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HOW TO STAY FOCUSSED AND BUILD YOUR BUSINESS

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:02:24 -0800

You have a detailed business plan, which showed the overallintent of your company. You presented the business plan to yourbank before start-up and they submitted funding in the amountthat you both deemed acceptable. The original business plancontained the basis of the procedures that will help you stayfocussed while the company grows. Let's examine some of theseprocesses that you will use to give your business the focus itneeds to grow and succeed..A marketing plan. If sales are a part of your operation andit seems that some form of selling is always a big part of everycompany, then, you will need to have your sales group focussedon a marketing plan. Short term and longer-term analysis shouldbe a part of this planning and will likely contain an analysisof your competition, market potential and sales projections. Becareful not to fall into the trap of letting "the business takecare of itself", stay focussed at all times and be sure yourmanagers are tuned into this ma...

What is Six Sigma Deployment

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:12:19 -0800

In the implementation of Six Sigma, an effective infrastructurelays the foundation for success. An effective infrastructure foryour Six Sigma or Lean Flow change initiative in an organizationrequires a clear strategy and comprehensive planning. Strategizing and Planning The planning stage of a Six Sigmadeployment is where you can gain valuable traction. A criticalfactor in a successful deployment is the selection andchartering of the project that link to the strategy of theirorganization. Project should be selected with an understandingof what areas within the business are struggling to meetperformance goals in the standard areas of cost, capacity andcustomer service. A deployment meeting can be called to create aprioritized project list. Once the projects are selected,project leaders are identified and readied for training. Theleadership team identifies process characteristics that have themost impact on quality-separating the "vital few" from the"trivial many." With t...

Stop the revolving door of employee turnover

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:06:42 -0800

Stop the revolving door of employee turnover: Employeeassessment tools have advanced so companies can now moreeffectively identify, select, and retain top performing employeesThe challenge and cost of employee turnover is one of the mostdiscussed, most frustrating and most misunderstood problemsbusinesses face. CEO's have identified employee retention as oneof their key challenges in . Yet organizations continue tostruggle with this costly issue. The science of psychologicalassessments has recently advanced, allowing the development ofmuch more predictive assessment tools. If you do not know what your employee turnover cost is, manyexperts agree that you can come surprisingly close to the costof a single turnover incident by simply multiplying the annualsalary for the position times . - that will cover productivityloss, recruiting and hiring cost, training cost, liability,unemployment and the other hidden costs that we usually trynot to think of when we lose ...

Real Estate You Need to Know

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:48:52 -0800

Big YawnWhen you first read basic material about real estate, you mightask yourself, "great, but how is all this going to help make merich?" The answer is: if you want to get rich in real estate,you have to understand what you are buying; if you know morethan the other guy, you can find properties that he can not, andyou can take command at the negotiating table. This is not abunch of academic theory - you need to know this stuff if youreally want to become a successful real estate investor. I do not intend to give away my secrets in free tutorials. WhatI hope to accomplish here is to prove to you that there is awhole world of information that you need to learn to besuccessful, and that I can teach you in a way that makes senseand that is easy to understand. If these tutorials aresuccessful, you will buy my book; and then I will reveal mymethods to you. Shameless advertising? Probably, but this is oneway that I can cut through the gaggle of real estate books thatpromis...

The Six Sigma Approach

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:06:51 -0800

The Six Sigma Approach To put it in layman language, the SixSigma proposition is all about improving capabilities ofbusiness process to such an extent that there in no margin forpoor quality. Customers value unswerving, consistent,predictable and world-class quality from a product or service.More often than not however, businesses measure theirperformance on averages and average-based measures of the recentpast. With a Six Sigma approach the organization ensures thatthe customers are not presented with a variant experience of theservice or product every time. The idea is to reduce variationand improve business processes to such an extent that customersare delighted with the consistency of the product or servicequality. The Six Sigma approach recognizes and eliminates defects througha structured, data driven, problem solving method by usingpainstakingly collected data which is further subjected tostatistical analysis. Quantitatively, a Six Sigma approach meansfewer than...