Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Peter Drucker once quipped that, “Much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.” Recent research from the Boston Consulting Group confirms that employees can do better work when they’re liberated from much of the bureaucratic cruft that passes for daily management. Long commutes? Low-value travel?

Boston Consulting Group 259

Boston Consulting Group Meeting Travel Productivity 259

Johanna Rothman

JUNE 27, 2019

A colleague asked me about the kinds of documentation the team might need for their stories. How little could they do for requirements documentation? I start with the pattern of Card, Conversation, Confirmation when I think about requirements and how much documentation. See Manage It! I don't use larger cards.

Agile 87

Agile Guidelines Efficiency Productivity 87

Tom Spencer

APRIL 12, 2024

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. This is especially relevant in product management, where decisions often involve cross-functional collaboration.

Meeting 143

Meeting Productivity Management How To 143

Effective Managers

JULY 26, 2024

The Essence of Agile Methodology Agile methodology is underpinned by the Agile Manifesto, which emphasizes individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working solutions over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and responding to change over following a plan.

Methodologies 235

Methodologies Agile Productivity Training 235

Epicflow

APRIL 15, 2022

To be able to stay competitive on the market and cope with any arising issues, aerospace engineering companies are expected to seek how to improve operational efficiency in general and the engineering processes in particular. . Tips on Managing Aircraft Engineering Projects with Maximum Efficiency.

Engineering 130

Engineering Efficiency Management How To 130

Tom Spencer

MARCH 28, 2025

And its transforming how businesses operate. From summarizing lengthy documents to drafting emails and generating reports, LLMs can reduce operating costs by streamlining workflows and reducing manual effort. Zuhair Imaduddin is a Senior Product Manager at Wells Fargo. AI isnt coming, its already here.

Productivity 88

Productivity McKinsey Data Training 88

Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Strong project management skills are essential for L&D specialists to effectively plan, coordinate, and execute initiatives, ensuring all aspects of training programs are organized and aligned with business goals. Cost savings: Measure reductions in operational costs due to increased efficiency or reduced errors.

Metrics 147

Metrics ROI Training Training 147

Asamby Consulting

JANUARY 13, 2022

Why you need a COO or Operations Manager. Either their operations have grown quite a bit or they are in the midst of growing. Many founders and CEOs ask us this question: Do I need an operations manager? But there are a few questions: Why is it necessary to hire an operations person?

Operations 52

Operations Management Methodologies Report 52

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

Mention the word “plan” to most managers and the image that springs to their minds might well be a travel plan. Both plans are neat, prescribed, determined — and manageable. Moltke the Elder held the view that only the commencement of any military operation was plannable. Think of the plan as a guidance tool.

Travel 132

Travel Conference Operations Strategy& 132

Epicflow

OCTOBER 13, 2022

It sometimes happens that an organization invests in implementing a resource management solution, but the results of this endeavor are far from satisfactory. The Most Common Errors Made by Resource Management Software Users. As a result, a project/resource manager will draw irrelevant conclusions. .

Resources 148

Resources Management How To Tools 148

Kraft Kennedy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Why Law Firms Are Embracing Application Rationalization An underrated operational advantage, Application Rationalization addresses an inefficiency common across law firms. If your firm’s operational maturity goals include any of the below, keep reading. Should Application Portfolio Analysis and Governance Planning be a priority?

Software 52

Software Tools Comparison Operations 52

Effective Managers

JULY 26, 2024

The Essence of Agile Methodology Agile methodology is underpinned by the Agile Manifesto, which emphasizes individuals and interactions over processes and tools, working solutions over comprehensive documentation, customer collaboration over contract negotiation, and responding to change over following a plan.

Methodologies 146

Methodologies Agile Productivity Training 146

Harvard Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

This view of learning was the key driver of “knowledge management systems” that came into vogue in the 1990’s. ” To foster the latter, managers should understand five essential distinctions: Explicit versus tacit knowledge. The iconic example is the process manual that all employees are expected to follow.

Emotional Intelligence 145

Emotional Intelligence Efficiency Operations Development 145

Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

With a huge number of organizations now working from home, employees and managers have had to regroup to find new ways to prove their value and show results remotely. When managing remote staff, it is important to engage the team and maintain a sense of wellbeing by creating an accountability culture. Communication is Vital.

Culture 130

Culture Operations ROI Tools 130

Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Identifying the root causes of a problem that prevent something from operating as it should. Innovation that seeks to fundamentally change how something operates. Toyota added sensor technology, industrial washers, and larger combined systems to better manage the cutting chip waste. Of course, this led to significant down time.

Tools 150

Tools Operations Examples Analysis 150

Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Like many other Western companies, Yahoo began building major operations in China. Then, in 2005, a dissident journalist named Shi Tao used his Yahoo email account to send a document to Western reporters that described Chinese government restrictions on media coverage of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests. Mark Bonchek.

Exercises 124

Exercises Media Guidelines Company 124

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Administrative and operational inefficiencies account for nearly one third of the U.S. Labor is the industry’s single largest operating expense, with six out of every 10 people who work in health care never interacting with patients. Easier and Improved Documentation. health care system’s $3 trillion in annual costs.

Insurance 127

Insurance Insurance Efficiency Guidelines 127

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2017

So here’s how she made sure her résumé attracted the attention of hiring managers when she started applying for chief administrative officer (CAO) positions. Manage junior staff and evaluate performance. Manage and evaluate performance of work-study students and graduate assistants.

Transportation 136

Transportation Real Estate Financial Operations 136

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Winning in the future will require a rigorous approach to accessing and managing independent workers. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

Talent 123

Talent How To Benchmarking Operations 123

PM Alliance

JANUARY 13, 2023

After years of disruption, few project management teams expect pandemic-era supply chain issues to ease any time soon. If you’re seeking new ways to deal with what are becoming old problems, consider these tips to help adjust how you manage supply chain risks.

Management 71

Management Turnaround Transportation Ethics 71

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR. These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time.

Talent 70

Talent Management Leadership Development 70

Consulting Matters

APRIL 22, 2021

When I was an organizational development consultant for Disney, I worked with the Imagineers and Operators. The Operators viewed Imagineers as people who had their heads in the sky, and Imagineers viewed Operators as so focused on day to day that they couldn't see the big picture. Are you developing executives or managers?

Development 156

Development How To Talent Organizational Development 156

Asamby Consulting

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Small Business Operations Consulting An investment makes sense only when you get more in return than you invested. If you hire an operations consultant, this Return on Investment might be not easy to calculate. This blog posts outlines what the ROI for hiring a small business operations consultant is.

ROI 52

ROI Small Business Operations Consulting 52

Harvard Business

MARCH 26, 2018

How working women are kept from positions of influence and power is by now well-documented by scientists and journalists alike. ” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.”

Talent 138

Talent Benchmarking Research Study 138

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For example, the delays associated with social conflict at large mining operations can run in the vicinity of $20 million per week. Yet the same companies that spend months and millions tweaking operational details devote only a small fraction of their resources to understanding and addressing the social risks they face.

Company 115

Company Energy Real Estate Resources 115

Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

But to get beyond the hype, managers need to understand some underlying challenges and paradigm shifts. Operations in a Connected World. This is often overlooked by managers, but it is a big deal. The internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet in the United States, Industrie 4.0 Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Data 125

Data System Engineering Efficiency 125

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

These organizations are targeting technologies that have a proven impact on patient outcomes, efficiency of care delivery, workforce engagement, or population demand management. Salford’s strategy also has significantly reduced documentation time for staff. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Healthcare 125

Healthcare Efficiency Bain Survey 125

LSA Global

APRIL 3, 2025

Done right, core values improve how people get hired, promoted, developed, managed, engaged, and retained. Use these four questions to assess the impact your core values are having on workplace consistency: Do leaders and managers “practice what they preach”?

Culture 41

Culture Ethics Policies Research 41

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data. They are modeling scientists.

Data 132

Data Engineering Software Operations 132

Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

One area so far relatively untouched is change management. The failure of major transformation projects to deliver the expected benefits is a well-documented phenomenon : many change programs simply do not achieve their business goals. A big obstacle is the change management profession itself (of which we are all proud members).

Change Management 73

Change Management Data Marketing Management 73

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 16, 2024

Despite many current applications being small-scale pilot projects, the promise of Gen AI to revolutionise banking operations and enhance customer experiences is becoming clear. Risk Management 3.1 Operational Efficiency Gen AI will boost the productivity of operational staff. Data-driven decision-making 2.1

Banking 78

Banking Financial Operations Data 78

PM Alliance

JUNE 30, 2023

Developing the capabilities to achieve consistent success across every project—whether it’s small and routine or big and complex—is the key to operational and financial sustainability. 1: Formalize and document your project management workflows Is your team one of the many that still hasn’t documented its processes in a fixed format?

Methodologies 75

Methodologies Training Training Tools 75

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? I have one such document in front of me as I write this. Alicia Llop/Getty Images. It’s more like a dog chasing its tail.

Case Interview 133

Case Interview Groups Small Business Examples 133

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

These are major changes that will affect every aspect of how the firm operates — from the services it offers to the structure of her organization. We also asked if there were specific changes they hoped management would (or would not) make.

Banking 133

Banking Interviews Retail Survey 133

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. The unique blend of idealism, high profit margins, and rapid growth that came with operating the first certified organic national supermarket in the U.S. Amazon’s culture is a tight one, characterized by structure and precision.

Culture 132

Culture Operations Efficiency Guidelines 132

Epicflow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

VR and drone scanning can make project information more accurate – technical engineers will be able to get the exact size and projection of buildings faster, and project managers will be able to sustain value. Building information modeling (BIM) Building information modeling is one of the relatively new trends in construction management.

Construction 157

Construction Trends Industry Energy 157

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. That works out to one manager and administrator for every 4.7 Overall, managers and administrators made up 17.6% Overall, managers and administrators made up 17.6% Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized.

Management 70

Management Banking Pharmaceuticals Productivity 70