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Macro Maps Help You Align Processes and Strategy

Strategy Driven

When organizations first start doing process improvement they use a myriad of ways to decide which processes to improve first, such as: IT bought some software and needs to install it, so let’s look at the current process first. A department wants to improve the process because it would help in a key initiative.

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Do Your Business Process Metrics Measure Up?

Strategy Driven

Peter Fingar, co-author of Business Process Management : The Third Wave , then asks these measurement corollaries in his 2013 article “How Do Your BPM Metrics Measure Up?”. These should be results that provide value to the customer. So you need to discuss that with the Process Owner and Executive Sponsor. All rights reserved.

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Why your sales process or sales system doesn’t work.

Strategy Driven

A system of selling and its accompanying sales process are pretty much doomed to failure before they begin. Maybe it will help you in your awareness and decision-making process as you try to elevate your sales skills – or your sales results, or even your sales team – to a level of superior. The process is old.

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Preview Thursday: Intelligent Disobedience

Lead Change Blog

These exert pressure up and down the system to make the numbers look good, instead of continuously improving the work processes and systems to achieve true quality. Give your higher functioning mental processes a chance to recover from the shock of the inappropriate order. Slow down the action.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Episode 45 – Marketing & Sales: Closing the Value Gap

Strategy Driven

Episode 45 – Marketing & Sales: Closing the Value Gap examines the evolution of the business-to-business selling process and the gap between what customers want and what their service providers and vendors provide. actions necessary to implement a selling process focused on achieving business results.

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3 Reasons to Automate Your Business in 2015

Strategy Driven

Communicating with colleagues, manipulating spreadsheets, entering customer information into a CRM… these are all examples of time-consuming manual processes that can be done better and faster by someone (or something) other than you. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed.

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How to Grow Your Strategic Mindset

Strategy Driven

Ultimately, being strategic is a process that requires all of your thinking resources: Analytical: Evaluating key business indicators. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. Tactical: Moving the pieces to get where you want to go. Name and address information required.