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Project Management: Dealing with Scarcity

PM Alliance

One common obstacle enterprises experience is resource scarcity. To overcome time scarcities, your team should maintain good awareness into your project’s status, risk profile, budget, and other key metrics. These factors often leave your team little time to react and adjust.

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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business

Deere’s Enterprise Advanced Marketing Group – which is tasked with identifying unarticulated, unmet customer needs, representing opportunities for innovation and growth – has created a system for surveying the motivation of its employees every two weeks.

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Your Team Doesn’t Need a Data Scientist for Simple Analytics

Harvard Business

.” As data proliferates across the enterprise, this observation by Nielsen is rendered even more relevant, because data represents the unlit fuel that has the potential to light the darkness, but which often lacks the spark of analytics that enables us to see.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

To successfully transform to a more agile enterprise, companies must make conscious choices about where and how to become agile. Based on our experience working with these teams, we recommend senior teams do the following if they want to become more agile: Treat your enterprise priorities as a managed backlog. Systematic Inc.,

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Positioning Yourself As The Expert — How To Develop A Consulting Voice That Clients Will Listen To with Ron Carucci: Podcast #21

Consulting Success

Rather than modeling overly bureaucratic or individualistic behaviors, Navalent has a compensation metric that rewards an intense focus on the client. While many consultants write about their methodology, Ron writes about the things that his clients care about, and that is why his work stands out. Mentioned in This Episode: Navalent.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

A case in point is WeWork, the provider of coworking spaces, which has grown its enterprise customer base in the last year by 370%. Innovation is the goal at other campsites, where diverse stakeholders are assembled with specific tasks and equipped with special facilities and methodologies (say, design thinking) to achieve them.

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