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Engineering Project Management: The Essential Guide

Epicflow

Engineering projects deal with the design, development, and implementation of processes or technologies; they can be executed in civil, mechanical, software, or electric engineering: e.g., designing buildings, creating new devices, implementing manufacturing automation systems, etc. What is Engineering Project Management?

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Effective Manufacturing Operations Management in 2024

Epicflow

The Role of Operations Management in Manufacturing Industry Implementing operations management in manufacturing provides benefits that can significantly improve a manufacturing company’s overall performance and competitiveness. Read more: Digital Transformation in Manufacturing in 2024: Benefits & Examples 3.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

Leadership development represents a huge and growing investment for most organizations. Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. For example, one participant focused on creating a new pricing scheme.

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

Harvard Business

RPA is a category of software tools that enable complex digital processes to be automated by performing them in the same way a human user might perform them, using the user interface and following a set of predefined rules. Examples of RPA and Process Improvement. billion customer journey transformation program.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

firms took offshoring a step further and began contracting design and product development activities overseas around the turn of the millennium when China joined the World Trade Organization and Asian producers started investing in major capacity improvements. Take the example of lithium-ion batteries.

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Driving Digital Transformation in Aerospace & Defense: Recent Technology Trends

Epicflow

The technology allows A&D organizations to transform their manufacturing processes, improve safety, optimize customer service, system management, and, of course, transform military operations. Let’s take a look at some last year’s developments regarding AI applications in aerospace and defense. .

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

In core functional or process transformation initiatives — which are often driven by digitization — we’ve seen examples of people analytics being used to measure activities and find embedded expertise. Often times, facts can change the conversation from tired head-nodding to curiosity.

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