Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

In the first phase of our study, we enrolled 24 “knowledge workers” — managers, architects, and designers — to spend six days, over a two-week period, in a highly controlled work environment at the Syracuse Center of Excellence. What should leaders and building managers take away from these findings?

Productivity 36

Productivity Research Chemicals Energy 36

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

Orica used the data to build pre-blast modeling and post-blast measurement and analysis, packaged in a user-friendly online system called Blast IQ. Orica is now codifying the decision logic of the most experienced blasting managers through predictive modeling to serve up personalized recommendations on demand.

B2B 28

B2B Chemicals Engineering Data 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2017

When a disaster strikes, federal, state, and local governments need a coordinated strategy, accessible data, and a skilled workforce to manage the response. Ineffective communication channels, overburdened response systems, satellite disruptions, and internet blackouts further impede people from getting the help they need. trillion.

Government 28

Government Transportation Data System 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2018

Managers often criticize sales reps for losing a deal, but rarely for pricing a deal too low, so reps learn to concede on price in order to close the deal. Track the results through regular reviews that flag areas where frontline staff might game the system. Bad Incentives Undercut the Best Pricing Strategies.

B2B 34

B2B Survey Company Sales 34

Management Consulted

AUGUST 28, 2013

Booz, who could very well possibly be considered the father of management consulting as a career. It is one of the original “white-shoe” firms, accredited with being the origination of the management consulting profession. Most recently, Booz & Company acquired Management Engineers , based in Dusseldorf, Germany. Automotive.

Interviews 181

Interviews Culture Company Case Interview 181

Management Consulted

JANUARY 18, 2015

Headquarters: Chicago, IL Employees: 3,200 Locations: 58 offices, 40 countries Chief Executive: Johan Aurik, Managing Partner and Chairman of the Board Revenue: $1B Consulting Engagement Cost: $400K. 1935 – Tom Kearney becomes managing partner. Named fifth-largest broad-based multidisciplined management consultancy in the U.S.;

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Case Interview McKinsey 100

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Records management. Either a Global Practice Leader, Co-leader, Senior Managing Director or Global CEO lead each of these practices. Interim Management. Securities Litigation & Risk Management. Petroleum & Chemicals. A mentor/performance manager is assigned to each intern as well. Latin America.

Interviews 100

Interviews Culture Consulting Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

That is, they do for creative problem-solving what catalysts do in chemical processes: they dissolve barriers and accelerate progress down more productive pathways. ” Scholarly publications like the Journal of Management Studies put out calls for new research that could inspire enterprise-level change.

Apparel 30

Apparel Chemicals Journal Agile 30

Harvard Business

JUNE 17, 2016

Their value is supported by a system of distinctive capabilities, aligned with an entire portfolio of offerings. In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells.

Company 28

Company Engineering Apparel Energy 28

MishTalk

MAY 21, 2014

That job ended when Chase and Chemical merged. I was on a project at US Bank in Minneapolis involving a merger or sale of a Piper Jeffrey trading system. Mike "Mish" Shedlock [link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. My first contract was at Chase.

Engineering 77

Engineering Banking Education Training 77

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The industry breakdowns were determined using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). Inadequate processes.

Telecommunications 28

Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate Survey 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.

Telecommunications 33

Telecommunications Survey Biotechnology Industry 33

MishTalk

JANUARY 1, 2014

According to the study, coal burning, industrial pollution and secondary inorganic aerosol, a catch-all term for inorganic particulates formed as a product of complex chemical reactions among pollutants, account respectively for 18 per cent, 25 per cent and 26 per cent of the air pollution at large. pollutants.

Study 73

Study Travel Chemicals Energy 73

Confessions of a Consultant

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Yet when it comes to candidate selection, many managers are ill prepared to make a decision which impacts an organization to a much greater extent. While no system is 100% objective – having this ‘guideline’ considerably reduces the subjectivity of decision-making in the selection process. But the Hamster seemed very nervous.

Talent 40

Talent Case Interview Interviews Tools 40

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Many will ask about the gaps in the system that prevented that. In some countries there are safeguards in place that stop sufficient quantities of key chemicals being sold at any one time, or that require shops to report purchases to security authorities.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Travel Report Media 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. Eastman Kodak Company and IBM completed an agreement hiring IBM to design, build and manage a new state-of-the-art data center for Kodak in Rochester, NY under the brand name Integrated Systems Solutions (ISSC).

IBM GBS 203

IBM GBS Interviews Consulting Case Interview 203

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

During my years at OSHA, where I served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor from 2009 through the beginning of 2017, I received several reports of safety system failures at DuPont facilities. The reality is that virtually all workplace injuries are preventable, and safety management and operational excellence are intimately linked.

Operations 56

Operations Chemicals Metrics System 56

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

But just four months into his new job, as a business unit leader at a large specialty chemicals and plastics manufacturer, he was struggling with the challenges of handling a global business with more than 3000 employees. The study also looked at relative levels of support for executives vs. more junior managers. Why dangerous?

Turnaround 28

Turnaround Chemicals Study Company 28

MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Though most European nations have been slow to welcome more than a few Syrian refugees, the well-known preferential treatment Syrians receive within the German and Swedish asylum system has turned their passports into desired accessories for other immigrants who otherwise would not be likely qualify as refugees.

Chemicals 28

Chemicals Government Hotels Travel 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

Study 28

Study Efficiency Productivity Operations 28

Consulting Matters

JANUARY 23, 2020

While there are many systemic reasons that I can pinpoint for this challenge such as the reduced headcount, higher pressure for short-term numbers, expectations of 24/7 connectivity, the net result is all the same. ” Or as former Merrill Lynch managing director Roseann Palmieri says, “I’m at the table. I made it it.

Operations 218

Operations Travel Chemicals System 218

Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

Part 2 was why we need managers. If you haven't read Weinberg's Quality Software Management series, or McConnell's Rapid Development , never mind Smith and Reinertsen's Developing Products in Half the Time , you might not realize how early the agile approaches started. I read Fast Cycle Time when I program-managed for a client.

Agile 66

Agile Software Construction Productivity 66

Management Consulted

DECEMBER 11, 2013

4 years later, Sogeti acquired both CAP, its major European competitor, and Gemini Computer Systems. Gemini Consulting was formed in 1991 with the integration of management consulting firms, United Research and The MAC Group. Then in 1970, Sogeti diversified into consulting and outsourcing services. Random, right? Industries.

Capgemini 192

Capgemini Interviews Consulting Accenture 192

MishTalk

AUGUST 14, 2014

Pharmaceuticals and medical equipments do not fall under international sanctions but the country is facing shortages of drugs for the treatment of 30 illnesses including cancer, heart and breathing problems, thalassemia and multiple sclerosis (MS) because Iran is not allowed to use the international payment systems.

Pharmaceuticals 75

Pharmaceuticals Chemicals Report Policies 75

Harvard Business

AUGUST 30, 2018

Our brain’s attentional system is programmed to respond to anything that’s pleasurable, threatening, or novel. We even have a novelty bias , wherein our brain is flooded with a pleasure chemical, dopamine, whenever we focus on something new. Humans are hardwired for distraction.

Strategy 43

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Chemicals 43

Harvard Business

JULY 20, 2016

The systems we build grow and evolve over time, with a messiness and complexity that almost borders on the organic. This kind of approach, such as what physicists might do when they write a single equation to explain a large system’s behavior, can sometimes work. What do biologists do?

Construction 28

Construction System Software Chemicals 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

Chan School of Public Health, about the major challenges of local sourcing, how companies can manage them, and what food supply chains will look like in the future. So investing in a tracking system is essential. I recently spoke to Professor John Quelch, who teaches at Harvard Business School and at Harvard’s T.H.

Case Study 28

Case Study Case Studies Operations Productivity 28

Consulting Matters

JANUARY 22, 2020

If you think about how we've been trained in medicine, most of our emphasis has been on managing disease once we identify it. And or course in the standard of care we do lifestyle modification, and then after that we give you usually some medication to start managing the sugars. It's disease management. Dr. Pati: Yes.

Interviews 207

Interviews Exercises System Tools 207

Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

At Facebook’s AI lab, they’ve built a deep learning system capable of answering simple questions to which it had never previously been exposed. At the beginning of this year, another Google deep learning system defeated one of the best players of Go—the world’s most complex board game. Deep Learning.

Training 28

Training Training Software System 28

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2016

Let’s unpack what it means for the energy system. I spoke with Cristin Lyon, the Partner and Practice Lead for Grid Transformation for management consulting firm Scott Madden. But just looking at these big commitments, they’ll clearly reverberate through governments and business in six key ways. must lead on renewables.

Energy 29

Energy Government Efficiency Chemicals 29

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It’s not yet clear what Trump’s election means for issues that impact companies’ efforts to manage environmental and social issues. First, evidence of a radically altered climate system has become crystal clear. One energy hog, the IT sector, has managed to level off energy use in data centers.

Energy 28

Energy Chemicals Banking Financial 28

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

JANUARY 29, 2010

Airlines call this "yield management." All major airlines utilize central reservation systems (owned by various airlines) to fill available seats. The systems are known as Apollo, Sabre, WorldSpan and Galileo. Air ticket pricing is complex and unpredictable, and driven by competition, demand, and inventory.

Consulting 40

Consulting Airlines Hotels Sales 40

The Crazy Lives of Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

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Travel 45

Travel Consulting Fashion Hotels 45

Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2017

We now have three years’ worth of reports in hand, and our analysis , published in the Academy of Management Journal, shows that giant multinational corporations often have little idea where their raw materials come from. Apple implemented a third-party auditing system and has parted ways with dozens of smelters and refiners.

Productivity 30

Productivity Company Pharmaceuticals Survey 30

MishTalk

AUGUST 28, 2013

Memories of Colin Powell’s now discredited presentation to the UN before the Iraq invasion on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction remain raw in the US system, no more so than in the intelligence community. link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

Chemicals 72

Chemicals Government Sales Financial 72

Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management. The industry breakout was done using eight major sectors (similar to those in the Global Industry Classification Standard system): Consumer Discretionary (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

Telecommunications 28

Telecommunications Biotechnology Survey Healthcare 28