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Inverting the Paradox of Excellence
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Inverting the Paradox of Excellence

by Vivek Kale
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
442 pages
21h 44m
English
Productivity Press
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Business Excellence at SAP
In 1972, ve former IBM employees, Hasso Plattner, Dietmar Hopp, Claus Wellenreuther, Klaus
Tschira, and Hans-Werner Hector, launch a company called SAP. Their vision was to develop
standard application software for real-time business processing. These have been involved in the
provisional design of a software program that would allow information about cross-functional
and cross-divisional nancial transactions in a company’s value chain to be coordinated and
processed centrally—resulting in enormous savings in time and expense. They observed that
other software companies were also developing software designed ...
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ISBN: 9781466592162