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Why You and Your Clients Will Benefit from the Kanban Approach

Comatch

Work management methods ensure a workplace runs as efficiently as possible. Kanban is a method for managing knowledge work developed by David J. Anderson at Microsoft in 2004. The sales, marketing, and HR teams, for example, used this approach to visualize the workflow and status of ongoing projects. . What is Kanban?

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Great Corporate Strategies Thrive on the Right Amount of Tension

Harvard Business

An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change. The group developed an internal “Get Connected” manifesto that helped guide and leverage the web at IBM.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033. AI wasn’t new at Microsoft.

Company 37
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The U.S. Economy Is Suffering from Low Demand. Higher Wages Would Help

Harvard Business

Are these recent wage increases merely necessary in light of a tightening labor market, or could they start a broader trend that may change our economic growth trajectory? in the United States and Western Europe in 2000 to 2004 to 0.5% This is reflected in slowing growth expectations in many markets. The Economy in 2018.

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How the EMR Is Increasing Innovation and Creativity in Health Care

Harvard Business

Intermountain Healthcare, a system that serves patients in Utah and Idaho, has developed many such guides and is working to embed them into EMR workflows. When blood thinners or insulin are ordered at Virginia Mason, an internally developed program automatically orders the essential lab tests necessary to safely adjust these medications.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business

NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. The emergence of commercial space has also gone hand in hand with an accelerating pace of technology development. It is currently at less than o.5%