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You’ve written a new procedure. Your procedure review identified completeness, correctness, and subject matter applicability. You feel you’ve caught your procedure writing errors and the procedure’s ready to go…but go where? How do you determine if your new procedure is working? Checki...

Not all processes require procedure writing. There’s a lot of overhead associated with every business procedure you write. Therefore, the more business procedures you write, the more procedures you have to edit, implement, train, audit, and review. ...

Your process is not living up to expectations, so you’ve decided to implement standard operating procedures (SOP) to improve process consistency, compliance, and effectiveness. ...

Business and organizational development is about business process change: not as in “process change - the event”, but “process change - the journey“. Your b...

Project Execution, Project Monitoring & Control, and Project Review & Close The first phase in any project management process is Project Initiation. The second phase is Project Planning...

The first phase in any project management process is project initiation, where the goal is to uncover the project’s scope — the boundaries for resources, expectations, results, feasibility, the team, and your requirements — and produce a project charter. Now ...

Last week, we learned about thefive phases of project management. Each phase of project management has a distinct purpose, importance, and set of outputs designed to ensure that the project manager is moving the project towards the desired results. The first phase is Project Initiation...

Today, everything is a project with more and more people finding themselves in a project management role of some type. You don’t have to have the title of Project Manager tomanage projects. A Project is a temporary collection of related tasks to achieve a desired and usually unique result. ...

The process maps we described in recent weeks are tools for you in your role as data collector and analyst: your role is to craft and communicate a story for change and improvement that people understand, accept, support, and will ultimately act on...

In our series on process maps which wraps up next week, the maps we have looked at are descriptive. They help us capture and display information about the current state. Each mapdepicts the entire process, though from different angles...

Over the last four weeks, we have focused our discussion on process maps. We’ve tried to answer some of the most common questions about process maps by taking a look at seven different types of process maps and how they’re used to describe processes. A ...

In the previous article, we discussed Document Maps, and Activity or Value Stream Maps. Today, we will review Work Flow Diagrams and Rendered Process Maps...

Last week, we discussed three types of Process Maps: High-Level, Low-Level and Cross Functional or “Swim Lanes” Maps. This week we will take a closer look at Document Maps, and Activity or Value Stream Maps. Document Map A Document Map is an expanded SIPOC format. Ea...