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Metrics: Are They Mapped With Your Business Objectives?

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Whether measuring a project or a business, here are a five steps to map your metrics with your business objectives: Know your goals : Identify what are your strategic, tactical and operational goals. Establish operational procedures : You can now establish processes and methods to collect the data, frequency and consolidation mechanism.

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Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Thoughts on Project Leadership and Choices I love project management as a subject not only because it gets so much work done, but also because project management manifests how people operate. I have written before that Projects are a great opportunity to practice leadership.

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QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

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Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Quotes: Gems from Subroto Bagchi on Leadership I have always enjoyed reading thoughts of Subroto Bagchi , one of India’s most well known and respected leaders from the IT industry who operates as a “Gardener” and Vice Chairman at MindTree. Read the reviews here and here ).

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3 High-Value Tips for Leaders to Break Out of Comfort Zone

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But structuring an area of work in form of processes, you are reducing dependencies and improving operational efficiency. Track the progress and improve further. Sure, it is a hard work first time. So if you are a manager or leader at any level, do a reality check this morning. I can assure, you won’t regret doing any of these!

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Lessons in Using Checklists for Managing Processes

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Checklist standardize the operations and serve as great reminder to get the most crucial activities done. Checklists are excellent guides for others to perform the same activity in a consistent fashion with little instructions. Checklists help in controlling quality of the products in verification stage.

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Change Management Essentials - 5 Things To Avoid

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In manufacturing world, process ruled people because people were used to operate machines. Thanks again, Best, Tanmay By Tanmay , July 8, 2010 @ 7:36 am @Hans - Thanks for comment and Twitter RT. In knowledge oriented world, processes are simply tools that make people more effective. Process then is not the key, people are.

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Connecting, Building Relationships and Team Success

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It is people who work, co-operate with each other, demonstrate trust, work as a team, share a common goal, exercise their ‘discretionary effort’ and make things happen. Success of projects/initiatives is generally attributed to processes and rituals. Processes are crucial but not sufficient.