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• Redesigning Your Organization Around Lean Thinking
  "The redesign of an organization in harmony with lean thinking helps it identify value and deliver that value to the customer..."
  by: Willie L. Carter
   
• Simple, Smart & Sexy - an irresistible formula for success
  "The good news is that you are not alone and stress from success is what happens to most consumers in developed markets."
  by: Mariana Ferrari
   
• Wrongdoing is often the result of wrong management
  '"Except in rare circumstances it is usually no single person who is to blame ... but it is rather a context that has formed that is toxic".
  by: Bill Liao
   
• Planning For Insourcing In Your Outsourcing
  "...in the context of reversing an outsourcing arrangement and repatriating previously outsourced tasks back into the customer's company."
  by: Amy-Lynne Williams
   
• Learning Entrepreneurial Skills
  "...if we are to transcend our economic woes we need a veritable fleet of well run startup companies"
  by: Bill Liao
   
• Now is The Time for Process Improvement in Service Organizations
  "Failure to improve quality and productivity has left many service firms unable to compete in today's economic environment."
  by: Willie L. Carter
   
• Becoming a Process Focused Organization
  "It takes a special effort for executives to focus on process improvement as something to be managed."
  by: Willie L. Carter
   
• Improving Financial Performance With ISO 9001
  "If the organization applies ISO 9001 only to engineering and manufacturing, then it ignores the intent of the standard and the significant impact on cost structure..."
  by: Willie L. Carter
   
• Structuring Your Work to Deliver Customer Value
  "...the diverse needs of customers are forcing organizations to look at ways of delivering customer value quickly..."
  by: Willie L. Carter
   
• Think Lean to Escape the Planning Loop Trap
  "In many cases 85% to 90% of the total value delivery time of a manufactured product is eaten up by administrative processes."
  by: Willie L. Carter
   
• Improve Collaboration and Communication in Your Office
  "The concept of customers and suppliers is easily grasped once you understand the idea of a process"
  by: Willie L. Carter
   
• The Connection Between Process Focus and the Profit Zone
  "An organization capable of managing their processes will achieve high profits."
  by: Willie L. Carter
   
• Nine Points of Advice When Offshoring Some Development Tasks
  "Improvement will come through building trust, trust, and trust"
  by: Eric Mariacher
   
• Deliver Results, Focus on Your Client's Processes
  "Automating an inefficient process just "gets what you always got" faster...."
  by: Willie L. Carter
   
• Realising Improvement & Transforming Perceptions
  "Managing effective projects and achieving sustainable organisational improvements relies on the successful combination of Risk Management, Process Improvement, and Partnership working with the Resources"
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• Outsourcing In a Global Village
  "The issues in a global outsourcing transaction are pretty much the same as in a domestic or offshore outsourcing - times 100"
  by: Amy-Lynne Williams
   
• Online Business In Canada
  "... with careful planning and some practical considerations, as to how they need to set up and conduct business, vendors should find the Canadian online market a good choice"
  by: Amy-Lynne Williams
   
• The ABC's of Operations Management
  "Basic management responsibilities and directives we all need to review and rethink once in a while"
  by: Harvey Ikeman
   
• "Plain Speaking"
  "Thoughts on Technology and Intellectual Property(IP) Outsourcing, Licensing, and Business Management."
  • E-Tips: E-commerce, Technology & Intellectual Property Summaries.
    
  by: Amy-Lynne Williams
   
• Software Development Agreements - Top Ten Terms
  "To my mind it is much like hiring a contractor to build you a house without plans and without an agreement or understanding as to what you want. "
  by: Amy-Lynne Williams
   
• Marketing Insights
  "What the marketing books don't tell you is how to do it in the real world. Yes, the books do teach you the basics, the "5 Ps". But, how do you really establish the strategic and tactical marketing plans in support of the company's business plan?"
  by: Fred Garcia
   
• Year 2000: Potential Sources Of Liability, For All Types Of Companies
  "If the directors and officers of a company learn only one thing from what they read about year 2000, it should be this - the year 2000 problem is not a technical issue - it is a management issue."
  • Y2K Task Force Checklist
    
  by: Amy-Lynne Williams