The concept of the “Psychological Contract” is a set of unwritten promises and expectations between employer and employee that form a basis for every employment…
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Best Practices
Six Sigma methodology is based on a philosophy that strives towards process perfection, using statistical techniques to measure and quantify success. The symbol for Six…
Outdated Process Series Every process in an organization should be designed to either add value or to be a necessary part of an activity that adds value; and any…
Managers have the very important job of guiding their teams to meet – and try to exceed – a certain level of performance. For an organization to fully realize the…
The previous issue of the Outdated Process series was dedicated to the challenges inherent in identifying outdated and inefficient processes. One simple but powerful…
By Adrian Travis Last mile business reporting tools are the reports we use to manage business performance at the front lines. Reporting typically fails to go the ‘last mile’…
As a professional in the Oil & Gas sector for more than three decades, I have participated in numerous initiatives involving consulting firms. I have experienced…
Management Is a Spectrum Active management lives in the healthy middle of a spectrum which has anemic absent management on one side and suffocating micromanagement on…
In most organizations, measuring productivity should be a straightforward exercise. But our experience shows that even in companies where productivity should be extremely…
When solving problems, management consultants rely on facts; and their most trusted source for facts is numbers. Numbers hold great power because they cannot be disputed.……
