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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

Hyundai Heavy Industries Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) is a top South Korean shipbuilding company that holds roughly a 15% share of the world’s shipbuilding market. To increase productivity, HHI will use a robotic system based on Internet of Things and automation technologies — the first in the shipbuilding industry.

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How the Meaning of Digital Transformation Has Evolved

Harvard Business

Think back to 2007. In 2007, companies lacked a mobile strategy, let alone a mobile presence for engaging with their customers or for helping employees collaborate. ” Nowadays, a company’s digital strategy practically drives the roadmap and goals of many departments, from marketing to sales to HR. A young U.S.

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Is Tesla Really a Disruptor? (And Why the Answer Matters)

Harvard Business

billion to escape what Musk calls the “manufacturing hell” the company is now experiencing in its transition from small batch car making to mass production. Both companies were led by visionaries, both offer high-end versions of commodity products, and both enjoy fierce loyalty from customers.

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

Harvard Business

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. For example, only 15% of physician assistant jobs required a Bachelor’s degree or higher in 2007.

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How Gatorade Invented New Products by Revisiting Old Ones

Harvard Business

The idea of creating a fresh new product, the prospect of increasing market share with brand new offerings, or the vision of disrupting some slow-moving incumbent with a radical new technology – these have an inherently strong appeal for companies keen for growth. For Gatorade, 2007 was the year it hit those limits.

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Revealing Look at Hours Worked and the Number of Employees Working Those Hours

MishTalk

The data only goes back to 2007 so let''s also take a look at hours worked by production and monsupervisory employees. Index of Aggregate Hours Production and Nonsupervisory Employees The indexes are formulated by multiplication of the number of employees by the average number of hours worked. Now there are 119,287,000.

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Why Microsoft Is Willing to Pay So Much for GitHub

Harvard Business

Financial value is the stuff of business school and stock markets. Strategic value, on the other hand, has little to do with any of those things and almost everything to do with how a company’s product and/or market position help or hinder another company’s (usually a bigger one’s) ability to be successful.

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