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Achieving Class A Business Excellence: An Executive's Perspective
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Achieving Class A Business Excellence: An Executive's Perspective

by Dennis Groves, Kevin Herbert, Jim Correll
September 2008
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
13h 27m
English
Wiley
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Praise for Achieving Class A Business Excellence: An Executive’s Perspective
From day one, the three overarching principles of The Oliver Wight Companies have been:
• advocate only the proven processes, often the latest, but leave the untested theories for academia to debate.
• consult only with companies truly committed to succeed in transforming their business to be the best it can be.
• only coach the company’s people, through knowledge transfer, so that they, not us, can lead and make the changes.
 
Many years and thousands of companies later, these principles still differentiate our associates.
This book continues this successful formula. The authors have created people you’ll recognize, dealing with problems that confront all companies. It may be entertaining to read about their struggles; the greater value, however, is to grasp how they changed from an out-of-control operation to an effective team capable of achieving ambitious company goals.
Accomplishing this dramatic journey of change is demystified; no longer a reactive hit or miss effort. What is presented to you as foresight comes from the collective experiences of the authors and their colleagues, 20/20 hindsight, in helping companies avoid the pitfalls and focusing them on the prerequisites in order to make smart decisions and timely progress. To ensure the many events are done in the proper sequence, even a road map is included!
Armed with helpful advice always makes a tough task easier, yet implementing company-wide ...
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