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You’ve just been given the task of writing a new procedure that documents an existing business process. You make sure you understand, and you close with, “I’ll get on this process right away.”
That’s when your boss says, “Process? Did I say ‘process’? I meant processezzz! Plural!” And before you can blurt out, “What do you mean?”, the boss says you need to develop procedures for all accounting processes, not just the one. Oh, and he wants them by the end of the month!
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Author: Chris Anderson Published on: November 20th, 2009
Categories: Accounting Procedures Manuals, Case Studies, Writing Policies and Procedures
Writing procedures is an exercise in controlling the cost of compliance. You’re trying to comply with customer expectations, management objectives, government regulations, and/or industry standards, making compliance expensive. Regardless of the reason for compliance, wouldn’t you want to write as few procedures as possible if you could still conform to the compliance mandate and keep your compliance costs to a minimum?
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Author: Chris Anderson Published on: November 16th, 2009
Categories: Accounting & Internal Control, Internal Control, ISO Quality Standards, Sarbanes Oxley Compliance, Writing Policies and Procedures
You’ve written a new procedure. Your procedure review identified completeness, correctness, and subject matter applicability. You feel you’ve caught your procedure writing errors and the procedure’s ready to go…but go where? How do you determine if your new procedure is working?
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Author: Chris Anderson Published on: October 26th, 2009
Categories: Procedures & Process Training, Process Management, Writing Policies and Procedures
Your process is not living up to expectations, so you’ve decided to implement standard operating procedures (SOP) to improve process consistency, compliance, and effectiveness. However, that project is stalled: employees are not buying into your proposed changes, and management is growing impatient.
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Author: Chris Anderson Published on: October 12th, 2009
Categories: Business Process Improvement, Process Management, Writing Policies and Procedures
Question of the month: How is the design flow in an organization different from the manufacturing flow?
This month, the focus of our articles was on core process flows, innovation and problem solving. A typical company has three core process flows – cash cycle, manufacturing (or fulfillment cycle) and design cycle. Your cash cycle reflects how
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Author: Bizmanualz Editor Published on: March 30th, 2006
Categories: Monthly Summary, Strategic Process Improvement
Question of the month: How do you know if you are using the right metric(s) to measure your leadership effectiveness?
January saw the release of the newest manual in our collection—the ISO 22000 Food Safety Policies, Procedures & Forms. We also discussed leadership in January and announced the 2006 ASQ St. Louis Quality Conference.
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Author: Bizmanualz Editor Published on: January 31st, 2006
Categories: Monthly Summary, Strategic Process Improvement
Phase Five in a Five-Part Series
Now we turn the corner to our final phase: Re-Discovery.
Last year marked the 200th anniversary of the expedition of Lewis & Clark, and much has been written about their remarkable journey up the Missouri River and onto the Pacific. This band of explorers was aptly named The Corps of Discovery. In reality, The Corps made two trips, the second being
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Author: Bizmanualz Editor Published on: February 11th, 2005
Categories: Strategic Process Improvement
Any old policy and procedure format saves time by not having to start from scratch, right? Well, not necessarily.
Using a weak starting point can hurt employee usability, introduce confusion and user-error, and may not
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Author: Bizmanualz Editor Published on: December 21st, 2004
Categories: Procedures & Process Training, Writing Policies and Procedures
Managers know the difficulty of getting people to do the right things the right way. And employees need their expertise and understanding of the way things should be done. But how do you get it across
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Author: Bizmanualz Editor Published on: December 14th, 2004
Categories: Business Management & Operations, Writing Policies and Procedures
Wouldn’t it be nice for business owners and executives to be finished with their policies and procedures project already? They know they need to get it done, but maybe it’s taking too long. Or perhaps their people are staring at a blank piece of paper, and
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Author: Bizmanualz Editor Published on: November 22nd, 2004
Categories: Business Management & Operations, Writing Policies and Procedures
