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"Process Mining"? Sounds Like a Waste of Time.

Markovitz Consulting

Fortunately, now there’s a host of companies providing process mining software that will eliminate all these problems and set you on a smooth glide path to success. The software captures information and transactions as they flow through the company, and makes visible how long that (computer-mediated) work takes.

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Bots Won’t Just Help Us Buy Stuff. They’ll Help Us Become Better Versions of Ourselves

Harvard Business

This twinned production thermostat could be instrumented to help predict the most cost-effective ways to heat critical chemicals in a production process. The next step is obvious: Enable digital twins — or triplets, quadruplets, septuplets — to help GE’s human assets become more productive and efficient, too.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

Former Walmart.com CEO Carter Cast recalled to me, “Back in the early 2000s there were many things we wanted to accomplish with our online business but had a hard time doing because of the perception that we’d interfere with the well-oiled efficiency of the physical stores. This didn’t happen overnight. billable hours).

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 4: What Does “Agile” Mean?

Johanna Rothman

Let's return to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development , what I call the “Agile Manifesto.” We've had a software “crisis” even before I graduated from college, 1977. Too many people thought software projects were the same as construction projects. We could get the software projects right.

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Consultant Marketing Trust Story

Jerry Fletcher

Slowly but surely I’ve added equipment, a Logitech Brio Camera, a mike stand and Fifine Microphone, a Sony walkaround camera, upgraded Camtasia software, and even some audio switching capability. Facts: There is a brain chemical called Oxytocin which under lies our propensity to trust. Little did I know. Dates on hold.

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The Crazy Lives of Consultants: is it just me.

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

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