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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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3 Major Forces Disrupting and Transforming the Professional Services Landscape

Progressus

For example, IoT and real-time data streaming can help companies optimize their supply chains – enabling them to act in the event disaster strikes or there’s a bottleneck that could cause delays. Again, business leaders will need to prepare employees to make the most of the latest tech and provide ongoing support and training.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” Accountability is vital to the efficiency of the process.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Don’t optimize for efficiency. Don’t obsess over metrics like inquiry volume or time to close tickets. In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. Your business model is still in flux, and flexibility is more valuable than efficiency and cost savings.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

For example, many managers still believe that the errors they make in evaluating their employees can be corrected by training them to recognize the potential errors and suggesting ways to avoid them, while the actual evidence shows that such training can actually increase the number of errors they make.

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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. All functions were represented at the all-day event and then discussed each person from a holistic perspective. 100% recruiter efficiency. Consulting Training and Education' She was insightful, real, vulnerable and inspiring. The results?

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Social Media Is Too Important to Be Left to the Marketing Department

Harvard Business

Some companies increase their social media staff to offer live responses during big events like the Super Bowl or the Grammys, but then they return to predominately one-way social media or content marketing. Develop a social care team that can address all areas of social information efficiently and effectively.

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