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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. The Kanban Board helps us have productive and meaningful conversations and make good decisions and manage the flow. Improved Productivity. What is Kanban? 5) Kaizen / Continuous improvement.

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

MishTalk

So even as rig counts collapsed, production is barely off the highs, at a price that isn't even profitable. 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. oil producer, said in an interview.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. These unpriced natural capital costs are generally internalized until events like floods or droughts cause disruption to production processes or commodity price fluctuation.

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How Companies Are Already Using AI

Harvard Business

IT was using AI to resolve employees’ tech support problems, automate the work of putting new systems or enhancements into production, and make sure employees used technology from approved vendors. What about the automation of the production line? And it wasn’t just to detect a hacker’s moves in the data center.

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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. A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities.

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

Harvard Business

Economic growth has been stuck in low gear for almost a decade now, averaging around 2% a year since 2010 while productivity growth, the key to increasing living standards, has been languishing near historic lows since the financial crisis. The impact of demand on productivity growth is often underappreciated. percentage points.

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