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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

Manufacturing companies continually seek ways to improve their processes, optimize costs, and increase competitiveness. and implementing advanced software solutions. They both aim to achieve success by improving efficiency and optimizing processes. This leads to fewer defects, lower losses, and higher profits.

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"Process Mining"? Sounds Like a Waste of Time.

Markovitz Consulting

Fortunately, now there’s a host of companies providing process mining software that will eliminate all these problems and set you on a smooth glide path to success. The software captures information and transactions as they flow through the company, and makes visible how long that (computer-mediated) work takes. Show respect.

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Consultant and Client Perception

Tom Spencer

He works with organisations to help them implement software and undertake business process improvement. I work as an IT Consultant helping companies with system implementation and business process improvement. (Source: Flickr ). This guest post is from Tat Biswas , an IT consultant and blogger based in Sydney.

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

Harvard Business

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. 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.

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10 Ways To Making Money And A Difference as a Consultant & Coach (Number 2 Is My Favorite)

Consulting Matters

Coaching, training, strategy, process improvement are all tactics that we use but it's not the essence of what we offer. Even if you're the one advising an organization about workflow software, you have the opportunity to help a client step back and think about why they want to automate their workflow. Not your methodologies.

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CC’ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted

Harvard Business

He found that increased transparency led workers to conceal information, even when that information was beneficial, such as process improvements they’d discovered. We also found that clueless, well-meaning people, like Ali, might be in the minority.

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