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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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Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments

Martinka Consulting

I read two long articles, one in the Seattle Times and the other in the Wall Street Journal. Have a list of tactics, whether it’s for growth, margin improvement, expense reduction, process improvement, an improved culture, or something else. Know what you are going to do. Get into the details. Shed your ego.

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7 Critical Success Factors for Project Based Firms to Consider in 2024

Progressus

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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Don’t Neglect Your Customers During a Merger

Harvard Business

I just took my company through an acquisition and found that even the smallest operational change can have a significant negative impact on both employees and customers. While keeping CX top of mind throughout the whole M&A process is challenging, the benefits are undeniable: It keeps your most coveted customers and your team intact.

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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business

The tradeoff, however, is that we’ve become so focused on using the technology (as this HBR article points out) that we spend far less time listening to individual human stories. Measuring staff well-being and clinician resilience before and after a new technology or process improvement is deployed is essential to eradicating burnout.

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How to Motivate Frontline Employees

Harvard Business

They wanted to improve revenue, cost, risk, and customer satisfaction all at the same time. They reached out to us because we wrote a book describing how these performance outcomes would be improved with an operating model that increases motivation.). The retail organization wanted to see how this applied to its stores.

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The 4 Main Ways to Innovate in a Digital Economy

Harvard Business

The opportunities for firms operating in this mode are potentially new forms of market development and user engagement. Managers operating in the community mode need to understand the challenges of maintaining, incentivizing, and capturing true value-added contributions from these communities.