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.).

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

” By imposing economic discipline , ruthlessly prioritizing segmentation, retention, and monetization, the metric assures future customer profitability is top of mind. When my book Who Do You Want Your Customer To Become? they try our new products. In fact, it subverts how customers truly become more valuable over time.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. Forward-looking incumbents recognize the need to cannibalize their own products, rather than leaving it to other startups, who are more than happy to take on the challenge.

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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]. . Consider both quantitative and qualitative aspects.”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress.

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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.” Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies.

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Chad Barr

APRIL 23, 2025

Get your copy of my latest new books available now on my Amazon’s author page. It will shift your approach to content creation—and the results? This isn’t theory. It’s strategy in action — and it will transform how your business shows up and scales up. appeared first on The Chad Barr Group.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Organizational Development Book. But since Tom’s boss was under pressure to meet a number of website metrics, she didn’t have the flexibility to implement his ideas. It’s not often possible to ignore performance metrics or overcome policies and bureaucratic red-tape. We feel more alive. Adapted from.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

One client I worked with recently — let’s call it Sales and Product Co. For Sales and Product Co, this meant the C-suite routinely scheduling time to discuss progress, and leaving enough space in their diaries to be available to discuss issues and blockages as the need arose.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2017

I worked with a software development company in which the CEO came up with a new product feature on a weekly basis. A well-intentioned inventor designed a product to address the fact that many poor Africans have to pump their water by hand, a strenuous and time-consuming process. Pay attention to warning signs.

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Metrics Culture System Course 136

Chad Barr

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Innovation Acceleration AI can act as a catalyst for product and service development by identifying market trends and predicting future demands. Continuously measure the impact of AI on key performance metrics and adjust your strategies accordingly. Get your copy of my latest new books available now on my Amazon’s author page.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2018

With online technologies and targeted lists, this should be a cost-effective tool for separating the suspects from the prospects, accelerating customer conversion through the sales funnel, and, equally important, optimizing “data-driven marketing” by tying each piece of content to metrics like opens, reads, downloads, and so on.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

The engagement of its drivers, who deliver milk and bread to millions of customers each day, was dipping while management was becoming increasingly metric-driven in an effort to reduce costs and improve delivery times. Organizational Development Book. There are a number of ways to do this, as I outline in my new book Alive at Work.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). For example, one person’s superpower might be “solving complex service problems,” while another’s might be “introducing new products to customers.”

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How To Retail Productivity Sales 132

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 5, 2021

He pointed me to this slideshare: Lightweight Kanban Metrics (in German). That might be the feature set or the product. ). ” Many managers now realize they don't have to see everything to get an idea of where the team is going with the product. Don't worry about the language.) Go to slides 24, 25, and 26. That's good.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

At this level, there aren’t any established project management practices or standards; documentation and metrics are ad hoc. An organization uses basic metrics to track project performance. Project metrics become the basis for making business decisions for the future. . Book a call with our expert. . Want to learn more?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

Marketers need to master data analytics, customer experience, and product design. This includes the product, the buying process, the ability to provide support, and customer relationships over time. The metrics also changed. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous. The results?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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Enterprise Data Productivity Software 107

Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. Then I read Lorin Hochstein's brilliant assessment in On productivity metrics and management consultants.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

After all, there are hundreds of books written about leadership every year, adding to the thousands of titles already available on Amazon. Explicit in our HR officer’s question was her assumption that the newest thinking on leadership development must contain something essential.

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Management Consulted

MARCH 22, 2016

Again and again (and again and again and again), we receive 3-4 page long resumes detailing every piece of research and lab work a particular person’s done, lists of every conference they’ve attended, what they had for lunch 3 days ago, and an-in depth review of their favorite physics book. Far from it!

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

This excerpt is from the Project Lifecycles book, almost ready for release. But managers and customers do care about better products. The managers care when the team can release those products—that's why managers use capitalization metrics. And the customers care about the value those products offer.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2023

Many of these spied-upon people have installed mouse (and keyboard) simulator products. Yes, these products randomly move the mouse to pretend the person is “working.” I'll start with measuring productivity. But no one, on any project or product, works alone. We can't measure a person's productivity.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Today’s marketer needs to go well beyond reporting and metrics, and be more proficient in a full range of analytical skills –including knowledge of data management principles and analytical strategies, and an understanding of the role of data quality, the importance of data governance, and the value of data in marketing disciplines.

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Marketing Data Advertising Media 134

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 1, 2024

That link just goes to the first post) My most recent book: Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. Here's the video: We discussed several topics: My recent Unemployed Agilists posts.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 17, 2023

Set goals and metrics: After your assessment, with an open mind review your strengths and weaknesse. It is important to also set goals and metrics for implementing servant leadership. Finally, see Rick’s newest book. Visit the RCI store: Books & Training Resources. Partner with RCI Consulting Services.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2017

His latest book is Number Sense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage. In this case, let’s say your metric is the number of visitors who click on the button. Sometimes, you know that certain variables, usually those that are not easily manipulated, have a strong effect on the success metric. Or buy our product?

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 31, 2018

As you progress in your professional career (and as your personal life gets more complex, such as raising multiple children or caring for aging parents), it makes sense to optimize your life around a different kind of metric. It’s a great book, I highly recommend it.). These activities product MEUs.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents. It was just the industry and firm norm.

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Boston Consulting Group Study Conference Survey 136

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”. Read more: A Quick Guide to Essential Project Management Metrics.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Starting a business begins by identifying a problem to be solved: a better concrete transit mixer, an easier way to book accommodation online, an automatic way to change gears in a car. Judging by the number of books on the subject, there’s a whole “purpose industry” out there. ” Now they’re both metrics.

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Metrics Exercises Construction Groups 70

Johanna Rothman

MAY 14, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers. Use Timeboxes to Make Visible Progress I have a variety of larger work: Books, fiction, and some blog posts (the ones that turn into series) New workshops Presentations Client work, which can vary from proposal to implementation and back again. Today, I chose the book first.

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How To Metrics Financial Management 64

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 24, 2024

Partly because they also do production support—but those are mostly cycle times of 2-3 days. If you're not sure about cycle time, read Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers. Read Daniel Vacanti's and Prateek Singh's books. .” (It doesn't matter what 3 or 5 means. Every single item was either a 3 or a 5.)

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How To Agile Metrics Data 76

Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 4, 2024

We included topics from my programming experience, why multitasking is a disaster, and how to use flow metrics to understand reality. We also touched on many of the topics in the Modern Management Made Easy books. While technology has changed since the 1970s, when I started to work, people haven't changed. I hope you listen.

Management 52

Management Metrics Video Productivity 52

Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Try HR Retrospectives.

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Agile Software Case Interview Interviews 73

Rick Conlow

JANUARY 2, 2023

By not dancing, CEOs cost their companies billions of dollars of lost employee innovation, productivity, and customer service. In the 1940’s, Peter Drucker praised the company for its product decentralization but criticized it, even back then, for treating employees as a feudal cost center rather than a base of knowledge and potential.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. She works with individuals, teams, and leaders across the organization to resolve risks and see alternatives for their product development.

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