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Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

In the recent past, businesses had only external, third party vendors to rely on for major projects, operational emergencies, and other labor-intensive initiatives that required resources they did not have. A business will not survive in today’s commodity-driven, consumer-demanding economy if they do not continue to innovate.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Below are five pointers to frame and guide the conversation for technology geeks and practitioners to champion the use of auto-analytics in their businesses: Auto-analytics can be understood within the tradition of scientific management. Management science has its roots in experimentation and productivity improvement.

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Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

Six Big Reasons Why Corporations Fail to Do the Right Thing The Atlantic Christine Bader, whose job at BP was to "assess and mitigate the social and human rights risks to communities living near major BP projects," was not able to help prevent the Deepwater Horizon disaster or the 2005 BP refinery explosion in Texas City.

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