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Focus - Concentrate on one thing at a time.

Your Voice of Encouragement

Unfortunately, multi-tasking has often been perceived as a characteristic of energetic, hard-working, and goal-driven workers; a necessity to get things done in a competitive, time-to-market world. So my goal in this blog is to share encouraging insights Ive gained in my lifes journey that may help you on your own.

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Five Coaching Tips to Help Business Process Management Leaders Succeed

Strategy Driven

When organizations want to build a process culture, they need to identify leaders for each process improvement effort—namely an Executive Sponsor, Process Owner, Project Lead and Business Process Management (BPM) Team Facilitator. Reduce time to market for this product). and then turn them into improvement targets (e.g,

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A New Way for Entrepreneurs to Think About IT

Harvard Business Review

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others.

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The CEO's Frugal Innovation Agenda

Harvard Business Review

In our last blog post , we showed how Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan and inventor of the concept of "frugal engineering", is reinventing his entire company so it can innovate faster, better, and cheaper in a complex and resource-scarce global environment. In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

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The CEO's Frugal Innovation Agenda

Harvard Business Review

In our last blog post , we showed how Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Renault-Nissan and inventor of the concept of "frugal engineering", is reinventing his entire company so it can innovate faster, better, and cheaper in a complex and resource-scarce global environment. In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Specifically, CEOs must: 1.)

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. Assign oversight and support responsibility to a senior manager.