Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2024

Even smaller and medium-size enterprises can become more sustainable by finding other companies that need their waste.

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Markovitz Consulting

APRIL 7, 2020

when the lean operating system she helped install enabled the staff at the Starbucks stores around Newtown, CT manage the chaos and trauma around the Newtown massacre. John Shook of the Lean Enterprise Institute has often talked about the problem of unregulated “employee empowerment.” And they succeeded at that.

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Consulting Success

AUGUST 1, 2022

Staying competitive in a globalized ecosystem of enterprises requires assistance from outsourced, external experts to help your business scale. In this episode, Bianca Robinson, the CEO of Cayden Cay Consulting, talks about her career shift from being a project manager for an engineering firm to diving into consulting service.

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Consulting Success

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

a management consulting firm that brings change management and operational transformation expertise to global enterprises in the life sciences, healthcare and technology industries. For the ten years being in industry, Shannon Adkins was a buyer of consulting services and of multimillion-dollar contracts of consulting services.

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Progressus

MARCH 5, 2025

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are indispensable tools for modern businesses aiming to optimize operations and drive competitive advantage. However, even the most advanced ERP systems can fall short without proper alignment between IT and business objectives.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This article delves into the rising importance of ESG metrics, how companies are integrating them into their operations, provides leading examples, and highlights the evolving regulatory landscape. As a B Corp, Danone is part of a global movement that balances purpose and profit, reinforcing its role as a socially responsible enterprise.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2016

A new set of relationships is being formed within companies around how people working in data, analytics, IT, and operations teams work together. Data and analytics represent a blurring of the traditional lines of demarcation between the scope of IT and the responsibilities of operating divisions. Data and analytics embedded in IT.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As reliance on data and analytics continues to expand across industries from agriculture to manufacturing, health care to financial services, it stands to reason that the next generation of data leaders will have far-reaching roles that impact strategy, decision-making, operations, and countless other functions.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

The authors suggest six scenarios that all boards must consider — and then act upon — ranging from predicting extreme operational changes, to anticipating new strategic ways to compete, to foreseeing existential threats that could obviate one’s business. How can boards better understand the potential impacts of AI?

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Consulting Matters

AUGUST 6, 2018

You may have found your way to consulting as a result of developing an expertise within a specific functional area like marketing, sales or operations and now are being invited to contribute towards projects that affect the entire enterprise.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The job of a board is to protect shareholders’ interests. But because AI is so fundamentally disruptive (strategically, operationally, and competitively), the board has an obligation to its shareholders to drive and oversee the change.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

CEOs must integrate the multifaceted costs into their strategic vision, acknowledging nuances such as inference cost, fine-tuning cost, prompt engineering cost, cloud expenses, talent costs, and operation costs.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Without them, there is no way companies can upgrade their technology without causing disruption to their operations. In every industry, many large corporations have teams that help bridge outdated, disconnected systems, and databases.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. Rapid impact generates excitement and buzz while providing lessons that can be codified and shared, ensuring a better outcome for the enterprise as a whole. ” Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. It’s a familiar story.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Some health care businesses use duplicate dyad management structures—one to oversee the clinical enterprise and another to oversee the business and operations that support the clinical enterprise. The dyad model can help break down silos, improve the way clinical and operations leaders work together, and coordinate care.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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Successful Independent Consulting

AUGUST 28, 2024

2] These taglines were created and are owned respectively by 1) Tom Freestone , Freestone Enterprises; 2) Susan Nelson , HR Leaders Coach; 3) Stacey Schwarcz , Ariel Analytics; 4) Joe Hopkins , Collective Fusion Consulting. Insert your keywords, then add words that tee up the result (e.g., leading to, so that, resulting in, etc.).

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Epicflow

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This article is based on our webinar “ Project Management Disasters in Enterprises.” Is this really helpful in the complex world of large enterprises that execute lots of projects simultaneously, together with hosts of other activities? Resource management has strategic, tactical, and operational aspects.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 9, 2021

It can grow and mature together with other enterprises, many of which are driving the economic advances in those areas. The future of consulting lies in a mutual-benefit approach between enterprises and their consultants. Effective Managers is an adherent of focusing on the whole enterprise.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2017

In spite of the investment enthusiasm, and ambition to leverage the power of data to transform the enterprise, results vary in terms of success. About half of the executives I surveyed predict major disruption on the horizon, as big data continues to change how businesses operate and compete. report having success.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 17, 2018

Yes, data, like oil, is used day-to-day to operate your prediction machine. Instead, the data you have now, which your company accumulated over time, is the type of data used to build the prediction machine — not operate it. New data allows you to operate your prediction machine after it is trained. That’s an asset.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. But it turns out these methods don’t just have to do with technology and operations. They do this with methods proven useful in accelerating software development, such as “ Agile ,” and which are increasingly being used for hardware product development, too. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 4, 2022

Tech-savvy companies have started to adopt a new discipline: machine learning operations, or MLOps.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

To do this, we examined how 49 enterprise leadership teams spend their time and also looked at their perceived effectiveness on critical behaviors of a senior team. That time is spent establishing financial and operational metrics, aligning goals with overarching strategy, allocating resources, and reviewing key metrics.

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Epicflow

MARCH 22, 2023

In times of economic crisis, enterprises try to find ways to reduce their expenses and improve profitability to survive during tough times. Also, if a company decides to cut expenses but does nothing to increase operational efficiency, it may lead to delivering low-quality output and decreased customer satisfaction.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Cleaning up data downstream is expensive and not scalable, because data is a byproduct of business processes and operations like marketing, sales, plant operations, and so on. This requires close collaboration with the operating units and IT. High-quality data can reduce the cost and risk of IT projects.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Scalability to accommodate growing portfolios or enterprise-level requirements. Additionally, seamless integration with essential business tools boosts connectivity and streamlines operations, making it an indispensable asset for PMOs seeking a versatile and intuitive project management solution. Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid).

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Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2016

As if that weren’t tough enough, another challenge for corporate leaders is how to make sense of strategic alignment at both the team / business unit level (or division or department, however it is classified) and at the enterprise level. And yet it is possible.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This means that for any operation in Epicflow, your business data remains secure on your servers. Product Updates Before going deeper into the product’s new features, we’re excited to present our updated feature pages to those who haven’t seen them yet.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An entire industry now exists to train us humans to be smarter in how we operate computers, and yet the number of cybersecurity incidents continues to rise. There are simply too many chances for us to accidentally hurt ourselves or the networks on which we operate regardless of how much training we receive. naqiewei/Getty Images.

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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

Here are a few areas that are probably creating lethal operational drag on the corporate ship. Jim Womack, author and founder of the Lean Enterprise Institute, describes this classic problem as “the loud voice of the CEO at the top becoming a faint whisper by the time it reaches the front lines of the organization.”

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The challenge of strategy is to develop an integrated view of the workings of your business and how it creates and captures value within its operating environment. In plotting your position in the market, defining how you’ll create value and for whom, you also need to define your operating model.

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Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

McKinsey consultancy suggests that the data-driven enterprise of 2025 will be characterized by certain processes [2]. Basic day-to-day operations will be automated, and people will be able to focus more on innovation, collaboration, and communication. . The Data-Driven Enterprise of 2025. References . NewVantage Partners.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2023

In reality, research has shown that extrinsic and intrinsic motivations operate jointly to predict high performance. Job candidates should invest in building their negotiation skills so they are less thrown off when companies use social impact framing.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Most executives today know their enterprises should be aligned. They know their strategies, organizational capabilities, resources, and management systems should all be arranged to support the enterprise’s purpose. This is what enterprise alignment looks like. Enterprise purpose: What do we do and why do we do it?

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Prediction is the Holy Grail for more effectively executing mass scale operations in marketing, financial risk, fraud detection, and beyond. The problem at hand is to optimize your large-scale operations. Prepare the training data that machine learning will operate on. Integrate its predictions into existing operations.

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