Hammer and Champy (1993) define a business process as "a collection of activities that takes one or more kinds of input and creates an output that is of value to the customer". In every organization, ...

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Business process mapping is the strategic analysis of identifying and creating a visual depiction of the process flow of various areas of an organization. For example, the supply chain cycle is an ...

Ironically, while foreign assistance has grown in importance in U.S. foreign policy and, as of the Obama Administration’s National Security Strategy, is now “on par” with diplomacy and defense, it has ...

Semiconductor process engineers would love to develop successful process recipes without the guesswork of repeated wafer testing. Unfortunately, developing a successful process can’t be done without ...