5 Productivity Strategies to Transform Your Business
While there are countless examples of the dramatic difference taking action on data can make within an organization, one of the more popular ones is UPS’ right-hand turn policy. The story goes roughly like this: Seeking to become a more environmentally friendly business, UPS took a look at its CO2 emissions data to see where…
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While there are countless examples of the dramatic difference taking action on data can make within an organization, one of the more popular ones is UPS’ right-hand turn policy. The story goes roughly like this: Seeking to become a more environmentally friendly business, UPS took a look at its CO2 emissions data to see where…
Productivity Best Practice 1: Use Your Data
Should be obvious, but it’s often not. Certain things are of no use if we don’t actively make use of them, and data is no exception. No matter what your business, if you aren’t tracking your data and using it to assess where you currently stand as well as to find areas in which your…
Productivity Best Practice 2: Develop an Action Plan
In the previous part, we talked about how using your data can be a great best practice to usher in productivity in your business. As productivity best practice No. 1 detailed, using your data is essential to becoming a more productive organization. But the truth is, you could have all your company’s data at your…
Productivity Best Practice 3: Manage Your Organization Towards Change
In the previous chapter, we talked about how developing an action plan can go a long way in making your business more productive. Say you’ve utilized your data effectively in order to develop a solid action plan to increase your organization’s productivity. No matter how viable or downright brilliant that plan may be, though, you…
Productivity Best Practice 4: Keep on Measuring
Previously, we talked about how managing your organization to change is a great way of ensuring improved productivity for your business. Now that you’ve used your data to identify areas for improvement, developed an action plan for improving productivity in those areas, and begun managing your organization toward change, you’re ready to focus on the…
Productivity Best Practice 5: Repeat the Improvement Process
Last time, we talked about how measuring helps you determine the progress of your company’s productivity. Although many things in life often seem linear, given their definitive beginnings and endings, much eventually proves to also be circular, as will this e-book. See, the best of the best practices to increase productivity (the linear part, which…