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Project Management: Leverage Data for Better Cost Control 

PM Alliance

Where can supplies be purchased and staged to avoid high transportation or storage costs? The most actionable data may include scenario planning showing the effect on costs if rush charges are incurred to meet an earlier deadline, or if additional resources are needed to execute an expanded task list.

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How We Nudged Employees to Embrace Flexible Work

Harvard Business

We did this in partnership with Transport for NSW’s Travel Choices program, which works with businesses to identify ways to encourage more commuters to avoid traveling to work during peak hours. This would have the added benefit of reducing pressure on the transport system.

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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business

It includes social factors (employment, family and social support, income, education), behaviors (diet and exercise, tobacco, alcohol and drugs, sexual activity), and the physical environment (housing, air and water quality, transportation). Most health systems will need to manage a multitude of reimbursement methodologies.

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How a Jungle Cruise Provides a Lesson in Exceptional Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DISNEY INSTITUTE

Harvard Business

“Place” refers to where your customers meet you. Exotic locales come to life, and guests are transported to the lush, green Amazon rainforest, where they stumble upon a pool of playful bathing elephants. Every piece of scenery, every element of the environment—everything contributes to the place.

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How a Jungle Cruise Provides a Lesson in Exceptional Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DISNEY INSTITUTE

Harvard Business

“Place” refers to where your customers meet you. Exotic locales come to life, and guests are transported to the lush, green Amazon rainforest, where they stumble upon a pool of playful bathing elephants. Every piece of scenery, every element of the environment—everything contributes to the place.

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A.T. Kearney Interview & Culture

Management Consulted

Kearney boasts about its Fit Transformation™ methodology, designed specifically to align companies’ strategy, operating model, and people to bring lasting transformation. Transportation & Travel. Part of their commitment involves reducing costs, managing complexity and risks and improving supply chain performance. Technology.

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Why Risk Assessments Are Important For Every Office Relocation Project

PM Alliance

Has your team measured the largest meeting room’s table? This seemingly low-level concern could become a real headache if the relocation team isn’t prepared to quickly break down and reassemble the table and there’s an investor meeting scheduled in that space the next day. For example, conference furniture can be surprisingly tricky.