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Research: Why People Really Buy Upcycled Products

Harvard Business

Researchers who analyzed consumer feedback from Etsy discovered that what consumers value most about upcycled products is not their sustainability but their creativity.

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Feedback Loops Help When to Centralize or Decentralize Product-Based Decisions

Johanna Rothman

Here, I assume you want multiple releases for your product. That means you will make different product-based decisions at different times. Product owners might want to change the roadmap as often as every 1-10 days, but I don't see that often. This is where the agile team and the product value team might need to collaborate.

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Purpose vs. Product: Differentiate Your Strategy from Tactics (Portfolio & Roadmaps)

Johanna Rothman

Product strategy, to define the value the products offer to the product's users/customers. In addition, you might need these product strategies too: Product architecture, to shepherd the technical value of a product. Division 1 and Division require different product strategies. Why that often?

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Middle Management Guideline: Only Plan for as Long As Your Management Can Commit

Johanna Rothman

Later, she used these ideas for the product roadmaps. The post Middle Management Guideline: Only Plan for as Long As Your Management Can Commit appeared first on Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant. But she could still focus on small chunks of value for now. Her managers met once a month to re-evaluate the project portfolio.

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Leadership Tip #13: For Innovation, Remove at Least One Policy or Procedure a Week

Johanna Rothman

As the organization changes (both products and tooling), people might not make those mistakes again. About a decade ago, an organization suffered three consecutive bad deployments to production. Finally, one large change broke the production server. What about guidelines? Or have those same risks.

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Consulting Networking: 6 Best Practice Guidelines

Tom Spencer

What can inspire a more productive conversation with a consultant or recruiter is helping them understand how you might be an asset to the firm. As a result, you are more likely to have a productive networking experience that results in: Insightful information collection. Emphasize Your Potential to the Firm. Conclusion.

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Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Brimstone Consulting

When designing a hybrid workplace, communication guidelines are critical to creating an effective and thriving workplace. Those organizations still in the design phase have the opportunity to avoid the mistake of not creating communication guidelines. We worked with the organization to establish clear communication guidelines.