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

Markovitz Consulting

Here are three examples of how their maps have helped them see into their processes more clearly and make changes to become more efficient. Sample development The dress maker designs dresses in the US and uses contract factories in Asia for manufacturing. Originally posted 9/29/20 in Industry Week magazine.

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The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways

Harvard Business

To help organizations meet today’s challenges, managers must move from: Directive to instructive: When robots driven by artificial intelligence (AI) do more tasks like finish construction or help legal professionals more efficiently manage invoices , there will be no need for a supervisor to direct people doing such work.

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7 Key Differences Between Managers and Leaders

Clarity Consultants

In a book excerpted in the Wall Street Journal , Alan Murray explains that while leadership and management often go hand-in-hand, today’s knowledge economy requires the inspiration and purpose-driven vision that can only come from true leaders, not just efficiency-focused managers. So what separates a leader from a manager?

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Social media is good … newsletters are better … here are 8 reasons why

Rod Burkert

Social media can be incredibly efficient. And I am only on Twitter to get practice development ideas from sources that I can transfer to a BVFLS setting. Craig Mod wrote this in an article for WIRED magazine: We simply cannot trust the social networks, or any centralized commercial platform. You can get more details here.

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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business

And many platforms today, such as 50-year-old MasterCard, were started back when a browser was someone thumbing through magazines at the local newsstand. But they also face significant risk from startups that use new technologies to operate more-powerful, more-efficient, and more-scalable platforms.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

In the meantime, Marsh & McLennan was creating Mercer; in 1975, Mercer was developed as the human resources consulting arm of Marsh & McLennan. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. Aviation, Aerospace, and Defense.

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Conversation with North Highland

Tom Spencer

Founded in 1992, North Highland is an employee-owned global management consulting firm that has been named as a Best Firm to Work For every year since 2007 by Consulting Magazine. Please read the edited transcript of my communication with Jennifer and Cheryl below. Where does North Highland do the bulk of its work?

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