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Smart Ways To Enhance the Efficiency of Your Business

Strategy Driven

Every entrepreneur and business manager is constantly working to improve the efficiency of their business. Business efficiency entails maximizing your outputs from your input and making the most out of your resources. You can also use software to host meetings, which saves a lot of time and money used for travel to the meeting venue.

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Change Reboot: How to Recover When Your Project Gets Off to a False Start

Change Starts Here

A college within a large public university had moved the processing of its fiscal and human resources transactions from dozens of individual departments to a centralized Business Service Center. The teams shared the proposed changes with each of the departments for feedback.

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10 Creative Ways to Write ‘Sorry for the Late Reply’ Email

HR Digest

It’s natural to struggle with time management when we’re buried under piles of work. I wanted to take some time to think over your proposal. Example: Hi Adam, My sincere apologies for the slow reply; I wanted to reach out sooner, but I’m traveling at the moment and will come back to office on November 24. Best, Grace.

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There's Still Time

Women on Business

Time is something we either manage well or have no sense of. If we are lacking in time-management skills it could take away from the time and love we get to share with our families. If your mind is full of things you keep meaning to get done, your head won’t be in the game Do the hard stuff first: outbound sales calls, proposals, etc.

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How to Handle Work When Your Child Is Sick

Harvard Business Review

How will you get the client proposal finished if you’re spending the morning at the pediatrician’s? But if your manager and colleagues have been supportive of your working from home while the baby’s sick, nothing will erode their goodwill and generosity faster than seeing you posting new pictures on Facebook.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming Institute [The Institute makes 5 travel grants available each year to study the Deming Collection at the Library of Congress. Fortunately, I received the grant and was able to travel to the US to the study Deming’s papers at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.

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Closing the Gap Between Blue Ocean Strategy and Execution

Harvard Business Review

Unlike marketing, manufacturing, human resources, and other functions, a good strategy should cover the entire activity system of an organization. Strategic alignment is the responsibility of an organization’s top executives versus those in charge of marketing, manufacturing, human resources, or other functions.