Epicflow

AUGUST 27, 2024

Everyone knows Jira as a task and project management tool that is popular with software developers. And that’s not without reason — the solution helps teams manage their daily work quite effectively. It helps teams organize and manage their tasks, workflows, and reports. Let’s take a quick look at its most essential features.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 18, 2025

One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through data-driven product development. By leveraging insights gained from data analytics, companies can make smarter decisions, create products that better meet customer needs, and ultimately stay ahead of the competition. What is Data-Driven Product Development?

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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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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Over the past decade, the integration of technology into healthcare has transformed how we diagnose, treat, and manage health conditions. As wearable technology continues to advance, we’re seeing the development of more sophisticated devices capable of monitoring a broader range of health metrics.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 11, 2022

It may seem the outcomes of effective change management are obvious – if positive transformations have happened, the process was effective. . However, the present-day ever-evolving business environment demonstrates that change management is rather a journey than a destination. Assessing performance . Organizational performance.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

When managing a project, it’s vitally important to regularly monitor its state: whether or not it has deviated from the approved schedule and budget; how much work has been completed and how much is left; how efficiently your resources are utilized, etc. What are these metrics, what are they used for, and how to calculate them?

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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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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 18, 2025

Communicating, managing conflict, and adapting under pressure isn’t optional; it’s essential. As companies shift toward cross-functional teams and hybrid work models, communicating effectively, managing conflict, and adapting under pressure matter as much, if not more, than technical know-how.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Data will help you identify the biggest problems — and get buy-in from skeptics.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

An effective Project Management Office (PMO) in an organization is a must nowadays. It helps standardize project management practices, ensure alignment with organizational strategy, and provide oversight to deliver projects successfully. Enhanced risk management through predictive insights. What is a PMO? What are PMO tools?

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Epicflow

JUNE 28, 2023

More and more business organizations are becoming data-driven – they are leveraging technology and data to gain actionable insights, improve operations and decision-making, and as a result achieve better outcomes. How exactly is data used in project management? Are there any challenges in using a data-driven approach?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The New Manager Training program results were: 98% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 181% Knowledge Gain 98.1% The New Manager Training program results were: 98% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 181% Knowledge Gain 98.1% Do your managers know how to create strategic clarity and commitment with their teams?

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2023

Building a merit-based culture requires tracking the right data.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2017

“What gets measured gets managed” is a longstanding business aphorism. But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. The result is poor management of what matters. The challenge, of course, is to decide on the right metrics.

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Epicflow

JUNE 17, 2022

Product portfolio management can make this happen. The Essence of Product Portfolio Management and Its Main Functions. Product portfolio management helps find the most appropriate strategy to gain the desired business objectives as well as evaluate the success of each product or service and make corresponding improvements if necessary.

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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”. First of all, you need data.

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Harvard Business

JULY 10, 2024

However, research suggests that ESG ratings suffer from a measurement trap that occurs when a metric used as part of the rating is systematically biased towards certain industries or types of companies.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In 2012, HBR dubbed data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century ” It is also, arguably, the vaguest. To hire the right people for the right roles, it’s important to distinguish between different types of data scientist. The elusive full stack data scientists do exist, though they are hard to find.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

How to Optimize Team Potential: A 7-Step Guide for Managers High performing team managers optimize potential by unlocking their teams collective capability. To optimize team potential, start by clearly defining the teams mission , goals, roles, success metrics , interdependencies, and expected outcomes.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Data science can enable wholly new and innovative capabilities that can completely differentiate a company. But those innovative capabilities aren’t so much designed or envisioned as they are discovered and revealed through curiosity-driven tinkering by the data scientists. First, some context. million clients in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

An old saying sums up the data skills of most HR professionals: “The shoemaker’s children go barefoot.” This neglect has hindered their ability to leverage data into talent strategies that can help transform their businesses. HR should learn how to tie its data about people to performance and business outcomes.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2018

There’s an ever-increasing demand for people who can leverage software to analyze, understand, and make day-to-day business decisions based on data. Data Science is now a quickly growing discipline , giving people with any kind of data expertise a serious competitive edge. Scaling Your Team’s Data Skills.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

However, without a data strategy , the likelihood of achieving successful outcomes is greatly diminished. In today's data-driven world, data is becoming increasingly important for organizations to gain a competitive advantage and make informed decisions. However, simply having a data strategy is not enough.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Products fueled by data and machine learning can be a powerful way to solve users’ needs. They can also create a “data moat” that can help stave off the competition. But the data component adds an extra layer of complexity. Data products are a team sport. Stage 1: Identify the opportunity.

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CaseInterview.com

APRIL 17, 2020

Second, I ask for specific metrics from their business. For me, the far bigger issue is that we don’t have the data to make a well-informed decision. With that accurate data, we could separate the contagious from the not contagious. Notice how when you have really good data, you can make extremely effective decisions.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

As we’ve stepped into 2024, it’s high time to learn what trends in project management are expected to shape the domain in the near future. In the era of constant transformation, project managers and business leaders should stay informed of the tendencies that will impact the way they work on projects. How does this help?

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Markovitz Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In a misguided attempt to improve quality, the management posts monthly scores on a variety of metrics. without understanding anything about effective use of metrics. For one thing, three data points don’t make a trend. Pity the employees at a Starbucks in midtown NYC. Not so much.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Financial capital is abundant but carefully managed; human capital is scarce but not carefully managed. How can we manage human capital better? Measure it.

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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As a result, understanding critical aspects of project management is essential for everyone working in the field. By focusing on the primary components of project management, it’s easier to cover all of the necessary cases. Here’s a look at what L&D professionals need to know about project management. Time Management.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 23, 2024

We know from organizational culture assessment data that employee engagement and employee experience (EX) are pivotal to organizational success. These two concepts, while interconnected, serve distinct purposes within a talent management strategy. Are you using data to make the right talent management decisions?

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The New Manager Training program results were: 97.2% The New Manager Training program results were: 97.2% Do your managers know how to create a clear line of sight for people to contribute ? Making Effective Team-based Decisions Managers learned how to set the conditions for better team decisions.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2018

How can an organization tell whether it’s actually letting data inform its decision making — or if it’s merely using superficial analyses to retroactively justify decisions it has already made? But they’re just a bit player in the far more sprawling drama that is data-driven decision making. Sponsored by Splunk.

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LSA Global

JUNE 3, 2024

Top 10 Steps to Better Design Strategy Success Metrics Workplace metrics impact workplace behaviors and performance. Designing the right strategy success metrics can mean the difference between a leadership team collectively steering toward its strategic targets and veering off course. Makes sense right? Wells Fargo opened 3.5

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LSA Global

JULY 1, 2024

While the specific strategy success metrics vary across different industries and different strategies, metrics tend to fall into four overall buckets: Financial, Customer, Employee, and Other. Here is a list of the top thirteen metrics that CEOs should measure for strategic success.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

In contrast to traditional project/program/portfolio managers dealing with individual projects/programs/portfolios, the role of a CPO is more strategic, he or she is a member of the executive board and oversees all project-related activities and their connection with an organization’s business strategy. What organizations require a CPO?

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LSA Global

JANUARY 6, 2025

Alignment with Ways of Working, Resources, and Capabilities We know from leadership simulation assessment data that too many leaders ignore cultural and operational realities. Are you using data to challenge and align your strategic assumptions? Do your leaders know how to lead and manage organizational change?

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