Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

Still, effective project management requires more than profound knowledge and expertise: it demands the right tools to streamline processes, enhance team collaboration, and enable efficient decision-making everything you need to reach your companys strategic goals. Therefore, weve compiled a list of 15 best PMO software tools.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Four in 10 workers say that switching between tools is a major drag on their productivity.

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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. Leverage tools for collaboration and activities. Optimize your “tech” in advance.

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Epicflow

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Managing projects, aligning them with goals, and optimizing resources can be challenging without the right tools. Project portfolio management software, also known as a PPM tool, simplifies planning, execution, and monitoring. What Are Project Portfolio Management Tools?

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Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Recently the Professional Independent Consultants of America (PICA) hosted a members-only roundtable discussion to help people jumpstart their use of this powerful tool. 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.

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Clarity Consultants

JANUARY 13, 2025

Reduces Complexity: AI simplifies video production, voiceovers, and visual design , delivering professional results without extensive resources. AI for Visual Design AI tools like MidJourney and DALL-E 3 simplify visual creation. Use AI to draft scripts, brainstorm storyboard ideas, or suggest interactions.

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Markovitz Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2021

You can read that version, with more links to related articles, here.) ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— Leaders in organizations are always seeking to improve employee productivity (including their own). I would argue that most productivity improvements belong there as well.

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2024

Companies need new ways to innovate quickly, cheaply, and productively. To investigate, we researched how companies are using AI for innovation and found that tools are just tools — success depends on how organizations use these new tools now at their disposal. Many, quite reasonably, wonder how deploying AI might help.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2024

But, despite the enthusiasm of tech gurus and companies alike, is this really how adopting AI tools will play out?

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Effective Managers

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The goal is to blend professional and personal responsibilities seamlessly, promoting overall well-being and productivity. Increases Productivity: A balanced approach allows for better focus and efficiency, leading to higher productivity. Use prioritization tools to differentiate between urgent and important tasks.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2024

While AI has the potential to solve major problems, organizations embarking on such journeys of often encounter obstacles. They include a dearth of high-quality data; too many possible solutions; the lack of a clear, measurable objective; and difficulty in identifying whether a proposed solutions is good.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 12, 2024

Meetings can either be a powerful catalyst for collaboration and decision-making or a drain on time and productivity. Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors.

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Epicflow

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Read on to arm yourself with the right knowledge and tools, and drive your manufacturing project s to successful delivery. The manufacturing industry significantly depends on supply chain s, as the production process requires seamless procurement of raw materials, components, spare parts, etc. The Increasing Demand for Products.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2024

How much value are your customers getting from your products? Net Promoter Scores are one tool to answer that question but the authors offer another: Customer Surplus Value. The idea, drawn from economics, is to ask customers how much money they’d need to be given to give up your product for a period of time.

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Epicflow

JULY 27, 2022

Increasing employee productivity is a hot topic in every business environment today. What Affects Employee Productivity? There are plenty of factors impacting people’s productivity – from proper workflow organization to employees’ lifestyle and health condition. Let’s figure it out in the article. . Employees’ workload.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The authors have come to think about this issue as points on a spectrum and have created a sports analogy to help think about it: AI tools can range from steroids, to sneakers, to a coach, each representing a different relationship between human users and the technology.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The promise of higher productivity makes using ChatGPT and other gen AI tools to help with daily business writing tempting. But there are risks: loss of your unique voice, inadvertent errors, and ethical pitfalls, all of which can negatively impact your credibility and relationships.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Despite the progress made by vendors, using AI-enhanced productivity tools alone will not give you a competitive edge — just as provisioning smartphones, email, or web access to your team is nothing more strategic than providing electricity or running water. There are three drivers of AI scale: community, commonality, and coordination.

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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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Effective Managers

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The goal is to blend professional and personal responsibilities seamlessly, promoting overall well-being and productivity. Increases Productivity: A balanced approach allows for better focus and efficiency, leading to higher productivity. Use prioritization tools to differentiate between urgent and important tasks.

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Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The rise of automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital tools has reshaped the way teams operate, and leaders must adapt to this transformation to remain effective. For leaders, this means not only adopting these technologies but also ensuring their teams are equipped with the skills and tools to thrive in a tech-driven environment.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Digital transformation can be a tool for doing both well and good. The authors look to the example of the Dutch Lottery, or Nederlandse Loterij (NLO), which faced a wave of digital disruptors that operated in a legal gray zone offering pure online products.

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Epicflow

DECEMBER 10, 2024

A matrix organizational structure means that a companys employees report to multiple managers, e.g., a project (or product) manager and a functional manager. At the same time, a functional manager strives for their departments productive work and requires the same team member for this purpose. Lets dive deeper into these issues.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The discussion centered around the transformative power of digital tools in enhancing the frontline workforce, particularly those in roles traditionally less touched by technology—roles where employees aren't tied to a desk but are instead out in the field.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 27, 2024

Everyone knows Jira as a task and project management tool that is popular with software developers. Read further to dive deeper into the tool’s advantages and disadvantages, and find ways to overcome its functionality limitations. Jira integrates with a variety of tools by Atlassian as well as third-party applications.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Cross-training employees on a variety of tasks can be a powerful tool for improving operations, as well as for attracting and retaining workers. For one thing, when employees are more productive and contribute more, companies can pay them more. Of course, that’s good for the business, but it also makes the job better for workers.

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Effective Managers

JUNE 24, 2024

In marketing, AI-driven tools analyze consumer data to personalize marketing efforts, tailor promotions, and optimize pricing strategies. These tools can assess the effectiveness of marketing campaigns in real-time, allowing for quick adjustments to maximize ROI. Furthermore, AI can enhance employee engagement and development.

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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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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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Tom Spencer

APRIL 5, 2024

In the competitive, fast-paced, and ever-evolving landscape of technology and business, the role of a product manager is pivotal. A great product manager is not just a project coordinator, they are visionaries, strategists, and leaders. As such, effective communication is the backbone of successful product management.

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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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Steve Shu Consulting

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

website design, text messages, email content, customer outreach, product design, decision tools). They innovate and try to create solutions and interventions to address behavioral obstacles (e.g., Architects also look to measure and perform A/B testing where they can to see how solutions and interventions impact outcomes.

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Epicflow

AUGUST 30, 2024

Its main purpose is to produce better products more efficiently and at lower costs. With this purpose, MOM involves the analysis of each stage in the production process to make sure that they are maximum efficient, and their costs are minimized. Key Elements of Manufacturing Operations Management Production management.

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Epicflow

JUNE 10, 2022

Issues with the supply chain lead to poor quality of products and delays in their releases. AS9100 is an international standardized quality management system for the aerospace industry, which aims to improve safety and reliability of aerospace products. Tools that simplify project risk management. Customer satisfaction. .

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Consulting Success

JULY 24, 2017

In this episode, Gordon and I discuss the value of white papers as content-filled marketing tools that you can use to set yourself apart as the expert consultant companies want to hire. A white paper is a simple product that sums up a your best thinking — it can be your best shot at outshining your competitors.

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Effective Managers

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Introduction The alignment of employee skills with job requirements is not just beneficial, it is essential for maximizing employee engagement and the resulting productivity. An employee who resonates with the company’s culture and values is more engaged and motivated, further enhancing productivity.

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Epicflow

MAY 31, 2022

One of the solutions is leveraging an effective resource management tool. . Changes to a developed product. Changes to a developed product are inevitable, however, they turn into challenges when they get out of control and there are several sources of truth. also remain in place. . Challenges in Aerospace Engineering Projects.

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