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Are We Sending the Right Message?

Markovitz Consulting

The latest issue of the Spring 2018 AME Target magazine excerpts some mind-boggling—and depressing—data from LNS Research about continuous improvement. As you can see in the chart below (copied from the magazine), fully 44% of responders said that ROI justifications are a key operational challenge in making improvements.

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Say Goodbye to Strategic Planning? What’s Next?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Develop scenarios: This step can be sped up by selecting already developed scenarios. Leaders facing environmental conditions like today without scenario planning will likely either stop strategic planning and only operate in the short term or take too much risk and gamble on one specific future. HR Magazine. Cornish, E.

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Eight Secret Weapons of the Modern Consultant

Steve Shu Consulting

Although I’ve developed a number of blog posts addressing the practice of management consulting, I have spent little time tying things together into a framework of secret weapons of the modern consultant. A modern consultant is a professional that can work in dynamic industries, operate within multiple types of consulting organizations (e.g.,

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Finite Attention Spans and Employee Agility Driving Corporate Training Trends

Clarity Consultants

L&D leaders have been instrumental in helping employers and employees pivot to pandemic protocols and navigate both remote and hybrid operations and corporate culture. When viewed in the context of an unstable or uncertain job market, continuous learning is essential to creating and maintaining an agile workforce and operations.

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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. Sample development The dress maker designs dresses in the US and uses contract factories in Asia for manufacturing. In total, the back and forth shipping of samples could add weeks to the product development timeline.

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Why Organizational Relevance Matters When Managing Human Resources

Emerson Consulting Group

Recognizing this fundamental aspect of the paradigm in which we all operate signals us that our jobs as human resource leaders is to continually identify opportunities that deliver greater value to all stakeholders. With our highest value resources, greater value comes from operating as a human resource development exemplar.

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Evolution of Mobile Peer-to-Peer Payments in the U.S.

Tom Spencer

After the initial success of Paypal and the continuing technological revolution, banks and debit card networks were inspired to develop their own mobile P2P services. In 1999, Bank of America and Citi developed Cashedge , a standalone mobile payment system created to send funds from one financial institution to the other. Shevlin, Ron.

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