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Benchmarking and horizon scanning: A manager’s guide

Chartered Management Institute

As health, safety, quality and environment (HSQE) manager for Valley Group, he oversees internal audits and inspections to determine compliance with international standards around quality management, environmental management and occupational health and safety among others. Action : Implement and monitor those actions.

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Past, Present, Future Planning Steps Video

Mike Cardus

Internal Benchmarking; Where are you now? 1.1 – First strategy to reach goal #1. 1.1.1 – First objective to reach while implementing strategy #1.1. Below are some planning ideas, methods, questions, stuff that may help; It’s Planning TIME! Where do you want to be? What resources will be necessary? PDCA Cycle.

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How to Finally Kill the Useless, Recurring Meeting

Harvard Business Review

To liberate victims from this seemingly inescapable vicious cycle, it’s necessary to kick-start a virtuous cycle in which everyone is empowered to say no, ask why, and identify strategies to allow everyone in an organization to be more effective on a day-to-day basis. Internal benchmarks.

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