Quotes About Business Processes

#1. Social embedded business processes that solve concrete needs are key to enterprise social collaboration.

Marc Benioff

#2. Microwork gives marginalized people a chance to earn a living by playing a vital role in the business processes of big companies. In parallel, the organization assists local entrepreneurs in running microwork centers, helping to grow a new pool of business talent across the developing world.

Leila Janah

#3. Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.

Tim Brown

#4. I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#5. Every decision by every decision-maker needs to be informed by an understanding of how technology changes business processes.

Pearl Zhu

#6. There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally ... We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology.

Carly Fiorina

#7. Most Business Processes Are 90% Waste and 10% Value-Added Work

Jeffrey K. Liker

#8. Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

Fred Wilson

#9. The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#10. In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#11. The business should always be outrunning the processes, so chaos is right where you want to be.

Eric Schmidt

#12. Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing ... layout, processes, and procedures.

Tom Peters

#13. The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.

Clayton Christensen

#14. Don't focus all your time and effort on creating the templates & perfecting the documents. Answering key product questions is more critical.

Brian Lawley

#15. A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

Stephen Covey

#16. It is the business of future to be dangerous ... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Alfred North Whitehead

#17. In war, resources lead to success: in business, success leads to resources. This is a fundamental difference between the processes of war and competition.

John Kay

#18. four critical business issues: broken processes, islands of information, inaccurate measurement, and using yesterday's creative approach.

Andrew Frawley

#19. Business models change. As technology processes, business models change.

Marsha Blackburn

#20. Heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business ... Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.

Michael Martin Hammer

#21. When things are running perfectly smoothly, with people and boxes on charts enjoying a one-to-one relationship, then the processes and infrastructure have caught up to the business.

Eric Schmidt

#22. Rather than looking at business as a series of simple, linear activities, the systems view recognizes that it is a function of numerous processes interacting interdependently with one another resulting in both planned and unplanned consequences.

John P. Forman

#23. Business intelligence is essentially timely, accurate, high-value, and actionable business insights, and the work processes and technologies used to obtain them.

Swain Scheps

#24. The most radical and far-reaching solutions often need rethinking of processes and deep questioning of the status quo-and these are hard.

Bill Price

#25. If you aim to be the best then it's essential to evolve constantly, learn from past mistakes, look for new opportunities and have the flexibility to implement improved processes and solutions along the way.

Mark Gallagher

#26. Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives.

Robert L. Bradley Jr.

#27. Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

William McKinley

#28. The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

William James

#29. The digital capability is synthetic in nature, embedding agility in processes and focusing on building the long-term business competency.

Pearl Zhu

#30. Processes underpin business capabilities, and capabilities underpin strategy execution.

Pearl Zhu