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Sustainable Supply Chains Reduce Environmental Footprint

Tom Spencer

This shift has the potential to not only reduce a company’s carbon footprint but also support the conservation of natural resources and promote biodiversity. Renewable resources like bamboo, hemp, and organic cotton are becoming popular choices because they require fewer resources to grow and thus have a reduced impact on the environment.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business

Mainstream software companies are beginning to hold “ data mirrors ” up to their customers, allowing scoring and benchmarking of their customers’ strategies. One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management.

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Project Management Maturity Models: A Basis for Reaching Your Organization’s Business Success

Epicflow

Project management maturity (or PMM) reflects a company’s ability to manage projects efficiently. They usually describe levels indicating the current state of an organization in terms of project management efficiency and propose recommendations on how to proceed to more sophisticated levels. . Let’s examine some of them. .

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Managing Risks and Controlling Projects: How Data-Driven Project Management Come in Useful for Multi-Project Environments

Epicflow

In this article, we’re delving into the most essential aspects of efficient project management that can ensure successful and timely delivery, and also dwelling on the importance of project data for risk management in single-project and multi-project environments. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis?

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

To set an aspirational but realistic target, we created a benchmark that combines the best attributes of these advanced digital nations. Second, with the benchmark as a composite, no single nation achieves it and yet each of the five countries’ progress toward the ideal can be assessed in terms of performance against the benchmark.

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

They discovered that one country was 16% percent more efficient than the average of the rest of the countries: they got the same results in 71 fewer person-hours per month and with 40 fewer people involved each month.

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Quote Your Consulting Billing Rate with Confidence

Successful Independent Consulting

Benchmark so you know your rate is reasonable. A seasoned practitioner will be more effective and efficient and will therefore be a better “buy.” Or you can propose that you partner with someone internally where you focus on the “what needs to be done when,” and the client resource helps make it happen by doing the hands-on tasks.