Process Improvement & Performance Management Made Simple
Process Improvement & Performance Management Made Simple

Author: Andrew Muras

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2009-06-18

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 146280084X

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Can you get rapid results and still be effective? Where do you begin and what techniques should you use? What have others done and what were their lessons learned? Andrew Muras and Glenn Goodnight answer these questions and many more based on years of experience in implementing and teaching at both commercial and government organizations. Filled with case studies, this book highlights techniques that are effective in the real world. Whether practitioner, manager or executive, youre sure to gain the insights needed for program success. I find their approach to foundational aspects both structurally sound and engagingand critical for sustaining cost and quality performance improvements. Dr. Penny Weller, Hackett Group FastTrack is easy to use, easy to understand, and easy to communicate. Billie Gayle Lewis, LSS Blackbelt Ive been working with Andrew and Glenn for many years their workshops and trainings are typically our best attended and highest rated events. Guy Clayton, Director, IQPC Table of Contents Chapter 1: The FastTrack Approach for Rapid, Cost Effective Implementations Chapter 2: Shared Services Chapter 3: Chargebacks, Service Level Agreements and Service Catalogues Chapter 4: Information Technology Chapter 5: Product & Customer Profitability Chapter 6: Capacity Analysis Chapter 7: Performance Management, Metrics and Scorecards Chapter 8: Enterprise Wide Implementations Chapter 9: Benchmarking Chapter 10: Outsourcing Chapter 11: Government Chapter 12: Business Transformation: Linking ABC/M with Lean and Six Sigma

Utilizing the 3Ms of Process Improvement
Utilizing the 3Ms of Process Improvement

Author: Richard Morrow

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1466566795

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Why is it that some improvement efforts succeed while others fail despite robust change management programs and the often do-or-die pressure to improve? Quite simply, there are three elements that separate those that succeed from those that fail. They are the 3Ms Measure, Manage to Measure, and Make-it-Easy.Complete with forms, templates, and case

Five Key Principles of Corporate Performance Management
Five Key Principles of Corporate Performance Management

Author: Bob Paladino

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1118044622

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In Five Key Principles of Corporate Performance Management, Bob Paladino shares his decades of experience to provide proven, real-world implementation insights from globally recognized and award-winning organizations. You’ll discover what today’s Fortune 100 companies are doing right, and how to implement their enterprise techniques and strategies within your own organization to maximize success.

Supply Chain and Logistics Management Made Easy
Supply Chain and Logistics Management Made Easy

Author: Paul Myerson

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0133993345

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This easy guide introduces the modern field of supply chain and logistics management, explains why it is central to business success, shows how its pieces fit together, and presents best practices you can use wherever you work. Myerson explains key concepts, tools, and applications in clear, simple language, with intuitive examples that make sense to any student or professional.

Performance Management
Performance Management

Author: Charles M. Cadwell

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2002-05-13

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0761213929

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Organizational success depends on the continuous improvement of staff performance at al levels. People constitute the real competitive advantage in business and industries of all types. Enhancing the performance of your people and ultimately your organization depends on the continuous improvement of staff at all levels. An effective Performance Management system is essential to help employees perform at their best and align their contributions with the goals, values, and initiatives of the organization. Performance Management presents managers and supervisors with a clear model they can follow to plan, monitor, analyze, and maintain a satisfying process of performance improvement for their staff. Designed for readers to apply what they are learning to their current job responsibilities, this book offers exercises and assessments to determine your readiness to implement performance management. It also illustrates strategies for developing the crucial communication skills of coaching, problem solving, and giving feedback while teaching methods for linking organization and personal goals. By demystifying the role of performance management techniques, Performance Management provides the knowledge and tools to design and implement a workable system that benefits the organization and inspires employees to manage their own performance.

Organization Design Made Easy
Organization Design Made Easy

Author: Kevin Anderson

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09-19

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13:

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The most popular business books on the market today advise leaders to simply articulate a vision, be inspirational from time-to-time, and leave the rest for employees to figure out. As an organizational design consultant, I've landed at the doorstep of hundreds of teams who have followed this path, only to find them without clear direction, stuck in silos and lacking the structure and processes needed to perform.This book offers practical advice on how to design your organization. Whether you're a leader at the top of a large organization, or a supervisor of a small team, here are the practical instructions to address structure, process and people challenges in developing an efficient and functioning organization. And, these same methods can be leveraged by consultants and employees at any level.Each chapter offers three, easy steps to address organizational challenges and opportunities. This means that you get just enough context, process and tips to immediately jump in feet first. Those who do not take the time upfront to craft their organizations leave their success up to chance.

How Performance Management Is Killing Performance—and What to Do About It
How Performance Management Is Killing Performance—and What to Do About It

Author: M. Tamra Chandler

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2016-03-14

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 162656678X

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A step-by-step guide to creating a performance management solution tailored to your organization's needs and goals in order to meet the three objectives of great performance management: developing your people, rewarding them equitably, and driving your organization's performance.

High-Performance Process Improvement
High-Performance Process Improvement

Author: Markus Pastinen

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-03-10

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 3642107842

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High-performance process improvement takes process improvement to the next ambition level. The kernel of the substance is a generic process improvement process that operates under the strictest time, quality and cost constraints. Thanks to a modular composition and robust methods the scope may range from one single person to networks with hundreds of companies. This is realized via three high-class phases:network and company analysis and synthesis, process analysis and synthesis, the implementation, including process improvement education and training and the practical realization of the improvement potential. The presented methods contain mass customization features and a very advanced logic for optimizing the interaction of people, technology, information and material both in the process improvement process itself and the focus process. The book is based on an extensive R&D effort and thorough practical verifications in more than 75 companies in almost any business and in all sizes.

Improving Performance
Improving Performance

Author: Geary A. Rummler

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1118143701

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Improving Performance is recognized as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. It was the first such approach to bridge the gap between organization strategy and the individual. Now, in this revised and expanded new edition, Gary Rummler reflects on the key needs of organizations faced with today's challenge of managing change in today's complex world. The book shows how to apply the three levels of performance and link performance to strategy, move from annual programs to sustained performance improvement, redesign processes, overcome the seven deadly sins of performance improvement and much more.

Human Resource Management Made Easy
Human Resource Management Made Easy

Author: Mike Gill

Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing

Published: 2021-06-29

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 8194406749

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Human Resource Management made Easy is exactly what it says it is – a book that makes the complex world of recruitment, contracts, workforce development and everything else to do with employing people as simple and accessible as possible. This book is designed for the busy manager of a small business or charity with no access to a Human Resource Department, the aspiring professional taking their first steps towards a career in this exciting profession and anyone simply wanting to know that bit more about the management, motivation and development of people in the workplace. The author takes all the common areas that managers ask of HR professionals in large and complex organisations and makes sense of it for the smaller business or organisation. Mike takes the reader on a journey through the employee life cycle from pre-employment, through recruitment, workforce and individual development, to the parting of ways, using combinations of step by step activities, models and anecdotes from his extensive experience in the business of human resources. By following the advice within this book and putting the actions it describes into practice, the reader will gain both skills and knowledge in the art of human resource management.