Processes are supposed to help organizations scale and improve efficiency, but they can quickly get out of control. The flip side is a lack of processes can create inefficiencies. The lack of processes or process redundancy can have a significant impact to your bottom line. Here are a few examples of productivity killers that might…
Your first quarter just ended. How was it? Any changes going on in your business? It’s easy for a business to do no analysis at all and assume whatever happens just happens. Others have spreadsheets ad nauseum and really can’t draw any meaningful conclusions. I call this paralysis of analysis. If you feel like you’re…
KPI’s, key performance indicators are critical for managing your business. You can’t manage what you don’t measure, right? Goals allow us to stay focused and manage our businesses effectively. Here are 4 KPI’s for you consider: Liquidity– You may be profitable, but how much cash do you have in your bank account? Measure your cash…
Kaizen is the Japanese word for gradual continuous improvement. It simply means change for better. So, how does this apply to you and your business? As you begin to make plans for 2018, I’d like to challenge you to commit to making a series of 1% gradual continuous improvements in your business across the board….
If you’re a service firm, how do you control direct labor costs? This is an area where I see many firms struggle. Direct labor tends to be the most significant cost for service firms. Most firms use a timesheet and record labor costs for specific jobs. However, the labor force wants to show they’re fully…
We’re ending a four part series on how Strategy, People and Processes affect your bottom line. Today we’re going to talk about how execution affects your bottom line. Unless your business is totally automated with robotics, it will be people executing your business plan. There will come a time when your business may struggle to…
In our past two articles, we’ve talked about how processes and people impact your bottom line. This week we’re going to talk about strategy. It will actually fit nicely in to what we’ve talked about the past two weeks because people execute strategy and there are processes required to execute it correctly. Here are 4…
Are you looking to fill vacancies in your organization? Having a hard time finding the right people? There’s a war for talent going on in the marketplace. There are not enough people to fill all the openings in your business. Your best prospects for employment are your competitor’s best people, but the reverse is also…
I’ve had several experiences with clients that are looking at their processes and discovering that they’re coming up short of expectations. In two instances, processes were either non-existent or critical information wasn’t being captured which had a direct impact on work flow management, billing and cash flow. In order to have effective processes in your…
This past Christmas my wife gave me a FitBit. I’m a numbers nerd, so the ability to see my heart rate resting and during exercise, number of calories burned and consumed, how much sleep and the quality of it and how much water I drink all appealed to me. I kind of gave myself a…
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