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Innovation means being willing to look at what you’re doing from a fresh perspective or to think outside the box. Innovation fuels improvement: improved products and features, improved methods, and improved knowledge.
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Author: Editor Published on: April 30th, 2007
Categories: Monthly Summary, Strategic Process Improvement
Question of the month: When executing your marketing tactics, is the message more important or the medium?
The highlight of this month was the formal launch of our newest procedure manual – the Sales and Marketing Policies, Procedures and Forms.
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Author: Editor Published on: March 27th, 2007
Categories: Lead Generation, Monthly Summary, Sales and Marketing
Question of the month: How can the process approach help sales and marketing?
Sales and marketing is more than just a magical black box. It is a business process that is fundamental to the success of your company. Therefore, it should be well-defined, under control, and aligned with the overall business strategy.
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Author: Editor Published on: February 27th, 2007
Categories: Lead Generation, Monthly Summary
Question of the month: How are your vision and strategy related?
With the arrival of the new year, our articles covered strategy and vision. Successful leaders are adept at weaving strategy into their business. You do this by using your vision, your end-to-end process design and the action steps required to make it all happen.
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Author: Editor Published on: February 3rd, 2007
Categories: Monthly Summary, Strategic Process Improvement
Year-End Summary from Bizmanualz
As 2006 comes to a close, I’d like to share with you some of our accomplishments over the past year. Our main goals this year were to provide you a wider choice of procedures manuals, expand our service offerings, and make your web experience at www.bizmanualz.com much better.
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Author: Editor Published on: December 28th, 2006
Categories: Monthly Summary
Question of the month: What is the difference between continuous and continual improvement?
After a series of articles about the Road to Six Sigma in October, we talked some more about control charts and statistical process control (SPC) in November. We also launched the Policies, Procedures and Processes Blog in November and
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Author: Editor Published on: December 4th, 2006
Categories: Monthly Summary
Question of the month: Why are control charts so important in measuring process effectiveness?
In October, we continued the Road to Six Sigma series dealing with statistical process control in business settings. We discussed correlation and control charts—two very important concepts that enable you to understand
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Author: Editor Published on: November 8th, 2006
Categories: Monthly Summary
Question of the month: What is the difference between common cause and assignable cause?
Email articles in September discussed applying statistical process control (SPC) methods to business processes. Today many organizations have implemented a rigorous application of statistical methods called Six Sigma. However, Six Sigma is not for everyone because
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Author: Editor Published on: October 2nd, 2006
Categories: Monthly Summary
Question of the month: Under what situations can training be financially justified?
The email articles in August talked about workplace training programs. Highly trained and competent employees are great assets to any company. These employees grow and change as
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Author: Bizmanualz Editor Published on: August 31st, 2006
Categories: Monthly Summary, Quality Training
Question of the month: How does fear impact continuous improvement?
The past four articles were associated with Lean Thinking. It is important to have a sound understanding your metrics, flows and constraints as well as the value-add and non-value add activities.
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Author: Bizmanualz Editor Published on: July 31st, 2006
Categories: Monthly Summary, Strategic Process Improvement