Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

In this post, I will share my learnings on running virtual meetings to help you be more productive remotely. Setting the right time frame can really help to make your meeting more productive by reducing the likelihood of getting off track. Share your objective and agenda ahead of time. Optimize your “tech” in advance.

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Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

For us, ChatGPT isn't just another tech gimmick; it's a virtual assistant that can elevate our creativity, enhance productivity, and revolutionize our communications. If your client is a financial services company, you’ll want a more serious tone than if your customer is Burton snowboards.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2024

This oversight can lead to significant financial costs due to increased healthcare expenses, reduced productivity, and decreased labor availability. Proactively safeguarding employee health not only benefits workers but also strengthens public health systems and enhances corporate financial stability.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In addition, problems with equipment may cause additional risks related to workers’ safety and product quality. Finally, the increased use of digital technologies makes manufacturers vulnerable to cyber attacks that can disrupt the whole production process. For example, the manufacturing industry in the U.S.

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 28, 2025

Digital currencies are revolutionizing the financial world, creating new opportunities and challenges for consumers, financial institutions, and governments. While cryptocurrencies promise to deliver more efficient, transparent, and accessible financial systems, the rise of crypto is also driven by broader concerns.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

For example, if your goal is to increase sales, your L&D programs might focus on enhancing sales techniques, product knowledge, or customer relationship management skills. Productivity metrics: Assess changes in output per employee or team efficiency. Output per employee: Track changes in individual or team productivity levels.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The adoption of AI is revolutionizing banking products, enabling financial institutions to offer personalized service, increase efficiency, and enhance security. This article explores the impact of AI on banking products, and the innovations being driven by this technology. AI-Driven Innovations in Banking Products 1.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 29, 2024

They are typically easier to implement than employee productivity use cases because they don’t require as much behavior change, and easier to measure improvements in economic value because improving customer satisfaction often has a financial payoff.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2023

Despite living on a planet with finite resources, our economy remains largely linear and full of single-use products. The shift toward a circular economy, where companies recover or recycle resources, has hit roadblocks, including low value of used products and high recycling costs.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

These metrics are increasingly influencing business decision-making and thus shaping corporate reputation in a way that impacts customer loyalty and financial performance. Financial Performance There is growing support for the view that strong ESG performance correlates with better financial outcomes.

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Steve Shu Consulting

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

ethical, philosophical, financial), and desired outcome measurements. financial spending, medication adherence, governmental compliance). website design, text messages, email content, customer outreach, product design, decision tools). Architects try to leverage behavioral science research where they can (e.g.,

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Support and training providing tools, templates, and training to project teams to enhance their productivity and adherence to standards. Improved Resource Allocation Efficient resource allocation is crucial for optimizing productivity and avoiding burnout. Alerts and tracking systems for unresolved issues.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Budgeting and Cost Control Tracks financial data, including budgets , expenses, and forecasts. Helps identify and address cost overruns early to ensure financial efficiency. It prevents overloading or underutilizing team members, increasing productivity and employee satisfaction.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 24, 2024

AI in Enhancing Productivity and Employee Engagement AI’s impact on productivity is profound. A financial services firm could use AI-driven algorithms for credit scoring and fraud detection, enhancing security and customer trust. Conclusion The practical applications of AI in business are vast and varied.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, this technology is designed to be decentralized, with “layers,” where each layer is defined by an interoperable open protocol on top of which companies, as well as individuals, can build products and services. The TCP/IP protocol was used to address and control how packets of data were routed between computers.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

These startups have usually been in operation for around five years, have substantial funding, and have products that have achieved product-market fit. At this stage, the startup is likely on the path to an acquisition or IPO, potentially setting you up for a significant financial payout from such an event.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

These projects deal with the actual production of drugs once they are approved. First, it’s explained by competition with other companies; delayed projects result in significant financial losses and missed opportunities. Drug manufacturing.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 8, 2018

That growth drives financial success, innovation, and helps organizations scale in ways that can deliver greater services and products to customers over time. From a business perspective, it's critical to grow. But growth for growth's sake is rarely a smart strategy.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This article explores the growing emphasis on employee well-being, initiatives companies are implementing to support it, and the benefits of prioritizing employee well-being, including increased productivity, innovation, and staff retention. Companies that invest in employee well-being tend to experience increased productivity.

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Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In today’s competitive business landscape, traditional sales and marketing-driven approaches are increasingly giving way to a new paradigm: Product Led Growth (PLG). Product Led Growth is a business methodology in which the product itself serves as the primary driver of customer acquisition. What is PLG?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Companies can see big financial benefits by utilizing existing data and simpler technologies to reduce waste, labor costs, overhead, and utility expenses. Too often, smaller companies are intimidated by the high costs, complexity, and long installation times that high-end smart factory systems can require. This is short-sighted.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Budgeting and Cost Control Tracks financial data, including budgets , expenses, and forecasts. Helps identify and address cost overruns early to ensure financial efficiency. It prevents overloading or underutilizing team members, increasing productivity and employee satisfaction.

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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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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped. Inventory challenges aren’t new. Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory.

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Sales leaders understand that these potentially high-value customers are looking for more than descriptions of product and service benefits. 3 Ways to Win Over Value Buyers Value buyers want sellers who have solutions to help them achieve key goals, not just products.

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Clarity Consultants

JULY 28, 2021

In others, it’s because they’ve discovered better work-life balance and boosted productivity, making the work-from-home model beneficial personally and professionally. You can provide them with tools to improve their physical and mental health, as well as financial well-being.

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Steve Shu Consulting

APRIL 19, 2018

We introduced thought leadership materials like some of the other firms, but we also took it further by equipping financial advisors with specific tools to help assess the behavioral architecture of retirement plans offered by companies. This can include wanting to do holistic innovation that touches on service, products, and applications.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2023

The use of financial instruments such as perpetual bonds can make considerable quantities of capital available to offset producers, spurring the production and the creation of spot markets in offsets that can definitively and reliably be offset against emissions.

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Clarity Consultants

JUNE 30, 2023

This is because they are better equipped to handle tasks, solve problems, and deliver high-quality work–all of which impact organizational productivity. The more self-assured they feel, the more motivated they will be to work hard, which of course, also increases productivity.

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Clarity Consultants

MARCH 12, 2025

Rather than viewing eLearning as a sunk cost, many organizations approach it as a strategic advantage that enhances productivity, improves compliance, and fosters employee engagement. It assesses long-term business impact, including productivity gains, cost savings, and performance improvements.

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Steve Shu Consulting

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

On the one hand this includes the capabilities of companies to integrate specific aspects of their product management, software development, UX, data science, and marketing processes. It’s Time to A/B Test Your Financial Life. But it also means developing a research mindset that comes from the experimental side of behavioral economics.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

When unmanaged, these risks can impact people’s safety and, to make matters worse, come down to considerable financial losses. . Issues with the supply chain lead to poor quality of products and delays in their releases. Accordingly, they are more vulnerable to the consequences of risk-bearing events. Customer satisfaction. .

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 9, 2023

These systems can suggest relevant products that customers are likely to enjoy. For example, Alibaba, a leading Chinese e-commerce company, could conduct sentiment analysis of customer reviews of individual products and services, and use these insights to modify existing products and develop new ones.

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Markovitz Consulting

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In the space of two weeks, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran articles on the productivity benefits of reduced work hours. The same is true of employees at Tower Paddle Boards (at least during the summer months) and Collins SBA , a financial advisory firm in Australia. There’s certainly some truth to that argument.

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Consulting Matters

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Tier your price points for your different products and services in a way that makes it easy to attract your ideal clientele and fosters a relationship. By the same token, undercharging creates the same challenge because that old adage is true, “we value what we pay for.”

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Steve Shu Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

If happiness efforts are tied into mainstream issues related to HR, marketing, or product design, then it might be able to ride on familiar value propositions where consulting engagements could be justified. There appears to be a growing generation of people who are concerned about excessive materialism and consumerism.

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Epicflow

JULY 20, 2022

Sometimes, it’s rather difficult to predict whether a company will be capable of delivering a certain product or service, whether it’s reasonable to invest in this project, and how it will affect the current workflow. Will the delivered product/services be in demand on the market? Financial (or economic) feasibility .

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