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

Epicflow

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Five Ways to Spur Lean in the Office

Markovitz Consulting

If meeting takt time is not an issue—for example, in closing the books at the end of the month— then measure and benchmark the time it takes to perform those tasks and challenge the team to figure out how to do them faster. Factory floor workers at Cambridge Engineering, an industrial HVAC manufacturer in St. Obsess over quality.

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Welcome to new readers plus a few questions answered

Management Consulted

For my new readers, here are some recommended and popular articles for you to browse: Management Consulting and the Consulting Industry 101. It showed me the “benchmark” that I need to meet in order to be successful in business. In future weeks, I plan to release case studies, interview guides, and the like.

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

For example, internet-of-things sensor applications are envisioned to deliver a wide range of services , from smart water to industrial controls to e-health. To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. trillion by 2020, and $3.5

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How to manage knowledge in a consulting firm

Killer Consultant

How did this benchmark value get calculated exactly? You can make your consultants fill out “post engagement forms” and “case studies” and “one pagers” all you want. Works especially good in a boutique firm with tight focus on industries / topics. Oftentimes, the documents tell only half the story. This is not the Matrix.

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4 Mistakes That Kill Crowdsourcing Efforts

Harvard Business

One author of the Harvard Business School Case Study on Threadless observes that, based on numbers of applications, the odds of winning admission to Harvard are higher than the chance of winning a Threadless contest. Each winner receives just $2,500.

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7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process

Harvard Business

” Left unchecked, biases can also shape a company or industry’s culture and norms, says Iris Bohnet, director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of What Works: Gender Equality by Design. Case Study #1: Work to understand biases and set diversity goals.