Clarity Consultants

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Without a pathway toward your vision, your workforce won’t understand its role within the bigger picture or how to navigate the shift. Identify new skills they’ll have to acquire and decide how they’ll learn those capabilities. Identify key metrics to measure success and have a plan to ensure broad buy-in.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. These tools offer features for tracking performance metrics, managing resources, and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities. Prevents over- or under-utilization of resources, ensuring efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 4, 2024

What if it's most efficient to do the work for a person or a team? Reducing management delays and increasing management throughput allows everyone to be efficient and effective. Throughput Creates Efficiency and Effectiveness Higher throughput is much more efficient for the organization than higher individual efficiency.

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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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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The EVP of sales liked the easy-access dashboard to report on metrics and the forecast. ” If the sales team recognizes the value of this tool, you’ll get all the metric and forecast information you desire. They will determine how the sales team uses and experiences the CRM. It’s sales management.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level? Project management maturity (or PMM) reflects a company’s ability to manage projects efficiently. At this level, there aren’t any established project management practices or standards; documentation and metrics are ad hoc. Let’s examine some of them. .

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Here’s how I’d recommend shifting your thinking about customer success as you grow: Founding Stage (0–5 employees). What to do.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2017

” So, whether you’re eyeing a new role or a new title in your current one, here are some ideas for how to go about it. You’ll also need to make the case that a new title will help you be more efficient and effective in your job, perhaps by giving you added gravitas or credibility. Why do you want a certain title?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

However, hiring managers expect deep agile expertise that connect to the Pirate metrics. These managers might not know how to ask for what they want, but that's what they want.) The conditions in which you've used flow efficiency thinking to help the team and/or the managers collaborate more.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Every step of the process was measured, and real-time metrics were easily accessible. Essentially, tactical performance is how well you stick to your plan, and adaptive performance is how well you diverge from your plan. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 28, 2023

Too many managers don't know how to manage remote people. This kind of micromanagement occurs from these two primary sources: managers don't know how to measure “productivity,” and the managers are afraid to trust people to do the work. That's a classic example of resource-efficiency thinking.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” Accountability is vital to the efficiency of the process.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

On the “push” side, HR leaders can do a better job of presenting human capital metrics to the rest of the organization using the LAMP framework: Logic. Yet most HR systems, scorecards, and reports fail to make these distinctions, leaving users to navigate an often confusing and strange metrics landscape.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Consistently follow the most efficient approach to carry out calculations – state the formula upfront and number each segment (e.g. Not all the information will be needed to make the calculation – one of the core functions of a consultant is to know how to separate the useful data from the rest. Revenue = 2. Final thought.

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

In this article, we’re delving into the most essential aspects of efficient project management that can ensure successful and timely delivery, and also dwelling on the importance of project data for risk management in single-project and multi-project environments. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

Instead, we can invite them to change, by showing the value with the pirate metrics. While we now know how to manage agile and lean programs (with both hardware and software) and create an agile approach to the project portfolio , too many organizations do not use those approaches. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency, where we focus on watching the work, not the people. But teams can change how they work—in any approach. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for more information.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. ” Focus on key metrics. Boosting your financial expertise requires figuring out the metrics by which your company measures success. It just takes effort,” he says.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2018

For example, if a researcher wants to understand how employees respond to particular incentives, the results of a study measuring how undergraduate students in the U.S. Metrics that capture the extent to which research achieves these goals could be additional ways to assess scholarly impact.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. We learned how to embed sustainability into our organization by empowering our people, making sustainability personal, and aggregating and recognizing results.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 6, 2024

In Effective Agility Requires Cultural Changes: Part 1 , I said that real agile approaches require cultural change to focus on flow efficiency , where we watch the flow of the work , not the people doing tasks. Can you create an agile culture for your team even if you can't change how the organization works? Plan for shorter projects.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 27, 2025

How to Create Clear Team Roles and Responsibilities High performing teams matter, but they are elusive. McKinsey research found that high performing teams can lead to a 30% increase in efficiency. What are the teams key objectives, desired outcomes, success metrics , and essential tasks required to deliver the necessary impact?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 26, 2024

That's why I wrote Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility. ) See this series about how to see dependencies with value stream maps in various kinds of teams, starting with A Common Tool Trap: the Tool Will Help Your Delivery and Planning Problems. That increases WIP. That does work.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2016

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. Changes in their behavior led to both lower carbon dioxide emissions (by 21,500 metric tons) and an estimated $5.4

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2017

Now, however, a unifying theory has emerged for how to improve performance for all these dimensions — safety, quality, experience, and financial. First, a few words about where we came from and how we got here. The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

Instead of infrequent, subjective evaluations based largely on “time on task,” Ryan now has managers, employees, and teams develop a set of agreed-upon performance metrics that are consistently tracked. Turnover plummeted; satisfaction, engagement, and financial performance soared.

Management 70

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

And all those ways require we change the culture from that of resource-efficiency thinking to flow-efficiency thinking. Flow Efficiency Cultural Changes When teams collaborate, they work in flow efficiency and often see better teamwork and throughput. .” There are many better ways. That's a cultural change.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2020

Successful software product development is about how well the team learns together. See the Flow Efficiency series.) As a manager, while you might have a bunch of metrics, most of those measures don't help you manage. ( If your team is still learning how to work as a team , consider the ideas in Visible Progress.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 9, 2018

Here are three important lessons I learned from the process, which may be valuable as you think about how to make the time you spend on email more efficient, as well. Using that metric, only 10.5% But everything that made it directly into my inbox was tallied — 1161 messages over a two-week period.

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Epicflow

JUNE 28, 2023

Project managers can use various types of data: historical data, real-time project metrics, customers’ feedback, resource-related data (e.g., In addition, analyzing various metrics and indicators helps project managers timely identify problems in the workflow and take measures to improve the situation.

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1 to 1

MARCH 28, 2022

Here’s how to engage and motivate a gigCX workforce that delivers exceptional results. In addition to greater flexibility, gig workers are less restricted by geographic limits, reducing the need for physical infrastructures reduces costs and increases efficiency. Other tips and best practices include: 1.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

From their efforts, we derived four steps on how to get started with introducing new standard work processes for point-of-care staff. Efficiencies gained in human resources and housekeeping can free frontline unit managers and clinical staff to spend more time at the patient’s bedside. Choose a Pilot Unit Within the Organization.

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Tom Spencer

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Having a filter to deal with these decisions can increase our awareness of the decision making process, and allow us to make decisions more efficiently and effectively. You should establish metrics that are specific to the scenario, aligned with your goals, and easy to understand or calculate. How to use a decision filter .

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

And, they want metrics. on how to reduce dependencies between teams. (The managers promised certain customers/the market/investors certain deliverables.). Many of these people want to use a tool to plan from the “bottom” (what the teams do) to the top (roadmaps and portfolio). Worse, they want to start with a tool.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2024

In a nutshell, AI automates repetitive tasks and makes predictions thereby increasing efficiency, streamlining the workflow, and improving decision-making. Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change.

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