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Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Reinvention

Contributed by Mark Bridges on January 14, 2022 in Operations & Supply Chain

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Majority of pharmaceutical companies are persisting with decade old processes and routines. They have transactional relationships with suppliers, lack of concerted efforts to progress ahead, and no vision to reap productivity rewards. The reasons for continuing with these traditional practices include tax regimes, regulatory hurdles, and stable revenues from customers dependent on existing industry offerings. […]

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10 Best Practices for Small, Agile Teams

Contributed by Mark Bridges on October 11, 2021 in Management & Leadership, Organization, Change, & HR

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Profitability is at the core of successful businesses. Many markets do not allow as much top-line revenue increase as the companies would like. Therefore, organizations have to focus on improving the bottom-line. Boosting the bottom-line entails raising Productivity. Productivity enhancement can be achieved by eliminating redundancies and improving processes that change the company. Process Improvement […]

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7 Principles of Business Process Reengineering (BPR)

Contributed by Mark Bridges on February 21, 2021 in Operations & Supply Chain, Organization, Change, & HR

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With the advancement in technology, the usual emphasis on cost, growth, and control has been replaced by a laser focus on Innovation, Customer Service, Quality, and Employee Empowerment. Obsolete business processes, disjointed organizations, fragmented work routines, and complex performance management mechanisms in traditional firms have not been able to cope with the revolutionary business models […]

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How Do We Understand Consumer Behavior and Undertake Behavioral Transformation? Know 3 Bs of Behavioral Change

Contributed by Mark Bridges on November 30, 2020 in Organization, Change, & HR, Strategy, Marketing, & Sales

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Product managers, marketers, and designers are often confused as to what they should do to increase the chances of customers’ engagement and uptake of their offering. Changing individuals’ behavior to enhance engagement, productivity, innovation, and happiness isn’t straightforward. It takes a lot of effort, time, and resources to execute initiatives aimed at transforming behaviors and […]

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Can We Transform Employee Engagement into a Competitive Advantage? Yes, Here’s How

Contributed by Mark Bridges on October 22, 2020 in Organization, Change, & HR

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Organizations typically focus on Customer-centric Design in their Strategic Planning and overlook the critical driver of Performance, Growth, and Operational Excellence—their employees. With cut-throat competition now the norm the realization has become clearer that employees are: The face of the business and create lasting—or perishing—brand impression. Sources of innovation and organizational knowledge. Representation of the […]

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When Creating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), What Areas Should We Focus On?

Contributed by Mark Bridges on January 30, 2020 in Management & Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, & Sales

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Creating a culture that measures productivity objectively is a sensitive matter. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are being employed extensively by organizations across the globe to monitor and track performance. KPIs provide valuable metadata to improve top-down and bottom-up vertical efficiency. Analytics-driven firms are aware that KPIs are much more than a tool to evaluate performance. […]

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An Intro to Strategic Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): The KPI Virtuous Cycle

Contributed by Mark Bridges on January 28, 2020 in Management & Leadership, Strategy, Marketing, & Sales

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Technological innovation and intensifying competition are forcing leaders to rethink how they use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to manage and direct organizations. Digitization has reinforced the importance of Key Performance Indicators not only in enhancing employee performance but driving the overall organizational productivity. The role of KPIs is becoming more dynamic. KPIs are getting demonstrably […]

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Having Productivity Issues? Learn the Basics of Workplace Productivity

Contributed by Joseph Robinson on November 7, 2019 in Organization, Change, & HR

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A company can have a team of skilled, talented, and educated professionals where each team member has relevant training and experience, a good attitude, and a solid work ethic. Members of the team get along well with each other. When you put all these together, you get to achieve results. The team gets to deliver […]

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Managing Performance by Leveraging the Organizational Health Index (OHI)

Contributed by Mark Bridges on May 27, 2019 in Organization, Change, & HR

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The typical approach to improving productivity focuses on assessing variance in quality, time, rate, service, or cost, around which management systems develop incrementally or revolutionarily. Organizational Health Index, on the contrary, focuses on improving performance through improved alignment of organizational systems. For example, by improving competence of key components such as mindset, work design, technical […]

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Top 4 Time Wasters Identified and Ways to Increase Productivity

Contributed by Arthur Burris on March 31, 2016 in Management & Leadership

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Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity. Poor time management can be related to procrastination, as well as problems with self-control. Skills involved in managing your time. include planning for the future, setting […]

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5S – Five Keys to Workplace Productivity

Contributed by Flevy on March 13, 2013 in Organization, Change, & HR

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The 5S workplace organization system applies a set of basic management principles that many companies widely adopt to maximize workplace productivity and organization. As a cornerstone of Lean management, 5S improves workplace morale, safety and efficiency. In this training presentation, you will learn how to mobilize and align your management team to launch or improve […]

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