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Transform Business Operations with Process Mining

Harvard Business

The most effective companies we interviewed use process mining to generate operational insights at scale, identify process inefficiencies, define targeted actions, and measure process improvements — all of which lead to value realization.

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Saving ?osts in a Long-Term Perspective: How a Resource Management Solution Will Help You Gain More in the Long Run

Epicflow

In times of economic crisis, enterprises try to find ways to reduce their expenses and improve profitability to survive during tough times. To achieve this, you should analyze your business processes, improve operational efficiency, and identify the causes of excessive expenses.

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

Harvard Business

To be clear, however, the match between RPA and business processes isn’t a perfect one if the goal is to redesign or improve the process rather than to automate its current state. As Andrew Spanyi , the author of four books on process management, put it to us by email: “RPA does not redesign anything.

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How Chinese Companies Disrupt Through Business Model Innovation

Harvard Business

They consistently characterized their peers as too short-term oriented to create truly disruptive change, and the country’s cumbersome state-owned enterprises as too slow. We spoke with several Chinese entrepreneurs in Kunshan last month — young and old, working in both the private sector and the public.

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How Digital Technology Is Changing Farming in Africa

Harvard Business

For example, aerial images from satellites or drones, weather forecasts, and soil sensors are making it possible to manage crop growth in real time. The process improves farm productivity and reduces input waste by using analytics to facilitate data-driven farming practices for small-scale farmers.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business

While America has continued leading the world in terms of investment in basic science research, it has lost the ability to do the kinds of process improvements that are essential for innovation. It’s no wonder that so many promising manufacturing enterprises have to look abroad to simply get off the ground—let alone soar.

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Be Careful About Proclaiming "Failed Management Movements.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Be Careful About Proclaiming "Failed Management Movements"! Last week, I got a call from a consultant who lamented the “failure of all those management movements.” ” As usual in these conversations, the caller went on to explain how his particular idea was what leaders and managers really needed.