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SmallbusinessA new book from Accenture explains how a 'zero-based' mindset can help any company achieve startup speed at enterprise scale
- Today's companies struggle to balance core business operations while funding the development of new business models that stoke the engines of future growth.
- Traditional cost management solutions aren't working for a variety of reasons.
- In their book "The Big Zero," Accenture's Kris Timmermans and Chris Roark provide a strategy they've dubbed "ZBx" that creates a culture of in…
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