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Save 45% when you buy the CEO Series. It covers the ten core business processes and comes with nine fully-editable manuals for:

  • Sales & Marketing Tactics
  • Security Planning
  • Disaster Recovery
  • ISO Quality Procedures
  • Accounting Procedures
  • Financial Policies
  • IT Policies/Procedures
  • HR Procedures
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PDCA Articles

Below you will find all articles and posts tagged with PDCA. These articles are either primarily about PDCA or about topics that are directly related to PDCA.

7 Keys to Developing Great Procedures

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

7 Steps to a Policies and Procedures Manual – Part 2

In part one of this article, you learned the first three steps in the Bizmanualz process of making a policies and procedures manual – research, design and development, and procedure writing.  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

7 Steps to a Policies and Procedures Manual – Part 1

A lot of work goes into developing every Bizmanualz Policies and Procedures manual.  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

Are You a Project Manager And Don’t Know It?

Today, everything is a project with more and more people finding themselves in a project management role of some type.  You don’t have to have the title of Project Manager to manage projects.

A Project is a temporary collection of related tasks to achieve a desired and usually unique result.

What do you think? Do you find yourself managing a collection of related tasks to achieve a desired result?  If so, you qualify as a project manager.  Businesses today are evolving, downsizing, and pushing more work down the organization chart.  You may be a project manager and not know it.  But what if you haven’t been trained as a Project Manager with the necessary skill and tool sets?

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Author: Chris Anderson    Published on: September 8th, 2009
Categories: Business Management & Operations, Knowledge Management

Seven Types of Process Maps – Part II

Last week, we discussed three types of Process Maps: High-Level, Low-Level and Cross Functional or “Swim Lanes” Maps.  This week we will take a closer look at Document Maps, and Activity or Value Stream Maps.

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Author: Editor    Published on: August 14th, 2009
Categories: Business Management & Operations, Business Process Improvement, Strategic Process Improvement

Why Do You Need To Write Procedures ?

Last week we brought up the topic of why we need procedures. While some would answer this question by providing very long lists of reasons why, these lists sometimes aren’t useful. They are too long to really remember and absorb, plus there is too much overlap and redundancy. I, however, listed four very basic reasons that I feel demonstrate why we should develop procedures

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Author: Editor    Published on: November 12th, 2007
Categories: Writing Policies and Procedures

The Softer Side of Sales

We have used our recent series of articles to talk about applying the philosophy of the continually improving process philosophy to business operations outside of the factory floor.  Specifically, we have talked about viewing Sales and Marketing as a business process. 

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Author: Editor    Published on: April 2nd, 2007
Categories: Strategic Process Improvement

Managing Your Sales & Marketing Process

Last week we discussed the sales and marketing pipeline, as part of our coverage on using the business process approach to sales & marketing. Well-defined and aligned processes not only use measurement to continually improve,

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Author: Editor    Published on: February 22nd, 2007
Categories: Lead Generation

Sales and Marketing Process – A Closer Look

Is it an art or a science? In business that question is frequently, and aptly, applied to Sales and Marketing. Good marketing and sales people know how to work the “magic” that creates leads and closes sales. If you ask them how they do it, however, they may not be able to explain it. Many sales and marketing veterans operate through an intuitive feel they have created through observation and experience, but it is not something very easily defined or described.

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Author: Editor    Published on: February 7th, 2007
Categories: ISO Quality Management

Workplace Training Programs: Results of Good Training

Last week we discussed some tips to enhance your company’s training and training programs. This included a whole lot of “do’s” and a few “don’ts” to providing good training sessions and programs.This week we will discuss the results of good training classes and programs.

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Author: Bizmanualz Editor    Published on: August 28th, 2006
Categories: Quality Training