Tom Spencer

APRIL 8, 2014

The book provides six principles that the author’s believe can make organisations more agile, competitive, and responsive by helping employees become more autonomous, cooperative and empowered. The car manufacturer tried to do this by moving its production engineers to the warranty department. Extend the shadow of the future.

Productivity 98

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

They've started to use agile approaches. Capitalization for Agile Work. Let me walk you through an example of a 5-person agile team. Let's assume everyone works together, on one project (product, if you prefer). That helps overall sales and support. See Minimum Product Outcomes for more details.).

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Agile Software Finance Company 74

Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. Brocade, a data and network solutions provider, created a “customer first” program by identifying their top 200 customers, who account for 80% of their sales. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

Marketing 135

Marketing Agile Fashion Sales 135

Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, businesses like Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, and Airbnb use AI-powered recommendation systems to suggest movies, videos, products, and rental properties based on a user’s browsing history, past purchases, and revealed preferences based on past behavior.

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Data Operations Efficiency System 147

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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Unilever has acquired Dollar Shave Club , a young startup, for $1 billion in a move to introduce a new model of subscription sales. And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. In this part, I’ll discuss an option for a product-oriented organization. Consider a Product-Oriented Organization. That includes product ownership. How Many Managers Do You Need?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. You should see SGA: Sales and General Administration—overhead. Or, one Scrum Master from another.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 9, 2018

Ryan Ripley interviewed me on his podcast, Agile for Humans 83 about Create Your Successful Agile Project. I didn’t stint on my opinions or on my experience with agile teams. The other opinion (based on my experience) was that of using ROI to predict which product, project, or feature a team should do first.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Killing products isn’t easy. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. In our five-year study of global handset makers , we found that most firms pull products when they turn out to be obvious disasters such as the Note 7. Know the big picture.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. Agile Strategy.

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Brimstone Consulting

JUNE 23, 2020

important;}”] Agile strategy can transform your organization. When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, V12 faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies.

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Agile Strategy Strategy Strategy& 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Aron Vellekoop Len/Getty Images. Core Competencies.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already in use throughout the web and increasingly within the enterprise, handling everything from initial call screening for sales prospects to scheduling. Zurich Insurance Group Takes Its IT Infrastructure to the Agile Cloud. Artificial intelligence. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. Augmentation.

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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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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

For example, a company looking to lead in artificial intelligence as part of its go to market strategy must invest in ensuring that its engineers, product managers, marketing, and sales teams possess cutting-edge AI knowledge, skills, and resources.

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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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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2017

retail sales, or $391 billion of $4.9 Moreover, if Amazon decides to use groceries to increase the frequency of customer deliveries, imagine the range of products it could quickly and profitably pile onto home delivery vehicles (or perhaps even provide for customer pickup ). Agile innovation teams are small. of sales on IT.

Retail 72

Retail Agile Sales Engineering 72

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Flow efficiency can help create and reinforce a product culture.). A cross-functional team who manages the project portfolio for their part of the business, for a product line, for an organization. As part of product value teams. As part of a sales team. We reinforce a culture of flow efficiency. There might be more.

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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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 12, 2019

Especially when we use agile approaches, we want to be close to our customer. Most of their customer information comes via a product owner, who learns from a product manager. Most of their customer information comes via a product owner, who learns from a product manager. That's an awful lot of the telephone game.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

We design products, experiences, and even business models. As an example, say you are hiring new sales team or adding to an existing team. Do they have not only mental ability , but mental agility. The response is always a version of “What are we going to do about it?” ” Design thinking is popular these days.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 25, 2023

” That's a backlog/marketing/sales problem. By product, where they assign a team to a product for a long period of time. By person, where they take one person from here and one person from there, etc, to create enough people to work on the product. They should consider stopping the effort (project or product) now.

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BCG

MARCH 9, 2017

They recognize that digital technologies are increasingly critical to driving sales and efficient operations. They see the need to become much more agile—to shorten the time to market and to accelerate product and service delivery, employing a more iterative manner. Companies “get it.”

Telecommunications 61

Telecommunications Agile Survey Efficiency 61

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

There’s still much to learn when it comes to digitizing business processes, and in particular using automation sprints—those smart, fast, and small efforts you use to boost productivity when a change to enterprise architecture isn’t the right step. Shift 1: Automate with a product mindset.

Strategy& 70

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Agile 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Projects were selected across channels to highlight agility, innovation, and customer centricity. Product packaging was redesigned to be more user-friendly and increase adherence. The role of sales representatives in Russia was recast to act as knowledge hubs for physicians, since better physicians lead to healthier patients.

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Culture Company Enterprise Leadership 135

LSA Global

AUGUST 25, 2020

Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy? Are you and your sales team agile enough? You will find out just how quickly you can pivot your sales strategy and your sales team when a crisis occurs. Do you need to pivot your sales strategy or sales approach? And now we have one – COVID 19.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 24, 2016

In fact, it has set up a specific unit – Experian DataLabs — to actively seek out unresolved problems its customers are having and use them as a launchpad to seek out new opportunities and create new products. This is what is known in the lean startup world as a minimum viable product.

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Company Intellectual Property Enterprise Productivity 70

Harvard Business

APRIL 27, 2017

It helped him feel productive, but failing to delegate these tasks meant he never had time to focus on longer-term, strategic issues. Haruto was the VP of sales for a technology company. To do this, he used a 60/40 breakdown as a logic model to increase his situational agility.

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How To Video Meeting Agile 135

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Most teams (55 teams comprised of 700+ senior executives) also responded to items focused on organization performance —comparing themselves to industry peers — and included dimensions such as Sales and Revenue Growth, New Product Development, and Market Share. better sales and revenue growth. We were wrong.

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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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Agile System Retail Data 72

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There are three types of products today. Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies).

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2017

Let go of the idea that all conflict is destructive, and embrace the idea that productive conflict creates value. I find that three specific techniques help people embrace productive conflict. The sales person advocates for the exact opposite: more flexibility, customization, and agility.

Productivity 70

Productivity Sales Efficiency Agile 70

LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Businesses that experience diminishing returns from existing products or services may need to rethink their go-to-market approach. Each of these products launched new categories that transformed the company and the broader tech landscape. Leadership should not ignore feedback from staff who are closest to day-to-day operations.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Potential benefits to the insurance industry include: Revenue expansion: The real-time learning and adaptive capabilities of AI provide a platform for insurers to explore new product lines, geographies, and cus­tomer segments, as well as quickly identify new avenues for revenue expansion. Start small. Manage change.

Insurance 72

Insurance Insurance Industry Turnaround 72

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.

Apparel 82

Apparel Healthcare Enterprise Chemicals 82

Comatch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Aside from Scrum, it’s the most important agile approach. Kanban can be used in marketing, sales, HR, legal services, accounting, procurement, auditing, and more, and it’s a great way of giving individuals a cross-organization look at work. . The bank implemented the agile approach across all departments, not just IT.

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