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Balancing Push and Pull Approaches to Improvement

Harvard Business Review

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. A senior operations leader I spoke to was skeptical that the quoted financial savings from Six Sigma projects, while valid, were having long-term effects on their cost structure.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Book of Acronyms

Strategy Driven

It is to be just: Committed to customers. Successful enough to grow, pay its dues and continue growing. Upholding standards of quality and commitment. Business track records are garnered by going the distance, reading the trends and continually changing. As the years go by, one continues paying dues.

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