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Practical Productivity Improvement and Cost Reduction
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| Inexpensive and quick actions to raise output and / or lower input in your organization, whatever your line of business. Act to raise profits or output, to ease bottlenecks, to refine operations that have lost their sharp focus over time or start effective new ones.
My Amazon book, Cost Reduction How to Survive, Recover, and Thrive, offers examples of practical ideas to effect real cost change.
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Can a productivity consultant add enough value to justify the fee
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| Maybe so, maybe not depending on the project scope and your own resources. This article is a guide to determine how to predict in advance if a consultant will pay for himself / herself, much less create a return in this economy. The key; what resources can you apply, considering your circumstances
In this article, you will observe that I suggest that management must commit itself to receive a payback from a productivity consultant. The more management opens up, to investigation, to consideration of new ideas, to judgment of sacred cows, to re-prioritization, the more useful any consultant can be. If you are willing to commit, let’s talk.
My Amazon book, Cost Reduction How to Survive, Recover, and Thrive, offers examples of practical ideas to effect real cost change.
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Cost Control in this Economy
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| Cost control is not just a checklist, but a way of thinking that cost effectiveness is the primary objective. Focus on results, not the process. And please, don’t just look at direct hourly people for improvement. That is probably not where your big costs are. Show me the money.
For a deeper analysis, my book called Cost Reduction; Survive, Recover, Thrive offers actions for any phase of the economy, for all levels of the organization chart. It is listed on Amazon, search by the title please. It is available in a Kindle edition as well as paperback.
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Industrial Engineering, a continuing productivity influence
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| Industrial Engineering contributes to productivity in many ways because it can improve performance throughout the P&L, the balance sheet, and customer service. Industrial Engineering tools can quantify and lower costs in administration, government, health care, labs, installation, maintenance, energy, the service industry, quality, materials, facility management as well as the production floor.
Also see my four Amazon books, in print and Kindle editions. These topics are key to the practice of industrial engineering.
Plant Design, Facility Layout, Floor Planning.
Cost Reduction How to Survive, Recover, and Thrive
Facility Relocation, Merger and Design
Time and Motion Study What, Why, and How-To
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The Productive E-mail Process (PEP)
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| One of the most important efficiency structures in your business is being productive in your e-mail inbox and managing large amounts of e-mail. As someone who receives hundreds and hundreds of e-mails per day, I knew that I had to create a process that worked and a process that kept me super productive. |
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When the Sales Processing Doesn't Support Sales Competencies
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| So, of course, here's the question that relates to the sales force.
Do your salespeople sound like these folks working the deli counter? Three of the four had some kind of process, but are the processes effective? |
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Find Your Own Super Power to Increase Business Efficiency
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| When you're a small business owner if you’re spending time doing the things that you love the most, your “Super Powers” if you will, then you’ll find that business efficiency will naturally follow. Learn some simple tips to help discover what your own Super Powers are. |
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What's the Most Efficient Way to Make How-To Videos?
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| How great would it be if you could make a video of yourself actually doing a task you want to describe to someone? And better yet, wouldn’t it be even more awesome if you could record your voice at the same time, explaining exactly what you’re doing step by step? Discover the two best programs to use if your small business needs to make short how-to videos. |
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What Should My Podcast Intro Say and How Do I Use It?
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| Every professional sounding podcast will need both an Intro and an Outro as part of the whole package. Discover the top tips on how to create and utilize all the elements of your Podcast including the most important pieces to include so that the listener will know, without a doubt, exactly who and what they are listening to. |
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How To Make Business Meetings More Efficient
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| It can be easy to get caught up in an enjoyable conversation with a client or team member, but you as a small business owner need to learn to keep your business meetings on track. Learn some simple tips to help steer your meetings in a way that will increase business efficiency for both you and your clients. |
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The Top 3 Email Tips to Increase Business Efficiency
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| The top 3 tips to increase your email efficiency are super simple, easy to implement, and they work! |
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What is an Efficiency Expert? Part 1
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| What the heck is an Efficiency Expert, and how can they help my small business? |
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What is an Efficiency Expert? Part 2 ~ How Can They Help My Small Business?
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| What the heck is an Efficiency Expert? Learn how an Efficiency Expert can work with your small business to increase your business efficiency and free up more of your valuable time. |
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Hang Out In Your Genius Quadrant and Have More Energy
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| If you want more energy in your life and want to increase your business efficiency at the same time, you need to spend more time in your Genius Quadrant. Find out what this means and how to make it happen for you and your small business. |
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How Do I Make Customizations to my Wordpress Site That Won't Get Lost During an Upgrade?
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| For most of us with WordPress websites we like to tweak a little bit of everything to make it look just so, but if you’re simply modifying the files that come with the theme then every time you do an upgrade your changes will be lost. Follow these 6 steps to create your own child theme and never lose your WordPress customizations again. |
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Lesson #5: Make Efficiency Your Secret Weapon
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| When Charney filed for bankruptcy it was because American Apparel was suffering from a lack of one thing: efficiency. His staff were all in their 20s, a wildly creative bunch when it came to graphics and design, but few knew the ins and outs of running a business. And so Charney brought on Marty Bailey, an industry expert, who helped make efficiency American Apparel’s secret weapon against its competitors. |
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Reinventing Foreign Aid: "Help Us Help Ourselves"
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| Participants discussed how to improve aid allocation, increase its efficiency and reduce wastage. The goal is to deploy aid better to enhance the prospects for sustainable development, said Robert Klitgaard, Professor of International Development and Security and Dean, The RAND Graduate School, USA. Joaquim Alberto Chissano, President of Mozambique, agreed that the key issue is efficiency. He noted that often while donors and recipients might agree on principles and delivery terms, full implementation of aid programmes are often not smooth or timely. Problems arise sometimes for such simple reasons as the difference between when the fiscal year begins in developing countries and developed ones. The aid community must look at ways to solve problems and improve efficiency so that non performing countries become performing ones. |
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Time Management
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| How to recapture your usual efficiency and focus? Spend less time in the office. Not dramatically less, but an hour or two. Note that this isn't a long-term strategy to increase efficiency, but rather one designed to help you get over the hump of whatever has got you off your regular game. |
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5 Easy Ways To Improve Your Work Efficiency
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| When it comes to having your own business, the unfortunate fact is that you are responsible for how well your business prospers. The future for your business is also determined by your overall work efficiency. If you have ever wondered why your business is not growing, even though you are working hard, then it is probably due to the efficiency of your business. |
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How Experts Are Born
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| Let’s talk about becoming an expert. First of all, what is an expert and why is it important for you?
As an Entrepreneur, positioning yourself as an Expert allows you to become a big fish in a small pond, you don’t need to be known all over the world to make money, you just need to be known in your specific niche. Think of it like cream rising to the top, people begin to know and trust the real estate agent that has a column in the newspaper and was interviewed on TV, or has a real estate TV Show in their local area. Often times, increasing your status to being the Expert in your specific field, can earn you 100,000 to over 1,000,000 in products and services sold annually. Customers come to you because you’ve earned the reputation as being the “best” in your field.
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Expertise
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| As consultant and trainer I always teach the value of being an expert. There’s no doubt that as an expert it’s just as important to be an expert in not just product knowledge, but in your subject matter as well. This knowledge helps your confident in front of a customer or audience. It also gives you the ability to ask excellent and relevant questions. You can quote famous people and books to position yourself as an expert, but you can’t fake expertise very long. |
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Becoming an Expert With Personal Branding
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| There is no one definition that accurately portrays how every person defines the term expert. As a fairly subjective term, personal branding can go a long way toward generating the needed reputation that a business owner must have in order to be seen as an expert.
To become known as an expert in any field, people need to understand how much you know about the topic, how successful you have been with it and how much experience you have with it. |
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Efficiency versus Effectiveness
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| Everyday we are confronted with the message, to be more efficient. We could have the best measurement systems in place to measure the efficiency of the operations, but be producing the wrong thing or focusing on the wrong area - as a result, the business could fail, though it was highly efficient. What is going to build the future of our business does not come through efficiency; it comes through effectiveness. |
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What is an Efficiency Expert? Part 1
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| What the heck is an Efficiency Expert, and how can they help my small business? |
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What is an Efficiency Expert? Part 2 ~ How Can They Help My Small Business?
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| What the heck is an Efficiency Expert? Learn how an Efficiency Expert can work with your small business to increase your business efficiency and free up more of your valuable time. |
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