Harvard Business

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Higher wages are also necessary for many companies that are stuck in a vicious cycle of bad jobs, bad operations, bad customer service, low productivity, and high costs. When they have an idea for improvement, they are shut down by a manager who is already overwhelmed with all the firefighting she or he has to do.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Before you hire a data scientist or implement expensive machine learning software, have a face-to-face conversation with 15 customers. Don’t do it.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Improve Productivity: What can we do to complete tasks more quickly? While process improvements can drive some productivity increases, the biggest productivity improvements are often a result of automating groups of tasks. When automation is coupled with process changes, the resulting impact can be substantial.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2018

While America has continued leading the world in terms of investment in basic science research, it has lost the ability to do the kinds of process improvements that are essential for innovation. When it comes to manufacturing, the country has lost the capacity for “learning by doing.” In recent decades, however, the U.S.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 2, 2018

” Even if you cannot change your circumstances, “you might be able to change the microenvironment in which you operate.” This made me more people-focused than process-focused, but it allowed for process improvements in the best way possible, by enabling people to excel.”

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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

A learning organization If you don't want to do all process improvement and development in your company, you need to build a so-called learning organization: Your employees have a structured process and tool set to formalize and document what they learn and make it available to everyone.

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Asamby Consulting

OCTOBER 1, 2022

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. We use Miro but any digital whiteboard or other graphic software will do.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2017

Platform companies invest in virtuous cycles to solve problems; more-traditional firms invest in process improvement to solve problems. That represents an organizational, operational and cultural breakthrough, not just a digital one. These organizations don’t design with virtuous cycles in mind. ” So they did.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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