As we enter 2016, you hear story after story about the internet of things, the union of ecommerce with digital intelligence, cognitive computing and the cognitive business. Even Warren Buffet has got into the act, investing billions in IBM in the last year or so, believing in their main focus on it. Cognitive, of course, in this sense has to do with non- humans (businesses, organizations, machines, systems… ) understanding, reasoning and learning. A key aspect of this is what getting access to the 80% of data that is "
Contributed by alan on 11th of May 2015 09:53:26 AM
Over the last 30 years, there have been a series of buzzword programs in the quality and productivity improvement area in organizations. These include such alphabetic combinations as TQM, BPR, Lean, AGILE, LSX, Six Sigma, ERP, MRPII, TOC, WCM, Kaizen, CIT, CAPM and quite a number of others. All of them have been attributed to successful business results and a few to many.
Contributed by alan on 21st of April 2015 12:13:11 PM
There is a key concept in business and life that can have a powerful impact on your ability to identify problems and address them effectively. The concept is variation. Variation is the difference between what you expect to see and what you actually observe (expected vs. observed). W.
Contributed by alan on 1st of April 2011 01:46:37 PM
Barriers (and myths) to Effective Focus and Goal Achievement
There are many reasons given for NOT being focused, for not having an understanding of the three dimensional (Looking in, out and all around) environment in which you operate. If you want to hear them with your own ears, go find a group of business owners whose business has recently failed - it certainly is not the only reason but these are very common with them, I can assure you.
• There is not enough time to work through process
• We can't get buy-in from….???
Contributed by Process Optimiz... on 15th of January 2010 10:08:19 AM
Here, we focus on solutions for optimizing processes. Organizations are only as good as the throughput from all the processes involved in producing the product or service they offer. A focus on process effectiveness is critically important for an organization's success because how you develop and deliver your products or services also creates the people requirement and the resource requirements (costs) yet most organizations don't focus enough on their processes and on the HOW.
Consider the following:
Contributed by Process Optimiz... on 8th of September 2009 05:48:33 PM
Engaging in an effort to improve a key processes or an overall effort is typically a significant undertaking that is long term in nature and often conflicts with the daily "fire fighting" that many organizations are engaged in. When you choose to reduce costs and/or improve capabilities by addressing how you do things (process-focus), what is the investment? Like other business investments, the costs center around the time of your people for which you are paying for, the outside investment and of course the relevant opportunity costs for both.
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