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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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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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Measuring the Quality of Your Hires
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| Most employment managers measure success in the wrong way. Looking at the cost of a hire, the number or even the speed of the hire is at best misleading and at worst an inaccurate measure of hiring success. The primary (or perhaps sole) measure of hiring success should be the quality/performance of the hire. |
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PRODUCTIVITY, EFFICIENCY, EFFECTIVENESS, and FOCUS – Doing the Next Right Thing
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| There has been an exponential explosion of information available for increasing personal productivity, so much so that it’s become known as productivity porn (or, for those active on the Net and looking to avoid spam blockers, productivity pr0n). Productivity Pr0n consists of those techniques, tools, and all-out systems for getting more organized and maximizing personal productivity. |
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Set expectations measure and communicate Results Count
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| You, and I, and the people in your company want to know what is expected of them (and their work group and the company) and how well they do against expectations. Measure and communicate the elements of productivity. In this economy, people are more apprehensive than usual, so expectations and measurement and communication are even more important. |
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Sales force productivity: Eight Practices to Ensure Your Sales Success
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| We have never needed to improve sales productivity more than we do in this dreadful economy. For decades, businesses have embraced productivity and cost controls in operational functions like manufacturing and distribution; programs like Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma and LEAN are thriving all over the map. Except in the sales department. We suggest that sales organizations can benefit dramatically from adopting some basic principles of productivity management, simple business techniques that lower costs, improve customer profitability and retention, and reduce sales-person turnover. This article explores the eight key practices that contribute to productivity. If the practice is in place in your usiness, it will contribute to productivity. But if it is not, it will actually inhibit productivity and drive up costs. |
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Is There a Cost to Increased Productivity?
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| It's been proven again and again in staff surveys and research that it's people and they're happiness quotient in the workplace that makes all the difference in their effectiveness. Yet, when it comes to measuring productivity, many organizations don't pay any attention to staff satisfaction and the happiness quotient when they measure and implement changes regarding productivity. Is there a cost to increased productivity?
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Ideas For Increased Productivity
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| This is on something that goes through everyones mind pursuing success wherever it may be. It is personal productivity and how can I improve upon it. Where am I going off track and losing my effiency. Productivity is following a order of operation a sequence of tasks arranged so that you are on auto-pilot with your productivity when you follow them. Knowing the things that are time wasters and saying clear of them is truly half of the battle. Give these things a trying and you productivity will improve greatly. |
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Measure Productivity And Improve Profitability
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| It is said that you cannot improve that which you do not measure. A high percentage of business owners have no idea of the real productivity of their employees (or themselves for that matter). This article discusses some steps to remedying this situation! |
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Monitoring Inside Sales Productivity
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| Most organizations have a very difficult time quantifying the productivity of their inside sales departments. If you don’t have a phone system that captures accurate dialing, contact, and other productivity metrics, use a simple manual process instead. Download our Sales Productivity Metrics(Daily), Sales Productivity Metrics (Monthly), and Sales Productivity Metrics (Quarterly) reporting tools. How can you Measure Inside Sales Productivity? |
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Monetize Lost Productivity
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| By definition, productivity is a measure of output from a production process, per unit of input or more simply yielding results, benefits or profits. Productivity is distinct from profitability. Profitability is the net difference between revenues and expenses. However, every little improvement to productivity has a direct impact on your profitability. |
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CUSTOMER SERVICE TIP
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| One of many Customer Service Tips from Gary - Measure...then? MEASURE AGAIN! then? MEASURE SOME MORE! Gary discusses the importance of monitoring your performance whilst keeping in contact with your customers at the same time. |
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