Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Here’s to a prosperous 2018! Over the last 20 years I’ve interacted with probably a thousand management consultants, from local independent practitioners to global “big four” advisors. Places all work products and recommendations in the context of the client’s environment. Manages expectations — Doesn’t over-commit.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Note the far-reaching production changes Jean-Dominique Senard has made at Michelin to empower and engage workers. Management thinkers framing the greatest challenges of our time as human ones. ” Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But thinking only about the costs involved in raising wages misses a key issue: pay hikes can also boost workplace productivity. In our own research, we’ve explored the impact that minimum wages can have on businesses, as well as the ways in which higher wages can motivate employees and spur productivity.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it. billion worldwide.

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Halo Psych

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If you’ve ever heard me talk at conferences, or on podcasts, you’ll know I feel strongly about the role of the people manager. In a recent article I wrote for the print edition of HR Magazine, I talked about the productivity crisis being faced in the UK and elsewhere. They were helpful and co-operative.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2018

As of Aug 7 2018, Tesla’s market capitalization (USD 64.75B) exceeded that of BMW (USD 64.36B), despite BMW’s comparable production levels and deliveries of electric cars and significantly higher profits (net income of 10.3B for Tesla as of June 30, 2018). for BMW versus -2.7B

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The 2018 Future Workforce Report by Upwork claims 63% of U.S. “It forces structural and systemic change to accommodate different ways of working and different ways of being ‘available’ and productive,” says Hisgrove. Remote and flex work also present new challenges for managers. What can managers do?

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MBO Partners

APRIL 2, 2018

Use these 8 apps to manage your time, achieve your goals, and master productivity.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The Economy in 2018. For example, well-managed consolidators such as Dell Technologies are doing well in this market. But, for most companies, outsize returns are likely to come from three other sources: Investing in productivity-enhancing capital. Surely there is a better use for the additional cash.

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Halo Psych

MARCH 10, 2025

9) Reflective practice might help us manage emotions For example, in a study involving more than 400 military cadets in Italy , researchers found that self-efficacy in managing negative emotions at work was an important resource for workers in managing job-related stress (Alessandri et al, 2018). Barbagallo, M.S.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 2, 2018

What if we thought about agile planning as a way to manage uncertainty? When I look at long roadmaps with all the “must-do” feature sets and the pressure managers put on teams to commit to delivery, I wonder about this question: How well do we understand the problems we want to solve?

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Consulting Matters

JULY 7, 2022

First, I have been talking for the last few episodes about the importance of not just identifying your ideal client but getting in their hearts and minds so you can position yourself, products/services, and copy to connect with them. In 1996 was promoted to the executive position of General Manager, Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Specifically, we analyze discrimination against senior managers with Jewish origins in Nazi Germany. Using data on individual managers and corporations, we learned more about how the stock prices and the profitability of firms evolved when Jewish managers were removed from the German economy due to rising antisemitism.

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LSA Global

JUNE 3, 2018

Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018. These Top Employee Engagement Trends for 2018 are based on the employee engagement surveys from nearly 50 Best Places to Work contests, this comprehensive report is the one and only of its kind, examining employee engagement and culture trends at America’s top workplaces.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Take the case of Dominic Barton, who served as the Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company from 2009-2018. Lead yourself — know yourself, improve yourself, and manage the appropriate balance in your own life. Focus on measurable results. You’ll have varying degrees of success, which is normal.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

Three months after the sale, in June 2018, Toyota decided to pour $1 billion into Grab, in a bid to expand other offerings in the region including food delivery and electronic payments. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. This is a subtle but important distinction.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2018

Their old products are at the end of their lives. They need agile approaches so they can get feedback from customers as they develop the new products. They need to create a mix of new products and services, which means they need to use an agile approach for their projects and their project portfolio.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2018

At the CES 2018 held in Las Vegas, Steve Koenig , Senior Director of Market Research at Consumer Technology Association, presented on tech trends to watch. Outlining the big picture, he described 2018 as the beginning of the “ data era of consumer tech”, with the heralds of that coming age being 5G, AI, and AR. How do we get there?

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Data Case Interview Financial Exercises 87

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Even the HR executives managing the space were surprised by their bonhomie. As of June 2018, corporate occupiers make up roughly one-quarter of WeWork’s members and revenues. ” The role of community managers in fostering this culture can’t be overstated. More villas are now in the works.

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Company Case Interview Engineering ROI 128

Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

You can start with teams, move to programs and the product part of the organization. When managers don’t make the (quite difficult) project portfolio decisions and ask people to multitask, they create a system that: Causes and reinforces a lot of organizational WIP (Work in Progress). How can you see your system and your culture?

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2020

Determining appropriate product pricing (e.g. Prioritizing new product development efforts. Choosing specific product features. This form of segmentation is widely used since specific products often cater to individual needs relating to at least one demographic element. brick-and-mortar vs online).

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Apparel Retail Examples Productivity 103

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In 2016 the Scottish National Health Service (NHS Scotland) piloted an approach to value improvement that took both cost and quality into account and turned the management of value into the basic task of the point-of-care manager. The following tools constitute the basic building blocks of the value-management system.

Management 73

Management System Data Finance 73

Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

I wrote a Pragmatic Manager called Define Your Agile Success. Note that the teams might have different reasons than the managers might have for using agile approaches. We want to have more collaboration across functions and teams because our products’ quality suffers. The super-early bird ends Mar 1, 2018.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

and European elections, to management of the Syrian War, it’s clear that relations between the West and Russia have become increasingly hostile. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. Jennifer Maravillas for HBR.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 25, 2018

I’m working on my roadmapping talk for Agile 2018. I finally had the transforming idea about how to position the talk: Roadmapping and product planning are about feedback loops. That feedback loop works in at least these ways: The faster we learn, the more often we can question our product assumptions.

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On the Brink Podcast

OCTOBER 17, 2022

That's the premise of Marcella Bremer's book, Deve loping a Positive Culture where People and Performance Thrive , which focuses on helping organizations achieve more effective, productive cultures.

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Culture Interviews Productivity Management 63

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

The first Possible Measurements post focuses on product throughput measurements. We are workshopping the product roadmap, the project portfolio, etc. Recently, I wrote about a manager’s serial status meeting. The Director-team or the PMO make decisions and the senior managers remake the decisions. Status meetings?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

One of my favorite business school professors used to say, “If you want to build a great company, your product has got to be ten times better than the competition.” If you want to build a great company in 2018, your customer experience has to be ten times lighter than the competition. Human touches entail friction.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Real entrepreneurs constantly worry about things that could prove fatal to their company: cash crunches, technical problems with the product, the emergence of a well-funded rival. Real entrepreneurs often need to manage opinionated venture capitalists on their boards, or the chaos of a couple dozen individual investors.

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Epicflow

APRIL 6, 2022

How can aerospace and defense organizations respond to present-day uncertainty and manage constant change? The technology allows A&D organizations to transform their manufacturing processes, improve safety, optimize customer service, system management, and, of course, transform military operations. References. Profozich, Gregg.

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Trends Industry Engineering Training 130

Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Teams deliver features, Support delivers fixes/workarounds, and managers deliver decisions.). You may have heard of companies that didn’t realize they needed to change their product lines over time. These organizations have the same products for years and years. They can’t seem to create new products.

Agile 64

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Too often, managers measure people as individuals. I find it telling when the senior managers like working here and the individual contributors don’t. While project teams might use velocity and local burnups, and projects might report on feature charts and product backlog burnups, those measures are not sufficiently strategic.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2018

Citing a substantial body of expert research, the letter stated, “We believe there is a clear need for Apple to offer parents more choices and tools to help them ensure that young consumers are using your products in an optimal manner.” According to US SIF , at the end of 2018 there was $8.72 This is a game changer.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 26, 2018

That change in how we work and what we value—the culture—is what we need from managers in an agile transformation. I outlined the conditions for waterfall success in Manage It! ). That’s where managers fit, in that messy middle of the culture changes. If so, the managers need coaching. Please do join us.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In 2018, every organization has a data strategy. After a few years, some of these projects work out and are on their way to production. Each project is given a spot on the chart, and management allocates the company’s limited resources to the projects that they believe will cost the least and have the highest business value.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2018

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. For this industry especially, security policies that reduce productivity are at irreconcilable odds with the organization and its patients.

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