Today many of us will spend the final hours of the year wrapping-up the business process improvement projects and tasks we set forth in 2011. The question is, come Monday, what is your plan?
Did you know there are degrees of “interesting”? Sure, we’ve all met someone who is NOT interesting, but have you ever met anyone who is TOO interesting? If not, it is my honor to introduce myself to you: My name is Scott, and I am too interesting. Read on »
For most of us, a usual day at work revolves around some combination of emailing, computing, meeting, processing, selling, calling, writing, testing or perhaps creating. Yet, for one young man, a day at work is all about adrenaline and the only important function is staying alive.
Increasing employee productivity is important all the time. But at the end of the year, we tend to put productivity aside for a tradition of a holiday party. Is throwing a company bash a good idea?
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Banks aren’t known for making exceptions. If the employees of a branch had acted reasonably however, they might have kept the business of a notable Indianapolis resident.
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We’re all familiar with death by PowerPoint and email overload. But one executive thinks we should kill the status meeting.
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Previously on The Methodology Blog, we discussed why workplace rewards are typically not a good idea. Today, we’d like to address how to find happiness in your job.
Productive organizations are those with a healthy workplace culture. But what does that phrase, “workplace culture” really mean? How can a company improve its culture?
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Productive communication requires that we agree on questions and find consensus on answers. What happens when the way we confirm our understanding doesn’t actually make sense?
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Business process analysis is a complicated process, but the result is often easily retold. Once again we’re featuring some “campfire stories” of great business process improvement here on The Methodology Blog.