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Accelerate results by aligning Lean Six Sigma, BPM and SOA

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Overview There has never been a more important time to uncover process waste, reduce non-value adding activity, and increase productivity. Lean Six Sigma (LSS) produces real results, and when combined with business process management (BPM) and service oriented architecture (SOA) can position a company for growth as the economy begins to improve.

Find out more about best practices, the value of measures and monitoring, and how to get started in this webcast.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	IBM	File Format	HTML
Date Published	July 2009
Format	Webcasts
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Business Management, Groupware - Workflow, Middleware, Service-Oriented Architecture

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