Women on Business

MAY 4, 2011

This week we launched a new nonprofit organization serving disadvantaged girls ages 9-17 in the metropolitan Washington, DC area. a nonprofit organization of professional women dedicated to helping young girls in the DMV area. a nonprofit organization of professional women dedicated to helping young girls in the DMV area.

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 28, 2014

They are ideal for leaders and managers of all types of small to large businesses and organizations. In early November 2011, group member Len White graciously culled through the comments using his company’s Symphony Content Analysis Software that assists with the organization, analysis, and reporting of themes contained in text data.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Purpose of an Organization (2005). One factor at a time (OFAT) Versus Factorial Designs (2011). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Building a Great Software Development Team (2014). Increasing the Adoption of Management Improvement Ideas in Your Organization (2010).

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer On Delivering In software world, delivering is generally associated with painful process of testing, rework, defect fixing, perfecting, packaging and then shipping. Software has to be perfected before shipping. Here’s what I have realized: All deliveries have associated pain.

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QAspire

JANUARY 16, 2011

So here is a BIG question : How are you contributing towards simplifying the business (of your organization or your customer’s organization) and life (yours and people who work with you)? Jessica Cox Becomes First Pilot With No Arms By Hemal, January 17, 2011 @ 12:31 pm I have no other words than “Simply&# superb !

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Six Disciplines

MAY 3, 2011

FINDLAY, OHIO, May 2, 2011 - Matt Lauth and Jim Bendt, and their new firm, Strategy Execution Advisors , is now a certified partner of a nationwide network of business coaching practices that offer the Six Disciplines® strategy execution program to its clients.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

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Curious Cat

AUGUST 23, 2016

As this ability to experiment and improve builds in the organization the speed and volume can be increased quite a bit. That aspect of monitoring changes and taking the time to make sure we did have success and if not what we need to change is a key in getting started. Don’t worry about how much you do at first. Get this process down.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 6, 2011

In early November 2011, group member Len White graciously culled through the comments using his company’s Symphony Content Analysis Software that assists with the organization, analysis, and reporting of themes contained in text data. Covey Developing the Leader Within You – John C.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 6, 2015

No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). The Purpose of an Organization (2005). Deming and Software Development (2014). In the next 10 most popular posts 5 were from 2014 (2010 had 2 and 2008, 2009 and 2011 had 1 each). The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010). 94% Belongs to the System (2013).

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QAspire

AUGUST 26, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Training Middle Managers On People Management Basics Here is a simple idea: Whenever you have a new manager (project manager/departmental leader) joining in your organization, put him/her through a simple training program on how to manage people. Train existing managers as well.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 24, 2010

One of the biggest challenges for a lot of organizations today is to involve each and every team member in the quality game. Most people in the organization can do a better job if they know: What are the key values and beliefs on quality/excellence in the organization? How will those actions add value to organization?

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QAspire

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Experience and Expertise – A Few Thoughts When a kid learns how to play music, he develops “ability” to play music. Then a few more years of practice and he develops ability to play new songs without notes. To bring about a positive change in people/organization through our work.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 7 Steps For Customer Centric Process Improvement You can improve almost everything in your organization. With so much to improve, how do you identify what are your top priority improvements? Check it out if you haven’t already ! RSS feed for comments on this post.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

Because the culture at Geneca encourages personal and professional development and there was buy-in from the leadership team, the preconditions for innovation already were in place. Financial Projections – including cost to develop/build. ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. The Innovation Group is Born.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy). Tuning hierarchy and structure of the organization for better outcomes is just one part. I have said this before – any organization that aims to deliver high performance consistently cannot ignore the power of process. How would work flow?

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QAspire

AUGUST 8, 2010

I have seen extreme cases where organizations either measure so much or they don’t measure anything at all. Tags: Business , Business Performance , improvement , Metrics , Performance , Quality Improvement & Development , Leadership , Process Improvement , Quality | Tanmay August 9, 2010 No Comments No comments yet.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Most people/organizations don’t think about meaningful changes unless the consequences of not changing are serious or our survival is at stake. I realized that we only change when we “have to” change (externally driven) or when we strongly believe in the result of change (internally driven). Because the latter often tends to be more painful.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over. .”

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QAspire

AUGUST 24, 2010

Note: My book ‘ #QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project ’ explores the people, process and leadership aspects to build a constantly improving organization culture. Check it out if you haven’t already ! Bonus: QAspire Blog was recently featured on Community of Program and Project Managers (PPM Community).

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Senior management and business leaders play a similar role in an organization. Sometimes, a kid acts up, doesn’t obey and creates difficult situations. A mother is still patient and tries to counsel the kid in different ways. But she doesn’t give up. There are problems, roadblocks, dead-ends, difficult issues and choices.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Article Series on Quality – A Round-Up As announced earlier , I am writing a very exciting series of articles on QUALITY over at ActiveGarage.com – it is a 12-part series that touches upon some of the most critical aspects of building a quality-centric organization culture.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

In my view, implementing an organizational change is pretty much like teaching, because just like teaching, it changes people/teams/organization for better. We make a big mistake when we expect everyone across the organization to accept change at an equal rate. It involves creating an impact on how other’s see their work.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

They not only pull you out of your comfort zone, but can also add tremendous value to your team/organization. These have always worked for me: Spend more time with your customers As a leader, your impact on an organization is as large as the impact you have on the customers. Think about “Top 3” pain areas in your team/organization.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I was very glad to know that two young and aspiring individuals, Manan and Naitri (who are still students themselves) took an initiative to start TEDxAhmedabad (TEDx is an independently organized TED event). The theme of this conference, to be organized on 02nd October 2010, is “Urban Rethinking”.

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QAspire

AUGUST 29, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer ‘Their Work’ Versus ‘My Work’ When you work in an organization or within a team, you can think of it as ‘doing the work for someone’. On one side, they work for an organization, but on the other, they also aim to attain personal mastery in whatever they do.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

With rapid globalization and advent of technology, the rate of change in society and in organizations has just multiplied. Every change has its settling time and that depends on you/your organization/your context. internal re-organizations, initiative to change etc.) Change eliminates (on a long run) those who don’t adapt.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Not managing expectations of all stakeholders of the project (including your organization and in client’s organization). I will try to cover convoluted/complex scenarios in future posts, but again, if these rules of thumb are followed, most software projects would not end up the way they do (overruns, disasters and failures).

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Strategy Driven

MAY 11, 2016

According to the US Department of Education, the number of computer science degrees peaked at 37 percent between 1984 and 1985 compared to only 18 percent in the period between 2008 and 2011. computer software engineer and computer programmer positions. As a consequence, women hold only 22 percent of all U.S.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Are you creating positive experiences for your team, clients and your organization? So, if you are a project manager at any level, here are a few critical questions to think upon: What statement are you making by the way you manage projects? Are you the right example for your team to follow? Have a Great Monday!

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QAspire

JULY 20, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 5 Ways To Build Trust (Lessons from a Conversation) One of my friends recently joined a new organization at a senior position. " Clarify Expectations : When you are new to an organization, it is very important that you manage expectations well. What you expect from them.

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QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

didnt know much about “madhyahan bhojan&# )if thats how we call it) and the organization behind it. really true way of action of making change, with quality. By Maulik Shah , August 23, 2010 @ 12:36 pm Nicely observed and nicely presented by you.I was really not knowing this much about Akshaya Patra.It

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2010

Totally employee oriented terms, and its also true if Employees are satisfied in any organization it will grow no doubts. People need to know how their work contributes to the organization. I will start questioning myself Thanks for fantastic post. Have a wonderful weekend!! By Megha Mehta, July 23, 2010 @ 9:11 am Simply Great!!

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Tim Milburn

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

million active installations of the WordPress.org software. Millions may start blogs, but I bet over half of them die quickly because they don’t develop a following or simply burn out on what they thought would be a good idea. tim milburn on Meeting Planner/Organizer Worksheet – Version 2.0! It means a lot.

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