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Prepare Your Facility Relocation Project Team for a Productive Site Assessment

PM Alliance

Among the milestones on the path to a successful move is site selection—where will people and/or operations go? Below are some steps project teams can take to understand what goes into a site assessment and prepare for a productive location visit. Facility relocation projects can be long and complex efforts.

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Why you need a COO or operations manager

Asamby Consulting

Why you need a COO or Operations Manager. Either their operations have grown quite a bit or they are in the midst of growing. Many founders and CEOs ask us this question: Do I need an operations manager? But there are a few questions: Why is it necessary to hire an operations person? We answer with a resounding yes.

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Power of Business Consultants: A Comprehensive Look at the Benefits

Business Consulting Agency

Improved Decision-Making Informed decision-making is a cornerstone of successful business operations. Consultants streamline processes, optimize resource allocation, and identify areas for operational efficiency, translating into tangible financial benefits over time.

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Rethinking Project Management Supply Chain Risks

PM Alliance

A supplier that normally sources and delivers products in a few months may now be more than a year out, simply because they don’t have enough staff to move through the process as quickly as they once did. Providing comprehensive specification documents during the order process can help avoid unwelcome surprises.

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Top Power Skills Every Organizational Consultant Needs

Consulting Matters

It's going beyond what is documented on the org chart and approaching your consultant similarly to a doctor's approach to a patient. It provides mission and purpose, brand, vision, goals, desired customer experience, products, and service offerings. A good doctor knows human anatomy. A good org consultant knows organizational anatomy.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Some trace agile methodologies all the way back to Francis Bacon’s articulation of the scientific method in 1620. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes.

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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business

The mission of enabling data analytics in today’s enterprise is hobbled by the lack of the requisite skills in the marketplace, including: advanced statistics/mathematics, new analytics methodologies, advanced systems analysis, business fundamentals, regulatory and legal understanding, and general IT technical and data architecture skills.

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