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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. To improve their project management practices, C-levels at HHI developed a sustainable management policy.

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Optimizing Portfolio Profit through DIPP-guided Resource Allocation

Epicflow

‣ Stephen Devaux (USA), is a project management theorist, consultant, author, and educator with 36 years of experience. Ask any project manager how big her project is and you will hear something like: “Well, it’s a ten-month project with a budget of eight million euros.” Business people always fear big losses on projects.

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Should Consultants Charge an Upfront Fee or Charge at the End of a Project?

Steve Shu Consulting

Here’s one anecdotal story: I once managed a business advisory practice as part of a large, international and diversified products and services firm. However, consulting firms have cash flow considerations to make. I’d avoid collecting money entirely (i.e., There are many other examples that I could come up with.

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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. She worked her way up to manage several locations of a quick-serve restaurant. households.

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Balancing the Scale

Tom Spencer

Scale improves productivity but also increases bureaucracy. However, production at scale also leads to unhelpful bureaucracy. As production rises, more employees are needed and executives implement more rules to keep things under control. Scale can help a company to produce more output at lower average costs.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business

It took more than 30 years for electricity to diffuse and enable industrial plant design that could generate significant productivity growth. ” The first group experiences the largest benefits from AI, and the second benefits but only by a fraction of the general AI productivity uplift. This may dissuade them from acting.

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Economies of Scope - Tom Spencer consulting blog

Tom Spencer

Economies of scope exist where a firm can produce two products at a lower per unit cost than would be possible if it produced only the one. If properly understood, economies of scope could be used by SMEs to drive profit growth and reduce the risk associated with product failure. Importance. burgers, fries, sundaes and salads).

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