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6 Current Trends in Project Management [2024]: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow

In a nutshell, AI automates repetitive tasks and makes predictions thereby increasing efficiency, streamlining the workflow, and improving decision-making. Forecasting and decision-making Thanks to predictive analytics, PM tools analyze historical data along with current project metrics to predict how the project environment will change.

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The goal trap for small businesses

Asamby Consulting

Goal setting refers to how these goals are defined, tracked and managed. These goals can be tracked through metrics that gives continuous feedback such as OKR, MBO, etc. These metrics are like receiving a score in a video game, which allows everybody to know if they are going in the right direction.

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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

The second problem, which we refer to as “Lost Before Translation,” is the tendency for academic researchers to design studies without input from managers or employees — the populations that their studies’ results are meant to help.

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How Avaya Turned Around Its Customer Ratings

Harvard Business

For reference, an NPS of +50 is considered very good. The key to this transformation was an innovation approach common in the software industry: agile invention methodology. The design teams can then use the feedback from their customers to quickly and efficiently improve the products.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

Candidate centers must provide information including detailed clinical protocols, surgical-patient selection criteria, clinical registry participation (more on that below), information on multidisciplinary shared decision-making, as well as institutional and physician-level performance metrics.

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A Better Way for Employers to Procure Health Care

Harvard Business

These are good places to begin applying supply chain methodology. When Virginia Mason applied appropriateness and safety standards to patients referred for lumbar fusion, it found that 58% would not qualify for this major operation. Define the product specifications. This is where the general concept of bundled services can be applied.