Management Consulted

DECEMBER 23, 2013

We’re starting a series of guest posts offered by staff, readers and interns that are reviews of books we think are helpful for those interested in consulting (specifically) and business (in general). If you want to submit a review on a book you’ve been reading, follow the same format, target 600+ words and send it over by email!

Strategy& 139

Strategy& Strategy Strategy Oliver Wyman 139

Epicflow

APRIL 15, 2022

To be able to stay competitive on the market and cope with any arising issues, aerospace engineering companies are expected to seek how to improve operational efficiency in general and the engineering processes in particular. . What drives efficiency of aircraft engineering projects? Keep control of changing requirements.

Engineering 130

Engineering Efficiency Management How To 130

Epicflow

MAY 12, 2022

What do you need to know to allocate resources efficiently in a multi-project environment and utilize them to the full? Resources are allocated efficiently when the right people work on the right tasks, while employees’ workload remains balanced – they are neither over- or underloaded. . Let’s figure it out in the article. .

Resources 130

Resources Efficiency Tools Management 130

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Our awesome intern Nate is here to bring you his unbiased review of a very unique book: People over Profit , authored by Dale Partridge. In the world Partridge inhabits, systems touching everything from healthcare to automotive production to fast food are inefficient, and worse, operating at the expense of the people who make them run. .

Automotive 100

Automotive Efficiency Culture System 100

Epicflow

JANUARY 28, 2022

Besides, business owners can have their facilities around the world independent of their place of residence or other teams that aren’t involved in production. To plan projects’ flows and apply efficient allocation strategies, a project or a resource manager has to know how many resources will be needed to perform a planned scope of work.

Efficiency 130

Efficiency Management Resources Software 130

Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

Changes to a developed product. Changes to a developed product are inevitable, however, they turn into challenges when they get out of control and there are several sources of truth. Therefore, ensuring remote teams’ efficiency will require additional effort. . Run simulations to make efficient resource allocation decisions.

Engineering 49

Engineering Resources Management Efficiency 49

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

Productivity Engineering Efficiency Agile 98

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2022

Resource Efficiency. ” “Each resource has at least two projects so they stay productive and efficient.” ” These managers have created a resource efficiency culture, not a flow efficiency culture, as in the image above. .” Resource efficiency means we watch each person's effort.

Efficiency 76

Efficiency Culture Resources Management 76

Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2016

For most people, the goal is to adopt the smallest number of tools necessary to work efficiently. That’s why my friends and colleagues often ask me which technologies I regard as must-haves: the tools and tactics that will make a big impact on their productivity without spending a lot of time or money getting up and running.

Tools 129

Tools Productivity Travel Conference 129

Tom Spencer

MARCH 31, 2023

Whether you’re a busy professional, a student, or an entrepreneur, time management is a crucial skill for anyone looking to increase their productivity. Frederick Taylor: Chunk similar tasks together Another key strategy for effective time management is to bundle similar tasks together so that you can tackle them more efficiently.

Productivity 88

Productivity Strategy& Strategy Strategy 88

Chad Barr

MARCH 12, 2025

Creating, refining, and collaborating on content efficiently is crucial for business success. Leveraging ChatGPT Canvas can significantly boost your productivity and content quality. Saving Time & Enhancing Productivity For professionals who create content regularly, efficiency is key. A stronger opening paragraph?

Efficiency 52

Efficiency Tools Productivity Media 52

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

As I've been speaking about the Modern Management Made Easy books, people ask these questions: We're pretty good with our agile approach. That disconnect occurs when managers, HR, everyone focuses on resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. I like to think of all deliverables as products. What do we do?

Agile 132

Agile Culture Efficiency Productivity 132

Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Recently archivists found the interview tapes that formed the basis of his 1974 book, Working. Around the time of this interview, GM had installed Unimate robots on the line, increasing production from 60 cars per hour to 101 cars per hour, and making it the fastest line in the world. Note: 101 cars per hour? Kawai : No.

Engineering 34

Engineering Interviews Efficiency Productivity 34

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We hear a lot these days about project-based organizations vs. product-based organizations. Much of what we do in software is in service of products. Products tend to evolve over time. Here are some examples of projects where we learn, but the product doesn’t change: Events, such as weddings or conferences.

Productivity 63

Productivity Software Efficiency Conference 63

Halo Psych

JANUARY 13, 2025

As Professor Carol Dweck says in her book, Mindset: Changing the way you think to fulfil your potential , Those concrete plans – plans you can visualize – about WHEN, WHERE and HOW you are going to do something lead to really high levels of follow-through, which of course, ups the chances of success (p.238).

Journal 103

Journal Exercises Research Study 103

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

What if it's most efficient to do the work for a person or a team? What happens when a developer or tester (or, if you're lucky) a team has to choose between two products? Reducing management delays and increasing management throughput allows everyone to be efficient and effective. Individual efficiency is a red herring.

Efficiency 63

Efficiency Management How To Metrics 63

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 25, 2022

I said in the Modern Management books that managers lead and serve the team (at all levels). They might have expertise in two of these areas, but not all: development, testing, product management, support, deployment. Those experts still coach people in test, development, product management. (Do They can't.

Management 115

Management Efficiency Leadership Productivity 115

Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

A total of about 1500 words on the book plus one image. The book distributor work is complete. However, if people collaborate with pairing, swarming, or mobbing, they work in flow efficiency. All this collaboration and learning together means the team shares its product development. I'm pleased with my progress.

Development 89

Development Productivity Agile Video 89

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

I borrowed several books from the library and studied for a few weeks, only to be very disappointed by my score on the official exam. Their guidance helped me approach questions more effectively and efficiently, demystifying challenging topics and providing clarity on the test format.

Course 78

Course Study Video Transportation 78

Epicflow

APRIL 11, 2023

It contributes to their efficient utilization for timely and successful completion of all projects running in the organization as well as improving business outcomes. Managing team members’ workload To ensure high productivity, it’s important that employees are neither overloaded nor idle. What is a resource management solution?

Resources 130

Resources Management Software Efficiency 130

Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Successful project delivery is usually a result of efficient management of both workflow and resources. In a multi-project environment, ensuring productive work of team members gains even more importance: resources are shared by concurrent projects, and their fruitful work on them will be impossible without wise resource management. .

Resources 130

Resources Management Emotional Intelligence Trends 130

Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

At its most basic, productivity is the amount of value produced divided by the amount of cost (or time) required to do so. It’s tempting to conclude that, if individuals are able to perform their work much better and faster, overall productivity must be soaring. sales-related, product-related, program-related, etc.).

Productivity 70

Productivity Enterprise Data Company 70

Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

In much the same way, nobody calls a travel agency to book a simple flight anymore. So a lot of people were surprised when it launched a brick and mortar book store , but as Apple has shown with its highly successful retail operation, there’s a big advantage to having stores staffed with well trained people.

Efficiency 70

Efficiency How To Energy Accenture 70

Epicflow

JANUARY 21, 2022

global chip shortage), and the need for reducing production costs add to the above-mentioned difficulties. . In addition, to stay competitive on the market, business owners will struggle to deliver their products faster and produce more (e.g. The need to shorten the time for product development. Dealing with uncertainty.

Automotive 130

Automotive Industry Resources Agile 130

Chad Barr

JANUARY 8, 2025

Manufacturing: Optimizing production processes far beyond human capability. Businesses that fail to adapt risk falling into irrelevance, while those that embrace this shift can unlock unprecedented opportunities for growth, efficiency, and innovation. Get your copy of my latest new books available now on my Amazon’s author page.

Trends 52

Trends eBook Training Training 52

Epicflow

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But it can be ineffective and considerably extend the timeline of product development projects. In the aerospace and defense industry, a lack of resources is one of the industry-specific challenges, so maximum efficient utilization of the existing employees gains even more importance. Utilize resources with maximum efficiency.

Methodologies 130

Methodologies Resources How To Efficiency 130

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2018

Consumers almost always tell researchers that they prefer to have many versions of a product from which to choose. For retailers, that difference has big implications for the problem of assortment — how many variations of a single product to offer. Holger Weitzel/Getty Images. They will therefore prefer a large assortment.

Productivity 71

Productivity Retail Advertising Groups 71

Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

If meeting takt time is not an issue—for example, in closing the books at the end of the month— then measure and benchmark the time it takes to perform those tasks and challenge the team to figure out how to do them faster. Do product developers every transpose style codes or prices in a product spec sheet?

Engineering 133

Engineering Benchmarking Meeting Case Study 133

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

How could we organize if we want flow efficiency? We would reward managers by their span of service instead of control, part 3 , stop organizing by function, and move to something that looks like a product-based organization? If you’re wondering, this is how I write books. Product Organizations Require Behavior Changes.

Productivity 58

Productivity Agile Efficiency Management 58

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Maybe even draw a picture of when the story/product completes. (I All the ways John's code connected—or didn't—to the rest of the product. In addition, they work to simplify their code and the entire product. Or, they might create tools that assist the rest of the people on the product. ” They might not.

Development 99

Development Management Efficiency Agile 99

Epicflow

MAY 12, 2023

Resource management challenges Efficient allocation and management of resources across all projects running in a company are one of the biggest challenges that project management offices have to deal with. Сhallenge #2. Let’s consider the example of Epicflow , a multi-project resource management solution.

Management 147

Management Resources Efficiency Report 147

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

Energy 134

Energy Agile Productivity Talent 134

Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis?

Data 130

Data Risk Analysis Management Analysis 130

Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The key to employee productivity and excellent project results is balanced workload. feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one’s job or feeling negative towards one’s career; reduced professional productivity. When priorities are unclear or absent, your resource allocation won’t ever be efficient.

Resources 130

Resources Management Efficiency How To 130

Chad Barr

JANUARY 29, 2025

“Provide coaching questions to help a client struggling with [specific challenge] related to [leadership, business growth, mindset, productivity, etc.].” “Suggest 10 creative marketing strategies to increase engagement and leads for [business or product]. . Include potential pitfalls to avoid.”

Methodologies 52

Methodologies Exercises Metrics Tools 52

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Economies of scope exist where a firm can produce two products at a lower per unit cost than would be possible if it produced only the one. If properly understood, economies of scope could be used by SMEs to drive profit growth and reduce the risk associated with product failure. Definitions. Helpful Links. Economies of Scope.

Cash Flow 117

Cash Flow Consulting Productivity Telecommunications 117

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2023

Efficient resource management is at the heart of efficient delivery of projects and business performance in general. But in a multi-project environment, it can be incredibly challenging to allocate and manage employees in such a way that they have a balanced workload, are productive, and ensure seamless delivery of all projects. .

Resources 130

Resources Management Efficiency Data 130