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Top 5 Manufacturing Trends for 2024: What’s New?

Epicflow Blog

In a few words, the industry is going to evolve in three major areas: implementing recent technological advancements (Industry 4.0), finding ways to address post-pandemic challenges, and meeting sustainability requirements. At present, manufacturing companies are increasingly investing in green initiatives.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Butchibabu and her colleagues (2016) performed an experiment with 13 teams. We’ve always found the following sentences useful to complete for work agreements in this area: “We encourage each other to maintain a sustainable pace by …”. The five areas we presented here are not meant to be exhaustive. In summary. References.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

Several empirical studies have indeed found that teams with a frequent delivery strategy are more likely to deliver successful project outcomes and satisfy stakeholders than teams that do not ( Chow & Cao, 2008 , Jørgensen, 2016 ). Ultimately, the role of (top) management is to keep their business healthy and economically sustainable.

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Understanding the Organizational Governance System as Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

They transform project initiatives from isolated endeavors into integral components of the organization's broader strategic roadmap, laying the groundwork for sustained success and growth. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2015—North America, Orlando, FL. References: Alie, S. Müller, R., Shao, J., &

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5 Career Resolutions I Completed In 2016

Project Management Hacks

I did have the advantage that this person was already presenting at a career panel (I was not able to attend the event due to previous commitments). The book presents some excellent models to analyze business situations (e.g. identifying whether a situation is “a start up”, “sustaining success”, “turnaround” or another case).

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Innovation in project management: Inspiration from Dubai

Susanne Madsen

Already when I prepared for my presentation the organisers said, “Innovation is a big thing down here”, and indeed it is. I recently spoke at Dubai International Project Management Forum ( DIPMF ) and was struck by the innovative theme of the conference. Perhaps it shouldn’t have come as a surprise.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

Celoxis

Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2017 professional journal: The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. Year in Review. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum.

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