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Before Automating Your Company?s Processes, Find Ways to Improve Them

Harvard Business Review

What sets RPA apart from other automation technologies is that its ability to imitate a human user of one or more information systems reduces development time and extends the range of functions that can be automated across a much wider range of business activities. billion customer journey transformation program.

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Debriefing as Continuous Improvement

Strategy Driven

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Turn-and-burn, yank-and-bank; show me how to start the engine and get out of my way.

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A Technique to Bridge the Gap Between Marketing and IT

Harvard Business Review

This classic breakdown between marketing and IT is being bridged at a few leading companies such as ING , the Netherlands bank. ING''s customer intelligence group does market research and "database" marketing — they develop sales campaigns for targeted customers. That meant that they were focused on delivering internal processes.

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The Key to Change Is Middle Management

Harvard Business Review

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Many change efforts fail because people reduce themselves to checking boxes in safe, defensible systems such as Lean and Six Sigma.