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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. Process Automaton.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Our brick institutions have in no way caught up with what today’s technologies make possible in terms of virtual learning and individualized, customized instruction. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

Over the last 250 years, waves upon waves of scientific and engineering advances have brought about an accelerating rise in living standards that even the two deadliest wars in history could not reverse. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

Business education today is anachronistic – it has in no way caught up with what today’s communications technologies make possible in terms of individualized instruction and virtual learning. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Harvard Business Review

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. Consider the slide deck.

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Don’t Set Process Without Input from Frontline Workers

Harvard Business Review

Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. Standardizing has become part of the DNA of large organizations to address such issues as safety and probity as well as efficiency. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.