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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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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

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 astute organization assesses the status of each branch on its Business Tree™ and orients its management and team members to meet constant changes and fluctuations.

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