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"Process Mining"? Sounds Like a Waste of Time.

Markovitz Consulting

For example, the global chemical company Chermours used process mining to analyze their order-to-cash process: It took the process mining effort four months to uncover how the actual process was performing (not just what the ERP documentation stated). Gee, that sounds terrific. Discontinuous improvement is more like it.

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A Survey of 1,700 Companies Reveals Common B2B Pricing Mistakes

Harvard Business

invest in ongoing development of capabilities among the sales and pricing teams through training and tools. Training and Tools — Often Afterthoughts — Can Have a Big Payoff. Top-performing firms invest in building the capabilities of the pricing team through training and forums to share best practices.

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AlixPartners Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Another knock-on effect of working with a bunch of gurus is that meaningful on the job training is often hard to come across. 3 in the chemicals and pharma sector – brand eins. Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness. Turnaround & Restructuring. Effectiveness. Industries. Aerospace & Defense. Automotive. Healthcare.

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BearingPoint Interview Preparation – Mystery or History?

Management Consulted

This allowed for more severe penalties for fraudulent financial activity and required top level management to individually certify the accuracy of all financial reporting. In May 2004, BearingPoint reported a valuation decline of 61%. Chemicals & Life Sciences. public company boards, management and public accounting firms.

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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business

And as customers use Blast IQ and contribute more of their own data, over time, the company will have a large enough dataset to train more powerful machine learning models. Orica is now codifying the decision logic of the most experienced blasting managers through predictive modeling to serve up personalized recommendations on demand.

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Women Need Mindfulness Even More than Men Do

Harvard Business

Research attributes this to both structural and chemical differences in their brains. Those who had participated in an eight-week mindfulness meditation training were able to focus on a task longer, switched between tasks fewer times, and reported less negative emotion upon completion.

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Is There a Shortage of Skilled Workers? My Own Personal Experiences

MishTalk

Given all the media hype about the severe shortage of skills in the US and the need for more education and training, inquiring minds may be interested in alternative views. That job ended when Chase and Chemical merged. Perhaps 1 out of 100 make some use of their training. My first contract was at Chase.