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Process design – made simple!

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The Evolution of Performance Management

Webinar: The Pulse of Performance Management 2019: The Evolution of Performance Management Which vendors received the highest ratings from their customers for budgeting, consolidation, reporting, dashboards, and analytics? How is AI reshaping performance management solutions? What is the impact of all the recent investment and acquisition activity in the space?Now in its 16th year, this […]

Creative Thinking for Managers

Explore five creative thinking techniques that can be used to help you and your team to think creatively within the context of the products and services that you offer. This includes: Doblin’s 10 Types of Innovation The Four-Step Innovation Process The Charette Procedure Crawford’s Slip Writing Method SCAMPER Technique Innovation is the driving force of […]

SWOT Analysis — Developing Your Strategy Skills

This free eBook describes the SWOT analysis, a technique that you can perform for products, services, and markets when deciding on the best strategy for achieving future growth. You can download the eBook here You will learn: How SWOT can be used to guide strategy at the highest level or be tied to a specific […]

Problem Solving for Managers

This eBook describes six key principles for problem solving that all successful managers should know. Problems are an inevitable consequence of business and the following techniques will help you to identify and resolve them in a structured way. You can download the eBook here The six key principals are: Root Cause Analysis CATWOE Five Whys Tool Cause and Effect […]

ANOVA

ANOVA -short for “analysis of variance”- is a statistical technique for testing if 3(+) population means are all equal. The two simplest ANOVA scenarios are one-way ANOVA for comparing 3(+) groups on 1 variable: do all children from school A, B and C have equal mean IQ scores? Repeated measures AONVA for comparing 3(+) variables […]

Affinity Diagram / KJ Analysis

An Affinity Diagram is an analytical tool used to organize many ideas into subgroups with common themes or common relationships. The method is reported to have been developed by Jiro Kawakita and so is sometimes referred to as the K-J method. The tool is commonly used within project management and allows large numbers of ideas stemming from brainstorming […]

Top 7 Time Management Templates

The role of a manager has become more complex, so this template is essential for success. You can no longer just be a subject expert you must have a working knowledge of key management skills. You can download the eBook here This download includes: Urgency / Importance Grid Worksheet Successful Delegation SMART Goal Setting Worksheet Team […]

POWER OF YOUR NEXT-GEN CMMS

Autonomous maintenance (AM) is performed by the operators and not by dedicated maintenance technicians. It is a crucial component of the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). The core idea of autonomous maintenance is to provide the operators with more responsibility and allow them to carry out preventive maintenance tasks. According to conventional maintenance programs, a machine can run until it breaks or reaches […]

5S

5S represents Japanese words that describe the steps of a workplace organization process. English equivalent of all the Japanse words are updated in bracket. Seiri (Sort) Seiton (Straighten, Set) Seiso (Shine, Sweep) Seiketsu (Standardize) Shitsuke (Sustain) In simple terms, the five S methodology helps a workplace in following ways SORT – Remove items that are no longer […]