The document discusses business analysis and related topics:
- It defines business analysis as the set of tasks used to work with stakeholders to understand an organization's structure, policies, and operations in order to recommend solutions that help the organization achieve its goals.
- Key aspects of business analysis include standardization through frameworks like BABOK, as well as adaptability to different organizational contexts and changes.
- Business analysis plays a role throughout a project life cycle from planning and requirements gathering to solution design, development, and post-project operations and maintenance.
Instigate provides services to insurance and financial services clients, including strategy and organizational change, application strategy, system selection and implementation, program/project management, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, and data migration. They take a pragmatic approach using experienced resources and established methodologies and tools to deliver benefits for clients.
The document outlines various techniques used in business analysis across different phases including requirements elicitation, requirements management and communication, enterprise analysis, and solution assessment and validation. It provides a comprehensive overview of planning, conducting, and managing business analysis activities from initial stakeholder engagement through validating solutions.
This document outlines the tasks, inputs, and outputs involved in business analysis according to the BABOK guide. It details 6 key business analysis areas: requirements management & communication, solution assessment & validation, planning & monitoring, elicitation, analysis & design, and strategy analysis. Each area contains multiple subordinate tasks that define the essential activities, dependencies, and work products to effectively perform business analysis according to standard practices.
1. The document discusses measuring field force motivation and satisfaction through an industry survey conducted over 6 years with over 12,000 responses.
2. Key findings show that relationships with managers and company culture became more important motivating factors, while bonuses and personal development declined in importance from 2002 to 2007.
3. Satisfaction levels with top motivating factors increased 14% on average for all responders from 2002 to 2006, but declined 17% for highest sales performers.
The document is a guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), which defines the profession of business analysis. It describes the knowledge areas, tasks, skills, and techniques that business analysts use to work with stakeholders and recommend solutions that help organizations achieve their goals. The guide provides an introduction to key business analysis concepts and structures the remainder of the document around knowledge areas, tasks, competencies, and techniques.
This document discusses Hemant Karandikar's regenerative human resource planning model. The model combines qualitative and quantitative aspects to integrate tools and best practices. It defines projects and processes for the planning period, estimates the skill hours and values required for each step, and consolidates the skills and values hours needed per period. The model then identifies rare or expensive skills, applies factors related to working hours and risks, and finalizes the people requirements plan.
Managing cost and realising benefits from your SAP HCM or other HR systemSven Ringling
Conference presentation: clear process to clean up the investment portfolio from any HRIS (HR information system) using SAP HCM as an example. How to reduce cost and maximise benefits from IT in HR.
The document discusses business analysis and related topics:
- It defines business analysis as the set of tasks used to work with stakeholders to understand an organization's structure, policies, and operations in order to recommend solutions that help the organization achieve its goals.
- Key aspects of business analysis include standardization through frameworks like BABOK, as well as adaptability to different organizational contexts and changes.
- Business analysis plays a role throughout a project life cycle from planning and requirements gathering to solution design, development, and post-project operations and maintenance.
Instigate provides services to insurance and financial services clients, including strategy and organizational change, application strategy, system selection and implementation, program/project management, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, and data migration. They take a pragmatic approach using experienced resources and established methodologies and tools to deliver benefits for clients.
The document outlines various techniques used in business analysis across different phases including requirements elicitation, requirements management and communication, enterprise analysis, and solution assessment and validation. It provides a comprehensive overview of planning, conducting, and managing business analysis activities from initial stakeholder engagement through validating solutions.
This document outlines the tasks, inputs, and outputs involved in business analysis according to the BABOK guide. It details 6 key business analysis areas: requirements management & communication, solution assessment & validation, planning & monitoring, elicitation, analysis & design, and strategy analysis. Each area contains multiple subordinate tasks that define the essential activities, dependencies, and work products to effectively perform business analysis according to standard practices.
1. The document discusses measuring field force motivation and satisfaction through an industry survey conducted over 6 years with over 12,000 responses.
2. Key findings show that relationships with managers and company culture became more important motivating factors, while bonuses and personal development declined in importance from 2002 to 2007.
3. Satisfaction levels with top motivating factors increased 14% on average for all responders from 2002 to 2006, but declined 17% for highest sales performers.
The document is a guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), which defines the profession of business analysis. It describes the knowledge areas, tasks, skills, and techniques that business analysts use to work with stakeholders and recommend solutions that help organizations achieve their goals. The guide provides an introduction to key business analysis concepts and structures the remainder of the document around knowledge areas, tasks, competencies, and techniques.
This document discusses Hemant Karandikar's regenerative human resource planning model. The model combines qualitative and quantitative aspects to integrate tools and best practices. It defines projects and processes for the planning period, estimates the skill hours and values required for each step, and consolidates the skills and values hours needed per period. The model then identifies rare or expensive skills, applies factors related to working hours and risks, and finalizes the people requirements plan.
Managing cost and realising benefits from your SAP HCM or other HR systemSven Ringling
Conference presentation: clear process to clean up the investment portfolio from any HRIS (HR information system) using SAP HCM as an example. How to reduce cost and maximise benefits from IT in HR.
Healthcare Practice Management Services, LLC provides consulting services to optimize healthcare operations through practice design and performance management, and revenue cycle management. With over 65 years of combined experience, their consultants assess clients' needs, identify areas for improvement, and implement customized solutions. For practice design, they clarify goals and assess current performance to identify issues limiting growth. Their revenue cycle management services comprehensively review processes to improve billing efficiency and compliance. The outcome of their services is reduced costs, increased productivity and satisfaction, and improved profitability.
Shaking the Box: Creating Indelible Organizational Change kirkholmes11
How do you drive organizational change when massive cultural change is needed? This presentation includes examples of techniques and approaches based on an 8 step model created by J.P. Kotter. This model is very useful for best practices implementations like ITIL or CMMI, process process improvement, quality programs, performance management, reducing costs, and improving competitiveness.
The document outlines the services of an organizational consulting firm focused on helping clients improve performance, productivity, and organizational excellence. The firm provides assessments, strategic planning, leadership development, and process improvement consulting. The goal is to help clients transition from good to great by aligning resources, implementing continuous improvement processes, and engaging employees. Services are available to clients across various industries and stages of organizational development.
The document describes a decision support tool called the Global Sourcing of Services (GSS) model that helps organizations determine effective sourcing strategies. The GSS model analyzes five environmental characteristics to identify the optimal sourcing mode - whether to outsource/keep in-house and onshore/offshore location. It then calculates the expected value and risk of each mode. A case study applies the GSS model to a company's supply chain process and outputs that outsourced offshore with light management has the highest expected value and rank.
This document provides an overview of Six Sigma, including:
1) Six Sigma is a data-driven approach to improving processes by minimizing defects, with a goal of achieving near perfection. It was developed at Motorola to focus on customer requirements and identify the root causes of defects.
2) Six Sigma employs a DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) methodology to improve existing processes or a DMADV/DFSS (Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Verify) methodology to develop new processes.
3) Six Sigma projects are led by Black Belts and Master Black Belts who are certified in the methodology. The Define stage establishes the project goals and scope
(1) The document outlines a strategy development process that includes 6 steps: clarifying goals and process, developing a change map, describing roadmaps to the future, describing solutions and decisions, shaping a new organization, and learning from experience.
(2) Key aspects of the process include collecting relevant topics and problems, recognizing connections between issues, examining solution alternatives, and ensuring constant reflection and improvement.
(3) The overall goals are to develop a vibrant, long-term strategy through empowered teams and guarantee a high return on investment.
EvaluSys® provides a broad, online diagnostic evaluation of your organization’s management practices to uncover a wealth of actionable ideas to drive greater company performance. The EvaluSys Business Evaluation™ has been designed by management experts to help you improve your sales, marketing, business planning, human resources, financial planning & control, executive leadership and much more. Improve your top-line sales and overall profitability by employing the most comprehensive online management diagnostics ever created for small and mid-market companies.
Implementing Business Excellence and Innovation Methods provides a solid understanding of how to implement business excellence and innovation techniques in any organization. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification is also offered through this series.
Suh’dutsing Technologies provides management consulting services including strategy development, operations management, finance transformation, human resources, and back office operations. They specialize in areas such as business process improvement, Lean Six Sigma, and shared services advisory. The company is tribally owned and certified as an 8(a), SDB, HUBZone, and MBE business. It has headquarters in Cedar City, UT and additional offices in California, Washington DC, and Ohio.
The document discusses using metrics and mapping approaches to increase competitiveness and success in entrepreneurship training. It advocates adopting a new approach that focuses on ratio-based thinking and decision-making, developing and implementing strategies, and continuous improvement through relevant benchmarking to identify best practices. This new approach is contrasted with traditional approaches that focus on motivation, management, business planning, and improvement but not innovation or strategy. Key principles of strategy-focused entrepreneurs discussed are translating strategy into operational terms using metrics for planning and control, and linking and aligning the organization around its strategy using a balanced scorecard approach.
Bill McKendree shared his view on the essential role HR leaders must play to enable greater creativity at all levels and examples from his work with many diverse companies.
The document provides an overview of internal analysis and the resource-based model. [1] It defines internal analysis as identifying and evaluating an organization's characteristics like vision, mission, and strategies. [2] The resource-based model views firms as unique bundles of resources and sees resources as the most important factor in gaining competitive advantage. [3] Key aspects of the model include identifying valuable, rare, inimitable, and exploitable resources that can be leveraged to develop core competencies and distinctive capabilities.
The document discusses integrated succession, exit, and transition (S.E.T.) planning services. It describes the three key components of S.E.T. planning - succession planning, exit planning, and transition planning. It then outlines the S.E.T. planning process, which involves customized planning, value enhancement recommendations, selecting a transfer method, and developing personal and business action plans.
The New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation provides services to support New Zealand businesses in improving their performance using business excellence frameworks. They offer assessments, training, consulting, and internationally-recognized award programs. The Baldrige criteria is a key framework that focuses on leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, measurement and analysis, workforce engagement, and results. Organizations use self-assessment and benchmarking to identify improvement opportunities, track progress, and gain external recognition. Benefits of adopting a business excellence approach include improved financial and operational results, increased market share and customer/employee satisfaction, and a consistent organization-wide focus on continuous improvement.
Beyond Project and Portfolio Management, Identifying other high value perform...Dave Healey
Microsoft’s rich technology platform makes it the perfect toolset for organizing, integrating and automating business processes and systems to drive improved organizational performance. Yet it remains poorly understood and significantly underutilized as an enabler of business strategy, value creation and ongoing process improvement.
Through a number of real-world case studies this session will demonstrate a consistent, comprehensive and repeatable approach to improving the performance of your clients organizations with the Microsoft stack, helping you
- Discover more opportunity in existing accounts,
- Improve utilization of resources, and
- Strengthen your trusted partner relationship.
MA Consulting International is an international consulting firm established in 1993 with offices throughout the UK. They provide professional consulting services across all business sectors, specializing in business strategy, leadership, customer service, and people management. Their team of experienced consultants help clients develop their vision and strategy, optimize business processes, improve customer service and financial results, and embrace new technologies. They follow a "Vision to Reality" methodology involving strategic planning, realistic implementation, and organizational buy-in to create sustainable change for clients.
This document discusses the need for organizations to respond faster to change with lower risk. It presents several thinking tools to help align strategic decision making by integrating both logical analysis and intuitive understanding. Case studies are provided of how these tools have helped various clients clarify their strategic direction, align leadership teams, and develop unified plans of action to reshape business models in response to changing market conditions.
Dragos iliescu shl-talent management and global business strategyRevistaBiz
The document discusses integrating talent management with global business strategy. It provides an overview of SHL, a leader in talent measurement and assessment. SHL helps organizations transform how they assess, hire, and manage talent to improve business results. The document then discusses defining talent needs, measuring current talent strengths and gaps, and realizing talent management through processes like developing talent frameworks, assessing skills, and attracting and developing the right people. The goal is to have the right people with the right skills in the right roles to meet business strategy.
This document provides information about a White Belt Certification course in Six Sigma. The course teaches foundational Six Sigma concepts like customer-supplier relationships, effective problem solving, and quality metrics. It covers topics such as defining customers and suppliers, understanding customer requirements, the benefits of Six Sigma, and how to apply the DMAIC process for problem solving. The goal is to provide students with the knowledge needed to pursue more advanced Six Sigma certifications.
Este documento trata sobre kinesiología. Contiene tablas de contenidos con letras y números que van de la A a la 1C, organizando la información de la kinesiología de manera secuencial.
The Penguin's got the POWER - ERI-MS 2010Paulo Vital
O documento apresenta a arquitetura POWER da IBM, incluindo sua história desde 1974 e casos de uso em supercomputadores, consoles de videogame e missões espaciais. Descreve as características do processador POWER7 lançado em 2010, como SMT4 e cache L3 em eDRAM. Discorre sobre o Linux on POWER e o IBM Linux Technology Center.
Healthcare Practice Management Services, LLC provides consulting services to optimize healthcare operations through practice design and performance management, and revenue cycle management. With over 65 years of combined experience, their consultants assess clients' needs, identify areas for improvement, and implement customized solutions. For practice design, they clarify goals and assess current performance to identify issues limiting growth. Their revenue cycle management services comprehensively review processes to improve billing efficiency and compliance. The outcome of their services is reduced costs, increased productivity and satisfaction, and improved profitability.
Shaking the Box: Creating Indelible Organizational Change kirkholmes11
How do you drive organizational change when massive cultural change is needed? This presentation includes examples of techniques and approaches based on an 8 step model created by J.P. Kotter. This model is very useful for best practices implementations like ITIL or CMMI, process process improvement, quality programs, performance management, reducing costs, and improving competitiveness.
The document outlines the services of an organizational consulting firm focused on helping clients improve performance, productivity, and organizational excellence. The firm provides assessments, strategic planning, leadership development, and process improvement consulting. The goal is to help clients transition from good to great by aligning resources, implementing continuous improvement processes, and engaging employees. Services are available to clients across various industries and stages of organizational development.
The document describes a decision support tool called the Global Sourcing of Services (GSS) model that helps organizations determine effective sourcing strategies. The GSS model analyzes five environmental characteristics to identify the optimal sourcing mode - whether to outsource/keep in-house and onshore/offshore location. It then calculates the expected value and risk of each mode. A case study applies the GSS model to a company's supply chain process and outputs that outsourced offshore with light management has the highest expected value and rank.
This document provides an overview of Six Sigma, including:
1) Six Sigma is a data-driven approach to improving processes by minimizing defects, with a goal of achieving near perfection. It was developed at Motorola to focus on customer requirements and identify the root causes of defects.
2) Six Sigma employs a DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) methodology to improve existing processes or a DMADV/DFSS (Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Verify) methodology to develop new processes.
3) Six Sigma projects are led by Black Belts and Master Black Belts who are certified in the methodology. The Define stage establishes the project goals and scope
(1) The document outlines a strategy development process that includes 6 steps: clarifying goals and process, developing a change map, describing roadmaps to the future, describing solutions and decisions, shaping a new organization, and learning from experience.
(2) Key aspects of the process include collecting relevant topics and problems, recognizing connections between issues, examining solution alternatives, and ensuring constant reflection and improvement.
(3) The overall goals are to develop a vibrant, long-term strategy through empowered teams and guarantee a high return on investment.
EvaluSys® provides a broad, online diagnostic evaluation of your organization’s management practices to uncover a wealth of actionable ideas to drive greater company performance. The EvaluSys Business Evaluation™ has been designed by management experts to help you improve your sales, marketing, business planning, human resources, financial planning & control, executive leadership and much more. Improve your top-line sales and overall profitability by employing the most comprehensive online management diagnostics ever created for small and mid-market companies.
Implementing Business Excellence and Innovation Methods provides a solid understanding of how to implement business excellence and innovation techniques in any organization. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification is also offered through this series.
Suh’dutsing Technologies provides management consulting services including strategy development, operations management, finance transformation, human resources, and back office operations. They specialize in areas such as business process improvement, Lean Six Sigma, and shared services advisory. The company is tribally owned and certified as an 8(a), SDB, HUBZone, and MBE business. It has headquarters in Cedar City, UT and additional offices in California, Washington DC, and Ohio.
The document discusses using metrics and mapping approaches to increase competitiveness and success in entrepreneurship training. It advocates adopting a new approach that focuses on ratio-based thinking and decision-making, developing and implementing strategies, and continuous improvement through relevant benchmarking to identify best practices. This new approach is contrasted with traditional approaches that focus on motivation, management, business planning, and improvement but not innovation or strategy. Key principles of strategy-focused entrepreneurs discussed are translating strategy into operational terms using metrics for planning and control, and linking and aligning the organization around its strategy using a balanced scorecard approach.
Bill McKendree shared his view on the essential role HR leaders must play to enable greater creativity at all levels and examples from his work with many diverse companies.
The document provides an overview of internal analysis and the resource-based model. [1] It defines internal analysis as identifying and evaluating an organization's characteristics like vision, mission, and strategies. [2] The resource-based model views firms as unique bundles of resources and sees resources as the most important factor in gaining competitive advantage. [3] Key aspects of the model include identifying valuable, rare, inimitable, and exploitable resources that can be leveraged to develop core competencies and distinctive capabilities.
The document discusses integrated succession, exit, and transition (S.E.T.) planning services. It describes the three key components of S.E.T. planning - succession planning, exit planning, and transition planning. It then outlines the S.E.T. planning process, which involves customized planning, value enhancement recommendations, selecting a transfer method, and developing personal and business action plans.
The New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation provides services to support New Zealand businesses in improving their performance using business excellence frameworks. They offer assessments, training, consulting, and internationally-recognized award programs. The Baldrige criteria is a key framework that focuses on leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, measurement and analysis, workforce engagement, and results. Organizations use self-assessment and benchmarking to identify improvement opportunities, track progress, and gain external recognition. Benefits of adopting a business excellence approach include improved financial and operational results, increased market share and customer/employee satisfaction, and a consistent organization-wide focus on continuous improvement.
Beyond Project and Portfolio Management, Identifying other high value perform...Dave Healey
Microsoft’s rich technology platform makes it the perfect toolset for organizing, integrating and automating business processes and systems to drive improved organizational performance. Yet it remains poorly understood and significantly underutilized as an enabler of business strategy, value creation and ongoing process improvement.
Through a number of real-world case studies this session will demonstrate a consistent, comprehensive and repeatable approach to improving the performance of your clients organizations with the Microsoft stack, helping you
- Discover more opportunity in existing accounts,
- Improve utilization of resources, and
- Strengthen your trusted partner relationship.
MA Consulting International is an international consulting firm established in 1993 with offices throughout the UK. They provide professional consulting services across all business sectors, specializing in business strategy, leadership, customer service, and people management. Their team of experienced consultants help clients develop their vision and strategy, optimize business processes, improve customer service and financial results, and embrace new technologies. They follow a "Vision to Reality" methodology involving strategic planning, realistic implementation, and organizational buy-in to create sustainable change for clients.
This document discusses the need for organizations to respond faster to change with lower risk. It presents several thinking tools to help align strategic decision making by integrating both logical analysis and intuitive understanding. Case studies are provided of how these tools have helped various clients clarify their strategic direction, align leadership teams, and develop unified plans of action to reshape business models in response to changing market conditions.
Dragos iliescu shl-talent management and global business strategyRevistaBiz
The document discusses integrating talent management with global business strategy. It provides an overview of SHL, a leader in talent measurement and assessment. SHL helps organizations transform how they assess, hire, and manage talent to improve business results. The document then discusses defining talent needs, measuring current talent strengths and gaps, and realizing talent management through processes like developing talent frameworks, assessing skills, and attracting and developing the right people. The goal is to have the right people with the right skills in the right roles to meet business strategy.
This document provides information about a White Belt Certification course in Six Sigma. The course teaches foundational Six Sigma concepts like customer-supplier relationships, effective problem solving, and quality metrics. It covers topics such as defining customers and suppliers, understanding customer requirements, the benefits of Six Sigma, and how to apply the DMAIC process for problem solving. The goal is to provide students with the knowledge needed to pursue more advanced Six Sigma certifications.
Este documento trata sobre kinesiología. Contiene tablas de contenidos con letras y números que van de la A a la 1C, organizando la información de la kinesiología de manera secuencial.
The Penguin's got the POWER - ERI-MS 2010Paulo Vital
O documento apresenta a arquitetura POWER da IBM, incluindo sua história desde 1974 e casos de uso em supercomputadores, consoles de videogame e missões espaciais. Descreve as características do processador POWER7 lançado em 2010, como SMT4 e cache L3 em eDRAM. Discorre sobre o Linux on POWER e o IBM Linux Technology Center.
How to Master UX Testing in an Agile Design ProcessUserZoom
This document discusses how to integrate user experience (UX) testing into an agile design process. It begins by outlining common myths about agile and UX testing, such as the idea that they are incompatible or that testing requires working code. The document then presents different approaches to testing in an agile context, such as the 3x3 method of testing multiple early concepts, the RITE method of refining one concept faster through iterations, and A/B testing to refine details at the end. It emphasizes removing waste from traditional UX processes and leveraging remote automated user testing to scale usability testing within short agile sprints. Finally, it provides tips for more agile UX testing like defining target metrics for
This document outlines potential graduation thesis project topics for students in technical communication. The topics focus on designing and analyzing websites and technical documentation. Suggested projects involve designing a website, testing the usability, reviewing literature on technical website design, and performing statistical analysis. Other topics include designing training materials, animations, and prototypes and testing how users interact with and understand various technical interfaces and content. The document provides examples and details software that can be used to conduct the projects.
Evaluation of ontology-powered scientific research as a means to assess and i...Michel Dumontier
Ontologies are quickly becoming a core part of biomedical infrastructure, where they serve as a means to standardize terminology, to enable access to domain knowledge, to verify data consistency and to facilitate integrative analyses over heterogeneous biomedical data. Given the increased use of ontologies in scientific research, we must first consider the consistent evaluation of ontology-powered research so as to quantitatively evaluate the contribution of the ontology to the effort. Quantitative evaluation of research could then lead to systematic improvement of the application and performance of an ontology (as a key measures of quality) and enable the comparison of any ontology to the overall result. With the emergence of vast amounts of relatively schema-light biomedical Linked Open Data such as that provided by the open source Bio2RDF project, new opportunities arise for applying, evaluating and increasing the utility of ontologies in biomedical research.
The document discusses how SnapTags can be used by brands to create interactive marketing campaigns. SnapTags allow consumers to snap a photo of a code and receive information, content or offers via text message. Examples provided include Sony Pictures using SnapTags for movie marketing, Martha Stewart Living using it for a mobile tip sharing program, and Foot Locker using it to deliver discount codes for in-store purchases. The document also provides guidance on creating effective SnapTag campaigns, such as crafting compelling offers and clearly communicating participation instructions.
The document provides an introduction to HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). It discusses that HTML is the main markup language used to display web pages and other information in web browsers. It is written using tags enclosed in angle brackets to define elements like headings, paragraphs, links, and images. CSS is introduced as a style sheet language used to describe the presentation of documents written in HTML, allowing separation of document content and formatting. The document includes examples of basic HTML tags and CSS code to apply styles.
Here are examples on service environment. Find the magic of setting of the Venetian, Tugu hotel - Malang, East Java, Da Vinci store in KL, Ralston - the experiential paint store in Bandung, West Java, Quattro 4 seasons clubbing place in KL.
This document discusses the history and challenges of long-term data storage. It describes how storage media and conditions significantly impact longevity, with some analog images surviving over 17,000 years sealed in dry caves but other works deteriorating within 200 years without special efforts. Modern applications now require digital data storage for 5-25 years, with demands expected to increase. Technologies have evolved from tape to disk drives to improve capacity and meet long-term reliability needs.
Despite the massive amount of biomedical literature, only a small amount is available in a form that is readily computable. The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is hosting the first hackathon to develop a comprehensive Network of BioThings (proteins, genes, pathways, mutations, drugs, diseases) extracted from scientific research articles and integrated with public biomedical data (see blog post http://goo.gl/i91ngK). During this hackathon, we will (1) identify motivating use cases, (2) define a shared, sustainable, multi-component infrastructure to build the NoB, and (3) implement common data representations, ontology-based programmatic interfaces, and develop cool applications. We will do this in an open, scalable, responsive manner so that it becomes a major asset for hackers and biomedical researchers worldwide.
This document provides a walkthrough of a dashboard. It likely outlines the key sections and features of the dashboard as well as how to navigate through it. The purpose is to familiarize users with the dashboard's layout and functionality so they can effectively use it.
Web 2.0, Dutch Railways & Teststation LeidenCoenDirkx
The document summarizes a presentation given by Coen Dirkx about Mijnproefstation.nl, a website created by Dutch Railways to involve customers in developing their test station in Leiden and future stations. The website aims to inform customers, get their opinions, work with business partners, and strengthen the Dutch Railways brand. It discusses initiatives like polls, surveys, a photography contest and a design contest for station toilets that achieved these goals and provided valuable lessons about co-creation with customers. Over 60,000 people visited the site and were actively engaged through these initiatives.
The document describes the Seagate Hadoop Workflow Accelerator, which enables organizations to optimize Hadoop workflows and centralize data storage. It accelerates Hadoop applications by leveraging ClusterStor's high-performance Lustre parallel file system and bypassing the HDFS software layer. This provides improved Hadoop performance, flexibility to scale compute and storage independently, and reduced total cost of ownership.
This document summarizes an experiment that examined the ability of 41 Japanese EFL students to comprehend and provide feedback on an English tourism website for Belize. The students analyzed the website and answered questions about navigating it to find specific information. They also completed surveys on their comfort level with and opinions of various aspects of the website, such as design, terminology, and capabilities. The results showed the students had relatively high proficiency in navigating the website and searching for information. They also reported feeling moderately comfortable with tasks and features of the website. More positive than negative words were used to describe their overall reaction to the tourism website.
AgilePalooza - BigScrum - Scaling Team To ProgramThinkLouder
This presentation provides a pattern for scaling scrum teams to programs as well as provides some guidance for kicking off larger programs, dealing with program stakeholders as well explores scaling alternatives.
Neurobics are brain exercises that use physical senses and emotions to strengthen neural connections and create new ones. Some Neurobic exercises include getting dressed with your eyes closed, listening to music while smelling flowers, and going to work using a new route. Regular Neurobic exercises may help avoid Alzheimer's and reduce age-related memory loss by keeping the brain engaged, activated, and flexible.
Monica Cabbler is a fitness expert and spokesperson who is available for various corporate appearances, commercial work, and speaking engagements. She has experience promoting wellness programs and initiatives, and has appeared on television and in print media discussing topics related to women's health, nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle management. She also supports various events through marketing, branding, and talent booking services.
The document discusses performance improvement through a consultancy focusing on corporate performance scorecards, strategy maps, the four perspectives of a balanced scorecard, identifying key performance indicators, and strategy maps for corporate functions like HR, IT, finance, and marketing. It provides examples and templates for strategy maps and scorecards at the corporate and divisional levels to help organizations track performance across financial, customer, internal process, and learning & growth perspectives.
Business Healthcheck Service By John Capper & CoJohn Capper & Co
This presentation describes our Business Health Check service. Think of it as preventative medicine for your business. What you get out of it is a measured easy to understand report on the state of your business and your action plan to respond to the findings of the Health Check
The total productivity and partial productivity measures for labour, capital and raw materials have decreased from 2002 to 2003. This indicates that the company's overall efficiency and utilization of resources have reduced over the years. The company needs to focus on improving its operations to enhance productivity.
Six Sigma is a business management strategy that seeks to improve quality by identifying and removing defects. It uses statistical methods and creates teams of experts to implement projects. Projects follow the DMAIC or DMADV methodologies, which involve defining problems, measuring processes, analyzing data, improving processes, and controlling future processes. Many large companies have implemented Six Sigma and achieved savings of 1-4.5% of revenue through reduced defects and waste.
This document discusses performance management and key performance indicators (KPIs). It provides guidance on identifying the right KPIs, measuring and tracking them, and using dashboards to visualize data and monitor performance. The key steps are to work with business teams to determine important KPIs aligned with goals, identify data sources, and design dashboards to provide real-time insights into key processes and enable informed decision-making. Ongoing management of KPIs is also important to ensure they continue measuring the most impactful areas and driving continuous improvement.
Guntert Limited provides professional product management and marketing services using Lean Six Sigma methodologies. Lean Six Sigma aims to design out failure and introduce new products or fix problem products quickly through collaborative teamwork and a clear vision. It was introduced to the author through an initial meeting with American engineers in London and focuses on creating the best products consistently through thorough consideration of all factors.
Company profile trustpartners april 2013TrustPartners
TrustPartners is an Italian management consulting firm with expertise in highly regulated industries. It provides business planning, performance management, and organizational consulting. The firm has deep experience in pharmaceuticals, energy, gaming/gambling, tobacco, and public administration. It offers strategic support, process optimization, and change management assistance to improve clients' performance. TrustPartners works with companies across Italy from its headquarters in Rome and branch in Milan.
Assure the best possible return on your investment with assistance in developing your IT Governance strategy with the experienced professionals at Checkpoint Partners
Ch4 Internal Assessment: Strategic ManagementTriune Global
Focus is on identifying & evaluating a firm's strength & weaknesses in the functional areas of business, including management, marketing, finance, production, and management information systems.
This document summarizes the services of Continuous Improvement Consulting. They provide a 3-5 week engagement to measure a company's current IVR and call center performance, analyze it to identify improvement opportunities, and improve it by providing actionable recommendations with a guaranteed identification of cost savings. Their systematic approach includes assessing the current state, identifying challenges, and recommending process, technology, and personnel changes to increase self-service and reduce costs.
The document describes Dealmaker, a sales opportunity and account management software suite. It helps sales professionals maximize opportunities from key accounts, increase win rates, improve forecasts and sales performance. The suite provides world-leading sales methodologies, a step-by-step sales process, deal coaching, forecasting and performance insights, and virtual learning. It aims to deliver sustained, profitable revenue growth for users.
The SORM process allows Cisco Services Operations teams to systematically scope, budget, and prioritize new initiatives to ensure they align with business strategies. It provides a structure to manage new requests through an initiative assessment process and governance with a steering board. The assessment evaluates scope, budget, business value, systems dependencies, and roadmap timing to experience fewer surprises and improve customer experience. Benefits include a clear roadmap, engagement model, better budgeting, and more predictable launches. The steering board reviews recommendations, prioritizes initiatives, and communicates decisions to stakeholders. The team is refining the new process.
1) The document discusses various strategies for business including corporate strategy, directional strategy, growth strategy, concentration strategy, and stability strategy. It also discusses implementing strategies through developing programs, budgets, and procedures.
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D4 I Intro Web
1. The Design for Innovation
(D4I) Process
Performance Improvement
Audit, Guide and Roadmap
We help companies achieve better
results by making better decisions
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2. What does this mean?
• We increase your business productivity
without reducing your production capability
• In other words… we help you achieve
more with what you already have
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3. The D4I Process is based on best
practice principles drawn from Jim
Collin’s work in “Good to Great”.
"Breakthrough results come about by a
series of good decisions, diligently
executed and accumulated, one on top
of the other"
- Jim Collins, in Good to Great
"Transformation is a process of buildup
followed by breakthrough, broken into
three broad stages: disciplined people,
disciplined thought, and disciplined
action"
- Jim Collins, in Good to Great
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4. We EXAMINE Best Practice Discipline
ONE-ON-ONE WITH
FIRST STAKEHOLDERS
DIMENSION
[INTERNAL]
Assess current data from business
AMALGAM
SECOND
DIMENSION
[EXTERNAL]
Assess current data outside business
THIRD
DIMENSION GAP ANALYSIS
[BEST Compare against World Best Practice Tools provided
PRACTICE]
by D4I
PRAGMATIC FILTER:
What are the restraints unique to the 3D DATA-BLEND
business that need to be factored? [D4I TOOLS]
BASE POINT FOR FUTURE STRATEGIC DIRECTION 6
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5. [5] [1]
STAKEHOLDER STAKEHOLDER
CONTRIBUTIONS WANTS & NEEDS
TO SUSTAIN FOR PROVIDING
CAPABILITIES CONTRIBUTIONS
We EMBED
Best Practice
[4] Discipline [2]
CAPABILITES STRATEGIES
TO OPERATE TO SATISFY
& ENHANCE STAKEHOLDER
PROCESSES WANTS & NEEDS
[3]
CRITICAL
PROCESSES
TO EXECUTE
STRATEGIES
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6. Design for Innovation provides a simple yet deeply insightful framework for making
better decisions and achieving better results by design, on a continuous basis
Stakeholder Perspectives Examined:
• Investors
• Customers
• Intermediaries
• Employees
• Suppliers
• Regulators
• Communities
• Pressure Groups
• Alliance Partners
• Other Stakeholders
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7. What the D4I framework offers
• Comprehensive performance
improvement audit
• Audit results summary
• Value Creation SWOT
• Value Management SWOT
• Value Innovation SWOT
• Better Decision-Making
Guide to interpret results
• Roadmap for Implementing
the Audit’s findings
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8. Here are some of the Benefits you Receive:
Key Deliverables:
[5] [1] 1. Business Performance
STAKEHOLDER STAKEHOLDER Benchmark Assessment
CONTRIBUTIONS WANTS & NEEDS Report
TO SUSTAIN FOR PROVIDING 2. Business Performance
CAPABILITIES CONTRIBUTIONS Roadmap identifying critical
pathways to Best Practice
3. Identify and prioritize info-
We EMBED gathering, info-measurement,
management actions, and
Best
outcomes required for
maximum value-creation
4. Identify and prioritize critical
[4]
CAPABILITES
Practice [2]
STRATEGIES
needs, gaps and shortfalls to
address
TO OPERATE
& ENHANCE
Discipline TO SATISFY 5. Reassign and optimize existing
STAKEHOLDER assets and resources to
PROCESSES WANTS & NEEDS maximize value-creation
opportunities
6. Set monthly targets and
measures to manage and
[3] monitor
CRITICAL
7. Qualify improvements, and
PROCESSES quantify value gains
TO EXECUTE
STRATEGIES
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9. Here are some of the Benefits you Receive:
Key Deliverables (Continued):
8. Customized audit caters to [5] [1]
your strategic priorities and STAKEHOLDER STAKEHOLDER
functional requirements CONTRIBUTIONS WANTS & NEEDS
TO SUSTAIN FOR PROVIDING
9. Surveys compiled to address
CAPABILITIES CONTRIBUTIONS
your specific needs
10. Survey results consolidated
and summarized in the final
report We EMBED
11. We take responsibility for
setting up interviews and Best
distributing surveys to all the
stakeholders [4] Practice [2]
12. Our recommendations draw CAPABILITES STRATEGIES
upon the full wealth of
resources, capabilities,
TO OPERATE
& ENHANCE
Discipline TO SATISFY
STAKEHOLDER
wisdom and experience we PROCESSES WANTS & NEEDS
possess
13. Quality of all work is
guaranteed [3]
14. References and testimonials CRITICAL
will be provided on request PROCESSES
TO EXECUTE
STRATEGIES
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10. Most significant gains:
• Focus on what matters • Improve your productivity
most and get the best without destroying your
results possible capability to do so:
• Measure what matters – Avoid sacrificing capability
most and constantly for profitability
monitor and improve your – Maximize the current and
potential profitability of all
progress your existing customers
• Discover how your and prospects
decisions are – Attain continuous improve-
interconnected and ment with best practices
influence your overall – Create new opportunities
effectiveness: for better for generating wealth
and for worse – Achieve better results by
making better decisions
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