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Simplifying BPM Implementations
For a successful BPM implementation, organizations should look beyond the technology piece of the project and focus on the “human-side” of the project as well. Organizations should become process-driven to ensure successful BPM implementation. To become process-driven or process-centric, organizations must be willing to change and change must start from the top.
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The Business Fad with Resilience
BPM continues to receive ever increasing press. While the concepts are anything but new, a new group of software developers and vendors are doing their utmost to make it appear so. In fairly typical fashion, the buzz suggests that if you are not utilizing this methodology and technology to manage business processes, you can not possibly be on top of your business, and are therefore seriously negligent in your responsibilities to all stakeholders!
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Rate of Adoption is Key to Results
Business Process Management in its current incarnation is perhaps the most sophisticated set of management information tools available. As always, selection and deployment are critical, but to achieve meaningful, relevant, and sustainable bottom-line business improvements, adoption by the organization will be the critical factor.
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Improve Every Process
Business agility or responsiveness to change in the current market has become critical to success. The ability to respond rapidly to competitive moves, to ever-changing customer needs as well as expectations, and to new regulations remain critical factors in achieving revenue growth and competitive advantage.
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Transforming Leadership Development
A new trend is emerging in leadership development training. Companies want to leverage the time executives have available to engage in learning, enhance the quality of the learning experience, and align learning to business strategies, key issues, and work-place realities.
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ERP is a Tool, Not a Solution!
An effective business strategy must center its resources on an
aggressive, efficient use of information technology to manage its various business processes. To be effective as well as successful in implementing ERP, everything depends on an array of factors in order to fully realize the benefits.
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Supplier Management - Can it work for You?
Absolutely! Remember, suppliers impact your ability to service your customers; they raise and lower your costs and thereby your profits. How you manage your relationships and communicate your expectations for their services is critical to your organization’s health.
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Project risk is the possibility of deviation from expected project outcomes or results. Failure to proactively manage risk on enterprise transformation projects is the number one reason these projects fail or don’t deliver their anticipated results.
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Leading Succesful Change is a Difficult Job
Reducing or mitigating resistance to change is crucial to the success of organizational change efforts. Why do people resist change?
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Balanced Scorecards for Sales & Marketing
The finance team and the sales & marketing team frequently talk different languages during annual strategic planning and budgeting exercises and their failure to communicate effectively can lead to unprofitable sales growth or sales & marketing programs that don’t deliver results.
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Transform Workplace Competency Into Business Results
Transforming workforce competency into business results—quickly and efficiently—is a significant challenge for many companies. A business transformation can yield immediate cost savings. However, its success is contingent upon the lag time between setting new strategic direction and developing workforce skills that support the new strategies.
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Why Lean Implementations Fail?
It has been over 20 years since the Lean revolution took root in the U.S., yet Lean implementations fail to achieve all the successes promised because something more is needed.
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Exploring the Mysterious Concept of Pull
A Pull Production System has been hallmarked as a means to solve many production-related problems in an industrial environment. This belief is based on the concept of producing only in accordance with the needs of a company’s internal or external customers. If true, this would have a substantial impact on a company’s profitability. But, this benefit has a price.
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Where the Magic Happens - "Transformation Follow Up"
I have seen it many times: a great idea; perfectly planned; assigned to the best people for execution; and shortly after implementation, the results never materialize. When your company is going through a major transformation, you cannot afford to drop the ball, if you want to maximize your returns...
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Becoming Customer Driven
A customer-driven company is one that continuously strives to match processes, outcomes and expectations.
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Creating Shareholder Value in the Most Challenging Markets
We are regularly told by the financial press that an uncomfortably large segment of Corporate America is beset by financial difficulties caused by rapid technological change, market transforming competition and other forces seemingly beyond the control of corporate management.
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Enterprise Improvement Paths- Six Sigma vs Transformation
To everything there is a season, says the book of Ecclesiastes. In the world of business improvement, Enterprise Transformation is coming into its own, and it seems like it's now open season on six sigma...
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Finding Leaders Attuned to Change
Not everyone is a candidate for the challenging role of leader in change, nor is individual potential or leadership development uniform and to be take for granted. In a climate dominated by change we must take care to identify and select leaders best suited to that climate, attuned to change..
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The Hard, Right Things at The Right Time
The performance of organizations of all kinds has been the subject of intense criticism for decades. These criticisms can be boiled down to the fact that most organizations - public and private, business and educational, government and non-government - have been "over managed and under led."
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Adding Value to Your Transformation
Many companies face a challenge that is crucial for survival - implementing major organizational change..
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So You Think You're Ready
You think you are ready for organizational change, but you really aren't...
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Changing What Counts, Not What Costs!
Companies transform themselves, for better or worse, all the time. A tremendous amount of time and effort , not to mention money, is spent trying to change. But how do they determine WHAT to change? And what do these changes bring?
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How Organizations Change Uniformly
A Scientific Basis for Change Management…
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A Swift Kick into Supply Chain Management
"Radio Frequency Identification"
The promise of being able to deliver real-time information to address the "true demands" of the customer as well as the "true needs" of the supplier has finally shown through into Supply Chain Management by means of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology...
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The Best Opportunity for Growth -The Three C's
The program charter was to begin a process of change that will result in a company culture of "Continuous Improvement"...
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