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

Johanna Rothman

Joanie, a new VP Engineering, joined the company a couple of weeks ago. Her boss, the CEO, wants to know how long it will take engineering to finish all the projects. In contrast, Team 2 started “this” project back in 2018, almost four years ago. Are you still working on this project? Personal WIP.

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

Creating transparency: Value is created when data is made accessible to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner, for example, in manufacturing if data from research and development, engineering and manufacturing is integrated to enable concurrent engineering. 2018, 3 September). Image: Pexels. References. 2016, July 4).

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Driving Digital Transformation in Aerospace & Defense: Recent Technology Trends

Epicflow

Building rocket engines. . The American aerospace manufacturer Rocket Lab has been producing the rocket engines with 3D-printed injectors, pumps, combustion chambers, and main propellant valves. As a result, this engine is light and reliable, which makes it possible to use it for low-cost launches into space. . References.

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Future of Healthcare: Virtual and Augmented Reality

Tom Spencer

Currently engineers, physicians, other healthcare providers, and educators are working to create innovative ways to apply these immersive technologies in order to transform clinical teaching and practice. However, these new tools can assist in maximizing the quality of learning, efficiency of workstreams, and proficiency of patient care.

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Transforming Health Care Delivery to Increase Value - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business

Toward that end, policymakers have introduced value-based payment models that reward quality and efficiency, in contrast with the traditional fee-for-service model, which incentivizes volume. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has said that by 2018 it wants 90 percent of its payments tied to value.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business

could become the world’s largest oil producer in 2018, surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia. These increasingly efficient survivors now represent half of U.S. In fact, 2018 may mark the first year shale producers will be able to fund future expansions of drilling programs through their own cash flow. The soaring U.S.

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Replacing the Sales Funnel with the Sales Flywheel

Harvard Business

The flywheel was used by James Watt over 200 years ago in his steam engine, the invention that powered the Industrial Revolution. It is highly efficient at capturing, storing, and releasing energy. If you want to build a great company in 2018, your customer experience has to be ten times lighter than the competition.

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