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Creating a Successful Fleet Operation Means Investing in Employees

Strategy Driven

Coconino County has enhanced its Public Works fleet operations by focusing on employee development and establishing new business practices. In addition to 18 employees operating three shops in two locations, the Division also manages two fueling sites and a Parts and Inventory Room. Background. Staffing Challenges and Planned Actions.

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Firms Need a Blueprint for Building Their IT Systems

Harvard Business Review

It is, unfortunately, also a great analogy for how many organizations have constructed their IT systems. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Their structure emerged and continues to evolve without any blueprint or architectural integrity. Insight Center.

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Advanced Analytics Are Crucial to Digital Transformation - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY

Harvard Business Review

IT has long played a critical role in helping organizations deliver better products and services, improve operations, better manage risks, and develop new business models to stay relevant. Core technologies such as cloud, mobility, modern applications, and networks continue to evolve. That’s still true.

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Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Another endorsed “willingness to learn and adapt to changing environments,” and a third urged “adaptability, the ability to operate in multi-cultural environments and the openness to learn.” Another urged executives to “continue to educate themselves commercially, financially, and operationally.”.

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The Dawning of the Age of Flex Labor

Harvard Business Review

There are two reasons such a flexible work system is now plausible. The second is technology. Recent examples include projects at firms such as General Electric, Staples, and dozens of other Fortune 1000 enterprises that span functional areas from marketing to strategy to human resources to operations.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. ’ What they’re really selling: Data processing systems. Real tradition is predicated upon change management and steady evolution of the business. .’ What they’re really selling: Paging equipment.

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