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

Markovitz Consulting

For example, the global chemical company Chermours used process mining to analyze their order-to-cash process: It took the process mining effort four months to uncover how the actual process was performing (not just what the ERP documentation stated). I’m sure it does more efficient. Gee, that sounds terrific.

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Is There a Shortage of Skilled Workers? My Own Personal Experiences

MishTalk

Given all the media hype about the severe shortage of skills in the US and the need for more education and training, inquiring minds may be interested in alternative views. That job ended when Chase and Chemical merged. Perhaps 1 out of 100 make some use of their training. My first contract was at Chase.

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Women Need Mindfulness Even More than Men Do

Harvard Business

We are less efficient, less effective, and more likely to make mistakes when we multitask. Research attributes this to both structural and chemical differences in their brains. A better question is whether women should be proud of their multitasking. Research does have an answer to this question. And the answer is no.

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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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How the Internet of Things Can Prepare Cities for Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Using the most current technology could help them more efficiently and safely address these costly disasters. Sensors can also be used to detect the presence of harmful gases or chemicals emanating from a storage tank, factory, or plant in the path of destruction.

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What to Do When Work Stress (Literally) Makes You Sick

Harvard Business

In response, they release hormones and chemicals to speed up our heart rate, increase blood pressure and stimulate our muscles. What was your train of thought at that time? They communicate to each other, as they do when we’re anxious, becoming more efficient in the process. Were you writing an email to a difficult client?

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Facing strict regulation on chemical release and competition from flowers from Africa, the Dutch flower industry developed a closed-loop system that grows flowers hydroponically in greenhouses, lowering risk of infestation and reducing the use of fertilizers and pesticides. In 2005, they launched a U.S. Attracting and Engaging Employees.

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