6 Tactics to Rethink your company's end of the year exercise and more.

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Today at a glance:

• Article: Annual Planning in Uncertain Times

• Post: Rethinking Hiring

• Media: Most Valuable brands in 2022

• Tool: Supercharge Notes with AI

• Framework: Prioritise with MoSCoW

One Article:

6 Tactics for Rethinking Your Company’s End-of-Year Exercise

Many founders are undertaking the ritual of crafting plans for the next calendar year. It’s a time to review and reflect on lessons learned from these past 12 months, with the hopes of turning those insights into action for the next plan period. First Round Review combed through its archives of interviews, notes, and great speakers to provide 6 approaches that can help you plan for the next year.

One Post:

Charlotte Melkert provides an update on why Equalture has launched a new games-based assessment and how hiring and job profiles will change in the next 5 years.Great work by the Equalture team who are learning on the go and rethinking hiring processes.

One Media:

Here are the top 100 most valuable brands in 2022. US and China account for 73 of the 100 brands (50 & 23 respectively) whereas European countries make up 14% of the list.

One Tool:

Turn your long calls into simple and streamlined notes with Supernormal. You can create, record, transcribe, and capture meeting highlights at 20x the speed with this AI too

One Framework:

MoSCow is a prioritisation framework for managing project requirements. It’s one of the simplest methods to evaluate the relative importance of each task. MoSCow should ideally be used in the early phase of a company that doesn’t require significant technical input.

Here are some examples per prioritisation:

1. Must-Have - Security, backend encryption of your data for an app

2. Should Have - Performance improvements, minor bug fixes, or new functionality

3. Could Have - Font or change of colour

4. Would Not Have - Initiatives here are not a priority in the specific time frame and may be part of future decisions

Use MoSCoW before your take on a new project. It’s easy to start and then you can add other frameworks such as Kano Model if you require an impact system.

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