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The Value of Value Chain Analysis in Transforming Your Business

N2Growth Blog

You can think of core work activities are generic bundles of effort, which have been stripped free from any association to the current workplace environment. Once fully documented, the value chain represents the transformation team’s recommended work environment. Value chains are comprised of core work activities.

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7 Steps to Problem Solving

Skip Prichard

Complex problem solving is the core skill for 21st century teams. Their new book is BULLETPROOF PROBLEM SOLVING: The One Skill That Changes Everything. New Skills Required. Would you share a little about the evolution of managerial skills and what skills are needed in the current era? Bulletproof Problem Solving.

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A Dedicated Team of Problem Solvers Can Help Big Companies Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business Review

We have a lot of newer businesses that come to us for credit and we need to do due diligence on them. So it’s an incredibly labor intensive process for us to verify whether they are a good credit risk.” Engineers scale up the technology to ensure that it can work in a larger environment.

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What Every Manager Should Know About Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

Rating the credit risk of loan applicants. For one, they are all complex environments, where the right decision might depend on a lot of variables (which means they require “wide” data). That is, you might not need to know what happens when you change the environment. Forecasting long-term customer loyalty.

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