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Category: Business
Establish Actions for Your Business Case
This article is Part 4 of the framework for How to Build a Business Case for Quality. Business Case Framework Starter Questions Analyzing Conversational Feedback As you gather feedback across your organization, record the specific themes you hear: For each comment, develop a solution. For example, for the team member who was never trained, one […]
Cal Newport and Task Containment
A common complaint of the “modern quality system” or “process” is that it has too much documentation or takes up too much time. I don’t disagree. There exists a better method to managing quality that I’m implementing at my current organization, and Cal Newport’s new book, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, […]
Simplify First, Automate Last
Many organizations wait for the perfect tool to automate their systems, yet we forget that automation is not a means of simplification. Simplifying a process and automating it are two separate actions. We must simplify a process first before automation. I recently wrote about waiting for the perfect tool and task containment as a means of simplification in design […]