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16 Agency Metrics & Data to Track For a Profitable Business

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As an agency, profitability depends greatly on accurately tracking and understanding your company’s key metrics and data. This includes not just financial metrics, but also operational, sales, and project management data. In this guide, we’ll walk you through 16 key agency metrics and data to know and track to improve your agency’s profitability.

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Importance of Scenario Planning and Analysis in Business

ProjectManager.com

Businesses are always straining to look around the corner and see what the future has in store for them. Being able to prepare for the changes in the market can set up a business to take advantage of these opportunities and grow larger and more profitable. This is called scenario planning. To better position a business to be prepared to respond to the unknown, learn what scenario planning is and what the different types of scenario planning are.

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Improve Product Management to drive Business Agility

Scrum.org

Business agility is similar to the agility we observe at the team level, but it extends across the entire company. It is a Holy Grail many companies try to obtain. Companies want business agility to outperform their competitors. It will allow them to fluently and effortlessly absorb new market trends and opportunities at no additional cost. This blog describes how Business Agility can be achieved with Product Management by moving up on the Org Topologies™ map.

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An Introduction to Project Management

Alan Parker Blog

Projects can and do go horribly wrong. Before we explore how to avoid the pitfalls, here are some sobering statistics. Statistics from [link] We use tried and tested project management techniques and tools to tip the balance between success and failure in our favour (which is 'success', to be on the clear side). What is a Project? I'm sorry to have to do this, but let's quickly start at the beginning because I'm always surprised by how many people get confused about

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The 2nd Generation of Innovation Management: A Survival Guide

Speaker: Chris Townsend, VP of Product Marketing, Wellspring

Over the past decade, companies have embraced innovation with enthusiasm—Chief Innovation Officers have been hired, and in-house incubators, accelerators, and co-creation labs have been launched. CEOs have spoken with passion about “making everyone an innovator” and the need “to disrupt our own business.” But after years of experimentation, senior leaders are asking: Is this still just an experiment, or are we in it for the long haul?

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Velocity in Scrum: How is it Measured and Does it Equal Value?

Scrum.org

Explore the complex relationship between velocity, estimates, and true value in Scrum in this Responsive Advisors Lightning Round. This discussion challenges the conventional use of velocity as a measure of team productivity and touches on alternative methods that emphasize value over speed. We dissect the origins of velocity, its intended purpose, and how it has evolved in modern Scrum practices.

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Manufacturing project management software: Key features

Wrike

Search online for manufacturing project management software and you’ll be served lists of generic tools that aren’t built for manufacturers at all. The reality is that very few of the project management software options out there are actually designed for teams that create and manage physical products. As a result, they rarely do what manufacturers really need them to.