Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2024

Product management has become an aspirational career. A group of popular social media influencers regularly offers advice on what it takes to attain a job and succeed in this field. But their content tends to glamorize the profession, gloss over the day-to-day-realities, and dispense wisdom that isn’t always on point.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Five steps to help you enhance the discovery process and deliver products that meet both customer needs and business goals.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This article includes a curated list of HBR articles and podcast episodes to help you manage yourself, your team, and your organization when you’re consumed with what’s happening outside of work.

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Epicflow

JULY 5, 2024

In this article, we highlight the top 15 capacity planning tools and offer valuable recommendations to help you select the most suitable one for your business needs. A capacity planning tool is software developed to assist organizations in allocating and managing their resources more effectively.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Read the article to learn about top capacity planning tools applicable to manufacturing projects and learn how to select the most suitable one. Let’s take a quick look at the other benefits of adopting these solutions in manufacturing project management. Facilitating productive project work. More accurate forecasting.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 28, 2025

For product leaders , large language models (LLMs) arent just another shiny tech trend, theyre reshaping how businesses interact with customers, automate workflows, and make decisions. These models are trained on massive datasets comprising books, articles, websites, and other textual sources. LLMs work similarly.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2024

When we think about change at work today, we tend to assume its inevitability and focus our attention on how to manage it — what methods and processes and technology and communication we need to put in place to have it move ahead more smoothly. Of course, some change is necessary, and some is inevitable. But not all of it.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 5, 2025

In todays fast-paced, customer-centric marketplace, developing successful products requires more than just technical skills and innovation it demands a deep understanding of users’ needs and a creative approach to problem-solving. What is Design Thinking? These stages are not linear.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 24, 2024

Researchers who analyzed consumer feedback from Etsy discovered that what consumers value most about upcycled products is not their sustainability but their creativity.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. Managing projects, aligning them with goals, and optimizing resources can be challenging without the right tools. Project portfolio management software, also known as a PPM tool, simplifies planning, execution, and monitoring.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Legacy companies often struggle to leverage data effectively. These roles can help.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This article describes how German automaker BMW and European airline Air France have developed new approaches to managing large projects aimed at creating fundamentally new products, ideas or that profoundly alter human behaviors.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

If you’ve ever developed a product, you’ve almost certainly been derailed by scope creep. In this article, I’ll explain how you can keep your team’s efforts aligned with the genuine needs of your audience. Features multiply, priorities blur, and schedules and budgets suffer.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

So, your manager told you that they’ll be bringing in someone else above you. This refers to a situation where an additional layer of management is inserted between you and your current reporting line. In other words, you’re getting layered. Essentially, it means that someone else is hired or promoted to a position above you.

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Consulting Success

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Time Tracking For Consultants: Increase Your Productivity, Profitability, & Fees is a post from: Consulting Success. The latest data from our consulting industry study showed that 58% of consultants use an hourly rate or project rate (based on hours).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But if you’re going to require employees to be in the office full-time, you may need to mitigate lower engagement and lower productivity. So what can organizations do to promote both well-being and productivity wherever employees are working? This article offers three strategies.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 12, 2024

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2023

He posited that this segment was an untapped market opportunity and that companies, by developing products and services accessible to them, could create sustainable and profitable ventures, while also improving the lives of the poor. But in doing so, it also drew attention away from other inclusion gaps.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We are all project managers to some extent. From film directors and restaurant owners to lawyers and accountants, many professions involve managing projects. For everyone, not just project managers, mastering timeboxing can be a gateway to bridging the gap between intention and execution.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. Managing projects, aligning them with goals, and optimizing resources can be challenging without the right tools. Project portfolio management software, also known as a PPM tool, simplifies planning, execution, and monitoring.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The State of Project Management 2018 survey by Wellingtone reveals a harsh truth — dissatisfaction with the current level of project management maturity in organizations all over the world is higher than a year ago. To improve their project management practices, C-levels at HHI developed a sustainable management policy.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

So, the importance of risk management cannot be overestimated – it’s better to stay ahead of all possible threats to your project. . What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively? Let’s figure it out in the article. . Project management risks.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 8, 2025

The benefits include: expanding the product range, boosting customer engagement, monetizing existing assets, and collecting valuable data. The challenges include: operational issues, offering customers a good experience, and shifting from an internal focus towards managing an external network of sellers.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So how can you be a supportive manager if you manage a large team? But giving them the latitude to make their own decisions will not only increase their productivity, but it will also help them develop new skills. It comes down to giving your team members agency and autonomy.

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Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. How to make certain that your team members work at their full capacity, and how a resource management solution can help? Let’s figure it out in the article. . What Affects Employee Productivity? Employees’ workload.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Productive conflict requires that all parties appreciate the competing demands and necessary trade-offs. As a great project manager, you need to foster awareness, understanding, and respect for the different perspectives around the table. It’s best to start any new project by fostering the right conflict mindset among team members.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Countries around the world are enacting legislation, known as extended producer responsibility regulations, to make companies more accountable for the end-of-life phase of their products. While companies may fear that these take-back programs would lead to increased costs that drive away consumers, new research suggests differently.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There’s a growing movement to track employee productivity through increasingly sophisticated technology, such as desktop surveillance, biometric smart badges, location tracking, or desk heat sensors. New research suggests that when information obtained through monitoring is used for control purposes (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But the production and inventory planning process that many companies, especially SMEs, use are not capable of handling the uncertainty. Disruptions have become a way of life for manufacturers. A new inexpensive method that was developed in research involving two companies can. It doesn’t have to be automated but can be.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2024

Your manager and coworkers are watching how you respond, making it even more critical to approach this difficult situation with composure and pragmatism. In this article, the author offers six strategies to help you bounce back and productively move forward. It’s natural, but neither response is helpful.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His big idea is that “geeks” have created not only the technology that’s driving our future but also a management approach that defines contemporary corporate excellence. What does McAfee mean by geek?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 15, 2024

Executives must proactively and productively make covert disagreements overt and foster a healthy dialog with board members. First, they must be the thermostat in the room, raising tough topics and pushing productive conversations. Second, they must inform the room of a full situation and its status early and often.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Managing an employee with a terminal illness requires a balance of compassion and strategic action. As the illness becomes a part of their daily life, work can be a respite by helping them maintain social connections and feel productive. This shows respect and ensures they feel valued.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Keep everyone working together — even if they’re working at different times.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Mislabeled, missing, or incorrect information creates more work for everyone.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Early user programs are critical to the success of products. This article provides a process that can make a big difference in helping companies do a better job of choosing early users and harvesting valuable information. They can have a significant impact on the success of a new product launch.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 9, 2024

‣ Stephen Devaux (USA), is a project management theorist, consultant, author, and educator with 36 years of experience. Ask any project manager how big her project is and you will hear something like: “Well, it’s a ten-month project with a budget of eight million euros.” Business people always fear big losses on projects.

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