Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 4, 2024

Organizations face a delicate ethical balancing act of maximizing productivity while ensuring the well-being of their employees. It involves considerations related to the ethics of corporate training and the complexities of achieving a balance between productivity and the well-being of employees. Contact us today!

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The main characteristics of the Lean method for project management involve reducing waste, increasing efficiency, and improving project performance. For example, Agile methods can be used in product design, which allows teams to make improvements based on regular real-time feedback. Lean methodology. Employee retention.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 12, 2025

Rather than viewing eLearning as a sunk cost, many organizations approach it as a strategic advantage that enhances productivity, improves compliance, and fosters employee engagement. A well-designed custom eLearning course allows for targeted learning, ensuring employees gain the right skills at the right time, thus enhancing efficiency.

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Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Automation improves efficiency, reducing the time employees spend on repetitive tasks, freeing them to focus on more complex and creative activities. However, challenges such as maintaining team cohesion and managing productivity remotely will need to be addressed.

Trends 148

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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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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Moreover, a strong L&D program enriches company culture by fostering a growth mindset and encouraging innovation. For example, if your goal is to increase sales, your L&D programs might focus on enhancing sales techniques, product knowledge, or customer relationship management skills.

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Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. What Affects Employee Productivity? There are plenty of factors impacting people’s productivity – from proper workflow organization to employees’ lifestyle and health condition. Company culture . Let’s figure it out in the article. .

Resources 147

Resources Productivity Management Efficiency 147

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2021

That disconnect occurs when managers, HR, everyone focuses on resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. If we ask people to work in flow efficiency, how can we possibly reward them on resource efficiency? When people learn more, they become more valuable to their team, the project, the product, and the company.

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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. .” What does your culture value?

Efficiency 76

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Effective Managers

MARCH 30, 2021

The culture in your organization matters. The concept of organization culture is popular right now. ASs a result, many owners are thinking about a high-performance culture, and how to go about it. First, let’s see what it really is: What Is a High-Performance Culture? Some believe it would make a difference; some do not.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 5, 2022

There’s also a growing talent shortage, making it even more difficult for organizations to avoid staffing shortages and maintain full productivity. Along with competitive compensation, a positive, supportive culture featuring a diverse workforce is increasingly viewed as essential.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. When tight and loose cultures merge, there is a good chance that they will clash. Tight company cultures value consistency and routine. Loose cultures are much more fluid.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. But what role does culture play in corporate misconduct, and why do these problematic cultures persist?

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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

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

That creates distrust and an anti-agile culture. Worse, these people and teams don't feel any satisfaction with their products. And all those ways require we change the culture from that of resource-efficiency thinking to flow-efficiency thinking. That's a cultural change. ” There are many better ways.

Agile 88

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

I started this series with many specific concerns about a particular interview question: “The product owner and dev team cannot decide on a sprint goal, even after hours of discussion. Instead, I see assumptions that reveal a divide-and-conquer, and possibly a command-and-control culture, not an agile culture. Not one person.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

Culture is like the wind. For organizations seeking to become more adaptive and innovative, culture change is often the most challenging part of the transformation. But culture change can’t be achieved through top-down mandate. Product packaging was redesigned to be more user-friendly and increase adherence.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

As a Bersin report pointed out: “The single biggest driver of business impact is the strength of an organization’s learning culture.” Here are four science-based recommendations to help you create a learning culture on your team or in your organization: Reward continuous learning. ” You and Your Team Series.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2022

The larger your product, the more likely you have components teams. I often see component teams because of the architecture of the product. In this first image, the Integrated System Program, the rest of the product uses the Platform of Common Services as components. InterRelated Program Product.

Productivity 116

Productivity Agile Efficiency Data 116

Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Nearly 56% of survey respondents believe they cannot demonstrate improvements in on-time project delivery, organizational efficiency, or profitability. Their plan for the next couple of years is to prevent quality failures with bold investments by “building a database of previous failure cases and production traceability management.”

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Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

During the recent decade, companies have been making efforts to transform their business processes and culture to turn into data-driven organizations. . At the same time, the talent component shouldn’t be left aside: data alone cannot lead companies to success without human expertise to use in an efficient way. . Cultural challenges.

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Effective Managers

JULY 26, 2024

This iterative process ensures that the final product or service is aligned with customer needs and market dynamics. Implementing Agile in Your Organization The transition to an agile framework requires a cultural shift. It involves roles such as the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and the development team.

Methodologies 171

Methodologies Agile Productivity Training 171

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops. Instead of teams being responsible for delivering product, the managers are responsible for explaining when the managers want to decide. What about product decisions? The product value team might need to see product deliverables at least once a week. Or finish a project.)

Productivity 106

Productivity Agile Management Tools 106

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

With a culture that prioritizes training and development, MBB consultants are empowered to reliably generate innovative solutions aided by the unparalleled resources at their disposal in a structured, fast-paced, and supportive environment. How is the MBB experience different?

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McKinsey Methodologies Transportation Bain 78

Johanna Rothman

APRIL 14, 2021

Their developers work on a product for months and years at a time. ” Shared service-thinking denies the reality of effective product development: A cross-functional team learns together as they develop the product. That's because the managers think resource efficiency works. Everyone waits for other people.

Agile 119

Agile Efficiency Productivity Development 119

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Lazy Project Manager: How to Be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early by Peter Taylor The Lazy Project Manager is based on the idea that lazy people always try to find easier ways to do what they have to. So, focusing on 20% of the most important work will result in 80% outcomes.

Management 29

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. What about those cultural changes? Where the organization rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.)

Agile 81

Agile Culture Efficiency Metrics 81

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

Manage your environment or culture. I'm also a fan of working in flow efficiency , so the team can finish more features faster. In addition, when managers reward flow efficiency, people tend to collaborate more, not just cooperate. That's related to the 90% Schedule Game.). The longer things take, the longer they will take.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 12, 2024

How can manufacturers ensure production efficiency and competitiveness? One of the effective solutions is digital transformation — the implementation of innovative technologies into every manufacturing aspect helps production companies enhance their capabilities, shorten products’ time to market, and satisfy customers’ demands.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 11, 2022

As long as change management is a comprehensive process, its assessment should cover multiple dimensions: how efficient the established process is, how people feel about transformations, what business outcomes have been achieved, etc. Assessing people’s attitude and culture . Culture mapping. Analysis based on the ADKAR model.

Metrics 130

Metrics Change Management Management Efficiency 130

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

Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In addition, their focus on effective resource allocation, stakeholder engagement, and change management contributes to enhanced operational efficiency, increased agility, and improved project outcomes. What organizations require a CPO? One of a CPO’s tasks is to ensure optimal resource allocation across a company’s critical projects.

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Resources Methodologies Efficiency Metrics 157

Effective Managers

JULY 26, 2024

This iterative process ensures that the final product or service is aligned with customer needs and market dynamics. Implementing Agile in Your Organization The transition to an agile framework requires a cultural shift. It involves roles such as the Product Owner, Scrum Master, and the development team.

Methodologies 131

Methodologies Agile Productivity Training 131

Epicflow

JUNE 16, 2022

You can’t put new wine into old bottles, so whatever sophisticated technologies companies implement, without transforming people, culture, and processes in your company, even the most advanced of them will become a waste of money. . ompanies that invest enough in digital talent have three times higher chances for efficient transformation.

Tools 147

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. Their products and services did not ship outside the building—their products and services enabled the organization to make money. Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops.

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How To Efficiency Meeting Productivity 125

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 26, 2021

B2B Business (Consulting or Coaching) - Offer your advice and partnership sought out and paid for by a leader tasked with improving an organization's results – company profit, customer satisfaction, process efficiency, employee effectiveness, leadership excellence, work environment, and culture. First, slow down.

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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. .

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