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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. In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources they did not have.

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How Collaboration Tools Can Improve Knowledge Work

Harvard Business Review

As we automate more and more routine work, generating ever greater volumes of digital data, managers are focusing ever more on supporting knowledge workers — which these days is just about everybody. But most companies find it a cultural challenge to adopt these tools. 20% at Nationwide). 20% at Nationwide).

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

The buzz around using predictive tools to analyze big data in discrete areas of a business is loud and deserved. At the same time, powerful new tools are becoming increasingly available to enable real-time strategic decision making. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

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Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

The advent of the modern organization and the practice of management constitutes a “social technology” that has been equally transformative. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds. This is a situation that cannot endure.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

The buzz around using predictive tools to analyze big data in discrete areas of a business is loud and deserved. At the same time, powerful new tools are becoming increasingly available to enable real-time strategic decision making. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

The earliest business schools sought to provide the tools and teach the skills required to become a successful business person at the time, like bookkeeping, efficient manufacturing, and contract law. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

The early business schools sought to provide the tools and teach the skills required to become a successful business person at the time, like bookkeeping, efficient manufacturing, and contract law. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.