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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. Anderson at Microsoft in 2004. Kanban can be used in marketing, sales, HR, legal services, accounting, procurement, auditing, and more, and it’s a great way of giving individuals a cross-organization look at work. . What is Kanban? My Kanban Experience.

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Oil Patch Problems: Rigs Down 60%, Production Down 3%, $40-$50 Price Doesn't Work

MishTalk

Crude has not hand a monthly close below $40 since mid-2004. But the recent drop toward $40 a barrel and below puts even the most efficient operators in a bind. But break-even prices don’t always give the whole picture of how much money a shale company must spend to pump oil and move it to market. oil prices at $50 a barrel.

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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. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management.

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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 Gap Between Strategy and Execution. Sponsored by the Brightline Initiative. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department.

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Does Customer Prejudice Help Drive the Employment Gap Between White and Black Americans?

Harvard Business

The idea of customer discrimination influencing the labor market stems from the economic theory of taste-based discrimination, or when some individuals prefer not to interact with people from certain demographics. Consumer discrimination in the labor market has not been extensively studied, but other research has borne this out.

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Robo-Journalism Will Produce 1 Billion Web Stories in 2015 (This Isn't One of Them); McJournalism Coming Up

MishTalk

Actually, I do know what it is like to be without a job for an extended period because I was jobless for several years between 2001 and 2004. Wildly efficient robot journalists may offer hope to an industry beset by falling advertising rates and disappearing readers. I started this blog hoping someone would hire me as writer.

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