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Improving Business Processes

By Harvard Business Review
Series: Pocket Mentor
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Improving Business Processes by Harvard Business Review offers practical guidance on optimising workflows and enhancing efficiency within organisations. It provides strategies for analysing and refining company processes to improve productivity, cut costs, and boost overall performance. The book is tailored for business leaders looking to drive sustained improvement in their operations with actionable insights and case studies.
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You might enjoy this book if you're looking to streamline operations and increase efficiency within your organisation. It offers practical tools and strategies to analyse and enhance business processes, making it appealing to managers and entrepreneurs aiming to drive growth and improve performance.

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In challenging times, companies must serve their customers faster and more efficiently. This book helps you learn key steps for carrying out a business process improvement initiative, including how to: plan a business process improvement initiative; analyze and redesign a current process that needs improvement; and, more.

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In challenging times, companies must serve their customers faster and more efficiently. This makes improving your business processes more critical than ever.

In Improving Business Processes, you'll learn key steps for carrying out a business process improvement initiative, including how to:

  • Plan a business process improvement initiative
  • Analyse and redesign a current process that needs improvement
  • Obtain the resources needed to change a process
  • Develop a systematic approach for creating and implementing change

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781422129739

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2010

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 177.0mm

Weight: 113g

Pages: 112

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About Pocket Mentors

The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness.

Meet Your Mentor

Mark McDonald, PhD, is a leading researcher and practitioner of business process design and business architecture. He is currently Head of Research for Gartner Executive Programs.

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