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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

To improve their project management practices, C-levels at HHI developed a sustainable management policy. To engage their employees to the fullest, HHI will implement a Team Responsibility Policy for quality failure costs. Credit: HHI’s Integrated Report 2017 World Maritime News reports that HHI has now set a target of $65.2

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business

Countries that operate under common law, including the United States and the United Kingdom, lean in this direction. Countries that operate under civil law, including France, Germany, and Japan, tend to be in this camp. Properly understood, maximizing shareholder value means allocating resources so as to maximize long-term cash flow.

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Be Aggressive

CaseInterview.com

The smart approach is to fully appreciate the ramifications of abrupt market changes, adapt quickly to those conditions, and find a way to be aggressive in the “new normal” imposed by market changes as opposed to stubbornly operating in the paradigm of the “old normal.”. Restructuring costs to improve free cash flow can be learned.

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Determine the ROI of hiring a small business operations consultant

Asamby Consulting

Small Business Operations Consulting An investment makes sense only when you get more in return than you invested. If you hire an operations consultant, this Return on Investment might be not easy to calculate. This blog posts outlines what the ROI for hiring a small business operations consultant is.

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Considerations for Starting your Consulting Career at a Boutique Firm

Tom Spencer

For our purposes, let’s identify a boutique firm as one that has less than 100 consultants (emphasis on ‘consultants’ and not staff) and operates from at most only a handful of offices (even if those offices are in multiple countries). Notable Considerations. Compensation. There is also much to be said about other types of compensation (e.g.

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Charlie Munger & Mental Models

CaseInterview.com

For example, the mental model you have about your business is your mental picture of how your business operates. If your end of month cash in the bank differs from what you thought it would be, that means the mental model of your operating cash flow isn’t accurate. Read Our Privacy Policy. No, Thanks!

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Why Your Company Culture Should Match Your Brand

Harvard Business

If your culture and your brand are driven by the same purpose and values and if you weave them together into a single guiding force for your company, you will win the competitive battle for customers and employees, future-proof your business from failures and downturns, and produce an organization that operates with integrity and authenticity.

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