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Organizational Alignment: The Importance of Building HR Infrastructure
Companies seem to inherently value the role, presence and necessity of infrastructure when it comes to their technology, financial and other operational systems. But human resources is a vital a system too, one that provides just as much support to a business as any other, if not more. Yet often times HR gets overlooked because it’s considered “soft” which usually translates into “less important.” Except, how can the very system upon which all others depend not be important?

Sales Training For Service Businesses - Why Should I Use You? - Part 3 of 3
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Inspiring Innovation & Creativity through Business Systems
Ok, I admit: "I am a big fan of systems, Its all about Systems". It could just be the Mechanical Engineer and Business Analyst coming out in me, but it goes much deeper than that. It is definitely grounded in my recent experiences with systems. We are surrounded by systems, and our lives revolve around them and rely on them working infallibly. The cars (or motorbikes) we drive, the computers we use and the human bodies we live in, are all brilliantly refined and intricate systems that we use everyday. We expect them to work predictably and consistently every time we use them.

Getting Bigger and Better: Managing the TOP 10 Risk Factors for Growing Companies
The framework for addressing the 10 Risk Factors is the Organizational Backbone. The vertebrae of this backbone are a company’s Strategies, Systems and Skills: Strategies set the direction and provide context for the business and its employees. Systems reinforce strategies. They are broadly defined as ‘the way that work gets done’. Skills enable effective execution of systems and adaptability to new systems. Most growing companies find that their Organizational backbone is misaligned – a natural result of high-growth.

Organizational Alignment: The Importance of Building HR Infrastructure
Companies seem to inherently value the role, presence and necessity of infrastructure when it comes to their technology, financial and other operational systems. But human resources is a vital a system too, one that provides just as much support to a business as any other, if not more. Yet often times HR gets overlooked because it’s considered “soft” which usually translates into “less important.” Except, how can the very system upon which all others depend not be important?

Operational Innovation
There is an opportunity for almost every company to gain advantage through operational innovation. Operational innovation simply means identify key business processes and innovating in them to achieve faster throughput, or to provide some new convenience or wow factor customers, or to bring cost of offerings down in a dramatic fashion.This article explains operational innovation with help of an example.
Network Marketing Is A Business Of Systems Not A Love Story
At the mere mention of a system, our eyes glaze over and we start to bang our heads against the wall screaming “I hate systems”. But without systems our lives would be in chaos. No “red lights” think of the intersection crashes; no systems for your network marketing business has failure written all over it.

The Systems View
Systems are all around us. We can view most common occurrences with a "systems" perspective. Here is a cute story to illustrate how systems operate.

The Golden Thread: Linking Strategy to Execution
Detailed operational planning has to relate corporate strategy with the operations of the enterprise at the initiative level and below that at the project level. This Method Frameworks article describes ways to inject operational planning into the strategic planning process and string the “golden thread” through all of the execution loop-holes.
Systems, Flexibility, and Spontaneity
Women entrepreneurs often under estimate the power of having systems. There is often the misconception that systems are complicated and time-consuming. This article gives some simple tips for creating systems and why they are useful.
Stop Reinventing the Wheel: Create Systems to Save Time and Money
Most of us run our lives on a handful of systems. Between our smart phones, calendars, and our e-mail inboxes, we have organized ourselves and our time. And if you ever doubt the importance of these systems, recall your panic the last time you couldn’t access your email or your hard drive crashed. Yet as important as these systems are, most of us don’t take advantage of what systems can do to improve our businesses and simplify our lives. Systems are simply ways of automating or structuring processes so that they can occur systematically without so much thought or attention-and by more than just one person, so that the business can continue to run if the owner takes a vacation.

Business Continuity Planning - What Happens If Something Happens To You?
Many small business owners end up being the ‘centre’ of their business. All their passwords and accesses are locked away in their head or their personal password list and if something goes wrong, there is no-one who can step in and make sure the business remains operational. Have you considered how your processes will cope if you, as the ‘centre’ of your business, will operate if you are incommunicado or just incapable of ‘being there’? Seriously – this is a big thing. Recently, I was affected by the need to make a certain change to one of my systems and the ONLY person who could authorise the change was not available – and NO ONE knew when they would be available. My only option at that point was to transfer my business to another supplier that could allow the change to occur….
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