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Author :: Matt Evans  |
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| Article Title :: IT Metrics & The Path to Successful Measurement |
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| One of the primary reasons measurement programs fail is because measurement is often done for the sake of measurement itself, and not tied to critical business drivers. In order to successfully measure service efficiency and effectiveness, IT organizations must ensure measurement activities are value-based.Achieving value-based measurement and continuous improvement of technology services requires an IT organization to implement activities based on what they want to accomplish, not on what they want to measure. As understood and promoted by the ITIL framework and ITSM in general, the primary accomplishment of IT should be the effective alignment of services with the current and fut (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Richard G. Ligus |
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| Article Title :: Business Process Reengineering: The Turbo Organization |
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| Driving a turbo-powered sports car is an exciting experience. Step on the gas pedal zero to sixty in a few seconds. Maneuvering through traffic.... downshift, accelerate past others, upshift....gone. Curves coming up?....downshift...corner..... accelerate. You notice the responsiveness of this finely engineered product. You expect this; this precision machine was designed for this, and it is performing to spec.Wouldn't it be great if you could do this with your business? That is...quickly respond to market demand by accelerating new product introduction, . . . .or quickly change your product mix,... ...or maneuver orders through the organization quickly,...or move parts acro (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Richard G. Ligus |
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| Article Title :: Developing World Class Manufacturing Agility: How to Reduce Total Cycle Times In Your Company |
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| Use Time-based Competition as one of your most powerful strategic weapons! Drive down the time it takes to develop and deliver new products, dramatically reduce inventory and manufacturing time. Slash the cost of quality, and win back market share. This article tells you how top-flight companies are doing it.Substantial market share has been lost over years to foreign competitors. No industry is immune. The pressure is on to be the nothing less than the best. Reducing cycle times in your company is a new way of tackling the problem. It's a new world-class manufacturing strategy that is making companies fiercely competitive. Companies who are doing it are cutting out 5 (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Anna Johnson |
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| Article Title :: How To Fire Someone |
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| If you manage people for any length of time, it's likely that, at some stage, you'll need to let one or more people go.It might be because they aren't performing to your expectations; because you no longer need their role performed; or because they've breached the law or a company policy.Whatever the circumstances, firing or retrenching someone is a confronting and often stressful task.Here are some suggestions to make the process easier and less traumatic -- for you as well as the person you need to dismiss.Depending on why you need to let someone go -- whether it's due to poor performance, a role that's no longer needed, or a legal or policy breach -- (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Aza Badurdeen |
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| Article Title :: Lean Manufacturing Quality Concept And Traditional Quality Concept – A Comparison |
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| Have you ever thought “quality products are expensive”? You might be prepared to pay some extra money for a high quality product. I believe you have taken the correct move. It is always better to buy a better quality product or service than a low quality one. But I have a small problem regarding your concept about higher price you are paying. Why you should pay extra money to get good quality product. Strange question isn’t it? But I believe it is very much a valid question. I do not believe that you have to pay extra money for the quality. I will explain why.There are two types of manufacturers around. One is quality manufacturers. They produce quality products and services. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Ralph Dandrea |
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| Article Title :: Using Metrics to Manage Performance |
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| It seems obvious - use measurements of performance to manage and guide your business. Yet an entire discipline in business thinking has developed in recent years dedicated to this notion.Business Performance Management (BPM) is not a methodology for managing, but rather a mechanism for recording business processes and business metrics and linking the information together to form a single consistent picture of how the business is performing(1). But is it as obvious as it seems? Every business uses some measure of its performance to influence its management decisions. What metrics should be gathered and used? And what more is there to BPM than gathering data and disseminating it to m (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Arvind Katoch |
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| Article Title :: Confession of a Servant |
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| Yesterday I got the chance to witness confession of a servant. Earlier my thinking about the servants was not much good. I thought they are people who are physically strong but they have no intellectual. However the confessions of this servant changed my whole thinking about servants. He made my perception more clear on right and wrong. He was doing his job for last ten years. He was getting two thousands rupees as a salary (45$). He was feeling very unhappy because the other servant in the house was told to leave his job.The other servant has worked for last fifteen years in the house. He was told to leave the job by the owner because owner found him guilty of cheating. The servan (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: David Swinden |
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| Article Title :: Best Manager Award |
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| A short time ago I was invited to be a judge at a HR management fest at a college. There was one very interesting event that I was a part of. It was called the " Best manager Award". This was how it went. There were many different colleges taking part in this event and each college would nominate a participant to represent them. This person would usually not be afraid to come up on stage make presentations and most off all be able to work and take pressure. Now why was this going to be an important part of the interview.well it went a little like this. We were three judges sitting on the stage being observed by a crowd of over three hundred students. Now each participant was given (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Lance Winslow |
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| Article Title :: Franchising with Regional Team Managers and Partners |
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| Many franchise consultants shy away from such advice as securing master franchises as a plan for expansion with a new franchising company. This is because the legal issues and the litigation are tough to deal with and for that kind of liability there just is not enough money in it. Plus most franchisor later regret giving away that much of he pie or they have one or two master franchise failures which brings down the whole system due to bad PR and litigation costs.One method considered for our company was to set up regional team partners and use existing franchisees already under the franchise agreement to assist in regional expansion. But we decided to make them managers rather th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Management Articles |
Author :: Michael Russell |
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| Article Title :: Project Management - Reviewing the Invitation to Tender |
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| The team members are in place, many of whom will have been pillaged from other projects and you need to set them to work. The first priority when managing a bid is to have the customer's bid documentation reviewed. No one person is an expert on all aspects, which is why you have a team comprising members from all different disciplines and that is how you divide up the paperwork. The technical specification will be reviewed by your technical expert, the contractual terms and conditions by the Commercial Manager and so on.You will need to set a timescale for this, and all other, activities because invariably, bid periods are far too short for the amount of work that needs to be do (read full article) |
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