How to Increase Your Team's Performance And Your Profitability Through Effective Meetings
Recently I facilitated a strategic planning day with one of my clients. During the course of the day we reviewed the progress they had made since the last major planning day we had the year before. As we were reflecting on their achievements before planning the future, one of the partners made the comment on how crucial their weekly team meetings were.Originally when I first suggested they have regular weekly meetings with their team, the same partner thought it was a waste of time as he was focussed on how much time it cost to have everyone stop work for that hour. Being an accountant he was always focussed on chargeable hours and if they are all in a meeting for an hour they are potentially losing in excess of $1000. However, he soon learned how beneficial these meetings were to the productivity and profit of their practice.In his own words he says:"We use this time to discuss and impleme

If You Build It, They Will Come
Anybody with a couple dollars and a website can drive traffic to their site these days. It may not be free however if you can turn those hits into sales you can build a dominating, money-making monster. I am a very big fan of utilizing all of the 3rd party tools to do your marketing for you. It will cost money, however any decent marketing tactic will. Once your campaigning has begun you will notice the exponential increase in hits as your website builds the momentum needed to succeed.I like to use google adsence, Shopzilla, pricegrabber, amazon sellers central, and ebay. Sure these cost the most money to advertise with but is is because they are the best and they will bring the most hits to your site. There are hundreds more worthy of trying. If you get the hits from your targeted audience you must be able to convert them into sales or you will be bankrupt in no time. I have learned that you must ma

Globalization: Beat Unemployment And Jobs Outsourcing
Continents and countries are getting closer with technologies and science. With airplanes, Internet, phones and computing, the distances between countries have been shortened and communications have become more immediate and interactive.As such, companies can have different parts of their plants operating from different locations, without sacrificing the quality of the products and the delivery time.Riding on low exchange rates of these countries, companies can be certain of bigger profit margins since they will have lower costs.This is the effect of globalisation.It’s happening everywhere.Many factories are being set up in the developing and undeveloped countries. Call centres of almost all the big organisations are now in India and China. Even the glamorous Hollywood has also outsourced some of their creative process to India.The impact?Many have lost their jobs.: A schematic description of a system, theory, or phenomenon that accounts for its known or inferred properties and may be used for further study of its characteristics: e.g. a model of generative grammar;

“cited from : process. (n.d.). The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved April 30, 2007, from Dictionary.com website”

So Business Process Modelling can be defined as a schematic representation of activities and functions performed by an organization to achieve success in their trade and services offered to the market and customers.

I am sure that there would be a lot of gaps in above definition, if we attempt to make it complete but one thing can be inferred clearly : For a Business to go about doing its business and provide the right services and products to its customer, its understanding and control on how they perform and operate is essential and infact in current age, a competitive edge.

Hence, Business Process Modeling can be viewed as a very critical activity both from a business and technology perspective. The reasons for doing process modelling can be many, but we can outline the same into following:

Process Documentation : Need for organization to document their business processes Process Improveme

d April 30, 2007, from Dictionary.com website”

So Business Process Modelling can be defined as a schematic representation of activities and functions performed by an organization to achieve success in their trade and services offered to the market and customers.

I am sure that there would be a lot of gaps in above definition, if we attempt to make it complete but one thing can be inferred clearly : For a Business to go about doing its business and provide the right services and products to its customer, its understanding and control on how they perform and operate is essential and infact in current age, a competitive edge.

Hence, Business Process Modeling can be viewed as a very critical activity both from a business and technology perspective. The reasons for doing process modelling can be many, but we can outline the same into following:

Process Documentation : Need for organization to document their business processes Process Improveme

e definition, if we attempt to make it complete but one thing can be inferred clearly : For a Business to go about doing its business and provide the right services and products to its customer, its understanding and control on how they perform and operate is essential and infact in current age, a competitive edge.

Hence, Business Process Modeling can be viewed as a very critical activity both from a business and technology perspective. The reasons for doing process modelling can be many, but we can outline the same into following:

Process Documentation : Need for organization to document their business processes Process Improveme

ce, Business Process Modeling can be viewed as a very critical activity both from a business and technology perspective. The reasons for doing process modelling can be many, but we can outline the same into following:

Process Documentation : Need for organization to document their business processes Process Improvement Exercise: Organizations looking for performing an analysis of current processes and how the same can be improved. Process modeling here would be just a part of the approach in this case. Typically a BPI activity would involve analysis of current as-is process, refinement of processes based on six sigma, lean etc. and coming out with a revise To-BE process. Enterprise Systems Implementation : Though some might call it a myopic view to process modeling, however traditionally and even today many organizations have carry out process modeling work before implementation of major IT system for e.g. ERP, CRM, Order Management systems etc. This definetely is a wise choice considering that most of the enterprise systems being deployed has an impact on how you perform your business going forward. Again details of best practices in this space can be a separate discussion itself. Especially the discussion around need for doing process modeling/analysis first or choosing the systems and then pursuing process modeling. I had a discussion with one of my clients once in which it was latter and my fundamental question was now will you change your process for the system or vice versa and whether the whole choice of the system would have been different if they already had an idea of their processes