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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

To improve their project management practices, C-levels at HHI developed a sustainable management policy. Management at HHI has developed an improvement plan with quality and technology as their top priorities. To make this journey faster for you, we’ve developed a multi-project management tool called Epicflow.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business

The first is high-quality data from two corporate surveys conducted by MGI and McKinsey in 2007, one of around 1,600 executives across industries globally on digital technologies and AI to ascertain the causes of economic impact and the likely pace of that impact, and one of more than 3,000 corporations in 14 sectors in ten countries.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business

However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data. In the high flying days of 2005-2007, banks around the country relied heavily on these scores to make quick decisions on millions of uncollateralized small business loans, with disastrous results.

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business

But by the 1990s it had run aground: It hadn’t properly developed systems to implement its growth strategy internally, and so that strategy broke down at dozens of points of execution on the front line—with customers, crew, staff on the shore and the company’s travel agent partners. Codify best practices.

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Housing Starts in China Plunge 25%; Did China's Property Bubble Finally Burst?

MishTalk

And developers are pulling back, furloughing workers and delaying new projects. Much of this credit has been lent to the increasingly indebted local government sector, to fund property development and infrastructure investments. Prices are falling for both new and old apartments. The volume of deals is drying up.

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business

Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Strategy development at Dell is no longer a batch process tied to some planning calendar; it is a continuous process. Value flexibility.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. To construct our Corporate Horizon Index, we identified five financial indicators, selected because they matched up with five hypotheses we had developed about the ways in which long- and short-term companies might differ. rate for other companies.