Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

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.

Industry 52

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Peter Stark

AUGUST 11, 2018

Companies in our Best of the Best Benchmark from our Employee Opinion Surveys rate almost 20 points higher than organizations in our Overall Benchmark regarding their ideas and opinions counting at work. Include frontline employees in discussions about new products or services that meet customer demands.

Benchmarking 30

Benchmarking Survey Culture Meeting 30

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Add in speeches, training programs, TV programs, online-products, coaches, yoga, and the like, self-help is a $10 billion industry per year , and that’s just in the U.S. Myth 2: We get better by benchmarking ourselves against others. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. You and Your Team Series.

Benchmarking 44

Benchmarking Comparison Research Sports 44

1 to 1

JULY 29, 2022

Detecting and understanding customer intent can give brands clarity into what a customer is trying to do beyond what they are saying or clicking on, whether it’s an upsell opportunity, a chance to deepen the customer relationship, increase customer retention, enhance a product or service, or something else.

Data 29

Data Apparel Automotive Balance Sheet 29

Peter Stark

MAY 4, 2017

Create Benchmarks. The CEO and VP or HR will approve the budget that will enable the company to administer an Employee Opinion Survey, Customer Satisfaction Survey, or a 360 Leadership Development Assessment. It is the job of HR to help develop a performance management system that works. Provide Leadership Skills Training.

Culture 29

Culture Survey Benchmarking Leadership 29

Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Networks subtly tell us we aren’t good enough with over 15 minutes of commercials per hour telling us how we can improve our lives if only we had their products. O pportunities – Get involved in learning opportunities: How can you develop your skills and talents to do the above? Enroll today.

How To 115

How To Media eBook Benchmarking 115

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

After he graduated from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), he developed the idea that companies would become more successful if they called on someone outside of their organization to offer expert, unbiased advice. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. Product and Service Innovation. Consumer Products.

Interviews 181

Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

While there’s less buzz around business-to-business markets, these innovations are changing the game in B2B as well, even in old-line industries selling what might be considered commodity products. The service provides benchmarks and insights to ensure sustainable, cost-effective improvements in blast performance. Insight Center.

B2B 28

B2B Chemicals Engineering Data 28

Confessions of a Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2018

Leadership Development: Organizations often don’t have the skills internally to make a real difference around leadership development. Generic ‘sheep dip’ management development programmes (labelled ‘cheque book development’ – because they require zero involvement by the employer) don’t cut the mustard.

Talent 40

Talent Case Interview Engineering Interviews 40

Harvard Business

JANUARY 31, 2018

Having worked in HR at a large banking corporation and in strategic HR consulting, I’ve seen the effects of learning and development on career mobility — and what leads people to let it fall by the wayside. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. Set a golden benchmark. Get synchronous. Sabina Nawaz.

Benchmarking 28

Benchmarking Course Development Study 28

Rick Conlow

DECEMBER 14, 2019

You have to train them to problem-solve and become solution focused. The best do this and their employee engagement and productivity soars. Do you want to benchmark your career with the habits of highly successful people? Here are two reasons to do it. There isn’t enough time. Why not ask? “I made a mistake.”

Management 54

Management Benchmarking Leadership Training 54

Consulting Matters

AUGUST 15, 2019

You started your own soccer training camp, you know, for all the younger kids in your high school to help them get to where you were. I need a training. Why do you think that training is such a go-to solution? I probably would, but I don’t know that the product would have been as great as it could have been.

Interviews 159

Interviews Sports Training Training 159

Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

These specialists usually have some valuable experience, sometimes through formal training (MBA etc.) They support you in making fundamental decisions regarding your product, your service, your pricing or your target market. They identify potential to improve results by looking at your numbers and comparing it to benchmarks.

Small Business 52

Small Business Cash Flow Consulting ROI 52

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Innovation is critical in a knowledge economy — driving growth, new products, and new methods of delivering value to customers. When risks do present themselves, they develop plans to minimize the risk and identify where it is needed most. Identify, document and plan for risks as part of developing strategic alternatives.

Development 28

Development Leadership Trends Study 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. While the execution of a conventional strategy lends itself to linear progress and clear benchmarks, innovation often proceeds by S-curves , moving at a slow crawl until it explodes at an exponential rate. Consider the case of Google Glass.

ROI 28

ROI Operations Enterprise Research 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

To develop a BDN, you work backwards, or right to left, from the agreed investment objectives and the expected benefits, and map the required changes to structures, processes, work practices, and how staff would need to work through to the new technology necessary to enable and sustain those changes. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Tools 28

Tools Construction System Retail 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Develop a network of trusted peers. The antidote is to develop a trusted peer network that can provide you with honest information about going rates and terms. This strategy doesn’t work for negotiating a job salary , which happens once and then benchmarks you for as long as you’re with that employer.

Benchmarking 28

Benchmarking Nonprofit Development Media 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2016

These executives spanned functional areas and industries including consumer goods, IT, telecom, and industrial products, services, and materials. They assure the firm has the right knowledge and skills by: Aggressively training staff. Training and sensitizing stakeholders on cultural differences. laura schneider FOR HBR.

Company 28

Company Tools Ethics Culture 28

MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Productivity growth in advanced economies has been on a declining trend since well before the onset of the financial crisis, and the workforce is already shrinking in several countries as the population ages. This would require the growth rate to exceed the pre-crisis average for several years. Financial cycles differ from business cycles.

Balance Sheet 74

Balance Sheet Financial Banking Policies 74

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Leaders with a passion for developing employees’ skills, and those who understand the need to transfer knowledge among generations of workers, know how important it is to link in-house education to strategic planning. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Behave as if developing and retaining knowledge is truly important.

Development 28

Development Education Engineering Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Assess candidates against industry benchmarks, valid indicators of executive potential, and the CEO profiles you’ve developed. CEO succession is an ongoing process designed to develop the talent pipeline — not an isolated event. Become intimately familiar with the bench and their potential. Do you know who they are?

Leadership 28

Leadership Talent Turnaround Benchmarking 28

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. Q: What are some of the institutional barriers to developing an outside-in orientation? Developing the Global Leader.

Education 30

Education Real Estate Research Company 30

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But so is the trepidation: as with all new “products,” there is potential for misuse. We trained our algorithms to predict the overall crime rate for the defendents eligible for bail. Caution is merited: the underlying data used to train an algorithm may be biased, reflecting a history of discrimination.

Tools 28

Tools Policies Data System 28

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. The articles — “Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality” (1987) and “What Does ‘Product Quality’ Really Mean?

Management 32

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 32