Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

Whether it's through spreadsheets, software, or a whiteboard, it's important that everyone on the team is using the same method and frequency for tracking. With software, it's easier to see where you stand in meeting or exceeding goals and where adjustments need to be made to maximize what's working and address areas of weakness.

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ConsultX

AUGUST 15, 2021

Best of all, Accountants can create a bright future without having to be afraid of automated software and cheap outsourced labor devastating their business. ConsultX Methodology We partner with Businesses Owners to improve the Profit, Growth, and Value of their Businesses. The 3-Phase ConsultX Methodology.

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Kates Kesler

MAY 7, 2020

We recently worked with a high-growth medical device company that makes sophisticated hardware and software systems. Tacking on customer centricity as an additional responsibility to an existing c-suite role is no longer sufficient.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

GE famously implemented Lean methodologies throughout all of their divisions, helping reduce cycle time and better aligning their work with the customers’ needs, leading to then-CEO Jeff Immelt’s declaration that GE had transformed from a “classic conglomerate… to a 125-year-old startup.” Insight Center.

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Asamby Consulting

OCTOBER 1, 2022

This blog post outlines a simple 5-step methodology to improve any process. Analyze the existing processes There is an unlimited number of more complex and sophisticated analysis methodologies. We use Miro but any digital whiteboard or other graphic software will do. So you need to make sure that your processes are set up well.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

But once I had, I realized how much the software and gadgets helped me to kick my productivity into high gear. But the truth is, it wasn’t the tools alone, it was also the workflow management process —or methodology—I applied to the tools. A better approach is to focus first on the methodology before the tool itself.

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PM Alliance

JULY 21, 2023

Software testing teams Even companies with only limited exposure to software or systems development efforts often have some of the components of a support infrastructure in place. These groups—including programmers, system admins, and web developers—can help orchestrate and execute tasks such as rolling out a beta testing program.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Read more: Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones Apply a flexible approach to project management Under conditions of high uncertainty, applying deterministic project management methodology like Waterfall may lead to ruining the project flow. Read more: 6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

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BCG

MARCH 22, 2017

Agile methodologies have given companies just what they need in the digital era: a collaborative and flexible way to develop software. Article Wednesday, March 22, 2017. See “The End of Two-Speed IT,” BCG article, August 2016.) In addition, DevOps puts heavy emphasis on automation. Indeed, the results are eye opening.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

All of them turn a car into a computer on the road, which requires installation of corresponding software and introduction of numerous features. The vehicles have become a combination of software and hardware parts, and software development progress evolves much faster than hardware is manufactured. Clear prioritization .

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Consulting Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Not your methodologies. Even if you're the one advising an organization about workflow software, you have the opportunity to help a client step back and think about why they want to automate their workflow. When it is all said and done, you are the instrument of change. More for themselves and for the companies that they lead.

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Epicflow

MAY 4, 2023

Some companies can be tempted to apply Agile methodology because of its flexibility; but without proper planning, it won’t become a silver bullet ensuring the successful completion of an R&D project. Applying a phase-gate process can help you address this issue.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Some trace agile methodologies all the way back to Francis Bacon’s articulation of the scientific method in 1620. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

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BCG

AUGUST 17, 2016

Agile development has gone mainstream, but the software development methodology that helped hundreds of Silicon Valley startups explode onto the scene has delivered decidedly mixed results for more traditional organizations. Article Wednesday, August 17, 2016. In most cases, there is a critical point of failure: the product owner.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

“Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). The words “big data” have become a “buzzword” in the business industry.

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PM Alliance

APRIL 8, 2022

Assure them that issues such as requests for software customization won’t be forgotten once the cutover is complete and be candid in addressing any questions about how you established the project’s priorities and who was involved in that process.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 15, 2016

Jim Horan is president of The One Page Business Plan Company, an international consulting firm specializing in planning and performance management systems based upon The One Page Business Plan methodology. With more than 400 consultants, Jim’s company provides consulting, training, enterprise software, e-learning systems and workshops.

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 6, 2023

Once your vendors have wrapped up activities such as user training sessions and the last of the software customization tweaks, bring your implementation partners together for a freeform discussion about the project. 3: Discuss the project’s performance with implementation partners.

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PM Alliance

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The downside to the growth in outsourcing is that, while teams can contract out software development and other tasks, strategic decision-making skills need to remain within the company.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. In an agile methodology, engineers create multiple versions and iterations of prototypes in a concentrated timeframe to put potential solutions in the hands of users as quickly as possible.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

My approach to landing clients is all about using your relationship skills to pivot a client from whatever methodology they ask you for to a conversation about business goals. Step 4 – when you help your team implement a solution, always keep the hardware and software aspects of change in front of their minds.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 28, 2015

Cartesian uses various software packages for analysis, one of which is called Alteryx, and the training teaches you the basics of the software. However, the candidates are not fully judged on obtaining the correct answer, but rather the methodology with which they approach the scenario. There were two rounds of interviews.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Software automatically tags the location of the products down to the individual store and analyzes the images—items such as meat and produce—to gauge quality differences. Fatal Flaws in Inflation Tracking Methodology. The Wall Street Journal claims Real-Time Economic Data Could Be a Game Changer.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 23, 2009

He attributes FBRs previous success to a unique methodology. Joel on Software. AAI is the old FBR REIT. The investment bank still operates as FBR Capital Markets. Still, Tom Peters enthusiasm is interesting. It is probably better explained by decent execution of a decent strategy during a REALLY GREAT time to be in finance.

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Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 20, 2022

However, keep in mind that simplicity and consistency go much further than grandiose or software-based goal setting frameworks that are quickly forgotten (or hated). We believe that each technique has its own merits, and we have worked with all of them during our projects at Asamby. You are free to pick your favorite goal setting framework.

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PM Alliance

JANUARY 7, 2022

User-friendly dashboards are a good option to help stakeholders filter, sort, and manipulate data so they can quickly find the reports they need without learning a new software platform. Instead, on-demand reports are filling the need for better, faster insight.

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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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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The essays are based on Scott Berkun’s work experience as a project manager at Microsoft, which however doesn’t mean that his guidelines will be useful for software development projects only. Getting Things Done is both the title of the book and a productivity methodology developed by the author ( GTD ).

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

Many large and successful manufacturing companies are feeling the threat from software and online competitors, both big companies like Google or Amazon as well as startups allying with longstanding manufacturing competitors. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Years ago, they had the old value pyramids on Miller Heiman and some of the other sales methodologies had written these things about the value hierarchy. It wasn’t only in the sales methodology, it was also like reading the things around building value in businesses and good to great. What’s happening with customers?

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Granite Leadership Strategies

MARCH 22, 2023

A deeper knowledge of the regulations, practical applications of pricing software, necessary elements of estimating techniques, dynamics of powerful internal modeling, and information about tradeoff analysis. Spend the money developing your pricing team to make them more valuable and responsible for your company’s growth. What can they get?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

When the decentralized exchange protocol 0x raised $24 million in their ICO in the middle of 2017, a few months after releasing an early-stage version of the software, it created an enormous amount of developer attention. What is often less appreciated is that this methodology is equally valuable for entrepreneurs.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The benefit of pre-packaged projects is that you often benefit from tested and proven methodologies. Project pricing examples Check out our shop to see some examples for pre-packaged offerings.

Small Business 52

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2017

I started keeping a journal when I took over a manufacturing research, software, and consulting firm. The methodology offered here did not happen right way, but came after many trails and errors. The best thinking comes from structured reflection — and the best way to do that is keeping a personal journal.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Because of the uncertainty over outcomes (and customer reaction), what is to be built, and the cost of change, investments in the top two quadrants are more suited to agile approaches (such as scrum) for software development. Selecting project managers.

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Epicflow

JULY 13, 2023

Applying inappropriate project management methodology Orchestration of a multi-project environment is completely different from single-project management, which requires a fundamentally different approach. Under such conditions, team members’ productivity will be low and successful delivery of projects will be out of the question.

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