Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. Manufacturing organizations like General Motors report spending more on healthcare than they do on raw materials for their products. 2023 Work in America Survey: Workplaces as engines of psychological health and well-being. The Adecco Group.

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Epicflow

APRIL 15, 2022

Aircraft engineering is a complex and constantly developing sector of aerospace and defense, where experts from various areas of technical expertise are involved. What drives efficiency of aircraft engineering projects? Tips on Managing Aircraft Engineering Projects with Maximum Efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 29, 2022

Joanie, a new VP Engineering, joined the company a couple of weeks ago. Her boss, the CEO, wants to know how long it will take engineering to finish all the projects. I'm also a fan of working in flow efficiency , so the team can finish more features faster. Are you still working on this project? Personal WIP.

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Epicflow

JULY 5, 2024

Reporting and analytics A robust capacity planning tool should generate reports and dashboards with insights into resource availability and capacity, allocation, and utilization, which will help managers track resource performance and assess the efficiency of project work. This helps maintain high productivity levels.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

You might even call them/use them as product teams. You might wonder about organizing all the work as product work. The “Typical Product Development Organization” shows the kind of organization I see most often. The various development directors correspond to the various horizontal layers in the product.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Facilitating productive project work. These factors contribute to increasing team members’ productivity. Therefore, capacity planning software will help manufacturers optimize their project resources, ensure resource efficiency across the whole project environment, optimize costs and resource management decisions.

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Business Consulting Agency

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The digital marketplace offers an abundance of opportunities for businesses to sell products online, catering to a global audience. This article aims to provide a detailed roadmap for initiating online product sales while highlighting the invaluable support and benefits that come from working with professional consulting services.

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Business Consulting Agency

MAY 3, 2024

Starting a pet products business can be an exciting and rewarding venture, given the increasing number of pet owners and the growing market for pet care products. However, like any new business, launching a pet products company comes with its own set of challenges.

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Business Consulting Agency

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

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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Markovitz Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Do product developers every transpose style codes or prices in a product spec sheet? Check out Karyn Ross and Jeff Liker’s new book, The Toyota Way to Service Excellence , which is full of examples of firms that have used lean in their office functions to improve efficiency and customer service at the same time.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A matrix organizational structure means that a companys employees report to multiple managers, e.g., a project (or product) manager and a functional manager. engineering, marketing, finance, etc.) Efficient use of resources In a matrix organization , resources are usually shared across multiple projects and departments.

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Business Consulting Agency

JUNE 4, 2024

Starting a skincare company and selling products online is an exciting venture with immense potential. Once you have your inventory ready, the real challenge begins: effectively launching your products, building a brand, and driving sales. Start a skincare company selling products online with expert help.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 1, 2022

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. When it comes to understanding the carbon footprint of these aircraft, the primary culprit is the engine.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 11, 2021

The left-most, column includes primarily code- or product-based leadership. People can advance based on how much influence they have with the team and the product. Instead of your initiative for your achievements, you use an overarching goal to support the team and the product. We can start with teams and the product.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 21, 2024

I had always aspired to actively contribute to the creation of tangible solutions in the transportation sector; serendipitously, an opportunity arose with a transportation and logistics startup, where I took on a product management role working closely with its CEO.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 6, 2019

Finding valuable insights: Structured and unstructured data sources can uncover patterns and relationships that reveal customer needs, expose system vulnerabilities and improve productivity and performance. Tailoring products to individual needs: Big data allows an organisation to narrowly segment customers.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Yes, the Computer Science curriculum had several required Hardware Engineering classes. Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. Even when those teams worked in resource efficiency, they created terrific products. I had one female instructor.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 16, 2024

This article delves into some of the most promising use cases of Gen AI in banking, examining how it is already reshaping the sector through advancements in customer service, data-driven decision-making, risk management, and operational efficiency. Operational Efficiency Gen AI will boost the productivity of operational staff.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

That's why we have projects—to work on this product for now, until we've delivered something. See Projects, Products, and the Project Portfolio: Part 1, Organize the Work to see what I mean about projects. What was their reaction when we, the engineers, said we had to bend the laws of physics to make the project work?

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

Before the pandemic, Jenny, the VP of Engineering, insisted that the engineering staff needed to work in the Boston area. And she wants the teams to create products the customers want to buy. Jenny has experienced what many of you have, too: Collaborative teams with diverse experiences can develop products customers want to buy.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 20, 2014

The Experience Curve captures the relationship between increasing production experience and declining costs. Wright described the effect of learning on production costs in the aircraft industry showing that required labour time dropped by 10 to 15 percent with every doubling of production experience. Source: Flickr ).

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Without a sustainable business engine, their wings are clipped, and many promising initiatives never even get off the ground. helping suppliers improve their capabilities can help an upstream firm to streamline or customise its own production line.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 29, 2018

Quietly, over the last thirty years, engineering has become dramatically more efficient and effective. Insulated glass, cars that don't break down, keyboards with just the right feel to them… Mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering are all moving faster than ever.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Nearly 56% of survey respondents believe they cannot demonstrate improvements in on-time project delivery, organizational efficiency, or profitability. Their plan for the next couple of years is to prevent quality failures with bold investments by “building a database of previous failure cases and production traceability management.”

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the 1990s, usability became a key consideration, leading to the development of usability engineering and user-centered design approaches. The goal was to align software design with the needs, goals, and abilities of users, making applications more intuitive and efficient.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2023

One Engineering organization of about 2000 people had a terrible time releasing anything “on” or even, “near” time. Value Let's start with the cost of the work and start with some assumptions: Each engineer costs the organization between $3000-$4000/week in salary plus overhead. (If Why did I believe them?

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Tom Spencer

JULY 15, 2022

In industry, you exchange your time to build and sell products and services. Not only will you accomplish more by limiting distractions, but you will also become more efficient and effective with your time. This will help you to use time more efficiently and effectively, which will be highly valued by your firm and its clients.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 12, 2024

How can manufacturers ensure production efficiency and competitiveness? One of the effective solutions is digital transformation — the implementation of innovative technologies into every manufacturing aspect helps production companies enhance their capabilities, shorten products’ time to market, and satisfy customers’ demands.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Software is key to the efficiency of organizations in almost every industry. As a result, the efficiency of city maintenance in Paris has increased by 20%, allowing the Paris civil service to perform 140,000 repairs per year. Software consultants set up customized software solutions tailored to the needs of individual businesses.

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Business Consulting Agency

JULY 3, 2024

It offers everything from website design and product management to payment processing and marketing tools. Efficient Product Management Managing products efficiently is critical for any e-commerce store. Experts assist in setting up product categories, descriptions, pricing, and inventory management.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 7, 2023

This can include finding new markets to expand into, developing new products or services, or identifying new partnerships or collaborations. This involves understanding the target market, their needs and wants, and what they are looking for in a product or service. Another key aspect of business development is building relationships.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2020

Products should be tested and optimized. These micro-level tests must be a constant and ongoing process of evaluation, tweaking, and re-evaluation, to continuously improve the gears, bearings, and levers that make up the marketing engine. Often, some combination of the two methods is the most efficient.

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Business Consulting Agency

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Running a successful online store requires more than just setting up a website and listing products. E-commerce UX experts analyze your site’s design, navigation, and functionality to make sure that customers can easily browse products, find information, and complete purchases without friction.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2022

While there are many risks and obstacles involved in being an innovation leader – producing products not supported by the current infrastructure, creating more waste than recycling, and the high cost and limited capacity of existing energy storage methods – these problems also represent opportunities for innovation and growth.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Imagine you are a consultant who has been contracted to improve innovation and efficiency for a client. For example, you may recall well known innovation initiatives such as: 20% time: Google allows engineers to spend 20% of their work time on any innovative idea they are passionate about. Final thoughts.

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Tsavo Neal

AUGUST 28, 2020

A personal website without a blog is like car without an engine. And they are relevant to your business because they need your product more than most. If they feel as though your product was made just for them, they are much more likely to take interest — and eventually, buy. How do you find niches? It creates the “that’s me!”

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