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How to Use Flow Metrics to See if Your Economies of Scale Offer Value, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

Flow Efficiency In How Centralization Decisions Create Friction, Increase Cycle Time, and Cost Money, Part 1, I discussed how removing support staff for departments and managers created longer cycle times. Now, it's time for Economies of Scale and how that ties into resource efficiency thinking.

Metrics 63
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Big Data: An Opportunity for Data Scientists & Data Analysts

Tom Spencer

Data is information organized in a form that can be efficiently used by people or computers to make decisions. It refers to a collection of disciplines required to collect, store, analyze, and use big data: Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.

Data 88
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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .”

Finance 28
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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. The funds from these credits go towards financing various sustainability projects. Technology Advancement. Chemical Innovations.

Trends 88
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Breaking down the M&A Case Study

Tom Spencer

Now that you have a high-level understanding of why companies buy each other in the first place (refer to M&A deals – benefits and drawbacks ), let’s discuss the framework you should use to analyze the transaction. Can the buyer easily finance the acquisition? M&A case framework. What’s the acquisition rationale?

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Attended vs. Unattended RPA: It Doesn’t Need to be an Either-Or

1 to 1

Streamlining Efficiency. In short, it refers to bots that imitate human tasks. This results in faster resolutions for customers, better overall experiences, and increased productivity. Streamlining employees’ processes makes them more productive and, in the end, leads to better customer experiences.

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The Lessons I Learned From Peter Drucker

Tom Spencer

In fact, he frequently referred to my uncle as “that ugly man” and (more than once) as an “unapologetic fascist.”. Marguerite Arnold is an entrepreneur, author and third semester EMBA candidate at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. Peter followed an entrepreneurial academic path. My father a journalistic and creative one.

Culture 60