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AI-Powered Clean Tech: Transforming Business Operations

Tom Spencer

Data Management and Analytics Consulting firms can assist companies to develop robust strategies for data management to support AI-powered initiatives in the renewable energy space. Consultants can help develop risk mitigation strategies, including robust security measures, privacy protocols, and transparent algorithms.

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13 Difficulties that Define a Manager’s Destiny

Rick Conlow

Managers are paid to move the needle and achieve department goals. I have been amazed at how many struggle with executing company strategy or department initiatives. At one company it took 2 1/2 hours with twenty-one managers to clarify the Senior VP’s stated and written goal. Leadership is a high contact sport.

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13 Difficulties that Define a Manager’s Destiny

Rick Conlow

Managers are paid to move the needle and achieve department goals. I have been amazed at how many struggle with executing company strategy or department initiatives. At one company it took 2 1/2 hours with twenty-one managers to clarify the Senior VP’s stated and written goal. Leadership is a high contact sport.

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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business

To avoid this roadblock, successful companies use a more agile strategy that relies on local solutions to capture value quickly, while gradually building the long-term IT and automation architecture. Capturing the digital opportunity is becoming even more of a team sport.

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

Epicflow

The conference will cover a range of topics – emerging technologies, diversity, soft skills development, inspiration for project managers, and more. The event will be of interest to project controls engineers, project leaders/managers, resource managers, change management experts, risk managers, business consultants, and more.

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What Breaking the 4-Minute Mile Taught Us About the Limits of Conventional Thinking

Harvard Business

So the four-minute barrier stood for decades—and when it fell, the circumstances defied the confident predictions of the best minds in the sport. ” Most thinking about strategy, competition, and leadership emphasizes the intricacies of business models: revenues, costs, niches, leverage.

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Excellent Performance From People: Follow the ‘10 Commandments!’

Confessions of a Consultant

The ‘workers’ (like myself) wore blue overalls; the foremen had brown coats; the supervisors were kitted out in white; the management sported double-breasted suits (the fashion at that time). The most effective change managers distinguish between controlling people and controlling results. the level of grumbling was high.

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