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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

Stephen has introduced innovative methods and metrics to the project management discipline and has taught project management at universities and for organizations worldwide, including Siemens, Ford, Qatar Telecom, and the US Air Force. To have real integration to support decision-making, we need a single metric that works for all parameters.

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B2B Salespeople Need to Act More Like Travel Agents

Harvard Business

According to the travel and leisure marketing firm MMGY, the use of travel agents increased by 50% from 2014 to 2015. They’re easing customers’ burdens by guiding them through difficult decisions and choices, and improving win rates for high-end solution sales by as much as 60%. Fast forward to today.

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Nearly Half of Companies Say They Don’t Have the Digital Skills They Need

Harvard Business

Compare that with 67% and 66% in 2016 and 2015, respectively. Jump ahead to 2017, and that same metric is just 18%. Jobs requiring greater analytical skills, for example, grew at a 77% clip from 1980 to 2015. On a global basis, companies are losing faith in their digital smarts. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business

My senior year in college, a black sales rep from IBM encouraged me and a group of fellow black students to consider a career with the company. When I joined the company, my branch sales manager — someone I considered a field office general — was black, as were many of my instructors.

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To Better Train Workers, Figure Out Where They Struggle

Harvard Business

Launched in 2015, Generation works in five countries (India, Kenya, Mexico, Spain, and the United States). It has trained and placed 11,000 graduates into entry-level jobs in four sectors: health care, tech, retail/sales, and skilled trades. These metrics can be converted into an estimate of ROI for the employer.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies, 2016

Harvard Business

Our publicly available metrics including CEO approval ratings from staff, ratio of women on boards, and number of accounting infractions and scandals. This year we added a carbon metric. This is evidenced by the drop in Deutsche Bank from 40th in 2015 to 110th this year and by Wells Fargo plummeting from 20th to 130th.

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How Streaming Is Changing Music (Again)

Harvard Business

The age of streaming music has arrived in full force, displacing both physical sales (e.g., album sales, both physical and digital, have plummeted from a peak of 785 million in 2000 to just 241 million in 2015. CDs) and downloaded songs (e.g., As streaming has taken hold, U.S.

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