Yearly Archives: 2010

Have You Lost Your Focus?

I believe that one of the key causes of failure of online businesses in their first year is the lack of focus by the owner. There are literally so many things to do in the day that it’s hard to decide which one of the mile-long list is the best task to tackle first.

Handling Statistical Variation In Six Sigma

Six-Sigma provides a methodical, disciplined, quantitative approach to continuous process improvement. Through applying statistical thinking, Six Sigma uncovers the nature of business variation and its affect on waste, operating cost, cycle time, profitability, and customer satisfaction. The term “six sigma” is defined as a statistical measure of quality, specifically, a level of 3.4 defects per million or 99.99966% high-quality. To put into practice the Six Sigma manageme...

Quality Management: Organizational Needs

Any business out there can benefit from quality management. Whether you are producing thumb tacks or if you are producing IT equipment, there is little doubt that they need to be of the highest levels of quality. Yet, as your business grows, you will find it farther and father difficult to manage quality management. Because it is so very important, though, you need to find a way to make sure it is dead on. What solutions are out there? You know that you need quality man...

Tips To A More Effective Project Management

Gillian is at the end of her wits! They only have less than three months to finish the project and yet all things seem to be going wrong. And to top it all, there's little financial resources left to finish all things that needed completion before d-day! To an expert's eye, Gillian's problem all boils down to improper project management. She may have started the project without evaluating all her resources and whether or not these resources will be enough to meet all the ...

Putting Professionalism back in Management Consulting

There has been a change in business change consulting. Professionals who did things their own way were replaced by inexperienced staff who faithfully followed a methodology to produce contract-satisfying deliverables. We need a new consulting model so that consultants can work in partnership with the enterprise to leverage enterprise capabilities and put professionalism back in management consulting.
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