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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For example, some may provide a source of competitive differentiation like the investment that German manufacturer Bosch is making in its internet of things (IoT) data platform. Others are essential to running the existing business but don’t necessarily provide a competitive advantage.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

One of the most critical success factors we found at Coty was that it was not who was tapped as a leader or even a team’s technical skills that mattered most. Operations in a Connected World. Executive leadership invited everyone to get involved and take full advantage of The Big Opportunity. Insight Center.

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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! Want to learn more about BPM metrics?

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