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Breaking the Echo Chamber: How Peer Advisory Groups Challenge Your Thinking

Effective Managers

Breaking the echo chamber of comfort and familiarity is crucial; when things are going well, it’s natural to ease off the gas pedal, stop seeking new opportunities, and overlook potential efficiencies that could yield even greater returns. This is where peer advisory groups like those offered by TEC Canada come into play.

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Before Automating Your Company?s Processes, Find Ways to Improve Them

Harvard Business

health care firm, for example, had over the years stripped a process down to the minimal viable steps to achieve efficiencies. However, the process resulted in a lack of communication to the service users, and that in turn drove up costs in the contact centers. Examples of RPA and Process Improvement.

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5 steps to boost process efficiency: A guide for businesses up to 100 employees

Asamby Consulting

Process Improvement In business, you need to use resources as efficiently as possible. So you need to make sure that your processes are set up well. This blog post outlines a simple 5-step methodology to improve any process. Repeat After the process improvement is before the process improvement.

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"Process Mining"? Sounds Like a Waste of Time.

Markovitz Consulting

Another great sales point for the software—the opportunity to anoint a class of high priests with specialized knowledge who take responsibility for improvement. I’m sure it does more efficient. And so does close observation of the work with standard work combination tables.

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What to Do If Your Team Is Too Busy to Take On New Work

Harvard Business

When a manufacturing line in a factory is running efficiently, one can see lines of robotic arms working synchronously, conveyor belts moving smoothly, and goods being produced. But as a leader, how do you know whether your team is really needs more resources, or whether they could be working more efficiently?

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How People Analytics Can Help You Change Process, Culture, and Strategy

Harvard Business

The diversity of local accounting rules precluded perfect standardization, and the geographic dispersion of the teams made it hard for the transformation group to gather information the way they normally would — in conversation.

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Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments

Harvard Business

product pricing, operational efficiency, customer service, etc.). Another tried generating operational efficiencies through a different supply chain control tower process. With the safety procedure, you could test it quickly in a controlled environment to make sure it works as expected before rolling out to a wider group.