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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

Nearly 56% of survey respondents believe they cannot demonstrate improvements in on-time project delivery, organizational efficiency, or profitability. MHI has over 80,000 employees on board from different countries and cultures who are led by effective team management. This is almost 10% higher than in 2016.

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How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don’t Get Lost in the Shuffle

Harvard Business

In 2007 Joseph Golan, a division leader at Elop, an Israeli electro-optics company, faced a challenge. From 2007 to 2014, Golan’s employees generated over 5,000 ideas, with an exceptional implementation rate of more than 70%. Justin Tierney/EyeEm/Getty Images. As a result, innovation can stall. Impressive Results.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

In 2007, Mercer Oliver Wyman joined with Mercer Management Consulting and Mercer Delta to become Oliver Wyman groups (also includes Lippincott and NERA Economic Consulting). This fits hand in hand with their culture of treating new hires as potential Partners, offering them opportunities early on to engage in important projects.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business

Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007. Their mandate: Come up with fresh ideas for making the notoriously expensive and time-consuming drug-development process more efficient. At the same time, action on employee feedback has helped create a more sustainable environment and a more collaborative culture.

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

We can't get something for nothing, and agility requires that managers change the culture. When managers do not change the culture, they cannot reap all the benefits of agility. But when managers cannot change and, as a result, do not change the culture? Sure, if a team reduces its feedback loops, the team will learn faster.

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The Best Companies Know How to Balance Strategy and Purpose

Harvard Business

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Most companies have articulated their purpose — the reason they exist. Consider Nokia.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

In 2007 Harvard Business School professor Ethan S. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. Building Balanced Cultures. Bernstein studied assembly-line performance at a company he called “Precision.” Every spot on every line was visible to managers.

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