Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

AI-powered recommendation systems are another way businesses are leveraging AI-based technology to enhance the customer experience. These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, Amazon might collect and analyze customer data such as product purchases and demographic information.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2018

There are many problems with the way most meetings are run. In an effort to not make anyone feel left out, they unknowingly decrease the quality of the meeting. When well-intended managers are too inclusive with their meeting invites: There is not enough time for everyone to participate in the conversation. vgajic/Getty Images.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 28, 2018

Back in Time You Spend in Agile Meetings (near the bottom of the post), I enumerated all the possible meetings. When the team reduces its WIP, the team might be able to reduce the number of meetings. Again, the question is, “What do we need to do to move this work to Demo, to help move it from System Test?”

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The Fearless Marketer

APRIL 29, 2019

A few months ago I re-tooled my system for teaching people to attract new clients. Maybe you, if your client attracting system isn’t working. Can you please take a look at it before we meet for the Strategy Session? It will save us a lot of time and make the Strategy Session more productive.” Let me count the ways.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How do we move from a project-based organization towards a product organization? There are at least two systems of work we need to change: The management system and the culture of management. There might be more systems I don’t see yet. Work Toward the Product Organization with Team Behaviors.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2018

Productive: “Achieving or producing a significant amount of result.” ” As a time management coach, I’m keenly aware that you could answer the question “Am I productive enough?” I’m also familiar with the fact that individuals fall on a productivity spectrum.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This series is about how you might move to a product-based organization. Part 2 was about one possibility for moving to a product-based organization. Moving to a product-based organization means we change the way we view and reward managers. Too often, we measure them by meeting a date for a given project.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And you're supposed to be at another meeting, that started 15 minutes ago. Your previous meeting ran long, so now you're late. That conversation prevented a bad product decision. (Or, I'm the only one who can and does keep up with product context (or whatever context you have). Being late to a meeting is a signal.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

You have to meet them at their point of departure and use your power skills that I'll be sharing in this episode to influence them in a better way. Now, onto the top 5 personal power skills of an organizational consultant… Skill #1: Systems thinking. A good org consultant knows organizational anatomy.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 4, 2023

The traditional methods of governance, often characterized by bureaucratic hurdles, delayed decision-making, and limited stakeholder engagement, no longer meet the demands of the modern era. Cloud-based document sharing systems like Google Drive and Dropbox can provide seamless and remote access to documents.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 17, 2023

By harnessing eLearning, it’s easier to meet that specific need. More Personalization Personalization has been a growing trend in the eLearning space; by tailoring programs to meet the needs of individual learners, engagement and knowledge retention rise.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

Morieux gives an example of a car manufacturer that threatened to move its production engineers to the after-sales warranty department after a car went into production. The car manufacturer tried to do this by moving its production engineers to the warranty department.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Since the philosophies, frameworks, and insights developed by top firms contribute to the business practices which play a role in making the economic system unsustainable, a crisis signals the need for reflection. This system drastically reduces the need for inventory, which boosts production efficiency in two major ways.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. Not to be outdone, NPR reported that Microsoft Japan moved to a four-day workweek this summer while increasing productivity by 40%. There’s certainly some truth to that argument.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

The spacecraft’s internal clock became unsynced with the overall “mission elapsed timing” system, so the Starliner failed to fire its engines at the correct time to reach orbit. Front line workers grapple with daily (and hourly) production problems, while leadership is too busy to go to the gemba and learn what’s actually happening.

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Peter Stark

APRIL 14, 2019

In our Employee Opinion Surveys , one question we see low more often these days has to do with the systems and processes in the organization supporting employee’s ability to do their job effectively. When system and processes are not working right, it can be frustrating for employees and takes them longer to do their job.

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Women in Consulting

APRIL 11, 2013

Backed by award-winning services and support teams, Blackbaud’s comprehensive set of Internet solutions, featuring Blackbaud NetCommunity and Blackbaud Sphere eMarketing along with our industry leading peer-to-peer and event fundraising solution, Friends Asking Friends , is designed to meet the evolving needs of nonprofits.

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Markovitz Consulting

JULY 30, 2020

The reorgs didn’t address the real problems with our products and pricing. People who study system dynamics refer to “ fixes that fail.” But over the long run, machines begin to break down more frequently, product quality declines, and total costs eventually increase. They want good products and services at fair prices.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Leaders in today’s complex health care systems need better processes and systems for aligning day-to-day, clinical-care activities with the strategic goals of their organizations. Accounting systems now uniformly capture administrative data across a huge, geographically dispersed system.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In the realm of business, the term “ governance ” conjures images of stale bureaucracy, mundane meetings, and rigid roles. In the context of business, these decisions are forged through meetings involving key stakeholders where strategic, operational, and performance-related topics are discussed and debated.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

As the organization learned to work together better through training, numerous cross functional teams arose to deal with process, quality systems, and procedural issues. When team members do not communicate well or fail to provide timely and clear information, it can hinder productivity and create confusion.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 4, 2020

They will encounter systemic problems and delays, and the teams and their managers are often smart enough to work those issues. Or, that someone is supposed to estimate ROI when no one has done any small experiments to see if anyone would buy/use this product/feature. They adjourned the meeting to get forecasts from the teams.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Look for ProBono Speaking Opportunities.

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

What I think might be bordering on unethical is how organizations have shifted from employee satisfaction to employee engagement and how engagement goals might completely jack up our limbic systems. And when attachment is sought it has a profound impact on an employee’s limbic system. Let me explain.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 14, 2022

I'm in meetings all the time. Instead, I spend most of my time on product issues across the organization. The next bit of time I spend working alone on the product work.” “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself? . “Why do you spend all this time doing the product work yourself?”

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The Source

JANUARY 15, 2021

The events of 2020 have undoubtedly shaken things up in the world of consulting firm content production. Many of those responsible for content production in consulting firms really stepped up to the plate in 2020, helping meet the huge appetite for information and guidance at a time when their clients were crying out for support.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The company begins with a goal, such as safely carrying 250 passengers nonstop from New York to London in under six hours, and follows a disciplined approach to identify the components and subsystems that meet those requirements. All of this leads to needless patient harm, low productivity, excessive costs, and clinician burnout.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Most are hampered by legacy IT systems that struggle to meet digital demands. Broadcasters and pay TV networks have a strong asset in the content they produce and distribute, but they must embrace the technology enablers that tech companies employ if they are to stay relevant to audiences and take advantage of today’s opportunities.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

If you want to achieve sustainable success as a consultant - ideally you want to create a marketing system to ensure you have a consistently full pipeline of right-fit clients. This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Look for ProBono Speaking Opportunities.

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Comatch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The more people began to see the benefits of Kanban, the more invitations to meetings I received. . Applying WIP-Limits will result in the creation of a ‘pull system’, that offers many benefits such as more predictability, shorter lead times, more throughput, and better motivation of the workforce. Improved Productivity.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Managing Boundaries in Systems By Jim Smith on September 28, 2010. Organization Development is all about change in work systems. Everybody talks about systems but what does that mean? General Systems Theory is an organizational theory. Look around and you will see “systems” everywhere. Guest Writer Submissions.

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Kraft Kennedy

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Patching plays a critical role in the software industry; it’s how Microsoft and all the major players in the industry protect the integrity and security of their systems. Whenever a new vulnerability is identified in one of their products, Microsoft will publish the problems as well as the fixes or “patches” to address those problems.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 4, 2020

According to the Computing Technology Industry Association , around half of all US companies have 30-60% of their IT systems based in the cloud. In this post, we will try to understand this trend by looking at some of the benefits and drawbacks of cloud-based IT systems. Companies can meet user expectations by using cloud services.

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Business Consulting Agency

MARCH 21, 2024

Consultants assess current operations, identify inefficiencies, and recommend technology solutions, automation tools, and warehouse management systems (WMS) that streamline workflows, reduce costs, and improve productivity.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Having a meeting-free day. Establishing one day with no meetings is a technique that I used throughout 2016 to complete a book proposal and write the manuscript for my third book. By giving yourself one meeting-free day per week, you reduce the context-switching that can slow down dedicated project work. That simple change?

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The Fearless Marketer

JULY 23, 2018

Learn how to meet those challenges and your marketing will become more successful, easier, and fun. To succeed at this task you must get inside the heads of your ideal clients and ask what they want the most, what problems they struggle with frequently, what isn’t working for them, and what could make their jobs easier and more productive.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The first is that Brooks strongly suggested the idea of a “surgical team” That hierarchical team was a feature- or product-based team. 35 (in the anniversary edition): “The team just defined meets the desiderata in several ways. If so, the team releases a product with an unknown number of problems.

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