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Productivity Tips | Does Music Help You Focus
As we struggle to maintain or improve our output, we all have urgent questions about working more efficiently in the midst of distractions and upheaval, such as “I need productivity tips: Does music help you focus?”
May 15, 2020Process Improvement, Professional Development, Project Management
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Is Agile Project Management the Business Solution You Need?
If you’re thinking about going Agile, the foundational question is whether Agile project management is the business solution you need.
April 14, 2020Process Improvement, Project Management
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Why Process Improvement Depends on Creative Thinking
If your organization has made great strides in its improvement program, but you’re still not delivering that string of innovations you expected, maybe your approach to Lean Six Sigma is missing a secret element – creativity.
April 7, 2020Process Improvement
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Three Process Improvement Techniques to Boost Work Efficiency
If you’re ready to learn more about titan-worthy streamlining methods that you can apply to your own enterprise, explore three process improvement techniques to boost work efficiency and produce real results where you work.
March 27, 2020Process Improvement
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10 Tips for More Productive Meetings
We meet to focus skills, talents, and minds on things that bring success. In short, meetings are the heart of corporate communication, so a business that can’t hold productive meetings is akin to a standup comic who can’t write jokes.
March 13, 2020Leadership and Management, Process Improvement, Professional Development
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6 Tips for Process Improvement: Applying Lean Six Sigma at Work
Lean Six Sigma is among the most popular management strategies used by businesses worldwide, improving performance by blending the methodologies of LEAN and Six Sigma.
January 8, 2020Process Improvement
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How to Improve Your Work Productivity
A day of picking pundits’ brains for ways to make your workdays/hours/minutes count led to the realization that capacity, efficiency, and organization are at the heart of the top tips on how to improve your work productivity.
November 4, 2019Process Improvement
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Core Principles of Business Process Improvement
The core principles of business process improvement (BPI) are not numbered, etched in stone, and universally accepted as the top 20 or 10 or five BPI commandments. There are, though, countless lists of rules or guidelines deemed most important. Using a sampling of those lists and a Venn diagram concept, we found six core principles of business process improvement.
October 22, 2019Process Improvement
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How to Choose the Right Business Process Improvement Methodology
Improving your competitive advantage is always your top business priority. One of the most effective ways to accomplish this is to focus on the quality of your organization’s processes.
September 30, 2019Process Improvement