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Project Management: Leverage Data for Better Cost Control 

PM Alliance

Timely data can give your team an edge on controlling costs by ensuring that resources are used efficiently. Data such as workforce metrics, vendor rates, and material pricing gives your team the necessary background to minimize costs by identifying the right resource mix for each market. What’s the latest insight into best practices?

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Build Team Resilience: Work “Anywhere” and “Anytime” (Part 3)

Johanna Rothman

This includes the team's board and the team's metrics. If you want people to work remotely for weather or health event, they need high bandwidth access in their homes. If people have a weather event such as snow, they need time to shovel. If they expect a health event, they need time to stay or get healthy.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Customers are integral to this process because they provide feedback, and every member of your team should be answering support requests, meeting with customers, and thinking about how to build a product that suits the needs of the market. Meet regularly to review common customer issues and build fixes into your product roadmap.

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The Basic Social Media Mistakes Companies Still Make

Harvard Business

Start by basing your social strategy on business objectives, then follow that by thinking about target market, social media platforms, tools, and metrics. Don’t simply set goals for higher follower or engagement metrics in the brand’s current social media accounts.

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Technology and Wisdom: Where and How Do They Intersect in Life, Work and Play? (Part 2)

Women in Consulting

Her talk was about “the third metric” in measuring success beyond money and power. He did this because research shows people tend to withdraw from the hiring process because they feel they don’t meet the criteria sufficiently. 100% recruiter efficiency. She was insightful, real, vulnerable and inspiring. The results?

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. What is the cause and effect of specific types of investment — for example, leadership development, large group events, and communications cascades?

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency.

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