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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

The State of Project Management 2018 survey by Wellingtone reveals a harsh truth — dissatisfaction with the current level of project management maturity in organizations all over the world is higher than a year ago. HHI had delivered more than 2,150 ships to 320 shipowners in 51 countries as of 2017.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

Inspired by John Kotter’s dual-operating structure model, we asked all of these employees to maintain their “day jobs” within the established hierarchy, while also using 5-10% of their time to work on fast-cycle, informal innovation projects across silos. More than 600 were selected. Three key insights.

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When It Pays to Collaborate with Competitors at Work

Harvard Business

For instance, Doug shared some new concepts for transforming an insurmountable checklist of requirements into manageable benchmarks and priorities, which he had developed after conducting a comprehensive review of his company’s operations. On January 21, 2018, the teams faced off against each other in their Conference Championship.

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Driving Digital Transformation in Aerospace & Defense: Recent Technology Trends

Epicflow

The technology allows A&D organizations to transform their manufacturing processes, improve safety, optimize customer service, system management, and, of course, transform military operations. After corresponding training, it took the Marines only about 36 hours to create this structure. Training personnel. . References.

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Engaging Employees in Health Care Data Security

Harvard Business

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Healthcare is a high stress environment, where, understandably, information security training is often not the top priority.

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Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most

Harvard Business

In 2017 and 2018 , Decathlon was ranked the #1 Great Place to Work in France. Operators set their work schedules and their vacations, design and monitor their own performance indicators, do their own maintenance, and are consulted on the choice of new machinery. In 2018, Michelin was ranked the #1 America’s Best Large Employer.

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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business

At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level. What the company wanted to do was to create a kind of “top-gun” center that could train business unit-level team members and support the most innovative and critical initiatives of the company.