Procedures and Processes Articles
Below you will find all articles and posts tagged with Procedures and Processes. These articles are either primarily about Procedures and Processes or about topics that are directly related to Procedures and Processes.
The articles in September were intended to give you glimpses of developments at Bizmanualz. Our first article was about the newly redesigned Internal Auditor class. The next article talked about our new learning center and last week’s article covered the release of the Spanish ISO 22000 Procedures Manual.
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Author: Editor Published on: September 24th, 2007
Categories: Monthly Summary
“I am here to audit you.” That phrase can strike fear in most of us, thanks in part to our good friends at the IRS. In the business world as well, those five words can send a chill down the spine of everyone from the Finance VP to the shipping department clerk. But it shouldn’t.
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Author: Editor Published on: September 4th, 2007
Categories: Business Process Improvement
Question of the month: How can a Kaizen program help a company in its improvement journey?
At Bizmanualz, our mission is to help businesses and organizations improve by helping them implement innovative techniques and proven best practices. That philosophy carries through to our manuals, our training classes, and our consulting efforts.
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Author: Editor Published on: August 27th, 2007
Categories: Monthly Summary, Strategic Process Improvement
Question of the month: How does work environment contribute to effective learning/training?
In July, the focus of our articles was on learning and how it benefits the organization. Learning is often perceived as expensive, time consuming, and even disruptive. While this perception may be fairly accurate for the immediate short term, the long term benefits of learning is well established and cannot be ignored.
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Author: Editor Published on: July 30th, 2007
Categories: Monthly Summary, Quality Training
Question of the month:How can innovative leadership influence an organization’s success?
In June, our articles focused on leadership and its impact on organizational culture. The term leadership is quite broad. Whether you are the CEO of a large company or the manager of a small department, you can make a difference through your leadership skills.
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Author: Editor Published on: July 2nd, 2007
Categories: Monthly Summary, Strategic Process Improvement
Question of the month: How does innovation contribute to change?
After talking about change in April, we turned our attention in May to three companies that successfully embraced change and made it part of their continual process improvement. Many improvement opportunities mandate that you look at the situation a little differently and try to make it better with a different and innovative approach.
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Author: Editor Published on: May 29th, 2007
Categories: Monthly Summary
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
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
In the previous series of articles, we discussed applying Statistical Process Control (SPC) to business processes. Although SPC has been around for a long time and is applicable to the current world of Lean, Six Sigma, and ISO, it is often overlooked.
SPC is a great tool to not only monitor the current and recent behavior of a process, but is also a great tool to support Continuous Improvement activities.
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Author: Editor Published on: November 21st, 2006
Categories: Business Process Improvement, Procedures & Process Training