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Before Automating Your Company?s Processes, Find Ways to Improve Them

Harvard Business

health care firm, for example, had over the years stripped a process down to the minimal viable steps to achieve efficiencies. However, the process resulted in a lack of communication to the service users, and that in turn drove up costs in the contact centers. Examples of RPA and Process Improvement.

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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

Harvard Business

Facing a tight labor market as the holiday shopping season approaches, many retail companies will undoubtedly consider following the lead of Amazon, which recently announced that it is raising its minimum hourly wage for all of its U.S. Higher wages are good for retail and other low-wage service workers. above the federal minimum wage.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business

But comfortable reliance on this “precious” relationship has left us in a situation where the customers of many other sectors (such as retail) are often treated better from an experiential standpoint than medicine’s patients. The doctor-patient relationship has long been sacrosanct.

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Change Management Is Becoming Increasingly Data-Driven. Companies Aren’t Ready

Harvard Business

Organizations often seem obsessed by measuring fractional shifts in operational performance, capturing data on sales, inventory turns, and manufacturing efficiency. Although projects have unique features, there are many similarities between process improvement, system change, M&A, and reorganization projects.