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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. Since 2007, MHI Group has changed its management paradigm toward portfolio optimization, introducing a strategic business evaluation system and focusing on cash flow.

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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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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. As a result, innovation can stall.

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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. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects.

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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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Mergers May Be Profitable, but Are They Good for the Economy?

Harvard Business

In recent research, we provide new evidence that while mergers may raise profits, many fail to deliver efficiency gains that could increase overall prosperity. manufacturing plants from 1997 through 2007, an important and diverse sector of the U.S. manufacturing plants from 1997 through 2007, an important and diverse sector of the U.S.

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Dealing with the Crisis

Eupnea Management Consulting

The vast majority of businesses need to adapt quickly to the currently extreme levels of disruption that they are facing across their operations and employees and brace themselves for new unseen levels of volatility and uncertainty and potentially further disruption in the aftermath of the pandemic and through a new era.

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