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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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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Strategic Information Technology and Operations. Oliver Wyman became own firm again. Mercer buys Oliver Wyman.

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Front-Line To C-Suite | Inside The Heart and Mind of Former Disney COO and Experience Steward Jim MacPhee

Consulting Matters

Today, I'm chatting with one of my favorite executives of all time, Jim MacPhee, recently retired Chief Operating Officer and self-proclaimed Experience Steward for Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts. Next steps: Buy Jim's new book if you need to develop your Circle of Influence, get in balance, and lean into time-tested leadership guidance.

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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. As an experienced manager, he knew that his manufacturing and operation division’s success depended on getting creative ideas from his employees. Justin Tierney/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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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?

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

They opened their first office in the region in 2007 after beginning to consistently work here in 2005. Deloitte has received many awards such as Best Employer in the Middle East, Best Consulting Firm, and the Middle East Training & Development Excellence award. Boston Consulting Group. bravo Deloitte!).