

So while leaders play a critical role in setting the tone of the organization and modeling value-driven behavior for all employees, front-line managers have the biggest influence on culture because they connect with smaller teams to create their great employee experiences. IBM uses authentic leadership and abides by a work-from-home pledge.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Metrics emphasized speed. These stats were reviewed by managers every week. This is also true of executives.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

For example, do you make and sell things, hire skilled employees and provide services, develop and new IP like software or pharmaceuticals, or build and manage digital networks, be they transactional, informational, or social? These assets are typically overlooked, undervalued, and under-managed.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 21, 2016

According to our research at the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management , it’s the beliefs of leaders that drive organizational investments, board selection, and management team development and selection, and these beliefs do not change quickly. Outdated beliefs about the world can linger for decades in a leadership team.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The cognitive and emotional demands on managers have rarely been more complicated or intense. Protecting their mental health has become a self-preservation priority for managers. Growing numbers of managers worldwide know they need help. There’s even text-analysis software that will alert users to angry-sounding emails.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2016

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. ” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Manage costs — or add value? Leadership is changing — fast.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Topics they deal with include strategy execution, leadership, people, processes and tools. What makes sense: ROI The other financial metric you have to look at is your return on investment (ROI). They help you analyze and optimize your marketing efforts. It's an easy decision to invest 25,000 to achieve that.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Product portfolio management can make this happen. The Essence of Product Portfolio Management and Its Main Functions. Product portfolio management helps find the most appropriate strategy to gain the desired business objectives as well as evaluate the success of each product or service and make corresponding improvements if necessary.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

She suggests “immersing yourself in your topic area” by regularly attending industry conferences, enrolling in a class or specialized certification program, or taking on a leadership role in a relevant professional organization. With Jeff Wald, the president and COO, an analytic thinker, she started with the metrics.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Every business is, willingly or unwillingly, a competitor on a software playing field, no matter which sector it’s in. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king. You may be thinking: but my company isn’t a software company.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

Today, the data to answer those questions exists — it’s captured by the software-as-a-service firms whose services companies use to run their businesses. Mainstream software companies are beginning to hold “ data mirrors ” up to their customers, allowing scoring and benchmarking of their customers’ strategies.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS Group specializes in digital technology, leadership development, sales training, and assessments. However, the firm operates in five main practice areas: Assessments, Business Acumen, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Strategy Execution. Leadership Development. Hardware & Software. BTS GROUP KEY STATS.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

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. Most companies manage projects in terms of outputs, not outcomes. And yet our management culture and tools are set up to work in terms of outputs.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. They try to address more objectives than are reasonable for any software system.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

There’s an ever-increasing demand for people who can leverage software to analyze, understand, and make day-to-day business decisions based on data. Since this is first and foremost the responsibility of leadership, early executive buy-in on becoming a more data-driven company is paramount.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

The organizational barriers to profitable growth are foreseeable and can be managed. A decade of centralizing global product and brand management in Amsterdam had largely denigrated the field-based commercial organizations around the world into order-takers, while the global business units migrated further away from customers and consumers.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

In other words, they’re a terrific medium and mechanism for transitioning traditional managements to platform perspectives. In my experience, legacy managements too frequently misunderstand recommenders’ role in driving innovation and cultural change. What metric matters more: engagement or inquiry? Insight Center.

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Tsavo Neal

JANUARY 25, 2018

You’re sharing your thought-leadership (content marketing) with your exact audience (senior people and decision makers) in a publication that already has the social proof and brand to establish trust. –Cal Friesen, Thought Leadership Resources. That said, writing for a trade publication is not easy.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In 2008, as the CEO of a software company that had just missed its target for the second quarter in a row, I was so intent on hitting our fourth-quarter revenue number of $8 million — and so scared for my job — that I promised the company I would get a tattoo of the number somewhere on my body if we hit it. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. Spillovers.

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