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Purpose vs. Product: Differentiate Your Strategy from Tactics (Portfolio & Roadmaps)

Johanna Rothman

Product strategy, to define the value the products offer to the product's users/customers. In addition, you might need these product strategies too: Product architecture, to shepherd the technical value of a product. Division 1 and Division require different product strategies. Why that often?

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production. Finally, one large change broke the production server. What about guidelines? Or have those same risks.

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Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Brimstone Consulting

When designing a hybrid workplace, communication guidelines are critical to creating an effective and thriving workplace. Those organizations still in the design phase have the opportunity to avoid the mistake of not creating communication guidelines. We worked with the organization to establish clear communication guidelines.

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Selling Products in the USA Successfully

Business Consulting Agency

However, selling products in the USA successfully requires more than simply entering the marketit demands a strategic approach tailored to the countrys diverse consumer base, regulatory landscape, and competitive environment. By understanding the market and implementing proven strategies, businesses can position their products for success.

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Management Rewards: Doing Work vs Creating an Environment

Johanna Rothman

Cindy also has to create guidelines and constraints for the teams. Some of her guidelines and constraints are: Make sure that what you do is auditable. Continue to check that the work you're doing corresponds to the higher purpose for the IT department and for the product you're working on. The teams make their own decisions.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business

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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27% of parents plan to leave the workforce. This is a big deal.

Brimstone Consulting

Leaders need to enact change to keep parents in the workplace and to create a culture that will accelerate, rather than reverse, gender equality in the workplace. Further, it can take between 8-12 weeks to replace a knowledge worker , and then another month or two before the replacement gets to full productivity. Ask questions.