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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors. Keeping participant numbers limited to those who are essential to the discussion is crucial for efficiency.

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How to Tame Uncertainty of Research and Development: Tips on Managing R&D Projects

Epicflow

Nevertheless, this doesn’t mean that these projects cannot be successfully managed. Read the article to find out how to cope with the uncertainty in R&D projects and increase the chances of achieving desired outcomes. In addition, changing requirements are commonplace for research and development projects.

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Real-World Examples of AI in Management Consulting

Tom Spencer

This article will explore some of the most notable examples of AI in consulting, including its use in market research, strategy development, and operational optimisation. This can help consultants to identify key market trends, develop more accurate market research reports, and craft more effective marketing strategies.

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4 Tips on Efficient Resource Allocation in a Multi-Project Environment

Epicflow

What do you need to know to allocate resources efficiently in a multi-project environment and utilize them to the full? Let’s figure it out in the article. . Resource Allocation in Project Management: Definition and Importance. What are the benefits of efficient resource allocation? Office politics.

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

I started this series by discussing why managers didn't perceive the value of agile coaches and Scrum Masters in Part 1, resulting in layoffs.) Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. Just look at the manifesto.

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How to Use Flow Metrics to See if Your Economies of Scale Offer Value, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking. See the Wikipedia article.

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Assessing Change Management Effectiveness: Essential Metrics

Epicflow

It may seem the outcomes of effective change management are obvious – if positive transformations have happened, the process was effective. . However, the present-day ever-evolving business environment demonstrates that change management is rather a journey than a destination. Change management performance .

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