Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. What Affects Employee Productivity? There are plenty of factors impacting people’s productivity – from proper workflow organization to employees’ lifestyle and health condition. Let’s figure it out in the article. . Employees’ workload.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Here’s an overview of the main principles of this approach: Muda: aims to streamline project workflow by eliminating waste, e.g., overproduction, excess inventory, idle time, and product defects; Value Stream Mapping (VSM): visualizes the full process of value delivery (e.g.,

Engineering 248

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Effective Managers

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Empathy allows managers to understand different perspectives and resolve conflicts amicably, enhancing team morale and productivity. This adaptability ensures that organizations can navigate changes smoothly and maintain productivity. Improves Decision-Making Emotional intelligence aids in better decision-making.

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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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LSA Global

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Senior Leader Feedback McKinsey found that as executives become more senior, they areless likely to receive constructive performance and strategic feedback. Lack of Customized Training Many professionals lack the communication essentials to deliver feedback constructively or receive it with an open mind. That is a waste.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The capacity of HHI is superior to its competitors — a four-kilometer Ulsan shipyard with nine huge “Goliath Cranes,” 16,000 well-trained and experienced people in production, R&D, management, and administration, and the ability to manufacture any ship of any size with superb quality and the highest deadweight tonnage in the world.

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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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LSA Global

JANUARY 22, 2025

In a working group, there is no collective work product beyond individual accomplishments. In a team, however, performance is measured primarily by the products produced collectively by the team. For example, the performance of swim, track, golf, and gymnastics teams is a function of what its members do as individuals.

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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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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 4, 2017

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. I brought perspectives on starting up new business initiatives. When they got the job, I was in the perfect position to continue to advise more formally.

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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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Effective Managers

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The key is to manage conflicts constructively. This includes skills like controlling one’s own emotions, calming others, and redirecting the conversation to more constructive topics. Conclusion Effective conflict resolution is essential for maintaining a healthy and productive workplace.

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Effective Managers

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The key is to manage conflicts constructively. This includes skills like controlling one’s own emotions, calming others, and redirecting the conversation to more constructive topics. Conclusion Effective conflict resolution is essential for maintaining a healthy and productive workplace.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

“We need to get rid of the static production lines where only one car and one configuration can be built,” he says, adding that the automotive industry in Germany can already support over one million configurations of a car model — as opposed to U.S., Adaptive Robots Update Construction Projects in Real Time.

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Markovitz Consulting

MARCH 3, 2020

Back in November, I mentioned that the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. Not to be outdone, NPR reported that Microsoft Japan moved to a four-day workweek this summer while increasing productivity by 40%. Why not two?),

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2018

The impact of absentee leadership on job satisfaction outlasts the impact of both constructive and overtly destructive forms of leadership. Constructive leadership immediately improves job satisfaction, but the effects dwindle quickly. Research shows that being ignored by one’s boss is more alienating than being treated poorly.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Misalignment between these people strategies can lead to decreased productivity, higher turnover, and a misaligned company culture. Aligned strategies boost employee retention, enhance productivity, reinforce team norms , and drive innovation. Build a Healthy and Aligned Culture Organizational health and alignment can be measured.

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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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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.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Enhancing Employee Skills : Through targeted training programs, employees can develop new competencies that significantly enhance their performance and productivity. Constructive feedback helps employees understand their progress, identify areas for improvement, and stay motivated.

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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

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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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 6, 2020

That's why we have projects—to work on this product for now, until we've delivered something. See Projects, Products, and the Project Portfolio: Part 1, Organize the Work to see what I mean about projects. I suspect that's because the SEI and the PMI both thought creating software was similar to construction.

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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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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. So three different legs of a business type of knowledge from product development to high level sales to post sale services, and at a high level managing all of those things. Most people don't have two of those and I had three of them.

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Clarity Consultants

JULY 5, 2023

In today’s dynamic corporate world, training programs enhance employee skills, boost productivity, and drive organizational success. Provide timely and constructive feedback to learners, highlighting their strengths and areas for improvement.

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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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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. Is releasing a product anything like giving birth?

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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. At the same time, diversity in societal norms, customs, and ethics can nurture technological innovation and the diffusion of new ideas, and thus the production of a greater variety of goods and services.

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2016

In the lean-manufacturing context, in contrast, assembly line workers learn to execute a variety of production tasks, take responsibility for product quality, and are encouraged to find ways to improve the production process. Workers tend to earn more and report higher engagement with their jobs.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. This will likely mean a more flexible work structure as well, in the interest of products and services that ideally can be adjusted to anticipate customer needs. How it effects product design and customer experience.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 21, 2017

“rust-belt” states, which were some of the most productive areas during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. technological development over the long-run, we constructed a measure that we call foreign-born expertise. The chart below shows the share in each state of inventors who were born abroad.

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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. So three different legs of a business type of knowledge from product development to high level sales to post sale services, and at a high level managing all of those things. Most people don't have two of those and I had three of them.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Later group members indicated that their real-world difficult conversations indeed had become more productive. Group reflection conversations help employees master the difficult skills of giving and accepting honest, constructive feedback. You and Your Team Series. Learning to Learn. Erika Andersen. Liane Davey. Monique Valcour.

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Clarity Consultants

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Organizations seek to optimize workforce performance and productivity by implementing effective training programs.

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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. By definition, performance is highest when we are not learning.

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