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8 Metrics For Consulting Businesses: What To Track (And Why)

Consulting Success

What metrics for consulting businesses should you track if you want to grow? You’ve heard it before: what gets measured gets managed. But if you don’t even know what to measure, how are you supposed to manage (or improve) it?

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An Illuminating Conversation with Tobias Schlottke About Modern Management

Johanna Rothman

I had a chance to speak with Tobias Schlottke on his Alphalist podcast: Episode 92: Johanna Rothman The Pragmatic Manager. We had a wide-ranging conversation, mostly about management. We included topics from my programming experience, why multitasking is a disaster, and how to use flow metrics to understand reality.

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COVID-19 Economic Recovery & Metrics

CaseInterview.com

Second, I ask for specific metrics from their business. My job when doing a patient assessment is to capture the initial data set, track those metrics over time, and figure out the story the data is telling me. As I started to get better at understanding, recognizing, and interpreting these key metrics, I had an epiphany.

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Consulting Firms 101 Video Series

Management Consulted

In this video series, we compare the firms using 6 different metrics: Branding/prestige. Hope you enjoy the videos. If you have any questions or if there is a topic you’d like us to create a YouTube video about, e-mail us. :). Curious to know what they are? Salary/compensation. Exit opportunities. Interviews.

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Five Tips for Managers of Newly Dispersed Teams

Johanna Rothman

Are you a manager accustomed to Management by Walking Around and Listening (MBWAL) ? You have an opportunity to work differently as a manager. Substitute video for MBWAL. As a manager, you can ask teams to collaborate. You don't need too many metrics if you can see visible progress. Visible progress.

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How to Create Better Products With Much Less of a Backlog

Johanna Rothman

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) Eliminate the Backlog in At Least Two Ways Large backlogs create aging and a too-high cognitive load for managing that backlog. (I That's why aging is a part of the flow metrics feedback loop on the top of this post. Those feedback loops.)

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Performance Management During COVID-19

Makarios Consulting

A remote workforce, virtual meetings, video conferencing, and the like are the new normal. If you are a leader used to managing your people in person, you might find yourself at loose ends asking, “How do I manage people I am not physically with? Conflict management. COVID-19 has upended the way we do business.