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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

During the expo, the attendees will be able to explore real-world solutions to typical PM problems; discover recent technologies, tools, and services; participate in the enlightening discussions of the latest areas of project controls; engage with supply chain organizations; and meet all major project controls professional in one place.

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Why You and Your Clients Will Benefit from the Kanban Approach

Comatch

It is built on concepts used by Toyota and applied to knowledge work rather than purely in automotive industrial plants. If an employee thought Kanban could benefit their workflow, I’d offer them training. The more people began to see the benefits of Kanban, the more invitations to meetings I received. .

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Happy customers are closer than they appear

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The automotive industry has been on a roller coaster ride of profit and loss in recent years. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, automotive sales tumbled in 2020 before surging demand and a global chip shortage sent prices skyrocketing in 2021. We provide onsite free training for our technicians. And we still do it today.

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Employee Burnout: How to Stop the Working Dead Apocalypse

Women in Consulting

At regular meetings, you notice one of your best project managers sitting in the corner with their arms crossed, refusing to take part in the conversation in any way. Poor training. Train your managers: your managers should know that employees may face burnout, because they’re given vague or unclear instructions of what they should do.

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IBM Consulting Interviews: Navigating the IBM GBS Maze

Management Consulted

Those divisions are IT Services, Global Business Services, Outsourcing Services, Training, and Additional Services – because it’s super clear to have an amorphous Additional Services bucket, right? Automotive. IGS has 5 divisions/branches. The division focused on in this article is IBM Global Business Services (IBM GBS).

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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What the company found was that refund and replacement inquiries were most common among industries such as retail, public sector, automotive, and manufacturing. And inquiries about loyalty rewards were common across nearly all industries — retail, public sector, automotive and manufacturing, travel and tourism, insurance, finance.

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How Manufacturers Can Get Faster, More Flexible, and Cheaper

Harvard Business

Meeting customers’ expectations for personalization and customization requires flexibility. There were companies in a wide range of industries, from automotive and industrial equipment manufacturers to oil and gas majors. Optimization through cross-training. Hardly a desirable position.