continual improvement Articles
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The economy is said to be improving. Though they’ve had their ups and downs, the Dow, NASDAQ, and other market indexes are up from a year ago. The housing market may have also hit bottom.
One indicator that doesn’t bode well, however, is the unemployment rate. Firms still aren’t hiring. They’re getting by with what — or whom — they have. What does this mean for the currently employed? It means we’re expected to be more efficient…more productive. “We’ve go to do more with less!”, we so often hear it. This is frustrating for both sides. Employees are trying their hardest, in virtually all cases. And, employers want to keep growing.
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Author: Steve Flick Published on: June 28th, 2010
Categories: Business Management & Operations
Bizmanualz is one of the leaders in policies and procedures documentation. Our policy and procedure manuals are written with small to medium businesses (SMBs) in mind. Thousands of companies that have been looking for a way to develop and implement a system of effective policies and procedures quickly have relied on us.
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Author: Steve Flick Published on: February 12th, 2010
Categories: Writing Policies and Procedures
In part one of this article, you learned the first three steps in the Bizmanualz process of making a policies and procedures manual –Â research, design and development, and procedure writing. Â Now, as Paul Harvey liked to say, “Here’s the rest…of the story.”
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Author: Steve Flick Published on: December 17th, 2009
Categories: Business Process Improvement, Writing Policies and Procedures
A lot of work goes into developing every Bizmanualz Policies and Procedures manual. Â We start by conducting…
1. Subject Research
In the not-too-distant past, we primarily searched the Internet for clues as to what people wanted. We’d find what topics people were interested in by doing the same thing you do: searching by keywords.
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Author: Steve Flick Published on: December 14th, 2009
Categories: Business Process Improvement, Writing Policies and Procedures
You have identified a problem, and you have made an immediate correction to fix it for now.  How do you make sure the same problem doesn’t happen again?
That is the role of corrective action in continual improvement of an organization. In a reactive organization, we constantly react to problems in a corrective mode. We make the short term fixes – over and over and over again.Â
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Author: Don Reed Published on: May 18th, 2009
Categories: Business Process Improvement, ISO Quality Management
Implementing a Quality Management System (QMS) that complies with ISO 9001 requirements can be challenging. That’s why a useful approach may be to implement the QMS in phases, where you focus on different elements of meeting the ISO 9001 Standard in progressive stages.Â
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Author: Don Reed Published on: March 23rd, 2009
Categories: ISO Quality Management
In this series of articles we are discussing implementing an ISO 9001 Quality Management System (QMS) in four distinct phases. By breaking the implementation into stages, it becomes more manageable and less overwhelming. In phase one, the general requirements described in Clause 4 of ISO 9001 QMS requirements are implemented, and in phase two the elements of continual improvement from Clause 8 are set in place and practiced.
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Author: Sandi Villarreal Published on: March 16th, 2009
Categories: ISO Quality Standards, Strategic Process Improvement
If your goal is ISO certification, the best method is to create a compliant QMS in stages.
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Author: Don Reed Published on: March 9th, 2009
Categories: ISO Quality Standards
Creating a Quality Management System (QMS) that fulfills the requirements of the ISO 9001:2008 Standard can seem like a daunting task. But it doesn’t have to be.Â
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Author: Don Reed Published on: March 2nd, 2009
Categories: ISO Quality Standards
Your management system consists of business processes that interact with each other through documents and records. Yet in many companies the system appears to be functioning whether anything is documented or recorded. Can this be an effective management system? It depends on the process management maturity of your organization.
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Author: Don Reed Published on: February 2nd, 2009
Categories: Business Process Improvement, Process Management
