Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

By establishing a clear understanding of expectations and success metrics, your organization can ensure that everyone is working towards a common goal and contributing to the overall success of the organization. How to track your Goals and objectives: Tracking goals and objectives can be a daunting task for many senior leaders.

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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. Across those fundamentals, eight key topics are reported every day. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.”

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Efficient product portfolio management allows a company to be agile and respond to arising market demands. Every product in the portfolio should be evaluated with the help of one of the product success metrics. risk and uncertainty management, progress analysis and reporting.

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Productivity Management Resources Software 245

Johanna Rothman

MAY 16, 2019

I suggested ways to think about more agile budgeting in part 1. Also, see From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Separate What You Report from Your Practices. Many organizations think they are supposed to manage with the same cost accounting ideas that they report to the outside world. I didn't tell you why.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change. According to the report, power skills involve: communication, problem-solving, collaborative leadership, and strategic thinking.

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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.) Ignorance of the flow metrics. A Short Rant Against Cost Accounting Every organization must report their financials using cost accounting. Here are the four flow metrics: WIP: the current number of work items in progress.

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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. What organizations require a CPO? Also, they should have experience in managing cross-functional project teams and organizational change.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Later, Brocade followed up with these customers to report on progress against these objectives. The metrics also changed. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. The results? The results?

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Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 134

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

Implement or Fix Customer-Facing Problems When customers report problems, how does your organization react? See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) Assume you have fixed all the customer-reported or customer-facing problems. ” Let me take each of these in order.

Productivity 72

Productivity How To Metrics Tools 72

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2020

This is one of the reasons Mark and I wrote From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams. Your team might not need an agile approach. This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. The place to report project status. Now, as I write this series, the coronavirus is winging its way around the globe.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

As for certifications, as I write this in 2019, the agile community has too many framework battles. Here are some example bios, specifically for non-consultants who don't have a ton of experience: Jill Jones, currently a technical lead for BigCloudServiceProvider, experiments with agile approaches in teams and across the organization.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

This revealed five essential leadership and organizational capabilities: discipline and focus, agility, connectivity, openness and transparency, and empowerment and alignment. Digitally sustainable organizations are agile: They think fast, decide fast, execute fast, fail fast, learn fast, and scale fast. Discipline and Focus.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The CMO began by meeting with her direct reports. In follow-up meetings with her direct reports, they identified high-impact work — and killed off less-important tasks to free up resources. Soon afterward, the CMO held an offsite for direct reports where each person talked about their primary priority.

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LSA Global

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Things Always Change, and Strategies Must Be Agile Enough to Keep Pace By the time most strategies make their way from the board room to the frontline, things have changed. Agility in strategy means that companies are always in motion, analyzing performance, making course corrections, and seizing new opportunities as they emerge.

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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. ” Leaders at the hospital realized that nurses, staff, and residents often failed to report bad behavior formally.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. Center-led is not just a structure or reporting system. What is “center-led”. An Example.

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Progressus

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Digital Agility: Technology enables greater adaptability in response to changing conditions, helping firms accelerate digital transformation and optimize various aspects of their operations. Digitalization offers opportunities for agility, adaptability, and long-term resilience, provided firms establish mechanisms for real-time action.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

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. a) Agility. 3: Kill Old P&L Units (Before they Kill Your Company).

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Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

Beaudin: In our research, we look at leaders and laggards: the top and bottom 20 percent, respectively, based on a composite score of self-reported market share and revenue growth. more likely to refresh critical marketing metrics and dashboards at least weekly. more likely to prioritize integrating technology. Beaudin: No.

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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. In my study of over 20,000 employees, those who felt respected by their leader reported 92% greater focus and prioritization and 55% more engagement.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Build a lean and powerful governance structure to reinforce accountability, ownership, and a bias toward action, based on agreed-upon metrics and milestones. With the right governance, leadership, rigor, and reporting capabilities in place, you can regularly evaluate your portfolio of strategic initiatives.

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LSA Global

MAY 25, 2022

People Team goals , roles, success metrics, and interdependencies were unclear and misaligned. People Team members reported feeling high levels of burnout, confusion, frustration, and underappreciation. New strategies, competitive pressures, leaders, products, and approaches. To create executive team alignment, LSA Global: 1.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Last year, the EEOC reported total claims paid out by employers were over $300 million. The Bottom Line On average, managers and directors who follow assessment-driven development plans improve skills by 11% in twelve months, are 6 times more likely to be seen as a high-performer, and report a 14% increase in engagement.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 3, 2019

After massive investments of time and money, too many companies report failing at strategy execution. The caveat is that there must be some agility as you execute the plan. A Common Problem When Leaders Disagree on Strategy. Explicitly measure commitment levels and do what it takes to align your leadership team. Include a Caveat.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Harvard business review reported that 61% of executives do not feel prepared for the strategic challenges they face. By nurturing a safe space for dialogue, teams can unearth diverse perspectives, make better decisions , resolve conflicts, and forge consensus with greater agility.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Define Clear Sales Objectives and Success Metrics An effective sales strategy begins with clearly defined sales objectives that serve as guiding beacons throughout the journey. According to Gartner research, 61% of executives report that their organization struggles to bridge the gap between strategy design and strategy implementation.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Define Clear Sales Objectives and Success Metrics An effective sales strategy begins with clearly defined sales objectives that serve as guiding beacons throughout the journey. According to Gartner research, 61% of executives report that their organization struggles to bridge the gap between strategy design and strategy implementation.

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LSA Global

JUNE 9, 2023

Most clients report immense pressure from their Board and CEO to pay more attention to short-term performance and tactics than to longer-term initiatives. Then establish the necessary goals, roles, success metrics, and processes to set them up for success. Are your leaders willing and able to support leadership succession planning?

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Progressus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The World Economic Forum published a report before “seismic disruption” shook up the industry (their words). 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.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Enhanced Decision-Making With advanced analytics and reporting features, PMO software delivers actionable insights, empowering leaders to make data-driven decisions. Portfolio health metrics to track progress, budgets, and risks across projects. Reporting and Analytics Advanced reporting with customizable metrics for decision-making.

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