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Good, Better, Best Practice

19 January, 2013 by Bill Flury 4 Comments

Continuous Improvement

This is a guest post by Bill Flury A good idea We were discussing how we could get started with the business of process improvement.  Somebody said: “Hey! I’ve got a great idea! The Quality folks are always telling us that we should lookout for better ways to do things. Let’s hold a series of […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: best practice, business process management, continuous improvement, process mapping

Should you go to Work in Your Slippers?

4 December, 2012 by James Lawther 7 Comments

Results only work environment

How would it be if you could come and go at work just as you pleased?  If nobody checked your hours, if you didn’t have to attend meetings and if the only stick you were measured by was the results you achieved? If you believe the articles the American retailer Best Buy has created that […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: accountability, best practice, employee performance measures, empowerment, objective setting, office productivity, performance management, results only work environment, trust, wasted motion

Call Centre Metrics the Zappos Way

10 November, 2012 by xAshley Furness 6 Comments

Call center metrics

This is a guest post by Ashley Furness Zappos is renowned worldwide as a standout performer in customer service, partially for the e-retailer’s unique approach to customer performance and productivity management. Zappos invests in its call centres, seeing them  not as cost, but as an opportunity to market. Recently, I sat down with the company’s […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: abandon rate, average handle time, best practice, call centre, key performance indicators

Continental Management Reviews

24 September, 2011 by James Lawther 2 Comments

I hate driving on the continent. It’s hard work.  It isn’t just the fact that foreigners will insist on driving on the wrong side of the road (though that doesn’t help), the real problem is that I am constantly bombarded with information that I don’t quite understand: road signs, billboards, lane markings, traffic lights… and […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: best practice, effective meetings, error proofing, measurement, road sign, video

Why E-mail is Like Oil

20 September, 2011 by Robby Slaughter Leave a Comment

E-mail Oil Slick

Let’s be brutal here: you’re probably buried in e-mail.  And like crude oil, e-mail can be a sticky, annoying substance that’s practically impossible to clean.  We need e-mail to get things done, but it seems like an endless, yucky mess. The funny thing about oil is that while spilling a little bit is a problem […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement, Tools & Techniques Tagged With: best practice, communication, e-mail, information technology

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