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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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If You Want to Motivate Employees, Stop Trusting Your Instincts

Harvard Business Review

Few topics have received more attention in talent management than motivation, defined as the deliberate attempt to influence employees’ behaviors with the goal of enhancing their performance, and in turn their organizational effectiveness. In our view, there are four major reasons: A simplistic approach to goal setting.

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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. Individualized.

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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. Individualized.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Below are five pointers to frame and guide the conversation for technology geeks and practitioners to champion the use of auto-analytics in their businesses: Auto-analytics can be understood within the tradition of scientific management. Management science has its roots in experimentation and productivity improvement.