Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. It enhances collaboration and communication Modern PPM software fosters collaboration across teams by centralizing communication channels, documents, and updates. Key Features of Aha!

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2018

With online technologies and targeted lists, this should be a cost-effective tool for separating the suspects from the prospects, accelerating customer conversion through the sales funnel, and, equally important, optimizing “data-driven marketing” by tying each piece of content to metrics like opens, reads, downloads, and so on.

Marketing 135

Marketing Case Study Case Studies Sales 135

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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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This is when a business case document is required. According to the Project Management Body of Knowledge [1], a business case is a document that allows decision-makers to determine whether the project is worth the investment. The basic purpose of this document is to justify the initiation of a project. . Executive summary.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

At this level, there aren’t any established project management practices or standards; documentation and metrics are ad hoc. An organization has certain project management processes and corresponding documentation, but they aren’t standardized. An organization uses basic metrics to track project performance.

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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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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One type of data scientist creates output for humans to consume, in the form of product and strategy recommendations. Data science for humans: the consumers of the output are decision makers like executives, product managers, designers, or clinicians. They are decision scientists. They are modeling scientists. What is the output?

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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. That is, what the organization wanted from employees.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Defining and tracking success metrics. Core Competencies.

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Productivity Management Engineering Case Interview 73

Chad Barr

APRIL 23, 2025

From there, I asked it to format the results into a clean Word document table. In seconds, it generated 120 unique and deeply relevant content topics tailored to the exact concerns, hopes, and decision points of my audience.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2018

They can reap benefits because of higher employee productivity and customer loyalty and satisfaction. Many business leaders have talked about the phenomenon of short-termism, and research has documented that short-termism holds back good corporate intentions. There is a lot of talk about purpose in business. Why is that?

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 27, 2023

In addition, a product leader might approve the feature. Finally, the team, a product leader, or the customer(!) But if you are similar to one of my long-ago clients, they could plan on too many defect escapes every time they released another version of the product. This is easier if you work as a mob/ensemble, pair, or swarm.)

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

Siri is super, Alexa is awesome, and Cortana’s quite clever, but better bots and digital assistants aren’t going to determine personal productivity’s data-driven future. Tomorrow’s most effective executives will merge and marry workplace data and analytics to digitally design more-productive versions of themselves.

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Enterprise Data Productivity Software 105

Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. She works with individuals, teams, and leaders across the organization to resolve risks and see alternatives for their product development.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Across the health care industry, there’s a growing sense that pushing doctors ever harder to achieve productivity, quality, and service goals is backfiring. Doctors are working harder than ever and spending more of their time documenting clinical metrics and measuring patient satisfaction.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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Chemicals Industry Metrics Financial 73

LSA Global

MAY 27, 2024

A Performance Improvement Plan is a formal document that is part of a larger performance management process to help employees who are not meeting behavior- and/or result-oriented performance expectations. Do your managers know how to set clear goals and success metrics with their teams?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Discovery-driven planning offers a lower-risk way to move a product forward in the face of “what is unknown, uncertain, and not yet obvious to the competition” so that firms can “learn as much as possible as cheaply as possible” while pursuing new ventures. Step 4: Document assumptions.

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Benchmarking Methodologies Company Apparel 106

LSA Global

AUGUST 12, 2024

Underperformance or misaligned behaviors , if not managed promptly and effectively, can undermine team morale, strain resources, and disrupt productivity. We also know from performance management data that employee underperformance often stems from a lack of clarity around roles, responsibilities, scope, and performance metrics.

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Culture Resources Data Construction 68

LSA Global

APRIL 21, 2017

When you have invested significant time and money to hire new talent, you look for a payoff…productive employees who are engaged and stay. Overseeing the new hire onboarding process should include specific success metrics. The post How to Accelerate Productivity of Your New Talent appeared first on LSA Global. Pretty dismal.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers. Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Blockchain technology can also verify ad delivery and consumer engagement; avoid ad or email overserving, which angers consumers and demotivates them from buying; and prevent follow-me ads that are no longer relevant (such as when consumers have already made a purchase of the company’s or competitor’s products).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 13, 2016

During their evaluations, they’ll typically ask themselves two questions: Is your product or service better than alternatives, and, equally important, can their people work with you and your organization? Because of this, it will take more than great analysis, a superior product, or a performance improvement to clinch a deal.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

At the enterprise level, think of all of your corporate initiatives as a backlog, just like software developers think of future product features as a backlog. As documented by Walter Isaacson , “After he righted the company, Jobs began taking his ‘top 100’ people on a retreat each year.

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

As a rule, a project manager creates this document at the planning stage and needs essential data about the project. EVA encompasses three key indicators: Planned Value: This metric outlines the expected amount of work scheduled to be completed by a specific stage of the project timeline.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2018

Once in production, models often encounter edge cases — situations, data, or individuals that aren’t enough like the data they’ve been trained on. It’s important to monitor for bias both before and after a system goes into production, and to take action to address unintended treatment.

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Data System Intellectual Property Policies 73

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

For example, highly complex product and service environments will require domain experts or subject matter experts. Simpler product environments will require experts in operations, logistics, and supply chain. They know the locations of important documents and how they are categorized and catalogued.

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Data Methodologies Enterprise Guidelines 70

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For most of us, it seems pretty simple: when we ship the product or launch the service. And as the world continues to digitize and almost every product and service becomes more driven by (or at least integrated with) software, this need grows even stronger. Our goal might be to sell more of our products online.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It's going beyond what is documented on the org chart and approaching your consultant similarly to a doctor's approach to a patient. It provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings. A good doctor knows human anatomy. A good org consultant knows organizational anatomy.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

A recent study documented how incivility diminishes collaboration and performance in medical settings. The teams exposed to rudeness displayed lower capabilities in all diagnostic and procedural performance metrics, markedly diminishing the infant’s chances of survival. Leaders set the tone. It all starts at the top.

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Training Training Study Film 70

Harvard Business

JULY 3, 2018

In a famous example (at least, it’s famous if you’re into this kind of thing), in March 1951, the CIA’s Office of National Estimates published a document suggesting that a Soviet attack on Yugoslavia within the year was a “serious possibility.” Lesson 3: Seek feedback to improve your forecasting.

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Survey Productivity Examples Analysis 73

LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2025

Understanding and maximizing these roles helps leaders assemble well-balanced teams that maximize productivity and innovation. If no collective work product beyond the sum of their independent tasks and accomplishments is required for success, then being a working group is sufficient. Working Groups Not all tasks, however, need a team.

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How To Talent Agile Efficiency 60

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Other than the well-documented differences in language and development, demographic differences are also significant. Industry cluster metrics measure the size of the pool of potential customers for B2B or B2C companies, and market stability metrics measure institutional, business, and social stability.)

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Strategy& Strategy Strategy Operations 73

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Flatiron Health’s human “abstractors” review provider notes and pull out structured data, using AI to help them recognize key terms and uncover insights, increasing their productivity. Amazon Web Services recently announced a cloud-based service that uses AI to extract and index data from clinical notes.

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Healthcare Data System Development 70

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. That’s why it’s imperative to ensure your strategy deeply resonates with your organizational culture.

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