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Is your company or department as efficient as it should be?

Berkonomics

Start by carefully restating the goal for the process, such as “produce 500 quality units per day” and create metrics to measure the present output and quality (rejects or time lost) with this goal. Consultants, outsourcing, and scrapping the system.

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5 Pitfalls to Avoid When Transforming Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Transforming your organization for the new global economy requires perseverance and long-term thinking. Outsourcing the entirety of building a new system. I recommend outsourcing for flexibility in existing operations, but you need to take the leadership role in preparing your company for the future.

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8 Signs Of A New Business Initiative And Not A Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

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10 Strategies To Find That Rare Complementary Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, they can outsource part of the work or hire employees, but that approach means more time and money to manage the work, which they don’t have. In fact, many of the same venues, such as industry conferences, entrepreneur forums and local business organizations are useful for both.

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8 Indications Of A Real Entrepreneur Versus A Hacker

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m not suggesting that you model your startup after the complex corporate organizations you hated in your last job, but there are at least eight key functions and activities that every investor expects to find in a startup proposal with any real potential to change the world. Hobbies are developed ad-hoc, driven by personal needs.

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Get to your goal by the most direct route.

Berkonomics

Start by carefully restating the goal for the process, such as “produce 500 quality units per day” and create metrics to measure the present output and quality (rejects or time lost) with this goal. Look first at whether some steps are creating a bottleneck or quality breakdown affecting subsequent steps (see insight 81 following this).

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10 Keys To Building Unstoppable Startup Partnerships

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, they can outsource part of the work or hire employees, but that approach means more time and money to manage the work, which they don’t have. In fact, many of the same venues, such as industry conferences, entrepreneur forums and local business organizations are useful for both.

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