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Project Management: Dealing with Scarcity

PM Alliance

If you’re searching for ways to deal with scarcity without sacrificing quality or results across your project’s lifecycle, consider these tips on managing resources when supplies of talent, expertise, and time are low. Without enough people to accomplish activities, delays are almost sure to arise.

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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. Several groups, covering about 100 employees, have adopted this system.

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

Harvard Business

The mission of enabling data analytics in today’s enterprise is hobbled by the lack of the requisite skills in the marketplace, including: advanced statistics/mathematics, new analytics methodologies, advanced systems analysis, business fundamentals, regulatory and legal understanding, and general IT technical and data architecture skills.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

They have to decide where to adopt agile principles and mindsets, where to use agile problem-solving methodologies to dynamically address strategic and organizational challenges, and where to more formally deploy the full agile model, including self-managed teams. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005.

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You Don’t Need an “India Strategy” — You Need a Strategy for Each State in India

Harvard Business

Already a large domestic market, Frontier Strategy Group’s estimates suggest the country will average growth rates between 7.4% These cultural differences have a significant impact on multinationals’ talent and organizational decisions. Companies can do this by categorizing the states into four groups in order of priority.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

One of the most important and challenging decisions faced by corporate directors is whether to promote a new CEO from within or to hire new talent when a CEO leaves the company. Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. Lee Powers/Getty Images. Both have advantages. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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The Most Attractive Cities to Move to for Work

Harvard Business

Despite the current political headwinds blowing against globalization, companies continue to recruit talent from around the world and talented people continue to want overseas work experience. For firms, it’s become imperative to look beyond geographic borders to attract and retain top talent. ” Related Video.

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