Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This series is about how you might move to a product-based organization. Part 1 was about how when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Part 2 was about one possibility for moving to a product-based organization. Product managers manage the product roadmaps.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, Alibaba, a leading Chinese e-commerce company, could conduct sentiment analysis of customer reviews of individual products and services, and use these insights to modify existing products and develop new ones.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2019

I called the value stream a product so that people would think about who would use it and why. I suggested that we stop work on specific products when you have more products than teams. That would allow you to work on other projects in service of different products. All the Finance work (Finance is the customer).

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Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Lazy Project Manager: How to Be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early by Peter Taylor The Lazy Project Manager is based on the idea that lazy people always try to find easier ways to do what they have to. So, focusing on 20% of the most important work will result in 80% outcomes.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Forum participants will have an opportunity to learn from inspirational project management leaders as well as attend masterclasses revealing the aspects of delivering sustainable projects, Agile transformation, application of technologies, and more. is the largest Agile conference in Central Europe. PMO London 2024 June, 18-19.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s about creating an agile organization that can detect what type of change is essential and respond quickly with the most competitive solution. Product development teams have to work with field maintenance and commercial teams. Marketing, commercial and finance have to work together to develop new pricing models.

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Kates Kesler

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very large multi-national product companies need to find creative ways to enjoy the benefits of scale while remaining agile. Agility and scale rarely co-exist in the design of the organizational operating model. But tangible examples of these new ways of working are few and far between. The global/local tension.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

That’s why Alibaba and Amazon, for example, create and sprinkle autonomous cross-functional teams across their respective companies to invent and deliver products in new ways. These teams regularly come up with innovations that enable these online retailers to roll out more new products and services faster than their competitors.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 6, 2022

A colleague unfamiliar with lifecycles or agility asked, “How can we use sprints in this approach?” That's because a finance person drew the lifecycle.). Every sprint delivers working product.” See Create Your Successful Agile Project for more details.). They do have product goals.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How do we move from a project-based organization towards a product organization? I’ve noticed these challenges in companies who want to move to a more product-oriented approach: The reward system rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. Work Toward the Product Organization with Team Behaviors. We like to learn.).

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

That would make his product unaffordable for most of his core customers, and they would almost certainly switch to his competitors’ cheaper alternative. Russia) in order to compensate for the depreciation’s effect on their USD earnings, but that means their product can become as much as 40% more expensive overnight.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Later the next week, Finance returned my timesheet to me. A couple of finance people yelled at me. I asked them: did they want products done or timesheets done? The product was more important.). In Capitalizing Software During an Agile Transformation , I explained the desire for capitalization. I think 55.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

Recently, a financial services organization found $5 million in opportunities to optimize its finance processes. Shift 1: Automate with a product mindset. A product mindset helps change this. Instead, some will make the shift to think in products that tackle business goals.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2017

They include building glistening landmarks that anchor their digital strategy (as Dubai has done), removing roadblocks and bottlenecks to improve their underlying speed and agility (Boston), or changing course altogether to construct an entirely new city (Shanghai). Dubai: Erecting Modern Landmarks. Boston: Removing Roadblocks.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) If you read the article above or any of the other articles you can find online, you might notice Economies of Scale focus on production—specifically manufacturing production. Product development requires teams who can learn together.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Royal Dutch Philips is a $20B diversified consumer electronics, healthcare, and lighting products company. He reset collaborative P&L metrics and business review processes, shared by the region leaders and the global product leaders, to form tight “business handshakes,” that he regards as the center of a granular set of growth strategies.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas. When sales of the Frankenstein product missed their mark, everyone shared the blame. Explorers work in teams like R&D, customer insights, or product development. They didn’t have a handoff, they had a drop-off.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

The captive financing division of a global manufacturer has a team of 30 or so analytics modelers, several of which are PhD holders. First is a central function versus agility and integration of embedded functions (with a COE where analytics teams can learn from each other). Data and analytics embedded in an operating division.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Pearson, the educational publisher, measures the efficacy of its products to improve educational outcomes. Finally, some companies have struggled to finance their activities without payment while they work on delivering the results, limiting their ability to innovate too. ” Health care. Required Capabilities.

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QEmploy

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Freelance Consultants A consultant is a highly specialized person with vast experience who is paid to provide professional or expert advice in a particular field or specialty, such as advising a company on digital marketing campaigns or on increasing productivity, etc. But how do you do that?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

There’s no question that legacy IT systems are too slow and rigid for the agility that digital business demands. As companies modernize their IT infrastructure, they are looking to gain flexibility, scalability and above all, speed. In another 44 percent they are separate organizations but collaborate on a regular basis.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 2, 2015

The “global operating model” (GOM) is the means to manage this complexity, this tension, this need for both leverage and agility. Global business units (products, brands, categories, or customer segments). Global operating and support functions (R&D, supply chain, marketing, IT, HR, finance, etc.).

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Most companies have a finance and operational system in place, but siloed systems can’t go beyond everyday business processes or help with future business growth. It doesn’t just offer data connectivity within your ERP system, but also within your productivity tools, e-commerce, and even customer engagement solutions.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These efforts have enabled operational efficiencies, cost reductions, and greater agility, preparing companies for the next phase of digital transformation: driving growth. This poses a deep challenge to companies organized by product and function rather than a customer-centric model like experience and value. ” 4.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2016

They’ve redesigned their core processes in the area of procurement (online shopping), talent acquisition (marketplaces), collaboration (social networking), market research (peer reviews), finance (mobile payments) and travel (room and ride sharing). Have you reinvented your core processes to the same degree?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

While this might seem like a radical step for hospitals, it is exactly the transition that occurred 100 years ago in the business world in general when companies shifted from a departmental or functional structure to a decentralized, business-unit structure that that was more aligned with and accountable for its products, services, and customers.

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Kates Kesler

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

The gravitational pull to greater complexity, and all the challenges that come with it, is powered by the need for new sources of growth in diverse geographic markets across multi-product divisions with increasingly demanding customers and consumers with lots of technology at their fingertips. Galbraith, 2009).

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Digital agility. Technology enables greater agility. While these changes might seem like a lot to take on at once, they represent a path toward agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience. In part, that means abandoning old ways of measuring productivity. Digitalization” shouldn’t inspire dread.

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LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Are you and your sales team agile enough? First, pull a cross-functional team together from sales, marketing, pricing, finance, legal, product development, and service to identify how to best stabilize, forecast, and optimize strategic accounts and the sales pipeline in the next 30 days. Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy?

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1 to 1

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

They want to choose how to customize their products, services, and even the channels in which they interact with brands. Based on that data, build an agile and insight-driven service delivery model. Encourage other customer-related business units like marketing, sales, finance, and others to collaborate on a holistic CX ecosystem.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Technology combined with data is a matter of life and death for professional services firms where the “product” is a combination of insights and expertise. Agility Evolution Agile transformation represents an ongoing effort to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. In this process, called “expression,” the instructions in the DNA are turned into proteins and other cellular products. But there may be more to the metaphor.

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