Process Control Articles
Below you will find all articles and posts tagged with Process Control. These articles are either primarily about Process Control or about topics that are directly related to Process Control.
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
Business and organizational development is about business process change: not as in “process change – the event”, but “process change – the journey“. Your business processes change in response to market forces, competition, regulations, customer demand, the economy, culture, personal beliefs, and many other factors. The question isn’t about what is causing the business process changes — we know your business processes are going to change — the question is…
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Author: Chris Anderson Published on: October 5th, 2009
Categories: Business Process Improvement, Procedures & Process Training, Writing Policies and Procedures
Last week we identified the most common process maturity level in many organizations, phase one — Reactive. Few organizations are able to advance much farther up in management system maturity. This week we will look at the next two levels in our process maturity model that describe the phases in which an effective management system comes to life. The Documentation and Stability Phases.
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Author: Sandi Villarreal Published on: February 9th, 2009
Categories: Business Process Improvement, Procedures & Process Training
During our Well-Defined Processes course we spend a significant amount of time talking about procedures. The role of procedures in documenting processes as well as positive and negative attributes of procedures.
At the very beginning of the course, we ask the participants, “What is wrong with procedures in your organization?” The things that appear on the list are predictable. They include:
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Author: Editor Published on: August 29th, 2008
Categories: Writing Policies and Procedures
In the two previous articles of this series we discussed two important aspects of a Lean ISO 9001 Quality Management System: a Lean Quality Manual and Lean Quality Management System (QMS) Procedures. But what about other documentation that may be needed?
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Author: Editor Published on: July 21st, 2008
Categories: ISO Quality Management
Why should your organization use the ISO 9001 Standard? An honest reply can say a lot about how effectively the standard can improve your business. If you are using the standard as a marketing gimmick (a plaque on the wall; a logo on a website), or just because a customer requires it, then the standard will be a burden, not a benefit. If the honest reason for implementing the standard is improvement, then it can truly help your organization become better.
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Author: Editor Published on: May 5th, 2008
Categories: ISO Quality Management
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
In the past few articles, we have shared some of the things going on at Bizmanualz to help you improve your business. For example, the Internal Auditor course has been redesigned and improved because internal auditing is an important, yet frequently overlooked, component for compliance and for process improvement.
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Author: Editor Published on: September 17th, 2007
Categories: Writing Policies and Procedures
Our mission at Bizmanualz is to help other businesses succeed. Our product line of policies and procedures manuals, business process training, and business consulting are all geared toward helping organizations realize their vision and mission, and then implementing these over-arching principles operationally through alignment and control of internal processes in order to achieve continual improvement and reach important goals.
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Author: Editor Published on: September 10th, 2007
Categories: Procedures & Process Training
Do you feel like training is too expensive or perhaps you cannot afford the lost work time, or maybe you do not want to send your employees on a “mini-vacation.” To some degree these views make sense to those focusing on near term results, such as the production numbers for tomorrow or sales figures for the month. However, does such a view make sense for anyone seeking long term growth and success?
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Author: Editor Published on: July 9th, 2007
Categories: Quality Training