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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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The Right Way to Spend Your Innovation Budget

Harvard Business

Most innovation investments, such as product improvement, technological innovation, and research and development (R&D) traditionally aim at strengthening the innovation capacity of the organization. Nokia during 2007-2010 was an example of a corporation with great innovation capacity. ” The Ovi Store was discontinued in 2015.

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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. Over time, employees learned that developing and submitting new ideas was not worth the effort. And they were understandably reluctant to invest the extra time and effort needed for developing ideas in their after-work hours.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

In the meantime, Marsh & McLennan was creating Mercer; in 1975, Mercer was developed as the human resources consulting arm of Marsh & McLennan. 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).

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

After he graduated from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), he developed the idea that companies would become more successful if they called on someone outside of their organization to offer expert, unbiased advice. This idea became a theory, and he developed a practice. How did he think up such a career? Organization and Change.

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Insights from Australia's Leading Social Sector Consulting Firm

Tom Spencer

Founded in 2007, SVA Consulting has quickly become Australia’s leading specialist consulting practice for the social sector. However, up until recently, the non-profit sector in Australia has borrowed heavily from ideas developed in the US, in particular from insights developed by the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Research: When the Economy Is Good, Employers Demand Fewer Credentials

Harvard Business

Using a new database from Burning Glass Technologies containing 83 million online job postings between 2007 and 2014, across all U.S. For example, only 15% of physician assistant jobs required a Bachelor’s degree or higher in 2007. industries, we indeed found strong evidence of this upskilling. Adobe Dreamweaver) as well.

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