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Define Your ERP Project with These 3 Tips

PM Alliance

This combination of multiple complex factors—which sometimes compete for priority, sponsor support, available talent, and approved budget—creates an environment where simply putting a frame around everything that needs to happen can be hugely challenging. Review existing business processes and earmark those you need to revise.

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The Growing Need for Expertise in Digital Transformation Projects

PM Alliance

Businesses are increasingly turning to more powerful technologies to optimize their operations and deliver new innovations, but these large-scale projects can be unwieldy and disruptive if they aren’t coordinated and managed properly. These areas represent potential risks that you’ll need to address before they derail your efforts.

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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. Step 2: Measure operating environment. Linda Coussement/eyeem/Getty Images.

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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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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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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business

Operations in a Connected World. But it turns out these methods don’t just have to do with technology and operations. Several groups, covering about 100 employees, have adopted this system. Deere’s marketing group has found such check-ins vital to staying competitive in its industry. Insight Center.

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How to Make Agile Work for the C-Suite

Harvard Business

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005. This takes time. Systematic Inc.,

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