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3 Steps: Business Optimization
- February 12, 2018
- Posted by: Nayte Carrick
- Category: Uncategorized
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What’s better? Processing a document digitally or with paper? If both methods take the same amount of time and effort—the answer is neither. Optimizing a business process requires more effort than simply purchasing new software. It requires taking a critical look at an organization’s operations and minimizing the resources required to get things done. This blog post will outline
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Do you have the Qualities of a Lean Change Agent?
- December 22, 2017
- Posted by: Nayte Carrick
- Category: Uncategorized
Becoming a Lean change agent can bring a serious improvement to your career development and professional growth, and it’s not as complicated as some people make it out to be. In fact, as long as you follow a set of rules for the direction in which you should be developing yourself, you should end up
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Kaizen for Law Firms
- December 13, 2017
- Posted by: Nayte Carrick
- Category: Uncategorized
What is Kaizen? For some people, it doesn’t seem possible that Kaizen or it’s better known sibling Six Sigma can help them in their profession. In manufacturing, sure, or technology or healthcare, but not every industry. As it turns out, however, Kaizen actually can help make improvements in just about every line of business. That includes those who make a
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Kaizen for Small Business
- November 29, 2017
- Posted by: Nayte Carrick
- Category: Uncategorized
Kaizen is defined as “a Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement of working practices” and personal efficiency. The word literally means “improvement,” but has taken on a more important meaning in the world of business. Large Japanese companies like Toyota have long touted the benefits of Kaizen, and it has slowly moved into the corporate culture at
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Kaizen Your BPO
- October 13, 2017
- Posted by: Nayte Carrick
- Category: Uncategorized
Everything we do everyday is a process. First you do this, then you do that, then the next thing until you’re done. How many of us think about the steps to make coffee in the morning or brush our teeth? Well, CMark Group staff does, but normal people don’t. Many managers and business owners come up short
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Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement
- August 18, 2017
- Posted by: Nayte Carrick
- Category: Business plans, Continuous Improvement, Innovation
The power of a Continuous Improvement (CI) program cannot be overstated. The biggest changes occur a little bit at a time, at such a pace that they are hardly noticed, which is often the best path forward. Working with Fortune 500’s and Startups we find that both have their own difficulty with this concept. Leadership
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Sustaining Lean Strategies
- April 18, 2017
- Posted by: Nayte Carrick
- Category: Uncategorized
“Time to make the donuts” This hilarious 80’s commercial can teach us some of the keys to success with lean strategies. Consistency and Persistence. (YouTube: watch it here) Lean strategies are effective at increasing productivity, yet 50% – 90% of companies who attempt to implement these strategies fail within the first few months despite the countless examples of