It is common wisdom in the business world that fears of economic turbulence tend to be self-fulfilling. Widespread talk of a recession can directly affect the economy, even if a full-blown recession ...

Whether renovating a 100 year old house or working to modernize a 245 year old organization, sometimes it takes digging down to a solid foundation to build bigger, better and stronger. Such a ...

Business process outsourcing involves the outsourcing of business functions to external companies. To clarify, many companies outsource tasks to external providers. An example may be hiring a ...

Based on industry standard BPMN2.0 (business process model & notation), API mPower helps organizations automate and accelerate virtually any business process. Examples include sales cycle management, ...

There are best practices, standard operating procedures and several types of processes in the business world. Processes help maintain order and provide guidelines for a smooth workflow. They are what ...

As businesses try to do more with less and respond to economic pressures, they are naturally interested in reducing costs by improving processes throughout their organizations. A number of ...

Conformity in the workplace refers to following workplace rules as well as adhering to traditional or socially expected methods of doing business and using familiar processes. Examples of conformity ...

In our previous blog we posed a broad question, where do operators fit with current manufacturing technology trends? More specifically, we asked: What if we could map out each manufacturing process, ...

Standardizing processes is important for a growing business, but few people know exactly how to do this. Most times, what is created is too general or detailed and burdensome and is put on the shelf ...