Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2016

At its most basic, productivity is the amount of value produced divided by the amount of cost (or time) required to do so. It’s tempting to conclude that, if individuals are able to perform their work much better and faster, overall productivity must be soaring. sales-related, product-related, program-related, etc.).

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

But it’s important to remember what comes between the motivated employee and the satisfied customer: the innovative product or service that the employee creates and the company sells. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things , incorporating up-to-the-minute digital technology has become critical to its product innovation.

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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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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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Markovitz Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

All too often, companies that strive for first mover advantage bleed their products—or their entire organization—to death. Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. Good luck finding any of those products today.

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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. It was all reminiscent of 19 th century advertisements for cure-all patent medicines. ” Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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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. The next phase will be to use data for new products and other innovations. Organizations still struggle to forge what would be consider a “data-driven” culture.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The complex calculations of the field known as Operations Research were enabled by mainframe computing. Client-server technology begat enterprise resource planning systems, and the consequent system-wide visibility that was required for what we call business process management (BPM). How organizations are changing.

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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. The chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) of a consumer product company is struggling to manage end-user consent data. Here’s an example.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Yet for too many entrepreneurs, especially those steeped in tech and devoted to product, strategy often seems to be an afterthought. Experiment and create a great product, the thinking goes, then scale, and then figure out the business model once you’ve succeeded. What Value Are You Intending to Create, and for Whom?

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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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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, IoT is at the peak of Gartner’s 2015 hype cycle, which suggests the next phase will be disillusionment, and it will be years before we see real productivity gains. We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems. Operations in a Connected World.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Epicflow Awards and Our Clients’ Achievements Best ERP Solution Epicflow has received another award from Crozdesk – the product review platform experts have recognized Epicflow as one of the best ERP Software Solutions in 2023. This means that for any operation in Epicflow, your business data remains secure on your servers.

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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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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 workforce will be more engaged, more productive, and the outcomes will be greatly improved. The future of consulting lies in a mutual-benefit approach between enterprises and their consultants.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

But it’s particularly difficult for large, traditional firms , especially those which operate in consolidated, non-growth industries (think pulp and paper, steel, airlines) and which are often located away from the metropolitan areas where data scientists live. There were no processes in place to share the learning.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

The companies with the greatest value from IoT to date are the best at dealing with how products are performing for customers. Of course, every company eventually gets the truth about how its products and services are performing for customers. Operations in a Connected World. The call center logs customer complaints.

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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. Strategy is how the business will achieve it.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

The reason for that paradox, as the OECD has warned , is that the productivity gap between firms at the global frontier and those lagging behind has widened. Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. billion euro.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2018

If all went well, AI-powered robots would enable the company to achieve a weekly production of 5,000 Model 3 electric cars to keep up with burgeoning demand. According to CEO Elon Musk, the sophisticated robots actually slowed down production instead of speeding it up. Adding Humans to the Mix. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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Epicflow

JULY 12, 2022

The primary goal of becoming a data-driven organization is to improve decision making, which in turn will provide customers with better products or services and as a result increase profitability and facilitate business growth. . The Data-Driven Enterprise of 2025. Embedding data in every decision, interaction, and process. .

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 7, 2024

Priorities might include developing new products, expanding into new markets, enhancing the customer experience, increasing operational efficiency, or embracing sustainability. Unique advantages include strengths that distinguish a business, add value to its products, and give it a competitive edge over the competition.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. How to Become a Digital Enterprise.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Practically every organization today has a set of core values that ideally function as the “operating instructions” of the company. Several words always come up in practically every discussion, no matter if the company is a large enterprise or a small business, B2B or a B2C, product or service, new or established.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

They include new enterprises such as Orbian , Prime Revenue , C2FO , Taulia , and Ariba as well as new operations launched by traditional financial service firms such as Citi Group, HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Deutsche Bank. Operations in a Connected World. the supplier gets $9,959 of the $10,000). Insight Center.

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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. Maximizing economies of scale lies at the heart of McDonald’s product-centric business model.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

Sivadasan’s team provides data and analysis to support specific value-adding activities across the enterprise. The third driver is the experience with the product itself. By analyzing social media and direct customer feedback, Lenovo’s ecommerce team helps the company improve its products.

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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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Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. Agile teams definitely work better with senior sponsorship, and executive support will ultimately be important to scaling agile throughout the enterprise. Tetra Images/Getty Images.

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Kates Kesler

JUNE 29, 2020

We regularly work with CEO’s that are frustrated with leader behaviors that undermine enterprise strategy. As an example, we recently worked with a healthcare company that contains product/service lines of business (LOB’s). For example, one LOB is best suited to acquire a broad customer base, even if this means operating at a loss.

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Epicflow

APRIL 11, 2023

Resource management software shouldn’t be confused with enterprise resource planning systems; these solutions aim to integrate and automate fundamental business processes – project and resource management, risk management, finance, supply chain, procurement, CRM, and more. The latter can also point out issues in the workflow if there are any.

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Resources Management Software Efficiency 130

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

” It’s a relief to have finally moved on from the era in which corporate responsibility meant feel-good philanthropic efforts divorced from an enterprise’s main activities. How do you know that recent growth resulted from greater public trust in a product, not a competitor’s screw-up?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 2, 2017

Only the CEO has the power to provide this kind of direction across the entire enterprise. Consider how General Electric arrived at the decision to develop and launch its Predix cloud-based industrial operation system. Product development teams have to work with field maintenance and commercial teams.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2017

Businesses have a variety of social responsibilities, but the essential one—and the main reason that private enterprise is given license to operate—is to innovate. We’d like to add a wrinkle to Beinhocker and Hanauer’s argument. Many minds make lighter work.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 10, 2017

When Roger Enrico took the helm as CEO of Frito-Lay, in 1991, the company was developing an innovative and distinctive approach to direct-store delivery that would allow it to consistently deliver the right products to the right stores at the right time.

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