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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Structural challenges Proposed Improvements Read the full report We have an opportunity to improve the apprenticeship levy system for its second decade, and focus on what really matters: not only up front costs and qualifications, but outputs and impacts.

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Apprenticeship Levy flexibility and productivity

Chartered Management Institute

Structural challenges Proposed Improvements Read the full report We have an opportunity to improve the apprenticeship levy system for its second decade, and focus on what really matters: not only up front costs and qualifications, but outputs and impacts.

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Case Study: Can an Airline Cut “Turn Times” Without Adding Staff?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. A week from now, I’d like a proposal for how to get back to 12 minutes, if not down to 10. That proposal would surely make Isharu-san laugh again.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Conrad’s proposal had divided the board down the middle, with half the members favoring it and the other half crying foul. operations. Editor’s Note.

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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. Other managers might take notice and started building their own databases. The result?

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. The leading companies are getting out in front of this trend.

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MBAs Should Take Competency Tests

Harvard Business Review

It's great to see students get their shoes dusty with real-world forays, but I fear they are losing the ability to read a balance sheet or parse the kind of complex data they'd get in case-study coursework. And teaching methods have changed. Other fields do this. Why shouldn't business schools and MBAs face the same discipline?