Thursday, December 27, 2007
If you have been hanging around here for any length of time you should know that I constantly harp on business systems as being THE way to efficiently operate and run any successful business.
Part of any business system or procedure is collecting data on performance for those systems, this is so critical that it must [...]
Monday, December 10, 2007
Quality really is important in everything that you do… for a lot of reasons. First people want a certain level of quality in what they buy, customers don’t want a bunch of useless junk. You can be the wally world in business and maintain a certain level of quality and people will continue to purchase [...]
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
One of the key concepts to come out of kaizen and lean business practices is constantly evaluating processes to eradicate waste. You see waste is a money sucker, when it occurs it is literally draining money and profit from your business. When you get rid of waste profit goes up.
So what is waste exactly? These [...]
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The absolute worst time to begin building quality into the business processes is when the customer complains due to issues like poor quality, late delivery and so forth. Plainly stated customers aren’t the quality control department… if you have to reactively engage in improvement efforts due to customer complaints then your business has some serious [...]
Roger had the correct answer, the diagram in the recent What Is This post represents the inputs and outputs of a particular process, it’s called an input, process, output diagram or IPO… so what… why should we care? How does this improve your business?
Taking it a step further each of the input elements are how [...]
Often fledgling business owners and entrepreneurs have a difficult time bringing in human resources (employees, contractors, interns, etc) to offload tasks onto for the simple fact they are stuck in a belief that it takes years of experience and know how to perform the work while not making mistakes and being able to produce the [...]