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Ten Years After Ford’s Spectacular Turnaround, What Alan Mulally Reveals About Brand-Inspired Cultural Revolution

Great Leadership By Dan

He instituted weekly business performance review (BPR) meetings that required a new level of rigor, scrutiny, and detailed analysis from the company’s leaders. Moreover, it helped build the Ford brand by making a Ford recognizable around the world and eliciting a strong, visceral, emotional reaction to its vehicles.

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Understanding the Importance of Business Process Design

Strategy Driven

By the proper implementation of “Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR)” by adequately analyzing the current performances and altering them to enhance the performance. Those minor refinements are usually of higher value as they can help in giving better competitive advantages over the core opponents available in the market.

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Why Companies Should Listen to Occupy Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Over the next two decades, business witnessed several additional megatrends: business process re-engineering (BPR), globalization, the dot-com era, and the sustainability movement. Each of these megatrends challenged and forever altered the conventional rules of business, building and destroying billions of dollars of market value.

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