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AUGUST 24, 2010

You can ask your team member to perform a task or you can ask them to complete a deliverable (complete with all product and process requirements). The first step to get something right first time is to define it accurately in the beginning. Defining a deliverable clarifies purpose and sets expectations on “why” rather than “what”.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

Prioritize: Identify top three improvement ideas that, if implemented, can have most impact on your results (customer satisfaction, higher productivity, better profitability, reduced cost of rework etc.) Less is More : In my experience, one such key improvement in one month can still lead to 12 breakthrough improvements in a year.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

It also comes out that the amount of preparation, practice and thinking that goes in when developing your product/service is inversely proportional to the pain you will undergo when delivering. Our progress as professionals depends a lot on our ability to undergo the pain of delivering things out.

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

Set up a reward and recognition system to promote right behaviors with respect to quality of products/services delivered to customers. Record video messages on quality and upload them on your corporate intranet. Encourage discussions/participation by using internal blogs/wiki/forums.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Have a productive week for you as well Sir. Reading from the top, I was amazed to read that the flowers bloomed at their best in dry sunny climate. When I came to the end of the post, I understood that this was the lesson of the day. Nicely drafted!

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), a lot of companies focus on restructuring their organization structure (hierarchy).

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JANUARY 20, 2010

A good review is just an internal quality gate that ensures that internal customers (reviewers) are happy with the final product. Review is a control mechanism, and hence the focus on getting it right the first time is still very important. If your internal customers are happy, your external customers will be happy too!

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JANUARY 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Round Up of My Writing in January 2010 January 2010 was a productive blogging month. In case you were busy all the month and could not catch up with this blog, here is a round-up of my writing activities in January 2010.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

Instead what I believe and follow is that one should work for betterment of project / product. That’s when you donate for the purpose of making a product more matured. And according to me that comes when you work for the Product / Project and not with an idea of My work OR Their (boss / company) work.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Must read if you are struggling with your productivity. .&# The performance value of total concentration - by Tim Sanders Tim Sanders posted a small and important reminder that working on one thing with total concentration has tremendous performance value. He also reminds that we can’t excel at all things at a time.

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JULY 20, 2010

Use productivity tools, reminder systems, whatever. Trust and respect have everything to do with employee engagement, retention, attracting top talent, employer brand, and ultimately, production. You bring out a real correlation between building trust and engagement/retention/branding and production. But keep your commitments.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

It can be a great tool to focus your thinking on a subject and collate that with your own experiences.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

Have a terrific Tuesday and a productive month ahead!

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JULY 22, 2010

treating people like machines (and expecting 100% productivity)? ad-hoc-ism and lack of process orientation? not connecting with your people on one-to-one basis? inefficiencies structured within your org chart? talking only from a “problem” perspective? re-hiring/training new hires when your experienced people leave?

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Thanks a lot for sharing this Tanmay and I am glad to get back onto your posts after some time now. Enjoyed this. Regards, Jay Chhaya Other Links to this Post RSS feed for comments on this post.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

In a knowledge-intensive business environment, people deliver services and products, not machines. An excerpt: The purpose of any quality management system is to build a quality oriented culture (internal goal) and deliver exceptional value for money to customers (external goal). Hence they are at the core of the quality equation.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2009

Have a super-productive week ahead! .” – Wayne Dyer “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” – Drucker You might also like reading Collection of thoughts to have a GREAT start into the week! and (How to) Have a Great Monday! Stay tuned for more posts this week.

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JULY 25, 2010

Have a good productive weekend! Communication is more of theoritical aspect whereas Connect is a practical phenomenon. Though communication in most cases ignites a relation base, connection actually forms it. Thanks for sharing the content Tanmay. Regards, Jay Chhaya By Anil Kumar, July 26, 2010 @ 8:49 am Very interesting content.

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JULY 27, 2010

So, quality is a moving target – each time a customer comes back to you, you need to deliver similar or better quality (of products, services and experience), you need to demonstrate improvement, care enough about them, stay on top of market trends and keep changing the rules of the game (innovation). Thanks for the comment!

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Quality touches us all in products we use and services we avail. Without a commitment to improve and long term thinking on processes, you may have successes based on individual heroism but never a sustainable model that delivers consistent quality. I am extremely excited about this series and look forward to your views and comments there.

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JULY 1, 2010

My post “ 15 ideas To Ensure That Trainings Effectively Deliver Value ” was featured in HR Carnival over at i4cp PRoductivity Blog - along with a host of other brilliant posts on talent management, general HR, managerial advice and career advice.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Have a very productive week ahead! - - - - - P.S: When a leader consistently enables, empowers, motivates and serves his people, he truly subordinates the cause of building a great team that delivers great results. No one is anyone’s subordinate, but everyone is a subordinate to a cause.

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JULY 29, 2010

Apart from the quality of product, the perception of value has a lot to do with the overall experience of client when dealing with you. In my view, even knowing completely what customer expects is difficult - and then the challenge is to do it in a way that customer finds it valuable.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Being into processes, I am myself inclined to evaluate processes based on metrics, but sometimes, a hard-nosed focus on metrics can just prove to be counter-productive if qualitative aspects are overlooked. As the HBR post finely exemplifies it, adding sales figures does not determine the kind of organization we are creating. Keep reading!

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Checklists help in controlling quality of the products in verification stage. Checklists are indispensible in a business setting, specially when dealing with production systems that demand consistent outcomes. Checklists are excellent guides for others to perform the same activity in a consistent fashion with little instructions.

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DECEMBER 24, 2009

May 2009: 25 Lessons Learnt on Conducting Productive Meetings We know that meetings can be a huge waste if not conducted well. This post touches upon 25 most important tips for conducting productive meetings. I also included this example in a leadership training I delivered to a group of middle managers in my organization.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

This is highly counter-productive in my view. Well Invested Time in December 2010 By Tanmay , January 6, 2011 @ 1:45 pm @Ivana - Thanks Ivana, for sharing your perspective. Best, Tanmay By Ivana Sendecka , January 6, 2011 @ 2:38 pm You nailed it with bottom line, TV!;-) Spot on. Choice is ours, where we want to march on.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Your thinking, approach, method, statements and actions are your tools to ensure that they derive the “right” meaning that helps them become more engaged with their work, be more productive and stay motivated. Toxicity in words, deeds and thoughts of leaders builds an organization culture that is very difficult to unwind.

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MARCH 1, 2015

Arthur Rock, one of Apple’s board members, said, “The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost” (Isaacson 2011). The tough love gave him the opportunity to become wiser and more mature. But there is other side of this feel-good failure thing.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

In my view, it could have been counter-productive. Strategies For Recharging Your Productivity By Tanmay Vora , February 10, 2010 @ 6:22 am Hi Tanveer, Thank you so much for your kind words. Spending a few hours on these alternative activities is not a ‘waste’ but an ‘investment’. Tanveer Naseer´s last blog. Need A Boost?

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AUGUST 3, 2010

So, apart from visible figures (top line, bottom line, productivity, defect rates etc) what are the invisibles that play a huge role in determining performance of a business? However, planning for and managing these invisibles makes all the difference in an organization’s performance – more so in service and knowledge oriented world.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

Does it not happen that you meet your numbers, but the overall quality of work product/customer experience remains same (or deteriorates)? — These are conversations of “compliance” versus “remarkability” and “adherence” versus “excellence”. Quality is to first ask “Why are we doing it?”, “Is it worth doing it at-all?”.

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