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Can AI Help Your Company Innovate? It Depends

Harvard Business

Companies need new ways to innovate quickly, cheaply, and productively. To investigate, we researched how companies are using AI for innovation and found that tools are just tools — success depends on how organizations use these new tools now at their disposal. Many, quite reasonably, wonder how deploying AI might help.

Company 254
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Effective Manufacturing Operations Management in 2024

Epicflow

Manufacturing companies continually seek ways to improve their processes, optimize costs, and increase competitiveness. Production management helps make sure that a manufacturing company creates the required products of high quality, in the required quantities, and at the right time. Process control.

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Transform Business Operations with Process Mining

Harvard Business

The most effective companies we interviewed use process mining to generate operational insights at scale, identify process inefficiencies, define targeted actions, and measure process improvements — all of which lead to value realization.

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Engineering Project Management: The Essential Guide

Epicflow

Its main purpose is to ensure the seamless operational performance of engineering companies, including managing engineering teams, strategic planning, solving engineering problems, overseeing engineering projects’ completion, and ensuring that the goals of an engineering organization are met. Sharing resources across multiple projects.

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Before Automating Your Company?s Processes, Find Ways to Improve Them

Harvard Business

If the goal is to go beyond basic labor arbitrage savings to improve the process — and it should be — then companies need a good understanding of both their existing business processes and the new processes they want RPA to enable before implementing the technology.

Company 141
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Breaking the Echo Chamber: How Peer Advisory Groups Challenge Your Thinking

Effective Managers

But this mindset can lead to missed opportunities—whether it’s untapped markets, process improvements, or efficiencies that could significantly increase ROI. This focus on continuous improvement is what sets apart companies that merely survive from those that truly thrive. and “How can I do better?”

Groups 130
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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business

The first will be continued displacement by ever-more-competitive Chinese companies who compete on cost. This presents Western companies with a fresh challenge. It calls for real transformation in incumbent companies — something that is notoriously difficult to achieve.

Company 126