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Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

Taylor’s business process analysis gave birth to his theory of scientific management, which came to be known by modern-day businesses as, “business process management,” or BPM. A business will not survive in today’s commodity-driven, consumer-demanding economy if they do not continue to innovate. About the Author.

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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. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

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