Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

I publish a wide variety of blog posts and books about agility in all forms. In Create Your Successful Agile Project , I offered ways to rethink any given team's approach to agility. That's why I hate the idea of ROI for any kind of product. We can only offer the outcome to derive the benefit. Substantial.

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 10, 2023

This means ensuring a fair return on investment (ROI) for your organization and providing learners with knowledge and skills that directly address their professional needs. In turn, the approach remains agile long-term, ensuring it meets your organization’s needs today and tomorrow.

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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 Too often, we can't calculate the real ROI for at least a year post-release. I highly recommend their podcast.) Recently, Squirrel posted something fascinating on LinkedIn: Aim for a “single source of lies” about your business.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Each outbound communication is measured individually for immediate ROI. Marketers are adopting the business practices of entrepreneurs such as lean startup and agile development. These members are 2.6 times more likely to stay with Kaiser Permanente two years later.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We then enrolled them in online courses teaching necessary job and technical skills, like computer science fundamentals, complex problem solving, group collaboration, agile methodology, effective written communication, and so on. We selected 15 people from that group who demonstrated strong work ethic, grit, and excitement for the program.

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SkillQuo

MAY 1, 2018

Consumers expect convenience, agility, and customization in all things. Specifically, this trend is reshaping, more specifically adding agility, to the landscape of management consulting. Enter Micro-Consulting, which is the agile, customized version of a traditional management consulting model.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Driving digital transformation really means driving rapid, efficient, and high-ROI responses to those changes. Standard agile approaches like Scrum and SAFe work pretty well for that. In the past couple of years, IBM Global Technology Services undertook its own agile transformation. Download this podcast. Angelia Herrin, host.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 23, 2019

I prefer Cost of Delay to either ROI or NPV. This is where taking an agile approach to the projects can really help your project portfolio decisions. Until they pay off their accumulated decision-debt, they can't move forward with an agile approach. See Cost of Delay: Why You Should Care, Part 6.)

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2022

That's because the writer is supposed to include the estimates of time, cost, and ROI (return on investment). Notice this has nothing to do with predictions of time, cost, or ROI. The clients claim this information helps them decide which work to do and not do. However, everyone knows each business case is at least partially fiction.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2018

Yet it also gives you an agile way to work: you don’t waste time or dollars when there are no results, and you develop a fast-fail mentality to learn what works and what doesn’t. Now, companies invest in ways that support a smaller, more agile approach so they can adjust as they find out what works.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience with dozens of organizations implementing IoT solutions, those that achieved their expected ROI changed their traditional business approaches in one or more of the following ways: They Developed a Partner Ecosystem. But chasing the cool factor can lead to compromised ROI. The essence of IoT is interconnectivity.

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Epicflow

APRIL 30, 2025

Prioritization capabilities : Ranking projects based on their business value, risk, ROI, or resource needs allows companies to focus on executing the most important ones, which in turn contributes to strategic alignment.

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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. We’re working on a model for the ROI of a technology dollar, versus a marketing dollar, versus a sales dollar, so we can make trade-off decisions. Now, almost every project requires defined financial deliverables.

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Comatch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Digital transformation projects have the potential to tap into powerful growth opportunities by bringing new technologies, tools, and processes that enhance operational efficiency and agility. This iterative approach enhances project agility and significantly reduces the chances of project failure.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Ensure business agility. Also, with ERP, project-driven organizations companies receive a quicker ROI and cost-efficient use of the resources deployed. It has the best ROI in the business – a recent Forrester study shows that organizations typically experience 162% ROI with Dynamics 365 Business Central over a three-year period.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 11, 2014

Microsoft delivered enormous wins to shareholders for decades before losing momentum to smaller agile companies as well as the likes of Apple and Google. a) Agility. The Anchor Layer Construct at PepsiCo Can Remove Layers of Infrastructure and P&L Complexity. #3: 3: Kill Old P&L Units (Before they Kill Your Company).

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

For instance, in Marketing, data is being used to calculate ROI on marketing campaigns, or come up with new pricing strategies based on A/B testing of campaigns which helps marketing and managers bring in more revenue, and stay ahead of the competition.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MARCH 13, 2023

It is a high ROI investment into your success and business growth. Key #3: Agility Once leaders appropriately understand the follower's needs, they must be agile with their approach to the proper level of support, motivation, and direction needed. Here are three keys to effectively partnering for performance.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2016

In one, a star researcher said that he was leaving as there was no space for creativity anymore, as the company squeezed budgets and eliminated roles without a clear ROI. The internal world comes to matter more than what is going on outside the boundaries of the company and it just sort of loses its edge.

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LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

To succeed leaders must be able to engage and retain top talent from both companies, bridge differences in styles, values, processes, or cultures, and demonstrate ROI quickly. Is the Total Addressable Market that appreciates our UVP big enough to meet our growth targets? Do you have your finger on the pulse of your target market?

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Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The benefit there is, firms can tap into hard-to-find skills as needed and scale resources up or down in response to demand — essentially, allowing them to embrace a more agile approach to running the business. A client will now pay for the overall gains such as tax savings, ROIs, insurance claims, and so on.

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Asamby Consulting

MAY 4, 2022

In early 2022, we conducted retrospectives for past client work (as you do in an agile team), and we've also found this pattern. After all, it comes down to the ROI: Do the results that I get out of a meeting exceed the cost of that meeting, i.e. labor cost AND opportunity cost? We work mainly with remote only or hybrid businesses.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

Rather than trying to make blanket improvements, a narrow focus can illuminate which areas will drive the most CX improvement and ROI. These insights help enhance customer journeys and further develop associates’ ability to create meaningful moments for customers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Our research at the Agile Talent Collaborative reinforces findings from Accenture and other consulting and research firms: the use of freelancers — or agile talents as we call them — is growing, and for reasons that go well beyond cost efficiency. For example, Qualcomm includes its agile talent when the team is in training.

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