Epicflow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

At present, the construction industry is undergoing a substantial transformation. Innovations, economic uncertainty, construction workforce shortages, and other factors have forced building companies to change the way they work and deliver their projects. damage or cracking on buildings). [2] damage or cracking on buildings). [2]

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Efficient portfolio management is essential for business success in todays competitive landscape. Managing projects, aligning them with goals, and optimizing resources can be challenging without the right tools. Project portfolio management software, also known as a PPM tool, simplifies planning, execution, and monitoring.

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Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. How to make certain that your team members work at their full capacity, and how a resource management solution can help? What Affects Employee Productivity? Let’s figure it out in the article. . Employees’ workload.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

How to Optimize Team Potential: A 7-Step Guide for Managers High performing team managers optimize potential by unlocking their teams collective capability. In a working group, there is no collective work product beyond individual accomplishments. Because they can divide and conquer their tasks.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In big organizations, project management is a distinct skill. The project manager knows the budget and the deadline, and ensures that constituents stay in sync. This is the construction coordinator and the movie producer. The product manager, on the other hand, makes decisions about features, scale and the final product.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Redwood Shores, CA LSA Global, the leading business consulting, coaching, and training firm that helps fast growth life science, technology, and service companies by powerfully aligning their culture and talent with strategy, today announced results for a New Leader Training for Healthcare Managers. Job Relevance 98.6% Job Relevance 98.6%

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Individual Contributor Feedback According to Gallup, only20% of employeessay they receive weekly feedback from their managers. Yet 50% of managers think that they provide weekly feedback to their direct reports. Manager Feedback Not surprisingly, managers also struggle with a lack of feedback. That is a waste.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 4, 2017

I wrote the following post in response to someone on Quora who asked me about innovative methods that management consultants use to pitch clients instead of using PowerPoint presentations. I have them explain the kinds of things that happened to make the project go well, and I help co-construct the path that we used to get there.

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Effective Managers

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It’s important for managers to understand that not all conflict is harmful; some conflicts can lead to positive outcomes like better ideas and solutions. The key is to manage conflicts constructively. Active Listening and Empathy : Train managers and employees in active listening and empathy.

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Effective Managers

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It’s important for managers to understand that not all conflict is harmful; some conflicts can lead to positive outcomes like better ideas and solutions. The key is to manage conflicts constructively. Active Listening and Empathy : Train managers and employees in active listening and empathy.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Theories and practices of management often spring from the opportunities created by new technologies. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). yagi studio/Getty Images.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 7, 2023

Our strategic planning services offer guidance on how a strategic planning facilitator can provide support in constructing an effective strategic plan that ensures your strategy is communicated and implemented across your entire organization.

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Consulting Success

JULY 17, 2017

Start small and sell the end vision — how consultants can construct a valuable partnership with anyone from small startups to $2 billion companies. He helps incubate technology-oriented startup initiatives within other companies, including new business units, innovation areas, and new product development.

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David A Fields

JULY 13, 2016

A few years ago Michael Norton and his buddies wrote about “The Ikea Effect” which they describe this way: “When people construct products themselves, they come to overvalue their (often poorly made) creations.” This turns out to be an important finding for consultants.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

New research shows how foreign-owned factories tend to be more productive, higher paying, and more technologically advanced. Here’s how U.S. companies benefit.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Does this stalled revolution play out in management positions, too? To explore this, I used data on full-time managers obtained from the U.S. Women’s representation in management is higher than it’s ever been. Women’s representation in management is higher than it’s ever been. And if so, how?

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 23, 2024

These two concepts, while interconnected, serve distinct purposes within a talent management strategy. Misalignment between these people strategies can lead to decreased productivity, higher turnover, and a misaligned company culture. Are you using data to make the right talent management decisions?

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Our mission is to simplify multi-project resource management, help project teams be maximum efficient, and let companies grow by intaking more orders and delivering their initiatives faster and cheaper. You can use filters for easier search and analysis. Then you can enable a user view to show the load of every user in this team. .

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2024

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”. So, what do you need for an efficient risk analysis? First of all, you need data.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Among the important skills all good leaders share, the ability to establish an environment of healthy, productive teamwork, nurture collaboration, and encourage the team to challenge the status quo is essential. A best practice to encourage constructive conflict on a team is consistently asking for input from all Cast Members.

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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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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2018

His manager was not overtly misbehaving, nor was he a ranting, narcissistic sociopath. They were promoted into management, and enjoy the privileges and rewards of a leadership role, but avoid meaningful involvement with their teams. Constructive leadership immediately improves job satisfaction, but the effects dwindle quickly.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

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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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

When demands arise in an industrial environment, managers and engineers must interrupt the automation to update the processes that make the machines go. Such self-adapting processes are driving a new breed of cost-effective assembly lines that meet consumer demands for highly customized products.

Automotive 116

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

I'll wrap this series up with what you can do if your managers love predicting instead of using feedback loops. That's why we have projects—to work on this product for now, until we've delivered something. That's the essence of project portfolio management.) Then, we offered that data to management. Yes, cancel.

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Consulting Matters

APRIL 9, 2019

So it was a very significant role and we did very unique things and new to the world type products. A lot of things that I had done within the time period of managing people; so I was a mentor to people. And there are some unique things I believe that I can give to people because of a broad base of what I had as a global manager.

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Consulting Success

OCTOBER 30, 2017

After 20 years in construction management, he decided to make the leap to consulting, as a way to give back to the construction and contracting community. Prior to starting Ascent Consulting, Adam worked as a project manager for several large national construction companies throughout the United States.

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Halo Psych

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If you’ve ever heard me talk at conferences, or on podcasts, you’ll know I feel strongly about the role of the people manager. In a recent article I wrote for the print edition of HR Magazine, I talked about the productivity crisis being faced in the UK and elsewhere. They asked questions to challenge gently and constructively.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2016

Companies born before the internet took hold have an enormous challenge: improving their online products and services at the warp speed of their online competitors. Companies that are able to master continuous online product innovation have big advantages: Dramatic reductions in the time it takes to make critical product enhancements.

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority. In addition to improved product quality and delivery times, the lean approach has been linked to improved terms of employment.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. But today there is a third approach, one that will become the dominant path for most entrepreneurs, especially those building information products. Bricolage , a French word by origin, means the construction of things from a set of available items.

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Markovitz Consulting

APRIL 26, 2018

I recently gave a talk to the Bay Area chapter of the Lean Construction Institute. The notion of 1x1 flow in a lean production environment is pretty easy to grasp—individuals or teams should build one product at a time, in contrast to the classic mass production approach of building and warehousing large work-in-process inventories of parts.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In the research for our book The Expertise Economy , we found that managers are often reluctant to establish formal peer-to-peer learning primarily because of a perception that experts outside the company are more valuable as teachers than those inside it, and because peer-to-peer programs are spaced out over numerous sessions. Liane Davey.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 7, 2021

As I’ve progressed further along in my career, the importance of being able to manage upward has become clearer to me. If you think your relationship with your manager is a one-way street with the manager doing all the delegating and you doing all the following, think again. What Is Managing Up? How to Manage Up.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2018

At best, such experiences can be frustrating and demotivating ; at worst, they can lead to reduced productivity or even to someone deciding to quit. Our research suggests that many abusive leaders will respond constructively to these requests to compensate for their wrongdoings. Did you notice a change in their behavior?

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

Unsurprisingly, employers such as Google, American Express, and Bridgewater Associates make learning an integral part of their talent management systems. Recent research found that only 10% of organizations have managed to create them, with just 20% of employees demonstrating effective learning behaviors at work.

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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. The first time a manager asked me how many man-weeks my work would take, I said, “Zero. Is releasing a product anything like giving birth?

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