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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

As we’ve stepped into 2024, it’s high time to learn what trends in project management are expected to shape the domain in the near future. In the era of constant transformation, project managers and business leaders should stay informed of the tendencies that will impact the way they work on projects. How does this help?

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Best Business Books 2018: Strategy

Strategy+Business

In Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied, management professor Howard Yu uses history to lay out a path for resisting disruption. And these key questions are answered with clarity and verve in this year's best business books on strategy.

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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

Talent management decisions can be viewed as a more subtle nuance to culture change because decisions are influenced by explicitly stated criteria and unstated value priorities. 2018, May 23). Management Science, 60 (6), 1452-1469. Culture Lever #6 : How leaders recruit, promote, and excommunicate. Sustainability. Harris, J.

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How will AI transform strategic planning?

Tom Spencer

At the CES 2018 held in Las Vegas, Steve Koenig , Senior Director of Market Research at Consumer Technology Association, presented on tech trends to watch. Outlining the big picture, he described 2018 as the beginning of the “ data era of consumer tech”, with the heralds of that coming age being 5G, AI, and AR. How do we get there?

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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

The main differentiator is that while consumer fitness trackers can assist individuals in keeping in peak physical condition, medical wearables have the ability to detect life threatening diseases, provide pain relief, manage chronic illnesses, and collect a variety of biometric data. References: “Wearable Medical Devices Market Trends.”

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Using Experiments to Launch New Products

Harvard Business

More than ever before, managers are using large-scale randomized controlled trials (i.e., To see how this can be valuable, consider how Uber rolled out its Express Pool service in 2018. Top-line metrics like revenue and sales don’t tell the whole story. Martyn Goddard/Getty Images. experiments) to guide decisions.

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Why Character Matters in Leadership

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from workplace studies on the benefits of character suggests that leaders with high character scores outperform others on company performance metrics. Defining moments: When managers must choose between right and right. A blind passion for results damages a leader's reputation and the organization. References: Badaracco, J.