Epicflow

OCTOBER 28, 2024

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.

Engineering 248

Engineering Management Methodologies Resources 248

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Many organizations today are wondering how to get into machine learning, and what it means for their existing analytics operation. I view machine learning as any data-driven approach to explanations, classifications, and predictions that uses automation to construct a model.

Operations 70

Operations Construction Sales Data 70

Steve Shu Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

Thinking architecture, such as how people construct their preferences using a mixture of fast and slow thinking processes (Payne et al., There will be some players that will be way more agile than others and able to capitalize on both important behavioral implications and operational tactics. Where does this leave us? Payne, John W.,

Construction 195

Construction Journal Agile Exercises 195

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. Start ups are another one of his desirable target markets. You can identify what size is right for you based on your marketable skills.

Consulting 184

Consulting How To Construction Company 184

Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Reporting progress on every stage of engineering, procurement, construction, and installation, SHI delivers key lessons to continuously improve project performance. We highly recommend checking out SHI’s project management lessons to get a better understanding of how the company learns from project experience.

Management 222

Management Cash Flow Industry Real Estate 222

LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

Teams operate best when they understand, believe in , and commit to a meaningful and shared purpose. Teams perform at their peak when members feel heard, valued, and free enough to engage in constructive debate and effective decision making especially when the stakes are high.

Management 68

Management How To Construction Training 68

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 24, 2016

This reliance has evolved because despite the enormous volumes of capital they control, most of these giants are strictly “firewalled” and cannot use the capital to fund actual operations, even if doing so would generate higher expected investment returns or lower risk.

Operations 70

Operations Finance Media Financial 70

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

Training 98

Training Training Development Construction 98

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 20, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

Construction 98

Construction Leadership How To Management 98

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

Construction 98

Construction Operations Strategy Strategy 98

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

Construction 98

Construction Leadership Operations Strategy 98

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 7, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

Productivity 98

Productivity How To Construction Operations 98

Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2024

When you construct your one-liner, it’s usually best to include the result rather than the approach or problem. Step 2: Summarize the big-picture outcome of your work (The Results.) What potential clients really want to know is, “How will this benefit me? Is it worth the money?” leading to, so that, resulting in, etc.). Last, add the result.

Development 195

Development Turnaround How To Financial 195

LSA Global

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Setting You Up for Success Learn how to increase and promote productivity, healthy relationships, and personal well-being by effectively setting goals , prioritizing work, and constructively debating with colleagues and other key stakeholders.

Healthcare 63

Healthcare Training Training Management 63

Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

Experienced operators in the field have better knowledge and more current information than remote dictators or their mercenary agents do. Standard operating procedures fail because the situations are by definition nonstandard. The variability and unpredictability of events are too high for rigid directives.

Turnaround 134

Turnaround Agile Operations System 134

Management Consulted

APRIL 2, 2017

McKinsey is still well-networked in the region, and doing substantial work in sectors including: banking, industrials, telecoms, energy, real estate, construction, health care, and diversified conglomerates. If you have an MBA and are interested in actuarial work, EY’s Middle East operation is a great place to get your foot in the door.

Oliver Wyman 160

Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Real Estate 160

Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Operate more efficiently. Innovate through growth. Invest in people. Juxtapose complementary opportunities. Key partners. Leverage existing assets. Maximize returns. Normalize customer expectations. Position the organization for future growth. Recharge the culture. Structure the organization for effective performance. Test new hypotheses.

Construction 51

Construction Efficiency Talent Meeting 51

Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

Exercises 133

Exercises Operations Training Training 133

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

In one telling case , construction workers went home at the end of the week as employees only to be informed on the following Monday that, perhaps by the magic of some unknown force, they had become, “member/owners” of hundreds of limited liability companies, effectively stripping them of federal and state job protections.

Case Interview 134

Case Interview Government Insurance Insurance 134

Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Operations in a Connected World. The initiative sought to improve manufacturing operations — to deliver high-quality products in relatively small batches and on shorter production deadlines.

Apparel 122

Apparel Development Operations Accenture 122

Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

Cash Flow 130

Cash Flow Transportation Energy Balance Sheet 130

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

Training 75

Training Training Development Construction 75

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations align their teams and operations around a shared vision, mission, values, goals, and action plans.

Strategy 75

Strategy Strategy Strategy& Construction 75

Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2023

While women comprise only 10% of workers at other large mines globally, South Flank, an iron ore mine in Western Australia operated by BHP, has created a workforce where 40% of the 869 frontline employees are women, and four out of six senior managers are women.

Industry 172

Industry Interviews Operations Study 172

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.

Construction 130

Construction Culture Policies Development 130

Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2016

Heavy machinery company Caterpillar is reportedly exploring the use of drones for fleet vehicle management in the field, while drones are the cornerstone of Komatsu’s “Smart Construction” service, which can fully automate bulldozers and excavators.

Company 127

Company Data Analysis Industry 127

Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

Just as you construct an investment portfolio differently for different investment objectives, you want construct your thinking portfolio. As strategy and planning give way to execution and operations, those with a more micro orientation take the lead. Most teams need every kind of thinking style at one point or another.

Construction 132

Construction Agile Examples Efficiency 132

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.

Management 133

Management Operations Construction Development 133

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

Adaptive Robots Update Construction Projects in Real Time. Big construction projects, such as Boston’s extensive, expensive Big Dig, can see costs quickly spiral out of control as unexpected events arise. Automated process change offers one way to help remove some factors that lead to time and cost overruns.

Automotive 118

Automotive Construction Survey Software 118

Halo Psych

OCTOBER 25, 2024

They take a helping, co-operative stance in the dialogue. They occasionally ask questions that gently and constructively challenge old assumptions. Most of us operate at levels 1 to 2, with some at level 3, very few at level 4. They make occasional suggestions to open up alternative paths.

Journal 64

Journal Research Examples Leadership 64

Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

We also had access to vast amounts of archival data on these organizations and the contexts in which they operated. These four categories cut across the traditional stakeholder groupings of customers, suppliers, employees, investors, regulators, and evaluators, who business leaders tend to segment according to their business operations.

Ethics 136

Ethics Case Interview Case Study Case Studies 136

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Established in 1989, Accenture operates in more than 120 countries worldwide. Founded in 1983, A&M operates in 38 cities worldwide. Applied Value offers strategy, finance, and operations management services. Kearney operates across 55 locations world wide. Bain operates in 47 offices across 30 countries.

Oliver Wyman 107

Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 107

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

It might be an earnings boost, where the post-acquisition company continues to operate independently while increasing the value of the parent company. ” These edges appear when artificial business constructs are dropped on top of human experience. Organizational structure is an artificial construct, and so is the value chain.

Software 98

Software Education Culture Construction 98

Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ensuring that your team understands how to operate within their new working conditions is a key part of creating a culture of accountability. As quarantine begins to ease, and businesses are starting to operate as normal again, organizations must take advantage of the changes they have made and assess which ones they want to keep.

Culture 130

Culture Operations ROI Tools 130

LSA Global

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Regardless of approach, all groups operate in a context about their shared fate based upon how necessary, willing, able, and dependable they believe those around them to be. To create a cadence of accountability , agree upon team norms and performance expectations, track progress, and encourage open and constructive debate.

Groups 68

Groups Change Management Culture Training 68

Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2017

Even with a clear idea of your company’s winning behavioral signature, leaders need to develop new ways of operating. We found that leaders who both inspire people and generate results find ways to constructively disrupt established behaviors to help employees break out of culture-weakening routines.

How To 134

How To Culture Survey Video 134

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. The STAP helped the leadership team increase trust, establish operating mechanisms, and to unify the group around a single strategic view of the division and its future. CASE STUDY.

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Agile Strategy Strategy Strategy& 96