Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement. The article also highlights the risks of foregoing vacation in terms of impulsiveness, poor concentration, and negativity. First, make the business case. Don’t ignore it.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

At EY, where some of us work, we have developed a tool for social media analytics called SMAART that is able to understand sentiment within consumer and influencer groups. Although projects have unique features, there are many similarities between process improvement, system change, M&A, and reorganization projects.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

These self-starters need no external cues to help a co-worker learn a new skill; offer suggestions for process improvement; recruit a new employee; or volunteer for an assignment. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. But can pushing too hard to create “good soldiers” lead to unintended consequences? Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

In the pre-digital era, product and service development was usually conducted by experts working inside firms or through expert vendors hired by those firms. In the specialist mode, companies will create new products and services by pushing the envelope of product performance, with improvements allowed by digital design.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

The transformation office approached the country finance leaders with their findings and made them partners in process improvement for the rest of the subsidiaries. One people analytics team in an engineering company was struggling to help develop the company’s managers, for example.

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Harvard Business

JULY 8, 2016

Entrepreneurs in Chinese industries from animated media to applied medical research said that China’s insistence on domestic standards are resulting in less-ambitious innovation and that the education system is not supporting appropriate talent development. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The tradeoff, however, is that we’ve become so focused on using the technology (as this HBR article points out) that we spend far less time listening to individual human stories. Let’s develop an up-front “technology ROI” that measures workflow impact, inefficiency, hassle and impact on physician and nurse well-being.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 29, 2018

For example: Constant display changes that take hours to set up and break down — hours that could have been spent on much-higher-value work like helping customers and trying out process improvements. Career paths. Today’s take-home is important to workers — but so is tomorrow’s.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

The process improves farm productivity and reduces input waste by using analytics to facilitate data-driven farming practices for small-scale farmers. As they see that developing mobile apps alone cannot feed Africa, many will turn to farming as a business.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

While Medicare has led the development of bundles in the U.S., HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Business development, contracting, and finance personnel are also required.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

Despite spending twice what other developed nations spend on a per capita basis for health care, the United States has a longstanding trend of having lower life expectancy, greater prevalence of chronic disease, and overall poorer health outcomes.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

While experimentation is focused on learning strategic or process improvements, it is equally important to manage the pace of learning through apprenticeship. ” Every week, employees would have a brief development discussion with their leader on how they were progressing on learning their skills.

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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

This articles outlines how to build a company wiki: Understand if and why you need a wiki Define the goals for your wiki Choose the best tool to house your wiki Define the structure Start creating and compiling content Keep your wiki used and up to date Why do I need a wiki for my company? You need a wiki.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Write the blog posts that help customers help themselves such as “How to do X-common-goal in our app,” or “How to set up x feature” Bonus: these articles will make your sales people very happy. What not to do. Don’t get distracted by shiny things. What to do. Be intentional about what you measure.

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Let’s figure it out in the article. . Now, let’s examine why it’s important to develop a business case document. . This section describes the roles of employees responsible for developing a business case and describes their responsibilities. This is when a business case document is required. should the project scope be reduced?

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 24, 2020

And through both of those processes, I served as an Operator, and then also as a Project Manager, and then a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt. I started with an article, then a five-dollar eBook, and then $199 you know strategy workbook. I want to go in there and solve the problems.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

firms took offshoring a step further and began contracting design and product development activities overseas around the turn of the millennium when China joined the World Trade Organization and Asian producers started investing in major capacity improvements. By the time that substantial U.S.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 2, 2018

But you must also have the right data — lots of unbiased data, over the entire range of inputs for which one aims to develop the predictive model. While the data science team that developed the predictive model may have done a solid job cleaning the training data, it can still be compromised by bad data going forward.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Platform companies invest in virtuous cycles to solve problems; more-traditional firms invest in process improvement to solve problems. ”We didn’t think a recommendation engine was necessary at the time,” said one of the company’s web developers. ” So they did.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

While consumer spending has proven resilient, with same-store retail sales rising 6% YOY in April , most multinational corporations are developing contingency plans to mitigate risks to their businesses and reassessing the country’s role in their global market portfolio and supply chains. Renegotiating NAFTA.

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