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1. | Six Sigma Tools for Process Control You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article is 900 words long including the resource box. Thanks for your ...
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2. | Top 7 Methods to Empower Employees You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article is 801 words long including the resource box. Thanks for ...
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3. | 5 Steps to Build Stronger Communication and Understanding You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article is 927 words ...
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4. | 5 Steps to Identify Core Processes Part Two of Creating Well-Defined Processes
Series
Part One: http://www.bizmanualz.com/articles/02-08-05_Process_Improvement.html?src=ART83
Next Week: Implementation
Last week, we raised the question: how do you know where to begin? How can you identify a gap in one ...
[Added: 15 Feb 2005 Hits: 313 Words: 1269]
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5. | 5 Steps to Continuous Process Improvement You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article is 895 words long including the resource box. Thanks for ...
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6. | Implementation Procedures for Building Effective Management Systems: Phase IV You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article ...
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7. | Effective Policies and Procedures - 4 Parts of the Complete Cash to Cash Cycle You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. ...
[Added: 01 Feb 2005 Hits: 269 Words: 713]
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8. | 9 Strategies for Writing Accounts Payable Procedures You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article is 1,067 words long including the resource box. Thanks for your ...
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9. | 8 Procedures to Take Control of Sales and Marketing The Cash to Cash Cycle
Part Three of Series
Part One : Inventory
Part Two : Accounts Receivable
Next Week : Accounts Payable
We're sprinting toward that million dollar mark...and we're only a couple ...
[Added: 22 Jan 2005 Hits: 202 Words: 959]
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10. | Planning Procedures for Building Effective Management Systems: Phase II You have permission to publish this article free of charge, as long as the resource box is included with the article. If you do run my article, a courtesy reply to sean@bizmanualz.com would be greatly appreciated. This article is 548 words long including ...
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11. | How to Build a Business Ethics Program Recent corporate financial scandals have highlighted the importance of business ethics and legal compliance. Yet a recent National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) survey of 280 corporate CEOs and directors found that "only one of three directors felt that they were highly effective ...
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12. | Are You ISO Auditor-Phobic? Which is more painful: an audit or spending the holidays with Aunt Sally and her green Jell-O mold? Either way, your company audit still looms in your mind, but it shouldn't be that scary - quite the opposite. Besides, even Sally “audits” herself when ...
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13. | ISO 9001 Registration - 8 Steps for Success You've made the plans, built the quality system and conducted the audit. So how do you register your company as ISO 9001 conformant? And how can you be sure you're getting the most value for your investment? Here's how the process works.
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14. | How to Start Writing Policies and Procedures Any old policy and procedure format saves time by not having to start from scratch, right? Well, not necessarily.
Using a weak starting point can hurt employee usability, introduce confusion and user-error, and may not assist in your compliance and control objectives. The result could ...
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15. | Auditing Improves Effective Planning Speak of operations assessment, and we'll hear its significant value. Speak of an audit, and we'll run for the nearest emergency exit. There's no difference between the two, yet that word audit chills us. But is an audit really designed to help us or hurt us?
Improve ...
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16. | Policies and Procedures Used as Management Key Managers know the difficulty of getting people to do the right things the right way. And employees need their expertise and understanding of the way things should be done. But how do you get it across ...
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17. | ISO 9001 Compliant Program: Steps to Build Implementing an ISO 9001 system represents a major effort. However, all of that effort can represent a significant shift for a business - from quantity to quality. And this could make sure your business gets the desired results.
Shift Focus to Performance
Developing, implementing and ...
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18. | How to Meet Quality Standards with ISO 9001 In today's hectic business environment, it is vital that we are all on the same page, right? But how do we know if we meet those standards? Business owners and executives can avoid the uncertainty, and that's where ISO 9001 certification comes in. ...
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19. | How to Improve Your Management Procedures' Usability Are your people consistently following your procedures? Each year, organizations lose thousands of dollars through common mistakes and lapses in usability. But what does that mean for business owners and executives?
Ask yourself:
• Are your required actions described thoroughly ...
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20. | How to Create Well-Defined Processes Interested in learning how to reduce development time, save money and stay in control? Business professionals can learn how to create well-defined processes with the easy-to-manage Process Approach of Plan-Do-Check-Act.
Real Tools for Real Business Process
In MBA courses, students come across a lot of buzzwords and ...
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21. | How to Get Your Procedures Project Done Wouldn't it be nice for business owners and executives to be finished with their policies and procedures project already? They know they need to get it done, but maybe it's taking too long. Or perhaps their people are staring at a blank piece of ...
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22. | How to Stop Waste, Fraud and Abuse Each year, businesses write-off six percent of revenue to waste, fraud and abuse. But why would managers throw all that hard-earned money away when there is a reliable way to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse using accounting policies & procedures to ...
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23. | How Nov. 15, 2004 Deadline for Sarbanes Oxley 404 Compliance Affects You How Nov. 15, 2004 Deadline for Sarbanes Oxley 404 Compliance Affects You
Public companies have 90 days from the end of their fiscal year to comply. For those with market capitalization of $75 million or more, ...
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24. | Is Your Company Growing Fast Enough for You? Are you frustrated by the lack of growth in your firm, or the effort required to squeeze any up-tick in performance? Are inadequate policies and procedures a root cause? To find out, take this simple self assessment to ...
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25. | Seven Cs to Avoid Procedure Writing Errors Seven Cs to Avoid Procedure Writing Errors
You do your best to make sure your organization is operating as effectively as possible. But if your policies and procedures are incomplete, outdated, or inconsistent, then they are not driving the performance improvement ...
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