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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

The initiatives included streamlining patient administration in a hospital, implementing a customer-relationship-management (CRM) system in a financial services organization, rolling out a global enterprise-resource-planning (ERP) system for a pharmaceutical company, and promoting collaboration in a technology company.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

It offers a centralized platform to engage with the world’s leading suppliers, explore the latest industry innovations and products, discover tools that will help boost efficiency, and enhance profitability. This event offers an opportunity to benchmark and engage with industry leaders.

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The Greatest Barriers to Growth, According to Executives

Harvard Business

Speed is measurable and can be benchmarked. Distortion of decisions: A number of years ago we studied in detail how the most important decisions like product approvals were made at a large pharmaceutical firm. Vague attacks on bureaucracy are not precise enough to renew a company efficiently.

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