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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Plan Operations: improve key processes; develop sales plan; plan resource capacity; prepare budgets. Discipline IV. Work The Plan ).

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A Closed-Loop Strategy Execution System

Six Disciplines

Plan Operations: improve key processes; develop sales plan; plan resource capacity; prepare budgets. Discipline IV. Work The Plan ).

System 85
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Zero-Based Budgeting Is Not a Wonder Diet for Companies

Harvard Business Review

Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is elegantly logical: Expenses must be justified for each new budget period based on demonstrable needs and costs, as opposed to the more common method of using last year’s budget as your starting point, then adjusting up or down. We believe the exact opposite to be true.

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How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value

Harvard Business Review

The Boston Shoulder Institute wanted to enter the negotiation with an in-depth understanding of all its costs over a typical RCR-care cycle, something that it could not learn from its existing costing systems. They began by taking a careful inventory of resource needs and usage for each process in the cycle.