Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. If you're creating products of any kind—especially software products—you've got a team sport. See Product Orientation Requires Technical Excellence ).

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Do you know your organization’s project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. . What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2017

“What gets measured gets managed” is a longstanding business aphorism. But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. The result is poor management of what matters. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics.

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Kai Davis

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. But these metrics can become tyrants.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 10, 2019

I listened to The Ultimate Metric: Identifying the Right Problems to Solve. She went on to explain that when we talk about “debt” managers think they have dials to manage the debt. Do nothing to pay off or manage that debt.). Software isn't like houses or cars. I thought that was brilliant.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For project-centric companies such as consulting firms, architect and engineering firms or software publishers, the term project accounting takes on a whole new meaning. The functionality necessary to complete these project management processes is simply not accessible from a simple General Ledger (GL) only.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer, CA Technologies. But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition.

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Consultant Ninja

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. priorities: work, call wife, sleep, eat, in decreasing order] Project Manager irritability rising. Countdown metric unit shrinking. ["96 Productivity. (6).

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

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. Many companies go to great lengths every year or two to determine just how motivated their work force really is. Why do they do this?

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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.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the autonomous intelligent behaviour of software or machines that have a human-like ability to make decisions and to improve over time by learning from experience. Thus, managing people and their EQ will become increasingly important in setting the direction of organizations. What is AI?

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Data Case Interview Financial Tools 87

Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Of course, people do use existing comms and social software to manage quality information and close relationships — the beloved chat app Slack is widely used by couples and families, for example. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” Siegler at G.V., million posts during that time.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.

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Industry Company Metrics Real Estate 39

Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

Using new software to analyze the digital exhaust of calendar and email metadata provides a practical way to build an accurate profile of how frontline sales representatives and managers spend their time, who they interact with externally and internally, and what effect this has on sales performance.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

In their purest form, brainteasers are uncommon in management consulting interviews , but we include them for 2 reasons. Profitability is the ultimate business metric , and profitability cases can address a business in any industry. Or maybe the company is t rying 2 different types of packaging for a product; one is 3 oz.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

For the growing companies, it’s crucially important to keep track of all their products and make sure they are in demand and meet customers’ needs. A good way to increase profitability is to work on the products that will definitely bring revenue and make the right improvements that people are expecting.

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Productivity Management Resources Software 98

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. What to do. What not to do. What to do.

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2015

Last week I discussed Rotary’s emphasis on sustainability, training and the use of metrics on International projects. A tech novice used PowerPoint while teachers more comfortable with technology used YouTube and mind-mapping software to create lessons to reach their students. We have to have metrics. Part two of two.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2017

In this case, let’s say your metric is the number of visitors who click on the button. To run the test, you show two sets of users (assigned at random when they visit the site) the different versions (where the only thing different is the size of the button) and determine which influenced your success metric the most.

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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. They will represent the products more consistently. Metrics emphasized speed. Every high performer needs both.

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Metrics Engineering Operations Sales 39

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.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

This is different than social media marketing , where a brand engages many, aiming to increase overall brand awareness or promote a specific product or service by producing content that users will share with their network. As a result, they’re able to build relationships until prospects are ready to buy.

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B2B Sales Media Guidelines 61

Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

This is a classic story of unintended consequences — inadvertently short-circuiting long-term management — to the detriment of companies, investors, and the economy. The board chose earnings per share (among other financial metrics) to measure and reward executives for long-term performance.

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Cash Flow Management Government Financial 28

Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings. It includes: HR practices such as training, staffing and communication, performance metrics and rewards, and performance management and coaching. The people strategy is about the WHO. Do beta tests and pilots.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Later, marketers found themselves working backward to connect their social strategy to business strategy, as managers demanded greater proof of ROI. 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.

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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

JUNE 8, 2018

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. Traditional companies therefore rely on two strategies.

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Financial Report Cash Flow Metrics 29

Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

We used machine learning to augment the power of seasoned professionals—in this case, project managers—by allowing them to make data-driven business decisions well in advance. AI as project manager. Technology service providers like Accenture work on multiple software projects. Training the model.

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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. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005.

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Agile How To Enterprise Metrics 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

” We don’t want to disappoint our bosses, colleagues, families, or friends, so we say “yes” as often as we can manage. I worked with a software development company in which the CEO came up with a new product feature on a weekly basis. We live in a culture of “yes.”

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Metrics Culture System Course 53

Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

” Beyond the usual financial metrics, JetBlue also measures the strength of its culture and the quality of its experience. ” We are in the midst of a massive migration in business models, from managing assets and delivering services to creating technologies and orchestrating networks. But the Model S gets faster and better.”

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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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Enterprise Data Ethics Emotional Intelligence 31

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Even the HR executives managing the space were surprised by their bonhomie. Orange’s VBN is one example; another belongs to a large telco in Silicon Valley, where its teams huddle alongside those from customers to prototype products and services. More villas are now in the works. Some companies are aggressively testing both.

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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. And belonging is an important metric for [culture and] performance.”.

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Conference Culture Operations Metrics 29

Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent! Through digitization initiatives such as this, we now have a way to measure, monitor, and manage energy…this is huge since energy is typically a factory’s largest variable cost.”

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Energy Company Operations Metrics 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

But marketing managers simply are not trained to deal with questions or complaints about service, product performance, or other nonmarketing requests. Identify policies and software systems needed for implementation. Develop a social care team that can address all areas of social information efficiently and effectively.

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