Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

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?

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization. However, it's crucial to have a consistent and efficient method for tracking progress.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Many business leaders are fond of the spurious Peter Drucker quote that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” While effective metrics are essential for focusing attention and achieving results, they can also overpower better sense. But these metrics can become tyrants.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

However, higher accruals can reflect either innocuous aspects of certain business models, such as in the construction industry, where the time lag between earning income and realizing cash is long, or that growing firms retain higher working capital to meet greater current and future customer demand.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2016

Not long ago, a manager asked me to name the most important work-life benefit for employees. Too many managers resort to measuring face time instead of actual work performance, but they rarely admit it. When managers do so, they free employees to arrange their work lives so that they can be the most effective.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 25, 2018

Now, more than ever, you’re likely to be running a team, managing a project or deciding on your own agenda as a free agent. He designed the Model T to be efficient to build. Social media might offer metrics that tell you if you’re moving toward what you hope to produce, but don’t confuse the map with the territory.

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