Friday, September 21, 2007
To make any measurable progress towards the future you need to know where you stand today, that’s continuous improvement 101. Without defining and gathering some sort of data metrics and utilizing standardization it’s difficult to gauge how a process and overall business is performing and it’s nearly impossible to know if improvement efforts have made [...]
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
It’s carnival time! You can catch the latest edition of the Carnival of Small Business Issues spanning the gamut of topics including improving employee health, search engine optimization (from Fred Black who makes the very cool Artemis Pro PreProcessor utility) and how to avoid problems in the restaurant business.
Go check it out, here is the [...]
Friday, September 14, 2007
Update: There is quite the flame war going on over at the CDBaby forum… Here is the URL:
http://cdbaby.org/stories/07/09/14/3164901.html
If you aren’t already familiar with the prelude to this entry; during the month of August the CD distrubition website CDBaby.com ran a contest for who could sell the most CDs. Internet business maven James Brausch distributes his [...]
Monday, September 10, 2007
A recent post titled “The Flywheel and the Doom Loop” over at Cyberca$hology got me thinking about cycles, why they are important and how you can (should!) use them in your business. Here is the URL:
http://www.cybercashology.com/?p=159
It also occurred to me after the previous entry that I have never discussed the PDCA or Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle that’s [...]
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Take a look around and see for yourself, continuous improvement really is that simple. The people out on the floor or in the office typically know what the problems are but often times the decision maker (YOU) has no idea what really is going on in the workplace. This needs to change…
So how can you [...]