Business Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World (via Harvard Business Review) What position can you attain during and after the pandemic? What is your plan for bouncing back? How will your culture and identity change? What new projects do…
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Professional Development – 2020 – Week 15
Business A More Sustainable Supply Chain (via Harvard Business Review) Supply chains are complex in multi-national corporations (MNCs), and often the lowest tiers have poor social, environmental, or worker safety records. The article offers some best practices companies can adopt…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 14
Business Pricing Policies That Protect Your Brand (via Harvard Business Review) Successful brands typically implement unilateral policies that set the minimum resale price (MRP) or minimum allowable price (MAP). By designing, implementing, and enforcing these policies, brands can keep grey-markets…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 13
Business Will Governments Restrict Foreign Access to Pandemic Supplies? (via Harvard Business Review) In times of crisis — the article cites the Great Depression as an analogy — governments become self-interested, which can worsen the problem. Career How to Make…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 12
Business Building a Culture of Experimentation (via Harvard Business Review) “For every experiment that succeeds, nearly 10 don’t — and in the eyes of many organizations that emphasize efficiency, predictability, and ‘winning,’ those failures are wasteful.” Many companies are reluctant…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 11
Business How Medical Nonprofits Set Winning Strategy (via Harvard Business Review) You need to decide what you’ll focus on and what you’ll not focus on How will you fuel progress? Will you focus on research or execution? Decide who you’ll…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 10
Agile How to Estimate Story Points With Multiple Teams (via Mountain Goat Software) Two common mistakes: 1) estimates that don’t reflect the abilities of the teams (i.e., estimator is too far from the work to understand how to size it),…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 9
Agile Tying the Investment Tier Back to Agile Delivery (via Leading Agile) Many transformations start grass-roots (team level) where there’s delivery. How do we scale to the program level (related projects)? Then to the portfolio level (all org efforts)? Then…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 8
Business How Do Consumers Feel When Companies Get Political? (via Harvard Business Review) With the rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) the increasingly political polarization, companies may not be able to dodge picking a side on certain issues such as…
Professional Development – 2020 – Week 7
Agile Is tasking developers with creating detailed estimates a waste of company money? (via LinkedIn) Project management techniques work best when the individual chunks of work are of known size and complexity. Having developers come up with estimates that are…