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Driving Digital Transformation in Aerospace & Defense: Recent Technology Trends

Epicflow

The technology allows A&D organizations to transform their manufacturing processes, improve safety, optimize customer service, system management, and, of course, transform military operations. Building rocket engines. . After corresponding training, it took the Marines only about 36 hours to create this structure.

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8 Reasons that May Cause You to Loose Customers

Tom Spencer

The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. This requires hiring the right employees, training them fully, and treating them well. Improve your processes and invest in technology. Employees need to want to be helpful.

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8 Issues that May Cause You to Lose Customers

Tom Spencer

The customer service reps must not be trained enough or must be unhappy with their job to behave in this manner. This requires hiring the right employees, training them fully, and treating them well. Improve your processes and invest in technology. Employees need to want to be helpful.

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Be Careful About Proclaiming "Failed Management Movements.

Consulting and Organizational Management

There have been many major movements and models in management, e.g., scientific management, management by objectives, quality circles, Total Quality Management, Business Process Re-Engineering, One-Minute Managing, Self-Managed Teams … the list goes on. Training and Development. Marketing and Social Media. Spirituality.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. Your goal is success.

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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business

Joel Hendley, the Director of Engineering, North America, for Liferay, the California-based software company, speaks from personal experience when he says that “making a significant change” is not always the answer to “weathering mid-career anxiety” and discontent. ” The results were successful.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. For good reason: these firms are diverse, resilient, and geographically distributed engines of innovation. It’s that the U.S. based companies.