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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

What – This is what the company does to fulfill that core belief. Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards. Most of these companies neglect to even mention why they do what they do. How – This is how the business fulfills that core belief. It’s massive!

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How We Learned (Almost) Everything That’s Wrong with U.S. Census Data

Harvard Business Review

government is constantly sweeping up vast amounts of data on the details of the retail sector — buying and selling, getting and spending — just as it tracks census information and data on economic indicators such as GDP, employment and unemployment, and inflation. We emailed the Census official in charge of the retail trade data.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

When they set out to turn around processes that have become woefully inefficient or ineffective, most companies choose one of four process improvement "religions": Lean , Six Sigma , Business Reengineering or Business Process Management (BPM). After hearing about its success at another organization, many companies choose just one.