Process improvement and increasing efficient productivity should never be done at the cost of cutting corners.
It drains limited resources and prevents investments in other areas such as facility upgrade, process improvement and research and development.
Many police chiefs are now fluent in management-speak, happily swapping notes on skills competency, leadership and process improvement- and hurrah for that.
Shareholder value is enhanced, while competitive advantage is optimized through process improvement.
Just imagine where this will take the marketing organization in terms of process improvement and technological support to get the job done.
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The result is that management spends a large amount of time looking at process improvement ideas, rather than defining broader process and business problems.
Lehman (nyse: LEH - news - people ) has quietly put together what it calls a "productivity and process improvement" group.
Caterpillar reports that this is a major process improvement as their current generation of customers are adopting Facebook as a platform to learn about new products.
"There are twice as many companies doing it today than there were a year ago, " says Mike Cyger , a former GE manager and founder of iSixSigma.com, a Web site devoted to business process improvement.
With such a large focus dedicated to maintenance, training and administration, the ability of IT managers to find the time and resources to invest in innovation, even process improvement initiatives will be hampered, if not completely derailed.
To be sure, innovation has thrived in these settings, but it has been the sort of process improvement innovation that makes existing industries function better rather than the type that creates new markets, caters to new consumers, or pioneers new business models.
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So much of the rationale in having a CIO take on another area of responsibilities is the need for process improvement in the new area, or the need to leverage technology better in the new area, or to identify ways in which setting standards or centralizing to a greater degree might reduce costs.
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At Distribution Solutions, we engaged UniteHere warehouse workers and truck drivers and made them part of the process of improvement.
Some venture firms avoid these investment pitfalls by targeting clean energy software companies and capital light hardware or process-improvement industries.
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Isn't a risk management process integrated with the incentive compensation process an obvious improvement?
Some people enjoy searching out new methods, seeing the process as continual improvement.
This bottom-up process of incremental improvement relies on letting workers change the way they do things if it leads to better results.
Janssen had recently acquired the rights to manufacture and distribute Zytiga, and the team saw an opportunity to improve the way the active pharmaceutical ingredient was produced, to decrease its environmental impact, using the Earthwards process to guide the improvement.
This is a clear indicator that the design is a significant improvement versus a process or node change.
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The district was in the process of accepting a School Improvement Grant to implement the turnaround model at the school.
Over the past decade there has been growing international agreement that the system for linking science and policy in the area of biodiversity and ecosystem services needed further improvement, resulting ultimately in the process for creating an Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
In a sense, StreamWork applies the Lean Manufacturing concept of standardizing work to the process of decision making, which makes a variety of continuous improvement processes possible.
And so, as a part of No Child Left Behind, there is a process where the school will go into a year one of needs improvement, a year two of needs improvement.
They discover how to take self-improvement and learning skills seriously, improving their self-esteem in the process.
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
'promote international cooperation and to coordinate programmes in research, services and capacity building, in order to learn more about the nature and resources of the ocean and coastal areas and to apply that knowledge for the improvement of management, sustainable development and protection of the marine environment and the decision-making process of its Member States'.
The international observer missions say that the newly implemented election law is a big improvement on the past, but they say it should be seen only as the beginning of the reform process.
An innovation can be as simple as your bookkeeper reducing a bill paying process by 3 steps and thus saving 5 minutes per bill, to an entirely new product line, to an improvement to a current product, to a new high margin service, to a new cultural ritual to improve employee engagement.
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