Author name: Michael Kent Hart

Employee suggestion programs offer a way to gather new ideas, boost business performance, and commit to continuous improvement. The right program also helps employees to feel more engaged, empowered, and motivated to do their best work. BUT what is the right program? Traditional Employee Suggestion Boxes Traditional employee suggestion boxes are physical boxes or containers placed

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In today’s data-driven world, organizations face the challenge of monitoring and measuring performance effectively. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and visual dashboards have emerged as powerful tools to navigate this landscape. Understanding Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) KPIs are quantifiable metrics that provide insights into an organization’s performance and help track progress towards its goals. They act

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Survival in today’s business environment means keeping one step ahead of the competition at all times. This is not only in areas of cost and advertising but also how your organization operates and what it looks like to the customer’s eye. Consumers today like to feel familiar with a name so that wherever they come in contact with it, they will be

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In today’s complicated world, the quality professional is faced with an increasing array of differing methods to solve problems and improve processes. Advertisements shout to the prospective buyer that this software will make their dreams come true – guaranteed! Best selling books are written that extol the virtues of special techniques and then proceed to take

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“Benchmarking is a process of measuring the performance of a company’s products, services, or processes against those of another business considered to be the best in the industry. The point of benchmarking is to identify internal opportunities for improvement. By studying companies with superior performance, breaking down what makes such superior performance possible, and comparing those

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Internal Quality Management System audits are a requirement of the international quality management system standard ISO 9001 and its many sector specific adaptations. ISO 9001 states that organizations “…conduct internal audits at planned intervals to determine whether the quality management system conforms to…the requirements of this international standard and to the quality management system requirements established by the

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In late 2014 I completed an academic study in conjunction with a business masters degree through the University of Leicester in the UK. The title of the thesis was “Conscious Human Intention in the Workplace” and it focused on the theories surrounding our abilities as humans to energetically influence the world around us, including how

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