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5 Tips For Improving Productivity and Lead Generation Within Your Company

Strategy Driven

Operating a business in this regard isn’t easy at all, and this, in many cases, leads to companies becoming stagnant as you get comfortable where you’re at now. This is common and not always the wrong decision; when you’re comfortable and can see that your business model will remain sustainable, why risk anything?

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Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

Organizations deploy automation technologies as the primary resource in their Business Process Management. Gone are the days were BPO meant Business Process Outsourcing, with Robotic Process Automation technology fueling new millennium enterprises, BPO has taken on a new meaning, Business Process Optimization.

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Instead of Optimizing Processes, Reimagine Them as Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Rethinking process optimization — visualizing processes as platforms — can transform your business model. One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client. This realization gob-smacked the group.

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The 787's Problems Run Deeper Than Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

Boeing undertook one of the most extensive outsourcing campaigns that it has ever attempted in its history. And while outsourcing can certainly lead to problems, I'm not convinced it's the cause of these problems. And while outsourcing can certainly lead to problems, I'm not convinced it's the cause of these problems.

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Why Consumer Tech Is So Irritatingly Incremental

Harvard Business Review

Propeller planes yielded to jet engines. How often have you seen a firm revolutionize an industry by creating a superior product using a new business model? In much of the 20 th century, technological innovation produced products that had plenty of room for improvement, opening up opportunities for high-end disruption.

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Looking to Join the Lean Start-up Movement?

Harvard Business Review

In my eyes, the work Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and others have done to provide a cogent, accessible frame around the academic concepts of emergent strategy is one of the most important contributions to the innovation movement over the past few years. Innovation' That''s not right. Be prepared for lean''s consequences.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

In the meantime, we had successfully engineered sensor technology that allowed our residential ceiling fans to respond to the indoor environment, including changes in temperature and humidity, as well as occupants’ motion. Should I keep the work in-house, or outsource it? Be sure you’re prepared to deal with them all.