Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. At Bain & Company, we do not believe that companies should try to use agile methods everywhere. This takes time.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. It results in the acquisition of all necessary information about the company’s products in terms of their performance and success, namely. In other words, it’s indicative of the company’s growth.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In addition, their focus on effective resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, and change management contributes to enhanced operational efficiency, increased agility, and improved project outcomes. Decision-making The ability to make informed and reasonable decisions is critical for a CPO. What organizations require a CPO?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. The information that escalates up falls into two categories: Issues that cannot be resolved at a given tier.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 3, 2018

I delivered a webinar called Agile Metrics for Team and Product Progress last week, thanks to the nice folks at Innovation Roots. One person gave me a new saying about metrics (at the end, during the Q&A): Are you data-driven or data-informed? If you want the ability to replan you use data to inform your next steps.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

See Resource Efficiency vs Flow Efficiency for more information.) See Why Shared Services “Teams” Don’t Work with Agility and Unearthing Your Project's Delays.) Ignorance of the flow metrics. Luckily, the flow metrics help everyone see where the teams have value and where there is just cost.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

In the era of constant transformation, project managers and business leaders should stay informed of the tendencies that will impact the way they work on projects. As we’ve stepped into 2024, it’s high time to learn what trends in project management are expected to shape the domain in the near future.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2024

In the absence of sufficient information, everyone makes up fiction (human stories) about what they want to happen. The agile project manager asks, “What percentage confidence are you comfortable with for a given item? Yes, I said this in Predicting the Unpredictable and Create Your Successful Agile Projec t.)

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

” This group looks across the business to gather behind-the-scenes information on the runway, newest clothing lines, and aspirational fashion content. The metrics also changed. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

In the agile and lean communities, we talk a lot about transparency. This image is the transparency principle we used in From Chaos to Distributed Agile Teams. You might only need two teams collaborating informally to create the product. And, a much more agile organization. What do agile managers do?

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Information, media, and entertainment (IME) providers now face a new wave of challenges brought about by digital technologies and business models. However, many are not equipped to confront the legion of new, more agile competitors—and run the danger of becoming the losers in that war. Tomorrow’s IME Landscape.

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Makarios Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We have never yet come across a leadership team that said, “We don’t want good information. We don’t need to track metrics to succeed as a business.” But we have worked with many leadership teams that acknowledged, “We don’t know what metrics to track to get meaningful insights so that we can make strategic, timely business decisions.”

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Ever since I was on the Troubleshooting Agile podcast , I've followed Squirrel and Jeffrey. (I Any time you want to track information before you can fully verify that data. Instead, they create hypotheses, review all their flow metrics, and change several things at the same time. I highly recommend their podcast.)

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) I discussed this a little in Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video) and in How to Assess the Value of Old Data and Its Effect on Aging.) That's why aging is a part of the flow metrics feedback loop on the top of this post. Don't worry.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

what this produces for the business and for shareholders — the critical outcome metrics by which the organization will be judged. ” Being challenged and having new information may well change your answers; even if it does not, it will make your existing answers more robust.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

In today's data-driven world, data is becoming increasingly important for organizations to gain a competitive advantage and make informed decisions. To make tracking progress effective, it's important to set SMART goals with specific metrics and targets that can be accurately tracked in software.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

And often, that manager realized you needed more information. Maybe you asked your manager for coaching, specific information, or support. And given the plethora of “agile” coaches, too many managers have relinquished their coaching roles to these (supposed) agilists. But adults rarely need micromanagement.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Large enterprises have been responding to these developments for some time, mainly by applying the methods of startups such as lean experimentation, design thinking, and agile development. Use New Metrics. As such, it is deadly to hold them to standard big-to-bigger growth metrics.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Indeed, it is very likely that AI will supplant many aspects of the “hard” elements of leadership — that is, the parts responsible for the raw cognitive processing of facts and information. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI. Sponsored by SAS. Assessing the opportunities and the potential pitfalls.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 24, 2020

Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. A lot of good work is being done in companies around of metrics and rewards, but more can be done in this area. Capabilities.

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Kates Kesler

JULY 22, 2020

Organization capabilities are organization muscle, built through a combination of structure, process, metrics and rewards, and people practices. Metrics and Rewards. A lot of good work is being done in companies around of metrics and rewards, but more can be done in this area. Capabilities.

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Talent Metrics Accenture Development 65

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( See Agile Program Measurements to Visualize and Track Progress and Measure Cycle Time for my suggestions of what to measure. I have more ideas and a more in-depth discussion in Create Your Successful Agile Project.).

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

Especially if you want to use agile approaches. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) Based on a little investment from you and the candidate, you have enough information on a candidate's skills to know whether or not to proceed. Yes, ask the cultural fit questions before you ask the technical skills questions.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Why is one insurance company deep into an agile transformation while another is experimenting with it only at the edges of its business? As companies move to more agile operating models , they must learn to balance accountability with autonomy. How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens?

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We want more collaboration and smaller stories in any agile approach. One story doesn't offer enough information. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I recommend against velocity or using story points. Cycle time is the entire time it takes a team to finish something on their board. days, I would measure more stories.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

As an example, the CEO had been discussing the importance of driving more agile decision making. They have different strategic priorities; they are held accountable for new, shared metrics; they spend more time with cross-functional peers. And they have significantly more impact.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The internet, email, smartphones, and social media have all significantly accelerated information sharing and communication. Digital Agility: Technology enables greater adaptability in response to changing conditions, helping firms accelerate digital transformation and optimize various aspects of their operations.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

With so much information and technology at their fingertips, today’s consumers expect to get things done quickly and have their questions answered in an instant. more important than other priorities, as marketers continue to invest in providing their customers with relevant, timely and helpful information when and how they want it.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 20, 2018

Given the stock market was buying “the story and vision” of anything internet, inflated expectations were more important than traditional metrics like customers, growth, revenue, or, heaven forbid, profits. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. Every startup is in a race against time.

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Comatch

MARCH 22, 2022

Today, there’s a need for making better-informed decisions to rebuild the economy and achieve a sustained reduction in carbon emissions. However, there are very few metrics to really measure this. And the available metrics, at least on a company level, are not very forward-looking for decision-makers or people who want to invest.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2018

Microsoft’s popular Precision Questioning class teaches participants to question their own ideas, develop approaches to healthy, constructive criticism, and act with emotional agility even in tense situations. Don’t just impart information. One of the metrics they follow is how long it takes to properly greet customers.

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LSA Global

APRIL 1, 2024

Collectively, they should explicitly guide and inform every decision and action within the organization. You will know that you have more work to do if people are uncertain about shared goals or feel pulled in different directions by conflicting priorities or misaligned cultural expectations and metrics for success.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Because the emergency department was often seen as a family’s most convenient source of care, making alternatives more convenient was another opportunity space, involving solutions built on leveraging trusted information sources within the community and on improvements in the attractiveness of nonemergency care.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

The teams exposed to rudeness displayed lower capabilities in all diagnostic and procedural performance metrics, markedly diminishing the infant’s chances of survival. This was mainly because teams exposed to rudeness didn’t share information as readily and stopped seeking help from their teammates.

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