Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2018

Is there someone on your team who seems unusually productive? Super-productive people are in every industry. The most productive software developers write nine times more usable code per day than the average developer, according to research by Michael Mankins. htu/Getty Images. Think about your last day off. Show consistency.

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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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Tools Management Software Resources 130

Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2024

The promise of AI is alluring — optimized productivity, lightning-fast data analysis, and freedom from mundane tasks — and both companies and workers alike are fascinated (and more than a little dumbfounded) by how these tools allow them to do more and better work faster than ever before.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2017

How often do you consider the air quality in your office and how it affects employees and their productivity? Study after study has shown that the amount of ventilation, or fresh outdoor air brought inside, is a critical determinant of health. These are exactly the skills needed to be productive in the knowledge economy.

Productivity 131

Productivity Research Chemicals Energy 131

Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

Business leaders often think of “efficiency” and “productivity” as synonyms, two sides of the same coin. When it comes to strategy, however, efficiency and productivity are very different. Efficiency is about doing the same with less. Productivity is about doing more with the same.

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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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Tools Management Software Resources 130

Organizational Talent Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

It can be productive, motivating you to innovate, or draining, leading to burnout. A global study of 14,800 knowledge workers across 25 countries revealed: 49% of leaders and 42% of non-managers are struggling with anxiety 74% of those surveyed are looking to company leadership for help dealing with workplace stress.

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Efficiency Productivity Journal Survey 82

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Many students have shared stories of peers who studied for just two weeks and achieved high scores. Original strategy Many people around me initially told me that the GMAT would be easy and that it reflected a lot of content learned in high school (if you studied in North America).

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Harvard Business

JULY 7, 2016

Fast forward more than a century to the launch of the Toyota Prius, which succeeded not by going full electric, but making a gas-powered car, something people were already familiar with, more energy efficient. There are case studies in other sectors too: Just look at Chobani.

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Productivity Transportation Case Study Case Studies 122

Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

From telemedicine to wearable devices, health-tech innovations are not only improving patient outcomes but also making healthcare more accessible and efficient. By analyzing data on patient flow, staffing levels, and treatment outcomes, healthcare providers can make more informed decisions that enhance efficiency and patient satisfaction.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 24, 2021

When one thinks of management consultants, one inevitably thinks of highly efficient workers. This is because an efficient way of working is essential as a management consultant. So, the crucial question is, how do you become an efficient worker to withstand the time pressure in a management consultancy? Simple as that.

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Efficiency Case Interview Consulting Sports 103

Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It was a remarkable learning experience — although I’ve been on two other study trips to Japan, there’s always something new to see and understand when you visit a company that has adopted (and adapted) the Toyota Production System. He made this comment when we mentioned how impressed we were with the kaizen done in a production cell.

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Efficiency Study Productivity Development 176

Epicflow

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Lazy Project Manager: How to Be Twice as Productive and Still Leave the Office Early by Peter Taylor The Lazy Project Manager is based on the idea that lazy people always try to find easier ways to do what they have to. So, focusing on 20% of the most important work will result in 80% outcomes.

Management 29

Management Handbook Case Study Case Studies 29

Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

However, in business, decisions can be effectively and efficiently made based on near-perfect data/calculations. The framework should be in 2 levels , and beyond revenues and costs it could highlight a potential internal company or product problem, competition or a global market issue, etc. Market Study. and the other is 8 oz.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 4, 2025

Consumers are no longer swayed by just a great product, but seek more than that, craving authenticity and a genuine connection to the brand. In aB2Bcontext, your USP might focus on efficiency, cost savings, or technical performance. Indeed, the battle to build brand loyalty requires more than just great products.

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Marketing Video B2C Media 88

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Our recent study breaks new ground by measuring the economic losses caused by discrimination. These results indicate that the loss of Jewish managers also led to real losses in firm efficiency and profitability. of German gross national product, a first-order economic loss.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Environmental Metrics: These measure a company’s impact on the planet, including emissions, energy efficiency, waste management, water usage, and sustainability of the supply chain. This commitment extends across its entire production process, from sourcing raw materials to the final product assembly.

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Markovitz Consulting

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Around the time of this interview, GM had installed Unimate robots on the line, increasing production from 60 cars per hour to 101 cars per hour, and making it the fastest line in the world. He described a product development line in which the engine assemblers are over sixty years old. Note: 101 cars per hour? Kawai : No.

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Engineering Interviews Efficiency Productivity 34

Consulting Success

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Schedule – you fill your schedule with work that creates a sense of accomplishment and productivity. This creates more leverage, efficiency and creates better results for clients. Better case studies. 3 common reasons for taking on less than ideal clients are: Revenue – you increase your sales and revenue.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. So this measure may mislabel efficient companies as myopic. Corporate culture. One way to gauge this is in how a firm treats its workforce in bad times.

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Metrics Study McKinsey Cash Flow 99

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

Ronald Coase nailed it back in 1937 when he identified scalable efficiency as the key driver of the growth of large institutions. Scalable efficiency works best in stable environments that are not evolving rapidly. Scalable efficiency works best in stable environments that are not evolving rapidly. It’s scalable learning.

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Operations Efficiency Productivity Examples 134

Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, businesses like Netflix, Youtube, Amazon, and Airbnb use AI-powered recommendation systems to suggest movies, videos, products, and rental properties based on a user’s browsing history, past purchases, and revealed preferences based on past behavior.

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Data Operations Efficiency System 147

Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

On the other, the slowdown in productivity growth across advanced economies has led some economists to argue that new innovations have no impact on growth. These technologies increase productivity by making workers more skilled and efficient, and thus have the potential to yield both more economic growth and better jobs.

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Video Education Productivity Industry 133

Halo Psych

JANUARY 13, 2025

Break your goal down into smaller sub-goals A recent study in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that found that by breaking down a commitment to volunteer 200 hours per year into smaller subgoals made it more likely people would stick with the goal. One study examined the impact of attending the gym with a friend.

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Journal Exercises Research Study 103

Harvard Business

MARCH 17, 2017

Not one study suggests that working in an office eight hours a day, five days a week maximizes employee productivity, satisfaction, or performance. Factory workers, manual laborers, and workers in retail stores, restaurants, or hospitals have to be at their place of work at specific times to be productive.

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Real Estate Study Productivity Resources 133

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

Although machine-reengineering is new, companies are already seeing striking results with it, particularly in boosts to speed and efficiency. Studying 168 early adopters, we’ve seen speed improvements of two times or more for most business processes — and some organizations are reporting speed improvements of 10 times or more.

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Efficiency Company Data Engineering 70

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Businesses invest a great deal of time and money in interventions that claim to increase workers’ productivity through on-the-job training, new protocols, advice from consultants, and so on. Recent research suggests that there’s a surprising input into productivity that no one ever thinks about: clean air.

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Productivity Travel Policies Research 70

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Killing products isn’t easy. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. In our five-year study of global handset makers , we found that most firms pull products when they turn out to be obvious disasters such as the Note 7. Know the big picture.

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Productivity Resources Research Management 70

Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2018

Consumers almost always tell researchers that they prefer to have many versions of a product from which to choose. For retailers, that difference has big implications for the problem of assortment — how many variations of a single product to offer. Holger Weitzel/Getty Images. They will therefore prefer a large assortment.

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Productivity Retail Advertising Groups 71

Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

In our work with a dozen industrial firms in Germany and Scandinavia, we’ve studied how they try to increase the digital skills of their workforces — from creating accelerators to training internal talent — and we’ve observed how some of these common strategies present their own difficulties.

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Talent Recruitment Recruiting Boston Consulting Group 115

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

The results of studies have been mixed, so research has yet to answer the question of whether women are better at carrying out multiple tasks than men. We are less efficient, less effective, and more likely to make mistakes when we multitask. The study also found that we are less happy when our minds are wandering.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2022

This increases communication effectiveness but can reduce productivity due to a split focus on work and interaction. The increased efficiencies gained through virtual working may be lost due to increased socialisation in the physical workplace. This is an intriguing dichotomy – resistance to talk versus talking too freely.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

According to two recent comprehensive studies of employers and job seekers by Indeed.com (the world’s highest-traffic job website) a full 91% of people are either openly looking or open to a new job, and 76% look at opportunities at least monthly. The act of job-switching also hurts personal and organizational performance.

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Resumes Study Productivity Analysis 131

Epicflow

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

When there are multiple projects in the environment, tracking resource performance becomes even more essential – due to resource dependency, one resource bottleneck will become an obstacle for efficient work of the whole environment. . Obviously, stressed and overloaded employees cannot be productive. Don’t overload the team .

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Management Resources Efficiency Software 130

Clarity Consultants

MAY 27, 2024

From boardrooms to tech conferences, the dialogue centers on AI’s transformative potential to revolutionize processes, enhance decision-making, and drive unparalleled efficiency and innovation. Click to read the Case Study!

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Training Training Case Study Case Studies 147

Effective Managers

APRIL 8, 2021

Organizations today need efficient managers to nurture a culture where there are precise models for accountability and authority. Henry Mintzberg , a professor in McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management, has studied and written about managers and managing extensively.

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Leadership Management Methodologies Efficiency 130

Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Our goal in this article is to offer specific, real-world case studies to show how big data has provided value for companies that have worked with Microsoft’s analytics teams. The first use case involves predicting demand for consumer products that are in the “long tail” of consumption. Predicting demand.

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