Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. PPM tools help allocate resources efficiently by analyzing availability, workload, and skill sets, ensuring that the right resources are allocated to the right projects. What Are Project Portfolio Management Tools?

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Nearly 56% of survey respondents believe they cannot demonstrate improvements in on-time project delivery, organizational efficiency, or profitability. To improve their project management practices, C-levels at HHI developed a sustainable management policy. This is almost 10% higher than in 2016. billion in revenue by 2022.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. PPM tools help allocate resources efficiently by analyzing availability, workload, and skill sets, ensuring that the right resources are allocated to the right projects. What Are Project Portfolio Management Tools?

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2017

Higher diversity is therefore associated with lower productivity, which inhibits the capacity of the economy to operate efficiently. To find out, we mobilized a large-scale data set on international migration from 1960 to 2010, using information on the nationality of the immigrants to construct indexes of birthplace diversity.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

Equally, it is hard for employees to find the necessary time and space to learn when they are asked to maximize results, efficiency, and productivity. Give meaningful and constructive feedback. Too often with big management problems, we focus on training and development while undermining the importance of proper selection.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

It’s also not controversial to argue that any infrastructure investment must get more out of each dollar invested, raising the productivity of the construction sector. Global labor productivity growth in the construction industry has averaged only 1% a year over the past two decades, and was flat for most advanced economies.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Single-function “teams” reinforced resource efficiency thinking. I don't know if it was a function of all those Gantt charts, but managers got silly about utilization and being “efficient.” ” Many managers and organizations decided to separate developers from testers. and here in Are We Done Yet?

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Develop and align talent. Develop the optimal portfolio of differentiated brands. Operate more efficiently. Just pick one or more phrases, string them together using words like, "using," and a bit of reconjugation and you''re on your way. Act in collaboration. Break existing paradigms. Commit to quality. Enable technology.

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

In this article, we’re delving into the most essential aspects of efficient project management that can ensure successful and timely delivery, and also dwelling on the importance of project data for risk management in single-project and multi-project environments. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis?

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2017

On the contrary, clarity about where the buck stops is one of the most critical enablers of efficient teamwork. Working with old hands before you forge a project of your own helps you pick up the routines, processes, and tools that make collaboration efficient. But collaboration is not consensus.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 15, 2013

And the pioneering work of social enterprises in sectors like construction , manufacturing , banking , hospitality and healthcare suggest that innovative and sustainable businesses are able to thrive without being run primarily for profit. Since the late 1990s, the social sector has been on the rise.

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Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 29, 2022

The CEO of a family-owned construction company recognized that an outside, objective perspective would be valuable to the future and growth of the company. Further, the organization had not invested in leadership development nor was there a common leadership language. CASE STUDY. Agile strategy leads to 220% increase in revenue.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2018

To help organizations meet today’s challenges, managers must move from: Directive to instructive: When robots driven by artificial intelligence (AI) do more tasks like finish construction or help legal professionals more efficiently manage invoices , there will be no need for a supervisor to direct people doing such work.

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Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2016

But today, as a multinational construction materials company, our goals are somewhat broader: How can we help provide housing for people all over the world who need it? One example would be upgrading the current norm of single-glazed windows in high-rise buildings to double- or triple-glazed to improve energy efficiency.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

For years, we've used several metaphors to describe software product development: People-based metaphors, such as: Man-weeks for all the humans working on a project or a product. I've been part of several construction projects, and they all used an iterative lifecycle. In product development, is it anyone's job to make a baby at work?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency. Construct a prenup. Loose cultures are much more fluid. They generally eschew rules, encourage new ideas, and value discretion.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

Moreover, Google will most likely argue that its search engine has made e-commerce more efficient for consumers despite bundling it with AdSense and that its Android operating system has helped make smartphones and apps more ubiquitous and cheap despite bundling them with the Play Store. In fact, Google gives those services away for free.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2017

April Bertram, a business development director who works on a startup inside of GOJO, the Ohio-based maker of Purell, talks about letting business unit leaders design “guard rails.” Operators in the business units love hitting goals and finding new efficiencies. Innovators thrive on discovery and nurturing new ideas.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 22, 2023

Communication is a skill that can be developed and improved. Decreased productivity and efficiency: Inefficient communication can result in delays, duplicated work, and missed deadlines. When information is poorly conveyed or shared, it can hinder collaboration, decision-making, and overall workflow efficiency.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2017

Recognizing the real-world constraints that managers and engineers face, we developed a simple three-step procedure for creating rubrics that improve yes-or-no decisions. Equally important, the method for constructing the rules is itself simple. But eschewing advances in artificial intelligence can be costly.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 6, 2017

Identifying use cases where AI adds as much value to people’s performance as to process efficiencies is essential to successful enterprise adoption. A software development project manager needs to evaluate scheduling trade-offs; AI consultants ask questions and elicit information allowing specific next step recommendations.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Likely outcomes of the move to cloud include changing how products are designed; closer collaboration between the corporate IT department and other business units, including sales, finance and forecasting; and more customer interaction, even to a point of jointly developing products with their consumers.

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Epicflow

JULY 5, 2022

What helps make cost estimation simple and efficient? the cost of 1 mile in highway construction). It’s no secret that project and resource management solutions are widely used to simplify project orchestration and increase its efficiency. Therefore, a proper cost estimation is about finding a fine line in this complex process.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Maybe you're skeptical of whether it is possible to develop a creative and innovative team and believe you should just hire for it. A common argument presented in support of team development is that if people were born with creativity, we would observe more consistency in creativity among team members.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

Accordingly, business leaders sought to improve efficiency by employing Six Sigma, process reengineering, spans and layers, and other tools. And the average long-term ROE is more than 25%, reflecting improved efficiency combined with greater reliance on financial leverage at most companies. But a lot can get lost in the averages.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In 2009, Congress charged the Federal Communications Commission with the development of a National Broadband Plan (NBP). Construction costs fell, and the speed of deployments increased. New technologies — including low-orbit satellites and “fixed wireless” — were developed for remote and rural locations.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 13, 2018

” In many ways this is an old question, because it takes us back to the arguments of Nobel Laureates Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson that firms exist to coordinate complex forms of economic activity in an efficient way. Sponsored by SAS. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations.

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Rick Conlow

MAY 31, 2023

Our assessment identified a silo mentality throughout the organization and minimal leadership development or training. We addressed the issues with new communication channels, customer service and quality initiatives, on-going quality leadership training for all leaders (executives, too), and team development applications.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 14, 2022

Wood was not necessarily phased out, as much as just naturally replaced by coal, which represented a more efficient and denser source of energy. Over the next few decades, nearly 60 nuclear plants were constructed, producing the energy equivalent of 100 million tons of oil. By 1900, coal production formed the foundation of US power.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Develop your staff. Leading meetings lets them exercise these muscles in the normal course of work, which is often more efficient and powerful than sending them to a training program. This might seem like throwing them into the deep end, but development often begins with breaking out of one’s comfort zone. Related Tools.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

This included Epic, an EHR company; Herman Miller, an office furniture company; Boldt, a construction company; and HGA, an architectural firm. It takes more design time to create a care model that builds in quality and efficiency, but without that work upfront, the technology doesn’t matter and, in fact, only increases costs.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Services include architecture, building engineering, construction services, design + planning, economics, energy and environmental services. Through its economics and planning service Arup focuses on creating sustainable, efficient and culturally-appropriate businesses and places. Website: www.asiarisk.com. 20/F, Central Tower.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 24, 2017

” The conversation should be constructive and one-on-one, Finkelstein adds. Having an indecisive boss is not only hard on your day-to-day productivity, it’s also bad for your “internal reputation and career development,” says Finkelstein. Protect yourself. You need people who have your back.”

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 17, 2017

From the thirteenth century on, the Arsenal nurtured creativity and spurred innovation and entrepreneurship in the construction of its galleys. This location, consisting of a series of islands in a marshy lagoon, also pushed it to develop a (then unusual) trading and moneylending economy, since there was little land to support agriculture.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Small startup firms are already developing proprietary technologies — such as machine vision, deep learning, and other innovations —– that could help large investors evaluate opportunities and risks with far greater accuracy and efficiency than was previously possible.

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The Management Centre

MARCH 24, 2023

It also provides us with areas of development, improvement and stretch. In this blog, we’re going to explore why it can be so hard to give constructive feedback, and how to overcome these obstacles. Teams need to find ways to become ever more effective and efficient. It lets us know what we are doing well. What’s Next?

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