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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. Establish a business mindset that believes in agility, velocity, and high impact value and through impeccable product and service delivery you will possess the power to differentiate your firm from all the rest.” That type of approach is too slow!

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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.