Two Lean Tools You Can Use to Improve Processes at Your Site

You will find two illustrations of the use of lean tools at healthcare sites. These illustrations will quickly demonstrate how to save time, energy, and money while improving patient and client satisfaction. You will be able to easily translate the use of these tools to quality projects at your site.

A Sick Company Needs to Concentrate on its Core Competence

The surgeon operates only one patient at a time. Similarly, a sick company needs to concentrate on its core competence.

In Times Of Trouble, Do Not Become Schizophrenic But Let Your Focus Be Emphatic

Schizophrenic patients suffer split personalities, characterised by withdrawal from reality and behavioural disturbances. Management needs to have very sharp and emphatic focus rather than become schizophrenic.

Human Resource Outsourcing: The Ultimate Business Solution?

For years now, many companies in and out of the United States have been practicing human resource outsourcing. Lower labor and operational costs, as well as the efficiency to which the tasks are finished are two of the primary reasons why this has become a popular business decision.

Changes, How to Make Them

Change can be good or it can be bad, change of any kind good or bad has an effect on individuals. The challenge is how do we make changes without creating stress in the work place.

Better Health With Less Fats - Do Better With Less

In today's competitive market, the ones that outlast and survive are those that can do more things and programs with lesser resources.

People Like Change

I've often heard it said that People Don't Like Change. But is this really true? If it were true, wouldn’t we still be hunter gatherers, eking out a nomadic existence?

Project Risk Management

All projects are essential and every project has its own risk elements. Commencing from initiation to post completion of the project, the degree of risk grows within, as does the haze of uncertainty, thus proper project risk management can make a difference.

Managers Aren't Always Leaders

Talk to a manager at almost any level – office, factory, service crew – and most will say they are a leader. And well they may be, though most often only within their particular work group. Few are leaders on any larger scale. Few, in fact, may have what it takes to be a leader. But that doesn't mean they can't learn.

Learn Your PROTOCOLS

Organisations looking to implement improvement often fail to achieve the results they are looking for - yet when you analyse the reasons why their improvement programmes (Lean, Six Sigma etc) fail, it can normally be traced back to one of nine reasons - and this article tells you how!

Shifting Preferences For Office Furniture

The choice of furniture used in office has undergone a sea change over the years. But few things have remained constant with the change of times. Read on

Case Study: High Aspirations Key to High Performance Technologies' Success

The Virginia-based IT provider faced one of the toughest challenges a small organization can face: the death of its leader. Read how the firm, which lost two other employees at the same time, rebounded in the face of adversity and strengthened its work culture.

Stakeholder Analysis - Management and Engagement

If we are involved in managing change, we will come across the terms Stakeholder Analysis, Stakeholder Management and Stakeholder Engagement. So what is the difference between these three concepts?

Having A Hard Time Focusing On Your Job Search - 4 Tips That Get You The Job - Part 2

Finding the right job can be difficult, but if you set some goals and action items you can focus on the job you really want. Don't just go after any job, pick the ones that are right for you and focus on getting them. Here are some tips to make sure you stay on track with your job search.

Introduction to Project Managment

It is common for organisations to undertake projects, however most do not employ full time Project Managers and it is common to pull together a project team to address a specific need. While most people are not formally skilled in project methodology, taking a role in a project team can be an excellent learning opportunity and also enhance a person’s career profile. To that end, this article aims to give an understanding of project management methodology and how it underpins most formally run projects.