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Drones Help New Industries Take Flight

Tom Spencer

This post explores three areas where drones are currently being used, the data they generate, and how they are being used to increase efficiency and maximise profits. Drones are a useful tool for farmers, and the agricultural drone market is expected to be worth $1 billion by 2024 ( Margaritoff, 2018 ). Agriculture.

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Harmony & Rythm in Organizational Development

Harmonious Workplaces

New Beginning, Making Gains: Attitude change and acceptance take hold as people perceive benefits (improved efficiency, new skills, better service) and celebrate successes. As conditions move from the old to the new ways, confusion and questions may arise, but this paves the way to new beginnings. Bridges, W. Bridges Transition Model.

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Does Your Team Hoard Information?

Harmonious Workplaces

Increased Efficiency and Productivity: Knowledge sharing helps avoid duplication of effort and allows for more efficient processes. The support for LMX is that the ingroups experience less turnover, higher job satisfaction, and better OCBs (Robbins & Judge, 2018). Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38 (4), 558–591.

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Little’s Law for Any Kind of Product Development: How to Learn How Long Your Work Will Take

Johanna Rothman

In contrast, Team 2 started “this” project back in 2018, almost four years ago. I'm also a fan of working in flow efficiency , so the team can finish more features faster. In addition, when managers reward flow efficiency, people tend to collaborate more, not just cooperate. Personal WIP. Are you multitasking?

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

This method is widely used online to accurately and efficiently target customers and sell customised products and services. Additionally, in order for the consulting industry to continue adding value for clients, consultants must learn new skills to stay ahead of the digital disruption ( Consultancy UK, 2018 ). 2018, 3 September).

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Agile Transformation: See Your System and Culture, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

The system rewards resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency. That action reinforces solo work as experts, more resource efficiency, not flow efficiency or collaboration. Saying “reward flow efficiency” or “ask people to collaborate” might help small pieces of the system and the culture.

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Disruption and distraction: Y2K, GDPR and Brexit

The Source

Clients are engaged in all manner of contingency planning, delaying or bringing forward key decisions, efficiency savings and much else besides. Since the referendum in June 2016, the process has acted as a vortex, sucking in energy from across sectors. In this respect Brexit-related work contains echoes of other recent upheavals.