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Capacity Utilization and Constraints
Capacity is the sum of what your organization can create, given its resources, to meet sales, demand, and product mix changes. Often it can’t react as quickly as you’d like, either up or down. You have noticed that. Choose the actions that fit your objectives, that can be effective within your organization’s culture and capability. Many actions are cost effective; choose what fits.

Twice as smart. Really?
Dilbert says, “I look forward to spontaneously developing an IQ of 400.” But even Dilbert may not actually know everything. In real life, to work smarter, we can obtain better information and use better decision making as we apply it.

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“The Importance and Awesome Power of Project Management in Today’s Business Environment”
Why is project management important and what awesome power exists with project management in today’s business environment? The first reasons that come to my mind about why project management is important (based upon more than 35 years of my personal project management experience), are tighter budgets, diminishing resources, more and more time constraints, and competition to improve the ways we do business. The awesome power of project management makes it possible to focus on priorities, track and measure performance, overcome challenges and problems, become flexible enough to adapt to change and achieve higher performance and a higher probability of success in each project.
2.1 Growth performance I: Economic Report on Africa 2007
This section examines recent economic performance at the continental and subregional levels. It discusses disparities in growth performance and the factors behind the observed disparities across countries and subregions. The analysis pays particular attention to structural factors such as endowment in natural resources, the role of policies and institutions as well as non-policy drivers of growth, including exogenous factors such as natural calamities, geography, and civil conflicts. The discussion highlights key constraints to growth in Africa and strategies to address these constraints.
4.0 Gender differences in constraints and opportunities: Gender Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness in Africa, 2007
Do women and men entrepreneurs face different constraints in managing their businesses?
Barriers to African External Trade
Attempts to expand Africa’s trade have been hampered by both internal and external constraints or barriers.
Access to Finance: Constraints of growth-oriented enterprises
The starting point for a Focus Group Discussion was an exercise whereby the participants were asked to write down constraints they had encountered in growing or trying to grow their enterprises. These responses were printed on cards, which were placed, in clusters of similar constraints, on the wall for all to see. They became the starting point for more in-depth discussions and were used to reflect the groups' main concerns.

Time Study and Work Measurement
A successful business will set expectations for its employees, and balance workload, manage constraints, calculate staffing levels and crew size, schedule; pull waste and non-value-added activity out. Objective work measurement is the place to start, for any organization where people or machines contribute to output, customer service, or cost. My Amazon book, Time and Motion Study What, Why, and How-To, provides both management suggestions and hands-on guidance.

Identify your Marketing Constraint
As I mention in a previous post: Every System, typically has relatively few constraints. However, to operate at maximum efficiency, the limiting constraint must be identified. Five Steps of Continuous Improvement help identify and improve the constraint. How do I correlate the Marketing Hourglass with the Theory of Constraints? TOC uses the weakest link, a chain as a visual in working with throughput.
Value Stream Marketing: It’s just not about the Value
Of course when I start discussing flow, I am going to start discussing Theory of Constraints. In your marketing process, you will have numerous constraints but Goldratt claims that at any given time, there is only one constraint. That constraint is much like the neck of an hourglass and will limit the entire system. Actually, if it is well managed you could throttle your process accordingly (We only wish we could that). Simply doubling the efforts in a constraint could be the easy solution and may just move the constraint to another area. However, we operate in a more complicated world than that. Something else usually cases something else to happen.
Performance Management
A relatively new management buzz phrase, performance management, has been gaining popularity recently. Management, particularly sales management, has always been about getting results so clearly whatever sales managers have been doing prior to the emergence of this new concept should also be known as performance management. The article explains the tasks required to maximize performance.
All I Want is an Extra Month
How many times have you caught yourself saying, “I just don’t have the time?” Think for a moment about what you might be able to accomplish if you had a 13th month next year? Would that help you get more of the results you are looking for? Let’s take a look at “Time Management” and what that really means. We don’t need to learn how to manage time well. We need to learn how to manage ourselves well. Time management is personal management. Time management is life management. Each one of us has been given the same 24 hours in a day. Time management is what you do with the time you have been given.
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