Improving Business Processes

Name: Improving Business Processes
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781422129739
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By Harvard Business Review

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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.

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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