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(Value Stream) Map Your Way to a Better Post-Covid Future

Markovitz Consulting

But if you want to thrive in the post-COVID world, you’ve got to start working on operational improvements now. Here are three examples of how their maps have helped them see into their processes more clearly and make changes to become more efficient. COVID travel restrictions made those customer visits impossible.

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The Reason Air Travel Is Terrible and So Few Airlines Are Profitable

Harvard Business

Finally, they would take over the international air travel market. ” Airlines are also pursuing efficiency in ways customers don’t see so easily, such as reducing the number of short-haul flights they offer and centralizing passengers in large airports. And there is a sense in which poor regulation is to blame.

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How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

Harvard Business

In much the same way, nobody calls a travel agency to book a simple flight anymore. So a lot of people were surprised when it launched a brick and mortar book store , but as Apple has shown with its highly successful retail operation, there’s a big advantage to having stores staffed with well trained people.

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Conversation with North Highland

Tom Spencer

Tom: North Highland offers a range of solutions including Data and Analytics, Managed Services, Operating Efficiency Ratio, People and Change, Professionalising IT, Social Insights Lab and Strategy and Advisory. Additionally, we offer courses in consulting essentials, business analysis, negotiation, and more.

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15 Best Business Podcasts for Independent Consultants

Tsavo Neal

Podcasts make amazing listening material for commutes, travel, and listening for when you don’t feel like taking out a book. The show also features experts providing advice on topics such as insurance, contracts, travel, use of LinkedIn, and daily routines. Magazine Contributor John Nemo! The results were astonishing.

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The Lessons I Learned From Peter Drucker

Tom Spencer

It continued over the course of a lifetime, fuel added to the fire by envy, competition and academic success. According to my aunt, who accepted the Medal of Freedom on his behalf (because at that point he was too sick to travel), Drucker was also unbelievably embarrassed that “ management by objective ” had been used to justify the Iraq War.

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Robot Taxis Starting 2016 in Japan; Self-Driving Trucks on German Autobahn; Millions of Truck and Taxi Driver Jobs will Vanish in US by 2025

MishTalk

Autonomous taxis will operate in test mode next year with a goal of full production by 2020. According to the project organizers, the cabs will drive a distance of about three kilometers (two miles), and part of the course will be on major avenues in the city. It's just a test, but it won't take five years for live operation.