A Business Meta - Fore

Many professional golfers go on to develop successful and significant business interests. Greg Norman is a standout example of this. Many senior business leaders play golf at a high level. This link between success at golf and successful business may not be coincidental, the attributes required for both are very similar.

KPI Traffic Lights - 3 Ways to Highlight the Real Signals in Your Performance Measures

Traffic lighting is a popular strategy for making performance measures easier to interpret. It does this by colour coding (or using symbols) to flag when performance is acceptable or unacceptable, meeting target or not meeting target. Here are 3 tips to make sure they don't lead you in the wrong direction!

Root Cause Analysis - Simple Techniques to Understand Why Performance is Doing What It's Doing

For this issue I'm revisiting my roots as a research statistician - with some tips for improving your cause analysis with simple but still rigorous statistical techniques.

The 12 Cardinal Sins of ERP Implementation

Industry statistics show that >60% of ERP implementation starts historically fail. Does this mean that you are doomed from the start? Of course not, if you learn from the mistakes of others. So the pertinent question is what are the main causes of ERP failure and what can be done to prevent this from happening to you?

Supply Chain Agilit - Inducing World Class Performance for the 21st Century

Becoming agile means competing and leading in the next century. Companies require an overhaul of their infrastructures to be able to introduce and build new products quickly and accurately, but also need an acculturation process fueled by heavy involvement. It takes time to enact changes of major proportions, and it takes careful planning. How do you get your arms around this?

Look Out Overhead - Watching Your Expenses Can Lead To Continued Profitability

Too much overhead will eventually either kill a business or cause it to restructure itself and uncontrolled overhead can stop it before it really gets going. There are things a businessperson can do to check their expenditures before they begin. It takes quite a bit of self-control for some types but it's worth it. Here are some common situations to ponder.

How Emotional Intelligence Creates Effective Leaders

Important research indicates the connection between Emotional Intelligence and effective leadership styles. The key to being effective lies in learning to handle yourself and your relationships in a positive manner. This includes Self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. Coaching supports and enriches the process.

On My Own Time? What Time?

Proponents of e-learning often cite as an advantage the fact that people can take the training at their desks, on their own schedule. The problem is everyone is so busy that it's difficult to find the time. There are other disadvantages to learning at your desk.

Time Clock - Employee Punch Clocks

Punch Clocks are small manual timekeeping devices that have been in use with most companies for decades. The concept behind a punch clock is pretty simple. Employees have punch cards which they enter to log in their time, registering it into the punch clock as they report for work and punching out when they leave.

How To Implement Effective Ergonomic Products in the Workplace

When worker safety and health are a priority, companies benefit in a variety of ways. When the safety and health of employees is put in jeopardy or is ignored, there is a negative impact on employees as well as productivity. Providing safe work environments and effective ergonomic products is an important economic as well as a social responsibility.

Are You Doing the Right Thing or the Comfortable Thing?

Doing the right thing may not help you win a popularity contest but having the courage to do the right thing will win respect and help you become a stronger leader.

Elimination of Waste in Office

Lean thinking has gone far beyond traditional manufacturing. It has reached many service industries like healthcare and even government organizations like military. Lean office is the application of lean concepts in office context.

The Power of Competitive Differentiation

It doesn't take very long for a novice speaker, trainer, coach or consultant to learn that they have to get noticed before they can get hired - and that challenge doesn't disappear as their career develops. Finding a way to distinguish yourself from all of your competitors is one of the most important issues a human development professional faces - and this article explains why and gives you several suggestions for achieving it.