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Innovation's Nine Critical Success Factors

Harvard Business Review

It's not about metrics; it's about "the educated gut." Autocratic decision-making fails to engage all of the critical stakeholders, while consensus sinks every decision to its lowest possible common denominator. A decision-making model that fosters teamwork in support of passionate champions. Old models don't work.

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5 Early Warning Signals for a BPI Project

Strategy Driven

Many articles have been written about what makes process improvement projects fail and usually they list critical success factors. In the Chartering and Staffing phase of the BPI project there are many critical success factors (It is the beginning of the project! A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

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