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Selected business management articles:
Processes
- How work is performed
Practical Nine-Step Guide to Max Productivity
Step 1: List all the business activities that you complete
(regularly or not). Examples: phone calls, meetings,
paperwork, projects, sales, follow-up procedures, writing,
learning/researching, web site design, delivering core
services (substitute name), etc. Yes, this might seem time
consuming. You will need to trust in this process and wait
for the benefits to appear.
Good Idea Generation – a process
It seems incongruous that good idea generation can be a process or
that a process may lead to insight. However, if you examine the
behavior of people who regularly generate good ideas – such as
creativity in advertising - you will find that...
Give your stakeholders a raise
- increase asset productivity!
You have pushed your cost cutting measures to the limit. Competitive
pricing still keeps a full-court press on every move you make. You
have launched new products, but this initiative barely keeps you in
the game. As you enter the 21st century, how will your firm cope
with the financial expectations of your stakeholders?
Communicate and Prosper
How much has poor communication cost your company in the past
twelve months? Chances are, you have no idea. Chances are even
better it's a lot more than you can afford.
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3 Great Ways to Beat
Procrastination at Work
Everyone seems to have more work than can possibly be done in a day
and this pressure can result in feelings of being overwhelmed which
in turn leads to...
What is the Most Difficult
Part of an
Improvement Program?
Most of us realize that there is probably a
better way to perform certain functions or tasks, but improvement
programs seem to take second seat to getting the product out the door.
But wait a minute.
Doing Business
Online — Private B2B Exchanges
Business processes are the building blocks
of an enterprise. If one of these processes fails to live up to its
expectation, business starts to flounder. How to minimize the risks, get
a better monitoring of the processes and, at the same time, reduce costs
involved? The answer is...
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Cost of Rework
The top three manufacture motivators were
to reduce cost, tighten quality standards, and increase production
capacity. The primary target for quality expenditures in
accordance to 69 % respondents to the Quality Magazine survey was...
Losing business momentum
1. Are you
losing momentum while others plan ahead?
2. Is your brainstorming getting the action you want?
3. Are you starting your new employees the right way?
4. Are you maintaining your documentation correctly?
Automated Expense and Timesheet
Management
The pressure on companies to become ever 'leaner' and optimize the
business processes is higher than ever. Investors demanding higher
profits, customer's demands for lower prices and greater quality and
regulators demand for...
Agility = Sustainability
We are witnessing this inability to adapt every day as
organizations in business, government, religion, healthcare etc. fail
right before our eyes.
Benchmarking and Improving
Management Quality
What is Management Quality? Management Quality is an
organizational concept, which describes the organization's capacity to
meet high quality objectives in its management functions.
What if Peter Drucker were your CEO
Drucker's view is that management's key responsibility is
to help workers to achieve (productivity) and to maximize corporate
assets (move capital to most productive use). Most enterprises don't
know how to accomplish this because they don't have...
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People Issues - The right talent performing the right task
The Top Mistakes Executives
Make in Leading Their Organizations
In today’s uncertain economy, many organizations have been making
some drastic changes to stay competitive and productive. This means that
CEOs and other executives have to hone their leadership skills to make
the most of what they have and encourage and inspire their teams to new
heights of achievement.
Tales from the
Corporate Frontlines: Training is in the Eye of the Beholder
This article relates to the Training competency, commonly evaluated
in employee surveys. It comments on the value of training to both
the company and its workforce. The Training competency investigates
how your employees perceive the available training opportunities and
quality of training. Growing an organization's internal knowledge
base is crucial to...
Examining the
Relationship Between Employee Satisfaction and Customer Satisfaction
Numerous studies have been done to look at the connection between
customer and employee satisfaction. A majority of these studies were
able to uncover...
Effective Ways to
Motivate Employees
What is it that drives an employee? More specifically, what is it
that causes an employee to WANT
to do his or her job? After all, the answer to this question is the
key...
Corporate Team Building
There is a WHOLE lot of talk
these days about Corporate Team Building. Some of the
foundational building blocks within team spirit, whether within a
corporation or a family, are the ones that are most simple and
natural.
10 Ways to Beef up your
Leadership Skills
Have you ever heard someone say,
“Actually, I have to admit that I think I am really bad at managing
other people. My staff all hate me and I’m incapable of doing my job”.
Dealing with
Difficult People
When people behave towards you in a manner that makes you feel angry,
frustrated or annoyed - this is known as a Hook. We can even become
"Hooked" by...
What do Employees Really Want?
In fact there is a significant disconnect
between the things that employees say are important to them, and how
highly employers rank those same things. When asked to rank a list
of ten criteria, the employees and managers/owners ranked them...
Setting
Performance Standards for your Employees
The success of your business is directly related to the
commitment and productivity of the people who work in your business. And
yet it is generally recognized that 60% of employees, or more, are...
Are you in AWE of your Employees
Employers have become so concerned about seeming “unfair”
or worse becoming the victims of lawsuits by unhappy ex-employees that
they’ve stopped requiring minimum standards of employees. This can only
lead to...
Five Habits of Highly Effective
Conflict Resolvers
Steven Covey had the right idea. This article shares a
selection of habits and attitudes that can transform a good conflict
resolver into a highly effective one. By that I mean...
Checklist For High Performing Teams
Why do some teams perform well while others struggle? How
can you assess how effectively your team is working now, and identify
methods for improvement? Research shows that 85% of...
The Top Ten Ways to Change a Mediocre
Employee Into a High Performing One
No one starts out wanting to be mediocre. We
each have an innate desire to please, to excel at something. So why then
do so many employees seem to work beneath their potential?
People Literacy
Every Manager has experienced the frustration of not
understanding why one management approach that works beautifully with
one employee is ineffective with another. That’s because...
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Technology -
The tools used to perform the work
Sarbanes-Oxley Affects Corporate Email Systems
The role of email in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance cannot be
overstated. At a high level, email is the primary internal and
external communication tool for corporations. However, a more
granular inspection of email’s role, especially as pertaining to
corporate information security, reveals...
Streamline Your Training Costs
with Streaming Media
Streaming Media…now a well accepted Internet technology. Yet streaming
is still not being widely utilized by members of corporate training
staffs. Why is this?
Data Loss… Can Your Company
Survive. (Most Do Not)
Chances are every piece of data you might ever rely upon to make an
important decision has been reduced to a digital format and resides
somewhere on your computer's hard drive... However, on the
flipside one wrong click, one nasty virus, one untimely power surge or
unhappy employee and that data is gone forever!
Collaboration Software - Building an office without walls
With the implementation of collaboration
software, you can create an office without walls and without bounds with
regards to productivity and organization.
Building a Document
Management Plan Part I
Because document imaging can do so much, yet
is so simple to learn and use, you may be tempted to go “on-line” with a
system without first developing a plan. Don’t.
Building a Document
Management Plan Part II
Document imaging systems enables companies to achieve process
efficiencies and cost savings in three key areas:...
Want to Realize More Benefits From Your Technology
Tools?
Implementing new technology is a great way to
increase operational effectiveness. But many projects leave questions
unanswered. Questions such as...
Why
Businesses Need to Start Nurturing Collective Wisdom
If you are a small, medium or large business, and you don’t have a
method in place for harnessing and managing your organization’s
collective knowledge, you may be losing opportunities for significant
revenue enhancement. According to a study by the Delphi Group, less than
20 percent of knowledge available to an enterprise is actually used.
Issue
Management Methodology for Tracking Project Issues
Because
of the impact issues have on a project, product development or
ongoing service, issue management is an important aspect in any
management methodology. This issue management methodology
promises to...
Corporate Change and Modern
Technology at the Cutting Edge of the New Frontier
Most people drive a car and use all the gears; with technology most
people seem to use 1st and maybe 2nd gear but do not even know that it
has 1 maybe 3 more gears. Technology is providing a revolution in the
workplace and at home. The problem is that most humans have not caught
up with...
The
Top Three Problems IT Managers Face and How to Overcome Them
This expansion of the IT job realm has left many IT managers
juggling new challenges. While the problems, in and of themselves,
might appear overwhelming, there are simple, proven ways to rise
above them.
Software
Integration for SMEs
The solution of the day is business process integration. Unlike data
integration where the idea was to centralize the data and rebuild the
applications on top; business process integration aims to integrate on
top of the applications.
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