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Are You Allowing Enough Time To Measure Performance? By : Stacey Barr Performance measurement generally takes longer than people anticipate, and longer than the timeframe they allow for. And it often is because we underestimate what's involved in a really good performance measure implementation. We expect that we can just turn up at a workshop, and by the end of it we'll have a lovely, insightful, revelational set of performance measures. And everyone will buy in to them too! Are You Being Paid What You Deserve? By : blueboy Do you feel that you are being paid what you deserve? I would imagine that the majority of people would have answered this question with a big fat no. So what can we do if we find ourselves in this situation? What options are open to us? In this article, I aim to answer these questions and I hope that the advice helps people to start earning what they are worth. Are You Correctly Located And Faced For Prosperity? By : Henry Fong The title of this article may sound a little strange. What did I mean by located and faced for prosperity? I must warn that this is not a typical business article. It has nothing to do with marketing, sales, productivity or even the internet. It is about a branch of Chinese Metaphysics called Feng Shui. Are you drowning in activity measures? By : Stacey Barr If you are measuring activities rather than results, you're probably measuring things that are just not helpful in managing the success of your business. This article discusses the reasons why activity measures are a performance measurement mistake. Are you maing the most of your MYOB? By : Bookkeeper Many people buy accounting programs like MYOB because they think it will cut down on the amount of fees they pay their accountants each year. This is true providing the information given to the accountant is correct in the first place. It’s a case of “Rubbish in – Rubbish Out”. What are you doing? Are You Missing Your Best Quality Improvement Ideas? By : Donald Bryant November 2005. Winter is just around the corner here in Western Michigan. The leaves are literally raining off the trees. Just this morning at breakfast as I looked into the woods and I could see a steady stream of golden brown, red and yellow leaves heading towards the earth. Last month I talked about keeping your quality improvement changes in place—using a manual that you develop of SOP’s, standard operating procedures. By the way, if you missed that issue, you can find... Are You On Path To The Retirement Of Your Choice? By : Somewhere inside all of us lurks "the dream". You know the dream - the one where we retire with enough money to do as we please, regardless of cost. Although the dream differs for each of us, it usually involves one or more of the following pursuits: * Traveling * Golfing * Helping charitable organizations * Fishing or hunting * Working on our investments * Spending time with our family * Running our company until our health no longer allows us to. Unless yo... Are You Taking Your Business Internationally? By : James Calvin - At some point in your business' life, you might be contacted by someone in a far-away land who's heard about your business somehow (probably through the Internet). This will be your first encounter with the international market. For many businesses, once you've conquered your local area and done business by post or email with other areas of the country, dipping a toe into international markets seems like the next big step. Preparing to Export. When you're preparing to e... Are You Thinking Of Buying A Restaurant? By : So you are thinking of buying a restaurant! You have been working in the restaurant business for many years and you want to make your dream come true and open your own restaurant. The newspapers have many ads offering restaurants for sale, how do you decide which is the best buy? First you will need to identify what you want the restaurant to accomplish. There are a lot of techniques of buying a restaurant, that can be learned from restaurant franchises. Those who operate ... Are You Thinking Of Starting A Vending Machine Company? By : Vending machine companies can be a wonderful source of extra income, and can grow into a profitable business and your best income source. Many people believe this is a get rich quick business, and that is what attracts them to vendor machines. They don’t understand that it takes hard work and a diligent attitude to make a vending machine company work. When you start with your vendor machine company, you will need to find a great location with plenty of foot traffic. This... Are You Too Busy NOT To Measure? By : Stacey Barr "We think performance measures are important, yes, but we just don't have the time for it!" You'll never hear these words uttered in a business or organisation that is truly successful. And that's because success depends on being able to make measurable progress toward your goals. It's not an accident. Are You Working Alone? By : Rudolf Freidlander - Remember co-workers? Those annoying people who you're forced to share an office with -- some of them friends, but most of them insufferable. If you're anything like me, one of reasons for starting a home business was to get away from these people. And yet, when you do work at home all day, every day, you might find that you start to miss that kind of companionship, and feel more than a little lonely. All Alone... Picture the scene. You get up for another day of work. Yo... Are Your Financial Decisions Becoming Stale? Here are 3 Fresh Tools to Help! By : Bruce Hokin Profitable financial decisions are the very life-blood of vibrant businesses. These decisions can cover asset replacement/repair options, investment choices, advertising options, business directions, new product development and introduction and innovative work practices. These decisions all have a positive or negative impact on the viability and health of the business. Would your business be more successful if your decisions were freshened up? Are Your Graphs Wasting Everyone's Time? By : Stacey Barr Software these days can do heaps of exciting and creative things with your data, including summarising it, graphing it and making it flash and ding to get your attention. It's often hard to remember that software can't reason and therefore can't decide what is a meaningful and useful thing to do with your data. These principles of useful graphs will guide you so you can decide what is a meaningful and useful thing to do with your data. Are Your Meetings Like This By : Steve Kaye Are your meetings as bad as the ones that ducks hold in the park? Find out here. As A Manager, Do Your Staff Know What They Can Expect From You? By : Andrew Rondeau You want your staff to be proactive and productive, right? So do you think they will be, without any input from you? Be assured, you as their manager will have to let them know what to expect. In this article I'll share my tested ways... Asgard Announces a New Release of Time Tracker - Employee Scheduling Software By : asgard Asgard Announces a New Release of Employee Scheduling Software Assess Your Company's Readiness for a Timesheet Management System By : Tom Jacobs This test will help you assess your organization's readiness for rolling out and adopting a timesheet management system. Assessing Website Functionality with Web GUI Tests By : Sam Miller Web GUI tests must be based on the premise that the best web GUI is one that is user-centered graphics. Assessing you KPI Supply Chain System By : Sam Miller Numerical presentations of KPI supply chain efficiency ratios maybe missing something important. It best to dig deeper on how they are arrived at. Assessing Your Information System Using the Business Intelligence BSC By : Sam Miller The business world is very competitive. To remain in the top heap, companies have realized the value of business intelligence. The business intelligence BSC evaluates your intelligence system. Asset Management By : Idtabije Asset management is the method that a company uses to track fixed assets like factory equipment, desks and chairs, computers, even buildings. Asset management journal guide By : mansi gupta Diligently managed assets of a business organization can make a lot of difference in its profit percentages. Judicious control over all tangible and intangible assets of a company makes sure that there are no leaking funds in the organization and all assets are utilized at maximum capacity. Asset Management Services By : natishanel To establish a high growth percentage, every company has to manage its assets with an eye on the future. Since businesses are growing at an incredible pace what with global expansion plans, the asset management industry is also evolving at breakneck speed. Asset Management Software guide By : mansi gupta Asset management is the need of the hour. Any business dealing in manufacturing, distribution, physical sales, office or call center work has some physical and non-physical assets. Asset Management Tips For All Areas Of Your Life By : Alex Dale Asset Management doesn't concern only your finance or properties. It also concerns your life and your time. Learn how to manage all the assets of your life. Association Management Software: What Is Fully-Featured? By : Adam Broetje - Association and membership managers need to find a management system that can fill all their needs with regard to automating the membership process. Harnessing Internet technology can help grow their association's numbers and increase member satisfaction. But what features indicate a 'fully-featured' system? Less work, work less. The bottom line determination of an association management software package is whether or not it saves you, the manager, time and work. There ... Associations Representing the Profession of Project Management By : John Reynolds Learn about the various professional associations available for project managers. Become a part of the project management community in your area. Assure Your Success in Strategic Planning By : Bill Birnbaum To achieve success in strategic planning, follow these nine, time-tested tips. Includes advice on selection of planning team members, educating your team to the process, gathering and sharing pre-planning information, encouragement of open communication, linking the plan to the budget and monitoring for successful implementation. Assuring Quality through Interface Control Testing By : Sam Miller Interface control testing is only one of the many kinds of software testing used for software development. There are several aspects to consider before implementing such a system.
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