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Continuous Business Optimization is a 21st Century Next Practice

N2Growth Blog

We spend 6 months optimizing the finance department and move onto engineering. ” Indeed, the only way to do that is to adopt a continuous optimization mindset – one where the entire company is continually being improved and enhanced. In most cases, these programs are driven on a case-by-case basis, though.

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2010: When Leadership Hit the Rapids

Harvard Business Review

It has been a year of challenges for most: relentless business demands, continuing change, and higher expectations from them as leaders. No longer do I need to explain how globalization drives change and that leaders must adapt to a fast-changing world: the economic crisis brought this home decisively.

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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. If there are continual changes in a company's markets or strategy, that company will most likely need to make productivity improvements part of everyone's job.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Book of Acronyms

Strategy Driven

Business track records are garnered by going the distance, reading the trends and continually changing. As the years go by, one continues paying dues. The best successes are earned and learned. We should not take good fortune for granted. Learning, experiencing and evaluating is the best process to achieve lasting success.

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