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

AUGUST 11, 2022

In this article, we’ll consider some essential metrics that can be used to assess the fruitfulness of change management efforts. . The approach was developed by Prosci experts [1] based on change practitioners’ survey. To assess the organizational performance, the following metrics can be used: . Assessing performance .

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 18, 2025

Yet many organizations still struggle to develop these skills at scale, especially in remote or hybrid environments. Time Management and Accountability When employees know how to prioritize, manage deadlines, and stay focused, productivity increases. Soft skills separate a competent employee from a great one.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Intrigued by the possibility of a way out of the burnout cycle, a coworker (Colin) and I started meeting every other week to discuss productivity. To give more rigor to our meetings, we decided to define a metric for our productivity: average weekly hours worked. The same is true for productivity. Define a metric.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. This needs to change.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 18, 2025

Customer understanding is key to good product design. Acting on every customer request puts your product on the fast track to Feature Purgatory , a state where endless features clog your roadmap, delay development, and bloat your product into an unpolished mess. I learned this the hard way with my first startup.

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Epicflow

APRIL 30, 2025

Information systems have a determining impact on organizational performance by enhancing overall productivity, profitability, and resilience. Strategic portfolio management is the process of selecting, prioritizing, and managing a companys projects, portfolios, programs, or products. What is Strategic Portfolio Management Software?

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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. Classic examples include Google search and Amazon product recommendations, both of which improve as more users engage. Data products are a team sport. Develop the data-savvy of product and business groups.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Support and training providing tools, templates, and training to project teams to enhance their productivity and adherence to standards. Improved Resource Allocation Efficient resource allocation is crucial for optimizing productivity and avoiding burnout. Portfolio health metrics to track progress, budgets, and risks across projects.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

These traditional approaches develop employees’ skills and enrich their work experience. But we discovered a surprisingly simple way to increase productivity, one that was low-cost and had immediate impact: better office seating arrangements. Worker performance data broken down into three metrics: Productivity.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In order to remain competitive, organizations are placing greater emphasis on investing in the ongoing training and development of their employees. Training ROI is a critical metric that provides decision-makers with tangible evidence of the value brought by learning initiatives and helps justify further investments in L&D.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 25, 2025

In a rapidly shifting business landscape, with advances like AI, quantum computing, advanced robotics, blockchain, and gene editing, spending valuable time and resources developing a strategically useless plan may be more damaging than having no strategy at all. This scenario plays out far too often in the corporate world.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2024

For example, Adidas has launched initiatives to produce shoes from ocean plastic waste , turning a pollutant into a valuable consumer product. Companies are implementing various strategies to minimize waste production, from the design phase, lean manufacturing techniques, to end-of-life management.

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Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. At the other is a product or service that solves the problem or addresses the market in a way nobody has thought of before. Your data isn’t even in the picture.

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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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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As wearable technology continues to advance, we’re seeing the development of more sophisticated devices capable of monitoring a broader range of health metrics. AI is also being used to develop personalized treatment plans based on a patient’s unique genetic makeup, lifestyle, and medical history.

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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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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 22, 2025

It turns out that the Pirate Metrics and the flow metrics can work together to link those measures. First, the Pirate Metrics. Dave McClure's Pirate Metrics Are a Good Start If you're not familiar with McClure's work, here is the original Slideshare and his video. Activation: Does the customer use the product?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. Metrics tried and proven over years become a guide to what’s important, driving resource allocation.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

If you read the article above or any of the other articles you can find online, you might notice Economies of Scale focus on production—specifically manufacturing production. That's not product development—and that's the first place we get stuck with Economies of Scale thinking. Ignorance of the flow metrics.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2024

Resource optimization Ineffective capacity planning and running too many projects lead to overloading employees, which in turn reduces their productivity and affects their performance and engagement. One of a CPO’s tasks is to ensure optimal resource allocation across a company’s critical projects.

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Case interviews go beyond just spouting business knowledge – you are tested on how you build and communicate a clear framework, break down problems into small pieces, develop real world options, and recommend actionable solutions despite the presence of conflicting information. For now, however, let’s just get started.

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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Organizations seek to optimize workforce performance and productivity by implementing effective training programs. This blog will analyze best practices in training assessment that facilitate a strategic approach to workforce development and yield quantifiable results.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2017

Consumers are registering their concerns about how companies make their products. Many of them responded by including quality metrics in their compensation incentives. As any compensation consultant will tell you, comp plans can address only so many metrics. Despite conflicting messages about climate change from U.S.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2018

By Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer, CA Technologies. But, what about the application of AI and ML to agile development, testing and even portfolio management? We’re all striving to deliver better products faster to meet customer needs in the marketplace and stay ahead of the competition.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

In a working group, there is no collective work product beyond individual accomplishments. In a team, however, performance is measured primarily by the products produced collectively by the team. For example, the performance of swim, track, golf, and gymnastics teams is a function of what its members do as individuals.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2021

How to measure progress in a product that’s still getting off the ground.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for why this happens.) Remember this: If your customers want to use your product, make it easy for them to do so. Because product problems cause several other problems: The customers have to decide if the aggravation of using this product outweighs the defects.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

” The modern landscape for newspapers and books resulted from centuries of evolution, but “new media” hasn’t yet developed such strong brands and categories. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

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Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Instead, employees participate at times that are convenient to them, ensuring organizational productivity. eLearning consultants are learning and development (L&D) experts who harness their expertise to help companies create engaging, useful, and skill-building online courses. Companies don’t have to coordinate in-person sessions.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 26, 2023

While developing learning and development (L&D) strategies for their organization, many company leaders are introduced to the concept of instructional design. Instructional designers are professionals who focus on creating and delivering learning products, such as company training and coursework for educational institutions.

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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]. . Provide specific suggestions for strengthening each section.”

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

In product development, line jobs contribute to the products themselves, which means they contribute to revenue. While managers can determine how different various developers, testers, UX, etc people are, very few managers can differentiate one agile coach from another. Worse, many staff jobs are commodity positions.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. First, the product-based expertise. That's often product people, testers, and some UI/UX people.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2024

What Managers Want: More Net Income Let me start with a very simplified profit and loss discussion using the ideas of AARRR “Pirate Metrics” to describe what managers want. And when the customers refer others to the product and the company, that customer value increases even more. However gross revenue is never enough.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Misalignment between these people strategies can lead to decreased productivity, higher turnover, and a misaligned company culture. We know from Employee Engagement Action data that engagement is often influenced by company health, leadership, recognition, and opportunities for career growth and development.

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