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What is Process Improvement?
In commercial terms, successful process improvement is almost invariably associated with the exploitation of an opportunity of one kind or another. This opportunity can be identified or recognized by...
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Process or Business Improvement
Many organizations are split into functional specialties (like operations, accounting, finance, sales, marketing, etc.) However, processes tend to flow across these functional divisions and can be...
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Lean Thinking in Business Process Optimization
In the early 1980s,Toyota developed a process which they called “Lean manufacturing” as a systematic way to eliminate waste at all levels when they were producing cars. Over time, lean manufacturing...
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Examples of Business Performance Questions
Although it can be argued that the primary job or every leader or manager is to improve overall team and business performance, as much as he or she is able, it is not always obvious where to focus the...
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Better, Faster, Smarter – Building an Execution-Centered Culture
Some companies like Dell, Wal-mart, Jet-Blue Airlines or Samsung (at least currently) are well-known for effectively executing strategies year-in and year-out. If this is the case, what is it that...
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Eliminating Business Silos
The term “Business Silos” first started to be widely heard in the mid 1970’s when many organizations engaged in serious “downsizing” and significant reductions in employee headcount was experienced to...
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Is Your Business Optimized?
“Optimization” is one of those words that we tend to associate with websites these days, and in this narrower respect it suggests that we may be missing quite a few opportunities to get more from our...
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Are People the Key to Business Optimization?
Once any business has gone beyond the rollercoaster ride that can be experienced at the start-up stage, no matter what its size or type, the primary task of every leader is to optimize performance in...
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What is an Effective Business “Dashboard”?
We have all become familiar with the concept of a dashboard from driving in cars where all the information we need is presented to us in a panel in front of us. In a car this will include critical...
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