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

Epicflow

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Is Your Organizational Transformation Veering Off Course?

Harvard Business

These can range from exogenous shocks, such as inflation, supply-chain disruption, or political events; operating-model issues, such as the need to change technology, governance, or ways of working; or human dynamics, such as employee confidence in or ownership of the change.

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Crisis Management: How Did the Financial Services Industry Fare During 2020?

Clarity Consultants

In 2020, the financial services industry had to put its crisis management plans into action. Most companies had to pivot without much notice, ensuring they could adjust to new rules regarding how organizations were (or weren’t) allowed to open and operate during the pandemic. Do You Need to Refresh Your Crisis Management Training?

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All Management Is Change Management

Harvard Business

Change management is having its moment. But many of these indicate that change management is some occult subspecialty of management, something that’s distinct from “managing” itself. This is curious given that, when you think about it, all management is the management of change.

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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business

Earlier this year, we walked the halls of the Hannover Messe, one of Europe’s largest events for industrial manufacturers. He summarized the issue very simply: “We can automate mathematics, we can automate design decisions, but we cannot automate changes in human behavior.” Operations in a Connected World.

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How Agile Teams Can Help Turnarounds Succeed

Harvard Business

Contrary to conventional wisdom and Hollywood action movies, dictatorial management is ineffective in large-scale crises. None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. The results were both remarkable and quick.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)