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

Markovitz Consulting

Value stream maps (VSMs) show both the material and the information flow in any kind of end-to-end process such as order to cash, or new product introduction. Here are three examples of how their maps have helped them see into their processes more clearly and make changes to become more efficient. What is value stream mapping?

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Five trends of future working

SkillQuo

Technological advancement has reached an unseen height where workplaces and employment are no longer about the typical 9-5, linear path to promotion, but rather a path for extracting the greatest capabilities from employees as well as producing thought-provoking, functional, dynamic products/services.

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The Ansoff Matrix

Tom Spencer

THE Ansoff Matrix (referred to by some commentators as the Product/Market Expansion Grid) was developed by a Russian-American mathematician named Igor Ansoff , and first explained in his 1957 Harvard Business Review article entitled Strategies for Diversification. What is a Product-Market Growth Strategy? Background.

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4 Autopsies of Big Change Management Failures

LSA Global

Yes, the “old fashioned” bookstores all struggle to compete with online book sales but Borders had additional challenges they failed to meet. This outsized, rugged, status-symbol of a GM product failed to see the writing on the wall. The company failed on multiple fronts. Autopsy #2 – Hummer. What do you think?

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Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau

Emerson Consulting Group

Many of life’s major arenas and how we approach or practice them, such as environmentalism, writing, travel, war and peace, politics and rebellion, philosophy and introspection, are steeped within the life and legend of Henry David Thoreau. By Ken Lizotte CMC. As part of his ongoing column in Money Inc.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

Interesting, the office in New York is very transient and has a hoteling system (so you don’t have an assigned desk) – so if you sign up for Deloitte NYC, be prepared to travel all the time. Fun fact: the project’s installation of energy-efficient lighting was one of New York City’s largest lighting retrofits ever.

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How Winning Organizations Last 100 Years

Harvard Business

Most businesses focus on serving customers, owning resources, being efficient and growing — but the Centennials don’t. Currently, our alumni include the Head of Design at every car manufacturer in the world, apart from BMW, 8 of Apple’s 18 product designers and at least one designer in every Paris fashion house.”

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