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Is Stress Killing Productivity? Here's How Leaders Improve Efficiency & Wellbeing

Organizational Talent Consulting

Why you need a workplace stress reduction strategy Managing long-term stress can lower your risk for conditions like heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure, and depression. Take the following six-question survey to determine and benchmark your likelihood of experiencing gratitude. Management Science. The good news?

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow

Do you know your organization’s project management maturity level? If not, it’s high time to change the situation: project management maturity has a direct impact on a company’s competitiveness and business success. . What is project management maturity exactly, and how to define its level?

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How to De-Risk Working with a Freelance Management Consultant

Comatch

More than ever, organizations are using independent experts and freelance management consultants to address critical challenges. In a recent webinar, I addressed some of the typical issues that arise when working with a freelance management consultant. Independent consultants aren’t likely to have benchmark data on hand.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

They discovered that one country was 16% percent more efficient than the average of the rest of the countries: they got the same results in 71 fewer person-hours per month and with 40 fewer people involved each month. One people analytics team in an engineering company was struggling to help develop the company’s managers, for example.

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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business

In combination, business and operating models define and rank the range of options available to operating managers in making their daily business decisions. The first is customer interaction and relationship management, which leverages new and extensive data and analytics platforms to shape relationships and target opportunities.

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. Winning in the future will require a rigorous approach to accessing and managing independent workers. For instance, 40 percent of U.S.

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Managing Risks and Controlling Projects: How Data-Driven Project Management Come in Useful for Multi-Project Environments

Epicflow

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis?